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December 24, 2007
PlaNYC 1950: why parking shouldn't be required at apartment projects like Atlantic Yards
Atlantic Yards Report
Mayor Mike Bloomberg's much-praised PlaNYC 2030 contains a glaring omission, a failure to address the antiquated anti-urban policy that mandates parking attached to new residential developments outside Manhattan, even when such developments, like Atlantic Yards, are justified precisely because they're located near transit hubs.
Last year, several commentators on the Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) questioned the provision of parking--not just interim surface lots, but also the 2570 underground spaces intended for the project's residential component and an additional 1100 underground spaces for the arena.
(Map from Atlantic Yards web site.)
The Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) dismissed the questions, but the issue won't go away.
Posted by lumi at December 24, 2007 5:12 AM