Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

DCP Plan: Weaken Parking Policies With End Run Around Clean Air Act

By Noah Kazis | Oct 27, 2011 | No Comments

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? While DCP is developing a solid package of reforms for parking regulations in the Manhattan core right now, it […]

Flawed DCP Studies Might Undermine DCP’s Own Parking Reforms

By Noah Kazis | Oct 26, 2011 | 6 Comments

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. Streetsblog reported yesterday that DCP is preparing significant revisions to parking policies in the Manhattan core. Limits on parking […]

Promising Parking Reforms Brewing Inside Department of City Planning

By Noah Kazis | Oct 25, 2011 | 10 Comments

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. The passage of […]

Chicago Proposes “Congestion Fee” On Parking to Fund Transit

By Noah Kazis | Oct 19, 2011 | 7 Comments

In last winter’s Chicago mayoral election, all the leading candidates made ambitious promises to increase funding for the city’s struggling transit agency. Now, with a proposed $2 “congestion fee” — really a downtown surcharge on the city’s parking tax — Emanuel plans to make drivers pay their fair share and use the proceeds to build […]

NYCHA Chairman: Parking Minimums “Working Against Us”

By Noah Kazis | Oct 17, 2011 | 15 Comments

Leaders in New York City’s public housing community are interested in transforming city-owned superblocks into mixed-use, mixed-income communities that engage with the pedestrian realm. There are of course many obstacles to this kind of ambitious project, but only one was identified specifically in a Municipal Art Society panel on the topic last Friday: the city’s […]

Village Residents Fight to Keep Fourth Parking Garage Off Single Block

By Noah Kazis | Sep 21, 2011 | 12 Comments

Last year, due to protracted financial difficulties, St. Vincent’s in Greenwich Village closed its doors after 150 years, one-and-a-half centuries that saw the hospital play a major role treating victims of the AIDS crisis and the 9/11 attacks. Though many in the neighborhood hoped to see a full-service hospital remain in the Village, a plan eventually […]

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