{"content":[{"text":"Much of the zoning approved in the era of master planner Robert Moses remains intact. The glut \n can be traced to requirements that for every 10 rental units developers build outside Manhattan, \n they must provide four parking spaces—sometimes more. A study by New York University's \n Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy found that developers universally build the \n minimum number of spaces “because they do not think the market supports the required amount \n of parking,” said Vicki Been, the center's faculty director.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.088591,"width":0.757412,"height":0.10733300000000001}},{"text":"Manhattan's minimums were replaced with a cap decades ago to comply with the Clean Air Act. \n It was the city's first acknowledgment that garages encouraged driving.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.210864,"width":0.7558819999999999,"height":0.037636}},{"text":"However, when Mr. Bloomberg's sustainability blueprint, PlaNYC 2030, was issued in 2007, \n efforts to change parking lot mandates were suppressed, said Rachel Weinberger, an urban \n planning professor at the University of Pennsylvania hired by the city to consult on parking \n policy.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.263288,"width":0.731177,"height":0.07248399999999999}},{"text":"“There was a lot of pushback from the Department of Transportation at the time,” she said. “The \n folks at City Hall thought it would be a nonstarter with the public. People are very emotional \n about parking.”","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.350712,"width":0.7579210000000001,"height":0.05506}},{"text":"Parking requirements can head off complaints that projects will make spots harder to find (see \n “Progress trumps parking in the Bronx\"). But too much parking presents its own problems. \n Garages near the new Yankee Stadium accommodate nearly 9,000 cars but are never more than \n 60% full. Advocates warned in a 2006 letter to the City Council that it made no sense to increase \n parking by 75% for a stadium that would have fewer seats than the old venue, as well as a new \n Metro-North station and, soon, a mall with 2,600 spaces a few blocks away.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.420712,"width":0.75949,"height":0.107182}},{"text":"Low demand has forced the Bronx Parking Development Co. to dip into its reserves to pay off \n state-issued debt. It is trying to lure a hotel, which would fill more spots. And its executives are \n praying for a Bronx World Series.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.542833,"width":0.7483140000000001,"height":0.05506100000000003}},{"text":"Blacktop city","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.613186,"width":0.124366,"height":0.023712999999999984}},{"text":"“It's a good thing people use mass transit,” said Charles Lesnick, a vice president of the \n company. “It's probably better if they don't park. But the question is rightsizing it to make sure it \n works. Fortunately, we've been blessed with playoff and World Series games. We're not allowed \n to put them in our projections.”","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.650106,"width":0.7579989999999999,"height":0.07248500000000002}},{"text":"Transportation advocates worry that the glut at Yankee Stadium will be replicated at Atlantic \n Yards in Brooklyn, which is to have 3,670 parking spots when residential buildings are \n completed in the project's second phase. Until then, much of the space next to the site's arena, the \n Barclays Center, will be a blacktop parking lot.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.737379,"width":0.7626269999999999,"height":0.07248500000000002}},{"text":"“If the economic conditions change and phase two of the project doesn't go forward, you will \n have this big empty space in the middle of Brooklyn,” said Kate Slevin, executive director of the \n Tri-State Transportation Campaign.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.824803,"width":0.758902,"height":0.05506100000000003}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}