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Will City Planning Commission Uphold Parking Maximums at St. Vincent’s?
The sides are lining up for and against the oversized parking garage that the Rudin family wants to build for its luxury apartments at the former St. Vincent's Hospital site in Greenwich Village. Supporting the request to exceed Manhattan's parking maximums is Borough President Scott Stringer. Opposing it are the community board and the urban planning advocates at the Municipal Art Society. Next month, the City Planning Commission will decide whether to ignore its own guidelines and grant a special permit raising the maximums for the Rudins.
December 6, 2011
Eyes on the Street: At Knickerbocker Ave. Station, No Such Thing as TOD
This isn't what transit-oriented development is supposed to look like.
November 29, 2011
Will DCP Withstand the Real Estate Lobby Assault on Parking Maximums?
At last week’s Transportation 2030 conference, Real Estate Board of New York Senior Vice President Michael Slattery made clear that his industry wants to eliminate one of the bedrock policies of traffic management in the New York City core. As Streetsblog reported last month, REBNY is mobilizing against the parking maximums which have helped to hold Manhattan traffic in check for a generation. Slattery went public with REBNY's vision at Friday's conference, articulating the real estate lobby's belief that fulfilling so-called market demand for more parking spots will aid new construction.
November 23, 2011
Pedestrian Burdens: Sidewalk Atrocities in Bensonhurst, LIC, and Vinegar Hill
Here they are: the first set of reader-submitted "pedestrian burdens," courtesy of Michael Kodransky, co-author of ITDP's recent report on European parking policy innovations.
November 22, 2011
D.C. Planning Chief Urges New York City to Scrap Parking Minimums
Yesterday, the Department of City Planning asked experts from around the country how to make a more sustainable zoning code. Their response? Scrap parking minimums.
November 16, 2011
Pedestrian Burdens: Send Us Pics of the Parking Garages Killing Your Street
Get your cameras ready, Streetsbloggers. It's time to show Department of City Planning Director Amanda Burden what city-mandated parking garages are doing to the streets in your neighborhood.
November 10, 2011
NYC DOT to Roll Out Smart Parking Tech in 2012
New York City is moving forward with plans to use sensors to improve parking management, along the lines of San Francisco's pioneering SFPark system. The program will be unveiled next year, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced at a conference on transportation and technology held last Friday at Columbia University.
November 7, 2011
DCP Plan: Weaken Parking Policies With End Run Around Clean Air Act
The Department of City Planning continues to send confusing signals about parking policy. Is the department looking to strengthen parking policies that limit traffic, or does it want to water down the rules already in place?
October 27, 2011
Flawed DCP Studies Might Undermine DCP’s Own Parking Reforms
What appears to be an internal rift within the Department of City Planning could disrupt attempts to reform the city's parking policies for the Manhattan core, in the face of opposition from the powerful real estate industry.
October 26, 2011
Promising Parking Reforms Brewing Inside Department of City Planning
A generation ago, every new building in New York City had to include parking. Even in downtown and midtown Manhattan, the law required developers to build parking spaces for 40 percent of all new residences. The most walkable, transit-accessible districts in the country had mandates to set aside space for car storage.
October 25, 2011