Troup County, GA Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Troup County's Unified Development Ordinance addresses electric vehicle charging directly at Appendix B § 8.5, part of the article VIII off-street parking standards adopted by Ordinance No. 2025-03 on June 3, 2025. Subsection (1) permits charging stations in all off-street surface parking lots and multi-level parking structures anywhere in unincorporated Troup County, with no special use permit or variance required simply to install one. Subsection (2) requires that any space set aside for charging be identified with pavement markings and appropriate signage, so the standard reads as a design requirement rather than a numeric cap.

Subsection (3) resolves how the spaces count against a site's parking obligation under the broader off-street parking article: charging spaces can be applied toward the minimum number of spaces a use must provide, but a developer cannot count them toward whatever maximum parking cap applies to the site, preventing charging infrastructure from being used to justify an oversized lot. Subsection (4) places ongoing maintenance and operational responsibility squarely on the property owner, not the County, covering equipment upkeep and electricity costs. Because the section sits inside the parking article, it works alongside the dimension standards in § 8.6 and the on-street parking rules in § 8.7 for any site that also uses on-street credit toward its parking count.