Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Department of City Planning

Designing NYC Streets for the 21st Century

By Ben Fried | Nov 6, 2008 | 3 Comments

Earlier this week Transportation Alternatives announced the winners of its "21st Century Street" design competition, selecting three entries from more than a hundred submissions re-imagining the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn. Juror Michelle de la Uz, director of the Fifth Avenue Committee, listed safety and the pedestrian environment as her top […]

Study: City Residential Parking Requirements Lead to More Driving

By John Kaehny | Oct 15, 2008 | 49 Comments

The New York City Department of City Planning is encouraging people to drive to work. Maybe not officially, but the agency’s minimum residential parking requirements are a big inducement to car commute. That’s the implicit finding of a new study by University of Pennsylvania planning professor Rachel Weinberger (and others, including yours truly, John Kaehny), […]

The Parking Cure Part 2: Do the Right Tests

By John Kaehny | Aug 27, 2008 | 4 Comments

We continue with our look at recommendations proposed in "Suburbanizing the City," a report issued by a cross-section of public interest groups on the detrimental effects of off-street parking policies on city traffic. Last week we visited the city’s parking doctor and got the wrong medicine. In this episode of city parking malpractice, the parking […]

The Parking Cure, Step 1: Diagnose the Problem

By John Kaehny | Aug 22, 2008 | 11 Comments

This curb-cutting driveway leads to a parking lot for a new residential development on 16th Street in Brooklyn. What would you do if you went to the doctor, and before speaking to you, taking your vital signs, or learning about your condition, she prescribed a powerful drug and kicked you out the door? New York […]

How to Fix Off-Street Parking Policy, Before It’s Too Late

By Ben Fried | Aug 20, 2008 | 17 Comments

The proliferation of off-street parking is pushing New York toward higher rates of car ownership and substantially more traffic. To avert a scenario where the city becomes less transit-oriented and more beholden to car owners, a coalition of planning and environmental groups is calling for the reform of off-street parking policies.

Planners and Green Groups Call for Off-Street Parking Reform

By Ben Fried | Aug 18, 2008 | 13 Comments

Yesterday, several planning and environmental organizations joined Transportation Alternatives on the steps of City Hall to tout the release of "Suburbanizing the City" [PDF], the new report that critiques New York City’s off-street parking policies. The coalition is similar — but not identical — to the array of groups that pushed for congestion pricing earlier […]

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