The purpose of Chapter
18.22 is to promote and encourage the use of the electric vehicles in accordance with the City's Climate Action Plan, and
Government Code Section 65850.7 by providing an expedited, streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations for residential and non-residential uses The intent is to remove unreasonable regulatory barriers and minimize permit processing costs to achieve timely and cost-effective installations and to help achieve Governor's Executive Order N-79-20. Chapter
18.22 helps the city to achieve those goals, prevents adverse impacts in the installation and use of electric vehicle charging stations, and maintains the building official's authority to protect the public health and safety and to identify and address higher priority life-safety situations, where applicable.
(Ord. CS-399 § 2, 2021)
The following definitions shall apply to Chapter
18.22:
"Association"
means a nonprofit corporation or unincorporated association
created for the purpose of managing a common interest development.
"Checklist"
means the submittal checklist required by the City of Carlsbad
to be submitted with the permit application for an electric vehicle
charging station to demonstrate compliance.
"Electric vehicle charging station" or "charging station"
means any level of electric vehicle supply equipment station
that is designed and built in compliance with Article 625 of the California
Electrical Code, as it reads on the effective date of the ordinance
codified in this chapter, and delivers electricity from a source outside
an electric vehicle into a plug-in electric vehicle.
"Electronic submittal"
means the utilization of electronic mail (email); the Internet;
facsimile (fax). "Specific, adverse impact" means a significant, quantifiable,
direct, and unavoidable impact, based on objective, identified, and
written public health or safety standards, policies, or conditions
as they existed on the date the application was deemed complete.
"Feasible method"
means a method to satisfactorily mitigate or avoid a specific,
adverse impact including, but is not limited to, any cost-effective
method, condition, or mitigation imposed by the city on another similarly
situated application in a prior successful application for a permit.
(Ord. CS-399 § 2, 2021)
If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof
to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the
chapter and the application of the provision to other persons not
similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected
thereby.
(Ord. CS-399 § 2, 2021)