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July 15, 2012
City Rejects Call For Barclays Area Parking Permits
New York Times via The Local
By Matthew J. Perlman
Mayor Bloomberg to car owners in the Atlantic Yards area: You’re on your own.
The city has rejected local calls for a residential parking permit system that would deny outsiders the ability to park, while selling locals something city residents have never before needed to pay for: parking on residential streets.
The rejection of the so-called RPP plan came after the Department of Transportation compared the parking situation at the soon-to-open 18,000-seat Barclays Center to the 50,000-plus seat Yankee Stadium.
Both abut residential neighborhoods — but that’s where the similarities end, local supporters of a permit plan say.
“I seriously question the analysis,” said Councilwoman Letitia James. “Factors on the ground are totally different.”
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Prospect Heights Patch, Residential Parking Permits Not Needed Near Barclays, City Says
A new study by the city Department of Transportation says there’s plenty of parking around the soon-to-be-opened Barclays Center, and that residential parking permits won’t be needed.
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Tom Boast, vice president of the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council, an organization that has long supported residential parking permits, said the point was not to guarantee parking for residents, but to discourage people from driving to the arena.
"We still don’t see any disincentives to drive," he said. "At every turn, there’s more incentives to drive. ... When you read the study that’s your conclusion: 'Oh, there’s free parking there.'"
Posted by steve at July 15, 2012 6:24 PM