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June 6, 2012
City Planning proposes slashing Downtown Brooklyn parking minimums; could impact Atlantic Yards arena-goers and required residential parking
Atlantic Yards Report
It's too soon to predict the impact on Atlantic Yards parking--both for arena-goers and future residents--but it's notable that the Department of City Planning now aims to slash mandatory parking in Downtown Brooklyn, an area adjacent to--and technically including slivers of--the Atlantic Yards site.
As Streetsblog reported 6/4/12, in DCP Proposal Will Cut Downtown Brooklyn Parking Minimums in Half:
Downtown Brooklyn’s mandatory parking minimums would be cut in half for new development and eliminated outright for affordable housing under a plan from the Department of City Planning. The change is significant — the first rollback of the costly and car-ownership inducing requirements under the Bloomberg administration — but doesn’t go far enough. Even by DCP’s own roundabout admission, the reduced parking minimums will still create an unnecessarily large supply of parking.
...AY Impact?
Despite the state's pattern of overriding city zoning (including zoning of the slivers in the top map) in numerous ways to enable the Atlantic Yards project, the Empire State Development Corporation has not, as of yet, overridden the parking minimums assumed for the residential portion of the project.
The ESDC, which had previously mandated 1,100 on-site parking spaces, will apparently revise that, given plans to provide only 541 on-site spaces to arena-goers.
One explanation is that there is more off-site parking available than previously analyzed and, indeed, the new DCP report suggests an "excess parking supply."
Then again, the impact of the arena is yet unclear.
Posted by eric at June 6, 2012 10:22 AM