Madison, WI Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Sec. 141(8)(e) applies to any new parking facility built after January 1, 2021, and to any existing facility expanded by 10,000 square feet of new parking spaces; simply maintaining or reconstructing an existing lot doesn't trigger the rule, but replacing more than 10,000 square feet of an existing surface lot's paving and base does. The ordinance splits the required percentages by land use. General long-stay uses, colleges and similar institutions of higher learning, hotels, inns and motels, hospitals and health clinics, offices, private and public parking facilities, and arts, technical or trade schools, plus any other use where people typically park more than six hours, must build toward EV-ready and EV-installed space quotas that step up every five years: 10% ready/1% installed for 2021-2025, rising to 20%/2%, 30%/3%, 40%/4%, and reaching 50% EV-ready with 5% EV-installed from 2041 onward.

Manufacturing, restaurant, retail, service-business, warehousing and storage uses, and long-term airport or intercity passenger-depot parking, are carved out of this six-hour-stay category. A separate, steeper schedule applies to parking for residential uses with six or more spaces. As the count of EV-installed spaces grows, the ordinance also requires a minimum number of those spaces to be accessible, scaled to the total number of EV-installed spaces provided on site.