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Bike parking
2:19 pm
Wed April 4, 2012

Mayor Slay signs bike parking bill

Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
Mayor Francis Slay (middle) signs the city's bike parking ordinance with Ald. Scott Ogilvie (left) and members of Slay's young adult advisory panel.

St. Louis has joined cities like Minneapolis and Seattle in requiring developers and rehabbers to install bike racks in certain projects.

Mayor Francis Slay signed the bike parking ordinance at City Hall on Wednesday. It requires developers and rehabbers of most projects over $1 million to install at least one bike rack that can hold at least two bikes.  The offsite parking requirement is reduced by one space for every bike rack that's installed.

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