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How Parking Will Drive the Coming Adams-Council Housing Development Deal
Eliminating mandates to create spots for cars is key to creating more apartments in the mayor’s sweeping City of Yes proposal heading to a crucial vote Thursday — but a compromise that could halve new housing is in the works. This article originally apeared in The City. By Samantha Maldonado NEW YORK - Parking has emerged as a central focus of negotiations on Mayor Eric Adams’ sweeping package of proposed development reforms ahead of a crucial City Council committee vote last Thursday. The City of Yes for Housing Affordability proposal, which aims to ease up rules to spur more residential development, is projected to create between 58,000 and 109,000 new units of housing over the next 15 years. But realizing those numbers largely depends on a part of the proposal that eliminates requirements for developers to build specified numbers of parking spots. Whether — and where — to mandate parking or to make it optional is in flux as Council members and Adams’
