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Ordinance No. 18-47 adopting a new Part 13 (Bicycle-Share Businesses) of Article 3 (Sales of Goods and Services) of Chapter 2 (Business Licensing, Liquor Regulations and Taxation) of the Code of the City of Colorado Springs 2001, as amended, pertaining to bicycle-share business licenses and providing penalties for the violation thereof
Presenter:
Jill Gaebler, District 5 City Council Member
Susan Edmonson, Downtown Partnership
Sarah B. Johnson, City Clerk
Mitch Hammes, Code Enforcement Services Manager
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Summary:
Currently, the City of Colorado Springs has no regulatory provisions for the operation of bicycle-share businesses within the City. To facilitate the orderly operation of such businesses, this ordinance implements a business license for bicycle-share businesses.
Bicycle-share businesses offer bicycles for renting on a self-service basis through an automated system. Bicycle-share businesses provide a fleet of bicycles for short-term rentals, offering users the ability to pick up a bicycle in one location, and return to a different location within the system's service area. The service is made available to registered users, and can be run by the City or by private organizations. Without regulation, bicycle-share businesses may pose a threat to the public health, safety, and welfare.
Bicycle-shareing is an area of mobility experiencing great growth and change in recent years,. For the first decade or so, bicycle-share businesses used stations (also known as docks or hubs) to store the bicycles when not in use. In this "stationed" model, users check out a bicycle from one station and return it to another station. This model incorporated the needed technology in the stations and payment kiosks, and meant that bicycles not in use were generally stored in an orderly, predictable fashion.
New "dockless" systems have developed with the needed technology in the bicycles and on mobile phones, rendering the systems far more flexible. Some bi...
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