With the possibility of such projects in the future, New Braunfels city officials are proposing an ordinance revision that would define efficiency and studio apartments and identify vehicle parking standards for those types of housing units. Jean Drew, a senior planner with the cityâs Planning and Development Review Department, told members of the Planning Commission on Tuesday that city staff had identified a need to determine an appropriate parking standard for efficiency and studio apartments that consist of one common room for living, with a separate room allowed only for the bathroom. âRecently in various development meetings, weâve been approached by a number of different projects with interest in doing efficiency apartments, some are new developments, and some are redevelopments,â Drew said. âWe discovered during the process that New Braunfels has no parking standards for efficiency apartments, nor do we define this use in our ordinance.â