Raleigh, NC Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

UDO Sec. 4, Vehicle Parking Mitigation, applies only to projects that both exceed 16 residential units or 10,000 square feet of nonresidential gross floor area and choose to provide more vehicle parking than the maximum shown in Sec. 2 -- Raleigh caps parking citywide rather than just setting a minimum, so this section is the trade-off for building above that cap. For projects in the Downtown District, TOD Overlay, or a zone with an Urban Frontage, any spaces beyond the maximum must be placed inside a parking structure, at least 20% of those excess spaces must be made available to the public or shared with another property, and the project must provide, for the vehicle spaces beyond the maximum, 50 percent more electric vehicle ready, capable, or similar EV-supporting spaces than would otherwise be required.

Projects in every other district that build beyond the parking maximum face the same EV-ready add-on as one leg of a mitigation menu: either put all excess parking inside a structure, or accept the 50%-more-EV-ready-spaces requirement together with added stormwater detention and retention standards and landscaped-island requirements for any surface excess parking. In practice, the rule reaches multi-family developments whenever a project team decides more parking is worth building than the UDO otherwise allows -- it isn't a blanket EV mandate on every new apartment building, and a project that stays at or under the standard parking maximum in Sec. 2 isn't touched by Sec. 4 at all.