Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Amanda Burden

LA Planners Leapfrog NYC DCP, Approve Plan With No Mandatory Parking

By Ben Fried | Dec 14, 2012 | 9 Comments

Angie reported this morning that Washington, DC, is moving to reduce mandatory parking requirements in much of the city, which should lower the cost of housing and curb traffic. Meanwhile, despite talk last year of wide-ranging parking reforms for New York’s “inner ring” encircling the Manhattan core, the Department of City Planning has so far […]

Planning Commission OKs Paltry Parking Reform for Downtown Brooklyn

By Ben Fried | Oct 18, 2012 | 2 Comments

The New York City Department of City Planning announced yesterday that the City Planning Commission has approved a measure to reduce Downtown Brooklyn’s onerous parking minimums. But the commission, chaired by Amanda Burden, appears to have wasted an opportunity to improve on the timid reforms. The good news is that new developments in Downtown Brooklyn, […]

Times Architecture Critic Calls For Eliminating NYC Parking Minimums

By Noah Kazis | Jan 6, 2012 | 9 Comments

The fight to eliminate parking minimums in New York City just went mainstream. As part of a wide-ranging exploration of parking lots and public space set to run in Sunday’s paper, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman signed on to the growing list of people urging New York City’s Department of City Planning to […]

Pedestrian Burdens: Sidewalk Atrocities in Bensonhurst, LIC, and Vinegar Hill

By Noah Kazis | Nov 22, 2011 | 2 Comments

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. In this photo series, Streetsblog is cataloging the parking lots and garages that erode New York’s pedestrian realm, whether through blank walls, repeated curb cuts or unsightly structures. City Planning Commissioner […]

Pedestrian Burdens: Send Us Pics of the Parking Garages Killing Your Street

By Noah Kazis | Nov 10, 2011 | 14 Comments

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. In most of New York, it’s illegal to build anything of a certain size without a certain amount of parking, thanks to 1960s-era mandates in the city […]

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 […]

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