Velmanette Montgomery 9th Street Letter
“This is New York. Even in Queens most people don't drive to work. Flushing has intense and vibrant pedestrian life and there is no reason to pander to cars in this area.”
– Ian Turner In response to "Parking Overkill in Flushing: NYCEDC Made It Happen"
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by Noah Kazis
In the last eight years, Amanda Burden's Department of City Planning has rezoned 20 percent of New York along relatively transit-oriented lines, while simultaneously promoting quasi-suburban projects at prominent sites and maintaining parking minimums that erode the pedestrian environment. In other words, the planning department is promoting growth in the right places, but enabling the wrong kind of development.
So in the next four years, will New York's planners adopt more sustainable practices or continue the status quo?
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