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Showing posts with label zoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zoning. Show all posts
Friday, August 23, 2024

AirBnb can be really useful sometimes

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In the past several years I've seen a number of posts attacking the company AirBnb, which is fine, but often they go further and attac...
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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Local knowledge, global bullshit

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In my neighborhood, on a narrow block zoned M-1 next to the Long Island Railroad main line, is a parking lot. A few years ago, the owners o...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Do New York's "manufacturing zones" promote driving?

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I read on YIMBY that some people who live or work in the Jerome Avenue corridor in the Bronx are concerned that rezoning the area to allow ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Could we build another Park Slope?

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Do you like the modern towers of the Upper East Side? Photo: Peter Cigliano / Flickr. How about a nice gigantic Upper West Side prewar a...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

New transit and our goals

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It's pretty much a no-brainer that anything that optimizes existing transit use will help us toward our goals. Getting people out of ca...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Who's fighting car dependence?

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Earlier this month I talked about how car dependence is overdetermined , with at least seven more or less independent factors influencing it...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Will "Willets West" relieve Flushing Meadows's parking curse?

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One of the least pleasant things about Flushing Meadows is the sheer amount of parking, as I've helpfully highlighted for you on the Goo...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Gay men, zoning and the High Line's real source of power

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You probably already know how annoyed I get by all the people who want "our very own High Line" for whatever little town they liv...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

Trainwreck at the edge of the water

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Today I took a little trip up to the Mitsuwa Marketplace in Edgewater, New Jersey, and picked up some Pocky, instant iced green tea, and riv...
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Monday, July 2, 2012

Individual mandates for transportation

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This morning I was listening to Chana Joffe-Walt and Alex Blumberg talk about the Supreme Court healthcare ruling, and they gave a good exp...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

Not all housing is equal

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Last weekend I read Matt Yglesias's concise 76-page critique of housing policy, The Rent is Too Damn High . I agreed with pretty much ev...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

The transportation-land use cycle, illustrated

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The transportation-land use cycle , illustrated by the Village of Piermont, NY and its environs: The road builders say, "Everyone wan...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

From tragedy to farce in Bushwick

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Today Streetsblog had a post about a few blocks immediately to the east of the Knickerbocker Avenue el station in Bushwick, where developme...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

Overpriced real estate and its underpriced access

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Last week Andrea Bernstein interviewed Alex Marshall of the Regional Plan Association about the profitability of Jay Walder's new emplo...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

No-minimum zoning

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As I wrote the other day , in New York City outside of Manhattan and Long Island City, every possible zoning district has minimum parking re...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

You can't not have minimum parking requirements

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I've been against minimum parking requirements for a long time. These requirements, embedded in the zoning code, have a host of proble...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Manhattan - and Long Island City - parking maxima

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Today I tweeted about a plot of land for sale in Long Island City, right on top of the ditch for the Long Island Railroad East Side Access ...
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Friday, November 5, 2010

Getting rid of minimum parking requirements

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In many circles, minimum parking requirements have been accepted as part of zoning laws without question for years. Of course there have al...
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