{"id":2389,"date":"2010-09-07T19:19:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T02:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-considers-options-for-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-meeting-is-sept-13\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:30:36","slug":"kent-considers-options-for-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-meeting-is-sept-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-considers-options-for-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-meeting-is-sept-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent considers options for electric-vehicle charging stations: Meeting is Sept. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Land Use and Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 in Council Chambers at City Hall to discuss where to allow installation of electric-vehicle charging stations.<\/p>\n<p>City staff will present options at the workshop about locations for electric vehicle charging stations as well as signage and parking spots for the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature passed a law in 2009 that mandates local governments to allow electric vehicle infrastructure as a use in all areas not zoned for residential or critical areas. City staff is working on a zoning code amendment to comply with the law.<\/p>\n<p>The Nissan Leaf, an electric car, is expected to be available to consumers in December 2010. About 1,300 Washington residents have placed deposits to reserve a Leaf, according to city staff reports.<\/p>\n<p>No public testimony is taken at workshops, although residents are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Land Use and Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 in Council Chambers at City Hall to discuss where to allow installation of electric-vehicle charging stations.<br \/>\nCity staff will present options at the workshop about locations for electric vehicle charging stations as well as signage and parking spots for the vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}