BP recommends more bike parking, more incentives for developers in downtown parking amendment
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz recommends that more bicycle parking, more affordable housing and more housing for active seniors be tied into a zoning amendment designed to reduce the underutilized parking garages in new Downtown Brooklyn residential buildings.
The zoning amendment, proposed by the Department of City Planning (DCP) and currently going through the Uniform Land Use Review (ULURP) process, called for a reduction from 40 percent to 20 percent of the required number of parking spaces in new market-rate developments and a reduction from 20 percent to zero for new affordable housing developments.
It was one of the stated goals of the DCP amendment to acknowledge that most of those moving to the new Downtown Brooklyn residential towers now are coming without vehicles, leaving a high number of unoccupied parking spaces.