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Mark-Viverito’s East Harlem Plan Recommends Tossing Parking Minimums
Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito has released an "East Harlem Neighborhood Plan" to guide the city's rezoning of the community, and one of the recommendations is the elimination of parking minimums.
February 26, 2016
4 More City Council Members Weigh in on Parking Reform
Last week, City Hall's proposal to reduce parking minimums for subsidized housing near transit got a hearing in the City Council, and for the most part it wasn't pretty. Council members may say they want more affordable housing, but for many of them, that support gets shaky if it means requiring less parking in residential development.
February 18, 2016
Paying for Parking in NYC Is About to Get Easier, But Will It Get Smarter?
Last week, Mayor de Blasio and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announced the implementation of a new payment option for all of the city's 85,000 metered parking spaces. By the end of the year, people will be able to pay for parking using a mobile app.
February 12, 2016
City Council’s Zeal for Affordable Housing Crumbles If It Means Less Parking
On Tuesday, members of the City Council hammered the de Blasio administration for not guaranteeing enough housing units for low-income New Yorkers in new construction. But yesterday, when the topic turned to building more affordable housing by reducing parking requirements, several Council members lost their zeal for housing and worried more about car storage.
February 11, 2016
The Key for Park Slope to Keep Its Big Grocery Store: Less Parking
The notion that New York City housing construction shouldn't be weighed down by mandatory parking minimums got a combative response from some City Council members at a hearing today. Streetsblog will have a thorough round-up of who said what tomorrow morning. In the meantime, here's a quick detour to Park Slope for a related story about how parking rules everything around us.
February 10, 2016
If You Want to Buy a Car in Japan…
If you want to buy a car in Japan, first you have to prove that you have somewhere to park it. That's one of the policies Streetfilms encountered while interviewing experts for an upcoming three-part series on parking best practices.
February 10, 2016
A Vote for Parking Minimums Is a Vote to Keep the Rent Too Damn High
[Editor's note: With the City Council debating potential reforms to the city's parking mandates today, we're republishing this piece that originally ran in December. Stay tuned for coverage of the hearing later today.]
February 10, 2016
Parking Reforms Cut Congestion, So When Will DOT Get Serious About Them?
Earlier this month City Council transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez convened a hearing on city parking policy. The committee addressed abuse of DOT- and NYPD-issued parking placards, but did not discuss one of the most promising initiatives in the city tool kit.
January 27, 2016
NYPD Still Resisting Attempts to Reform Parking Placard Abuse
Fraudulent parking placards are rampant in NYC, but NYPD remains opposed to a bill that would require the city to include a barcode on placards to ensure proper enforcement.
January 15, 2016