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The Two-Step Parking Cure for Mayor de Blasio
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio ran on a platform with ambitious goals to reduce traffic deaths, improve bus service, increase bicycling, and make the city more affordable. As New York City’s first mayoral transition in 12 years gets underway, Streetsblog is asking advocates and experts how Mayor-elect de Blasio should follow through and implement a progressive transportation policy agenda. Today's post comes from Rachel Weinberger, director of research and policy strategy at NelsonNygaard Consulting Associates.
November 26, 2013
Affordable Housing and Parking Reform: A Great Match for Mayor de Blasio
Despite a policy book that included a top-notch street safety plank, Bill de Blasio never quite linked progressive transportation policy to social equity during the campaign. But the candidate's campaign promises to reduce inequality did focus on the high price of housing, including a pledge to require developers to set aside a certain percentage of their projects for below-market units. To make housing more affordable for everyone, the de Blasio administration will have to revamp the city's zoning code, and parking reform -- an affordable housing issue the Bloomberg administration barely touched -- should be part of that.
November 8, 2013
West Side Project Calls For 400-500 Parking Spots. Would EDC Want More?
Developer TF Cornerstone has begun the process of getting rezonings and special permits from the City Planning Commission for its residential and retail project on 11th Avenue and 57th Street, which would replace a string of auto dealerships and a 1,000-space parking garage with a new project containing either 395 or 500 parking spaces, depending on the retail tenants.
October 31, 2013
Curb Appeal
Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline. This post is #15 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots!
October 4, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Minivans Parked All Over Williamsburg Sidewalk, Bikeway
A reader sent in this photo of what looks to be several dozen minivans in Williamsburg parked all over the sidewalk and bike lane on Kent Avenue.
October 3, 2013
There’s a (Parking) Place for Us
This post is #14 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots! Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline.
September 27, 2013
Alan Durning on Reasons to Be Optimistic About Parking Reform
We hope you enjoyed part one of our Q&A with Alan Durning. Durning is publishing a series of articles on his blog at the Sightline Institute -- where he serves as executive director -- about the ways that underpriced parking drives up rents, eats up space, and makes no sense.
September 19, 2013
Alan Durning on the “Ruinous, Vicious Circle” of Underpriced Parking
Many people have been inspired by UCLA Professor Donald Shoup’s epic takedown of American parking policy, but few have turned that newfound passion into the kind of scholarship Alan Durning has produced on the issue. The executive director of the Pacific Northwest’s sustainability think tank, Sightline Institute, has now published 12 installments in a series called “Parking? Lots!” -- and there's more coming.
September 18, 2013
Apartment Blockers
Alan Durning is the executive director and founder of Sightline Institute, a think tank on sustainability issues in the Pacific Northwest. This article, originally posted on Sightline's blog, is #9 in their series, "Parking? Lots!"
September 17, 2013