Parker, CO Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Parker's electric vehicle charging rules live in the Land Development Ordinance's use-specific standards, Section 13.05.030(e)(29), Electric vehicle (EV) charging station, on top of the definitions in Section 13.02.020 that classify chargers as Level 1 (120-volt, 15 to 20-amp), Level 2 (208 or 240-volt, 40 to 100-amp), or Level 3 fast, industrial-grade chargers. Level 1 and Level 2 stations are treated as an accessory use available to any permitted principal use in any zoning district in Town, and they count toward the number of off-street parking spaces a development is required to provide under Section 13.08.080(f)(4).

Level 3 chargers are more restricted: the Town allows them as an accessory use in every zoning district except the SF1, SF2, SF3 single-family districts and the MF multifamily district. Within those four residential districts, a Level 3 charger is only permitted as an accessory to a continuing care facility, a nonresidential use, or a single-family attached or multifamily development of more than one hundred units, and unlike Level 1 and 2 stations, Level 3 spaces never count toward the required parking total. Every charging space, at any level, must be reserved exclusively for charging electric vehicles and posted with its amperage and voltage information, any time limits, and contact information for reporting problems, and the equipment itself has to be sited so it does not block vehicle, bicycle, or pedestrian circulation or eat into required landscaping.

Because this is a use-specific standard under Section 13.05.030(a)(4), a business installing chargers that also needs any additional state or local license must keep that license current for as long as the charging use continues.