While new building energy standards and regulation legislation passed, BOMA succeeded in gaining an amendment lowering a requirement that would have required that basic infrastructure be built at the time of construction that could expand EV (electric vehicle) charging to 50% of all parking spaces.
BOMA succeeded in getting this reduced to 20%.Note: there is a requirement that 10% of all new buildings with parking dedicate 10% to functional EV charging. There are elements in the new legislation that BOMA supported.However, BOMA fought hard unsuccessfully to prevent a particularly ill-advised penalty clause for non-compliance. BOMA proposed an amendment to limit any non-compliance fine to no more than $25,000/yr. However, we were just short on votes and the bill that passed provides for up to a $1/SF per year fine. We will try to change in rule-making
Six minute video of BOMA’s testimony on this bill in Olympia
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