Why Does This Building by the Subway Need 193 Parking Spots? (Yes, Exactly 193.) | New York and cities across the country reconsider decades-old parking rules.

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In New York and elsewhere, the rules typically take the form of ratios [of parking spaces to retail and housing] that have been copied from one city to another, handed from one generation of engineers to the next without much study or skepticism.

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EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s right by the Bedford-Northstrand G train stop. That’s my old neighborhood. There is absolutely no need for those parking spaces there. Few people in that neighborhood own cars in the first place.

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