1. Ensure that adequate off-street parking is provided for new land uses and major alterations to existing uses, considering the demands likely to result from various uses, combinations of uses, and settings, and to avoid the negative impacts associated with spillover parking into adjacent neighborhoods and districts;

2. Minimize the negative environmental and urban design impacts that can result from parking lots, driveways, and drive aisles within parking lots;

3. Offer flexible means of minimizing the amount of area devoted to vehicle parking by allowing reductions in the number of required spaces in transit-served locations, shared parking facilities, and other situations expected to have lower vehicle parking demand;

4. Where possible, consolidate parking and minimize the area devoted exclusively to parking and driveways when typical demands may be satisfied more efficiently by shared facilities;

5. Ensure that parking and loading areas are designed to operate efficiently and effectively and in a manner compatible with on-site and surrounding land uses; Ensure that adequate off-street bicycle parking facilities are provided;

6. Promote parking lot designs that offer safe and attractive pedestrian routes;

7. Encourage bicycling, transit use, walking, carpooling, and other modes of transportation (other than by motor vehicle) that can move the city toward achieving modal split goals in the General Plan Circulation Element; and

8. Accommodate and encourage increased use of alternative fuel and zero-emissions vehicles.