No Parking! – Final Nail in the Coffin!
Mayor Adams’ City of Yes
Demands for No Parking Requirements
Does anyone recall Mayor Eric Adams making the bold statements that outside agitators were influencing the Columbia’s protests, later finding out that 99% of people arrested were in fact Columbia students?
Now under Mayor Adams COY Text Amendments there are outside agitators being directed to come to Community Boards all over NYC to push for the City of Yes’ No Parking requirements.
However, not only are these (possibly paid) agitators coming, but they are carrying with them with misinformation, which we will address.
Cars vs. Apartments
The media, politicians and the Department of City Planning, continues to stress that two parking spaces can be the size of one small studio. While this may be true depending upon the size of the studio, the impression that less parking spaces will increase the number of apartments is not true. This is because it fails to tell you the whole truth, which is….
A developer cannot substitute parking spaces for apartments. Parking requirements cost developers more money and thus their elimination will just add to their profit margin and not an increase in apartments within their building.
Explanation:
*Floor Area Ratio “FAR” is the formula that allows a developer to determine how many apartments he can build. A developer can not build more than the FAR is allowed, which is based upon the type of zoning the lot is located on.
For example, a developer determines, based upon his FAR, that he can build a maximum of 100 apartments, and if he chooses to build the maximum he must build 40 parking spaces. If he no longer has to build the parking spaces, he can still only build those 100 apartments!
*FAR is the livable portions of a building which doesn’t include parking spaces that are located in non-livable spaces, such as below ground level, or outside of a building.
Luxury Housing Brings Additional Cars … Developers Currently Only Provide
10% to 25% Parking
According to the City, for every one luxury apartment, two cars come with it. Thus, the current regulations which require from 20%- 50% (depending upon the zoning) parking spaces for the amount of apartments, in fact doesn’t account for over 75%-90% of the cars that are already coming into the community.
For Example:
If 100 luxury apartments are planned, 200 cars would be anticipated. The developer may have to provide from 20 to 50 parking spaces for those 200 cars, leaving from 150 to 170 cars coming into the community and the developer not providing parking for them.
This is why any community that has luxury developments or higher income residents come into the community has seen a serious increase in the amount of cars in the community and the reduction of free parking spaces on the streets.
Please Note:
Developers don’t provide any parking for the “Affordable Categories”, despite a lot of these categories being luxury housing.
For example, the “Work Force” option under Mandatory Inclusionary Housing “MIH,”, so called affordable, is 130% AMI, ($141,310 to $298,870).
The City Has Already Reduced Free Parking
During the past decade New Yorkers have already seen a drastic reduction in parking spaces due to the various private/public partnership with special interests groups and businesses.
Ride Shares – Giving two parking spaces for $450 a year to private car businesses. (It has been reported that the slashing of tires has returned some of these spaces back to the public)
Open Streets– Taking away parking via “closed streets”, pushed by Transportation Alternatives, who is funded by private corporation such as Lyft.
*Bike Lanes – Removing parking to be replaced with Bike Lanes, again supported by Transportation Alternatives.
Restaurant Sheds– Empty restaurant sheds all over the city, collecting dirt, rodents and garbage, supported by large business bids.
City Bikes – Large swaths of parking spaces have been removed to accommodate City Bikes. However, the constant full bike stations in some communities clearly show that people are not biking! (Let’s not forget that
.08% of the population are bikers or 99.02% are not!)
*Despite all of the talk about wanting to remove cars off of the streets for the health of the public (global warming) there is currently a plan to kill off dozens of trees to put a bike lane just a few feet away from Prospect Parks’ bike line. (For another post)
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