Encinitas City Council Votes to Make Parking Spaces Smaller

To effect its Climate Action Plan (CAP), the city of Encinitas has:

• Mandated vehicle lane diets to reduce gas-powered miles driven,

• Replaced gas-powered vehicles in the city fleet with electrics,

• Installed charging stations at City Hall,

• Encouraged residents to buy electric or hybrid vehicles,

• Contracted to place rent-a-bikes at convenient locations, and

• Installed bike and sharrow lanes throughout the city. 

Noting that many residents own large, gas-guzzling cars and trucks, the City Council recently voted unanimously to make all parking spaces smaller.

In a statement accompanying the decision, the council said the little spaces will encourage residents to replace their gas guzzlers with small hybrid and fully electric vehicles.

The city’s new mandate will continue the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that its previous CAP actions started, said the statement.