Mebane, NC Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

The credit is part of the UDO's general off-street parking rules in Section 6-5(A), the same subsection that sets the citywide minimum parking counts, the ADA/handicapped-space requirement drawn from the NC Building Code and the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the residential truck-parking ban. Added by the June 6, 2022 UDO amendment, the EV credit does not require any development to install a charging station; it rewards developers who choose to. A site plan that provides a charging station gets to count that single space as if it were two ordinary parking spaces when the Zoning Administrator checks the plan against the minimum spaces required in Table 6-5-1.

Because Section 6-5(C)(1) also caps most nonresidential parking at 150 percent of the Table 6-5-1 minimum unless the developer obtains an approved parking-demand study, the EV credit gives a project extra room to hit its minimum without paving additional spaces, effectively letting each installed charger substitute for a car space that would otherwise need to be built. The rule applies wherever the general parking chapter applies, meaning any development required to provide off-street parking under Section 6-5, and it is administered at site-plan review rather than through a separate permit.