Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Department of City Planning

DCP Bringing Parking Reform to Downtown Brooklyn

By Noah Kazis | Jun 1, 2012 | 5 Comments

Downtown Brooklyn could finally get a reprieve from the onerous and outdated parking requirements that have forced developers to build costly, anti-urban garages which sit unused. A new DCP proposal filed earlier this week is described online as a “text amendment to modify the off-street parking regulations of the special Downtown Brooklyn district.” There’s not […]

Reforms to Parking Minimums on the Table for Many NYC Neighborhoods

By Noah Kazis | Mar 12, 2012 | No Comments

Last month, the New York Times gave some much-deserved attention to the parking reforms working their way through the Department of City Planning. In a pair of articles, real estate reporter Marc Santora revealed how efforts to reform the city’s outdated parking minimums, which promote driving and make housing less affordable, are progressing. (Santora unfortunately made […]

Can Staten Island’s North Shore Become NYC’s Next Great Neighborhood?

By Noah Kazis | Mar 9, 2012 | 7 Comments

Staten Island’s North Shore is one of the city’s great sites of opportunity. The neighborhoods along the Kill Van Kull are twice as dense as the rest of Staten Island, but lack any transit option beyond the bus. There are historic town centers at St. George and Port Richmond, but car-centric planning deadens street life. […]

NYC Parking Requirements Make More Traffic, New Research Confirms

By Noah Kazis | Feb 28, 2012 | 2 Comments

Evidence continues to mount that New York City’s mandatory parking minimums encourage people to drive. New research from University of Pennsylvania planning professor Rachel Weinberger, set to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Transport Policy, shows once again that providing guaranteed off-street parking spaces makes New Yorkers more likely to drive to […]

City Planning Commission OKs Excess St. Vincent’s Parking

By Noah Kazis | Jan 26, 2012 | 9 Comments

The City Planning Commission approved a Rudin family request to build 50 percent more parking than allowed at the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village. The commission’s unanimous approval came last Monday despite opposition to the parking garage from the local community board and evidence that Rudin hadn’t met the city’s […]

DCP Advances Promising Manhattan Parking Reforms, Fixes Flawed Study

By Noah Kazis | Jan 3, 2012 | 4 Comments

When plans to reform parking policies in the Manhattan core leaked out of the Department of City Planning last fall, the documents presented a riddle. The proposed changes were solid reforms to successful policies, closing loopholes in the existing parking caps and rationalizing the current system. The draft study which accompanied the reforms, however, seemed […]

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