It’s just a way to deny a development which nimby’s don’t want in their hood
Cars have caused irreparable damage to our society. And trying to wind it back is such a monumental process.
Surprise, she’s a republican
“But where will my car live?”
There is a fair amount of street parking and a bus stop right there…
During Tuesday’s City Council Land Use hearing, Vernikov signaled her support for the revised rezoning proposal at 2501 Coney Island Ave. — one that will allow only four stories comprising 27 units and 35 parking spaces, down from the original proposal of 11 stories with 60 units and 24 parking spaces.
Car-brains aside, this smells like corruption. 7 floors with an avg of 5 apartments per floor amount to only 2 parking spots per floor? Wtf are they parking in those spots? Something doesn’t add up. Over here we had the reverse problem: greedy developers signed for plans with x apts and y parking spots, only to convert the lower floor garages into extra minuscule apts after construction started.
Speaking of Coney Island and corruption, there’s a shitty developer trying to bulldoze the heart of Coney Island (the amusement park, museum, theater, etc) to build a shitty casino. Literally no one in the community wants this and we’ve been fighting back, but the city doesn’t care about what the locals want. Eric Adams has a hand in all this, to no one’s surprise.
The shitty developer (Thor Equities) has a history of buying and destroying historic buildings in the area, and has been caught red handed bussing in out-of-townera to feign support
Coney is my performance home so I’m trying to raise awareness
They don’t want people living on the streets, but they don’t want homeless cars even more.
Us is crazy regarding their parking laws. No wonder nobody is walking or taking a bike.
Outside of NYC, most if not all places lack adequate public transportation systems and walkable resources(grocery stores etc.)
Lots of cities have turned off parking minimums because of how bad it is, but it’s slow going.
It’s truly abysmal
Hear it loud folks, cars are more important than people. Sure it’s only a few blocks away from the Q line, but that doesn’t matter. Where will people have cars?
Sure. Walk a few blocks, take the q, walk another couple blocks, get groceries, walk back to the q, walk another few blocks after, and yay, grocery shopping done for a few days. Only took 4 hours and cramping hands. Hope your healthy and young enough.
The only reason being young is a requirement is because of the lack of walkable cities in the US making people there semi sedentary
There has to be a way to incentivize tenants to forego cars for a project like this to succeed. I kind of understand the 1:1 ratio thing, because while I agree it’s ridiculous to cut housing units for parking spaces, the reality is that if there aren’t enough onsite parking sports for a given MDU, you’ll just have people clogging up city streets with overflow parking. Perhaps billing the building as carless or something and charging a premium for a parking spot to disincentivize car ownership?
You see this in major cities here in CA like LA or SF, where much housing was built and zoned before the surge in personal car ownership. Street parking is a nightmare, and neighborhoods are filled to the brim with people plopping their cars wherever they can. It has to be coordinated effort between residents and cities to help alleviate the situation. Even neighborhood vertical parking structures would help.
Okay so hear me out, public, neighborhood car parks but also a network of car free streets.
Like my neighborhood is surrounded by arterials, what if you had a car park that was free like within 5 blocks. Is it a waste of space that could be used for housing? Yes. But it also moves cars to the periphery and opens up like 25 blocks to be car free neighborhood streets where people can walk, children can play and we have less noise pollution and can easily build community.
We can designate areas of on street parking for disabled people and allow services into the neighborhood but we could limit the entrances and have more clutter and places to sit and vibe instead of having to maintain vigilance.
I honestly believe that’s absolutely the direction we should start moving in. It’s just going to be a tough sell on divorcing people from there cars, and hopefully an “if you build it they will come” approach works out.
