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June 15, 2008
Meet the Designer Behind the NYC Parking Boom
Streetsblog
NoLandGrab: As if free gas wasn't enough of an encouragement to drive, Forest City Ratner's East River Plaza development brings bog box stores with suburban style parking garages - right in New York City!
So, in the name of convenience, Blumenfeld Development and GreenbergFarrow are squandering the inherent attraction of urban streets -- walkable places where people actually like to linger -- and flooding the city with additional car trips.These big box stores may have been given the green light before PlaNYC was unveiled, but how does this wave of car-friendly development square with Mayor Bloomberg's much-touted sustainability goals? Between a City Planning Department that sits back and allows the willy-nilly construction of new public parking garages, and an Economic Development Corporation that actively courts big box retailers and signs off on stadium parking subsidies, the push to mitigate traffic seems to have been limited to congestion pricing. Streetsblog has a request into the Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability to find out whether scaling back huge parking facilities is on the mayor's agenda.
Posted by amy at June 15, 2008 11:13 AM