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Does your city have dumb mandatory parking lot spaces to be built if they build housing?
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In nyc some areas have tons of empty parking lots because the law requires them to build almost the same amount of parking spot to home units. also lol people living in government housing has super cheap parking spots. which doesn't make any sense. they are living in government building in nyc and can afford a car??? lol
Avalon Fort Greene, a new 42-story luxury building near downtown Brooklyn's mass-transit hub, devotes two stories and 256 parking spaces to one of its most elusive residents: the automobile.
The building is well-occupied, but the garage is half-empty. The same is true down the street at 80 DeKalb Ave. Nearly all of the building's 365 apartments are filled, but only half of its 126 parking spaces are leased.
“The reason people live at Avalon Fort Greene is to be close to mass transit, not to own a car,†said Fred Harris, senior vice president at developer AvalonBay Communities Inc. “The garage is not something we would have built if we were not required to.â€
Most car-owning New Yorkers live by the dictates of alternate-side parking, anxiously circling for a spot or double-parking until the sweeper makes its rounds. Off the streets and under buildings, however, exists a glut of parking spaces, built not to accommodate demand but to comply with zoning that the city has barely updated since the auto boom more than half a century ago.
The result is not just little-used garages in neighborhoods bordered by car-packed curbs, but a policy that seems to be at odds with Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vision of a sustainable city that rationally allocates precious resources and removes barriers to business.
The Department of City Planning knows its 1950s-era parking requirements are outdated and is preparing to issue recommendations for Manhattan and “inner-ring†neighborhoods, such as those in western Brooklyn and Queens. But transportation advocates worry that reforms will fail to dent what they deem an oversupply of parking at large developments.
“We've asserted that limiting parking supply can be a valuable tool to encourage mass transit,†said Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives. “[The city's] point of view is people will own cars and drive, no matter what.â€
Building the bare minimum
That was the prevailing view when zoning was crafted decades ago requiring public housing projects built after 1951 to include parking lots. As a result, two-thirds of the city's 334 complexes have parking lots for residents, who pay as little as $23 a month for a spot. The New York City Housing Authority has begun to turn some lots into low-income housing and senior centers, but has retained subsidized parking for residents.
Much of the zoning approved in the era of master planner Robert Moses remains intact. The glut can be traced to requirements that for every 10 rental units developers build outside Manhattan, they must provide four parking spaces—sometimes more. A study by New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy found that developers universally build the minimum number of spaces “because they do not think the market supports the required amount of parking,†said Vicki Been, the center's faculty director.
Manhattan's minimums were replaced with a cap decades ago to comply with the Clean Air Act. It was the city's first acknowledgment that garages encouraged driving.
Read more: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20111002/REAL_ESTATE/310029977#ixzz1iyp5rGv8
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No.
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lol NYC
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yes they do...problem is they just passed the ordinance yet they also passed an ordinance that there is no new construction.
good thing they wasted all that time and money to send notices to every resident informing them of this 
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They could rent them to someone else and make enough to almost pay their rent.
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I don't understand why they shouldn't do this. The city is jammed enough without having people have no place to park but city streets.
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The people's republic of New York aint much different from China, huh?
Wait 'till they start the one kid policy.
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yes.
1 parking spot per bedroom if you are adding on.
my house was built in 1954 and it only had 1, it was originally built as a 3 bedroom house.
ponder...lol
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I live in the suburbs in the woods
so no
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