The City Council approved Mayor Adams's 'City of Yes' rezoning, marking a significant urban planning change since 1961. While the plan didn't completely eliminate parking mandates for new developments, it established four zones with varied regulations. The 'inner transit zone' saw full deregulation of parking requirements, while the 'outer transit zone' saw reductions. This zoning adjustment aims to encourage more housing construction in middle-density areas, where previous mandates often limited developers from maximizing potential unit counts due to avoidance of triggering parking requirements.
Sometimes you do want to see how the sausage gets made.
The final form of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity did not rid the city entirely of parking mandates.
In middle-density districts, the existing mandates were making it so developers consistently 'under-built.'
A split lot at 486-488 Lefferts Ave. shows how parking mandates affected development.
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