Scottsdale, AZ Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)
Key Facts
- Hotels/apartments installed spaces
- 4% of required parking
- Hotels/apartments capable spaces
- 20% of required parking
- Other commercial installed spaces
- 4% (or 8% of employee parking)
- Other commercial capable spaces
- 10% of required parking
- Circuit capacity
- 8.3 kVA per single-space circuit
Summary
Scottsdale's Green Construction Code requires new hotels, apartments, condos and most commercial buildings to dedicate a share of parking to electric vehicle charging. Section 501.3.7.3 sets minimum percentages of 'EV installed' and 'EV capable' spaces by occupancy group, plus wiring capacity and panel-labeling specs for each.
501.3.7.3 Electric vehicle charging facilities. EV installed spaces and EV capable spaces shall be provided in accordance with Table 501.3.7.3. The required number of EV installed spaces or EV capable spaces shall be rounded up to the next highest whole number. Where a branch circuit serves a single charging space, it shall have a capacity not less than of 8.3 kVA (40A, 208/240V). Where a branch circuit serves multiple charging spaces, an Automatic Load Management System (ALMS) may be used to reduce the total electrical capacity provided that all charging spaces are capable of simultaneously charging at a minimum rate of 4.1 kVA (20A, 208/240V). For EV capable spaces, the electrical service panel shall have reserved circuit breaker space(s) labeled "Future EV Charging". Raceway(s) shall be installed from the electrical service panel to outlet box(es) within the planned EV charging parking area(s). Outlet box(es) shall be labeled "Future EV charging".
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 80).
Full Breakdown
3 of the International Green Construction Code to require EV installed spaces, equipped with charging equipment, and EV capable spaces, wired and ready for a future charger, at covered new buildings, with the required count rounded up to the next whole number. Group R-1 hotels and motels and Group R-2 apartments and condominiums must provide EV installed spaces equal to 4 percent of required parking and EV capable spaces equal to 20 percent of required parking. Group A, B, E, F, I, M and S buildings, meaning assembly, business, educational, factory, institutional, mercantile and storage occupancies, must provide EV installed spaces equal to 4 percent of required parking, or at least 8 percent of designated employee-only parking, plus EV capable spaces equal to 10 percent of required parking. 1 kVA, 20 amps. ' Parking spaces set aside for other than passenger vehicles can be excluded when calculating the required EV space counts.
Violations & Fines
The IGCC amendments carry no standalone penalty section, so noncompliance falls under the citywide general penalty in Code Section 1-8: building without the required EV installed or EV capable spaces is a Class 1 misdemeanor, with each day the deficiency continues counted as a separate offense. The building official can also withhold a certificate of occupancy until the required spaces and panel labeling are installed.
Frequently Asked Questions
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