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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

New York City zoning laws require minimum off-street parking in many areas, which often results in an oversupply of parking spaces where market demand for off-street parking is relatively low. These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing.

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2, 2012, in Houston. Photo: Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle The battles over transportation access were central to the Civil Rights movement. Transit Equity Day , set by the American Public Transportation Association as February 4th , during African American/Black History Month, is one way to acknowledge this.