Medford, MA Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Item 14 of Sec. 94-6.4.7, 'Transportation Access and Impacts,' requires that the applicant incorporate vehicle charging infrastructure to the maximum extent feasible into its parking areas and make provision for the future expansion of that infrastructure over the next ten years, with the plan clearly indicated in the applicant's engineering plans submitted for review. The duty sits within the same section that requires a traffic impact and access study for developments over 25,000 square feet, a transportation demand management plan for projects adding ten or more dwelling units or 10,000 square feet of new floor area, and a cap on maximum parking at 200 percent of the zoning-required minimum.

Because 'maximum extent feasible' is the operative standard rather than a fixed number of stalls, the Community Development Board or SPGA has discretion to size the charging requirement to each project during site plan or special permit review under Sec. 94-6.4.2, and it can also grant a parking-count reduction under item 6 of the same section where an applicant's traffic engineer justifies lower demand. Compliance with the engineering-plan submission is checked before permit issuance under Sec. 94-6.4.13.