Sarasota County, FL Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

UDC Sec. 124-120(g)(6), Parking with Charging Capability for Electric Vehicles, is written as an incentive rather than a mandate: applicants "may provide" EV charging infrastructure in a parking facility and reserve specific spaces next to it for electric-vehicle use. The benefit is in how those spaces get counted against the site's parking requirement. Sec. 124-120(g)(2) sets the minimum and maximum parking ratios by use, and normally every space on a site counts toward that ratio. carves out an exception: spaces dedicated to electric vehicles are excluded from the minimum and maximum parking calculations entirely, up to a cap of 15 spaces.

reinforces that those first 15 EV spaces can be built independently of, and in addition to, the required parking spaces, so a project is not forced to shrink its regular parking count to make room for chargers. requires any further EV spaces to count toward the required parking total under the Sec. 124-120(g)(2) table just like ordinary spaces. In practice, a shopping center or office building can add its first 15 charging-capable spaces as bonus parking beyond what the code otherwise demands, but a 16th EV space starts eating into the site's regular parking allotment rather than adding to it, which caps how much of a lot's total capacity can be converted to EV-only use under this incentive.