Charger locations in assigned parking for condo tower

Susan:

There is no requirement on the location of charging stations, so I recommend for project teams to to select locations that are highly visible and are easy to run the conduit/power. I would use some of the spaces already identified for this project.

We've had this come up on residential projects before (both as a discussion point and as a review comment). It's not so much the physical location of the space but really how you distribute those EV spaces to residents given that all parking spaces are all assigned. I haven't done it for condos, only apartments, so I don't know exactly how you get around the "I own XX space" issue.

Our building was set up that each unit included 1 parking space. So we handled it by putting 9 of our 10 total EV spaces on a monthly EV pass that assigned a resident then to one of those EV spaces. That pass was only available to residents with an electric car and was a first-come, first-serve to get the pass. Management kept a wait list and residents had to re-confirm (I believe no less than quarterly) that they still had the EV car to be eligible for the EV pass. If they bought a new non-EV car, that resident would be reassigned to a regular parking space and someone on the EV wait list would be reassigned to the EV spot (basically they'd switch spaces). The last EV station was in a temporary space with a 2-hour limit so as to allow some charging for folks who didn't have their own EV space (we had a few extra spaces above the 1/unit to account for visitors and staff, so we could do this). The project was allowed to put non-EV cars in those spaces (if their initial lease-out didn't have at least qualifying EV-cars in the residents) but they were required to commit to immediately reassign the non-EV cars to regular spaces as soon as EV-cars moved into the building.

I would think you could potentially do something similar provided that the condos are sold with language like "includes 2 spaces in garage" and not "includes garage spaces 26 and 27." But it does involve some coordination related to how to manage/enforce those spaces.