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New York City Council Member says she hates tall buildings because they reduce the number of parking spots.

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City of No: Council Member Gets More Parking, Less Housing - Streetsblog New York City

Meet New York Council Member Inna Vernikov (R-Sheepshead Bay)

She has successfully gotten developers to cut affordable housing in half and build more parking spaces. During Tuesday’s City Council land use hearing, Vernikov signaled her support for the revised rezoning proposal at 2501 Coney Island Avenue.

This is the current location:

The new zoning measure will only allow four stories comprising 27 units and 35 parking spaces, down from the original proposal of 11 stories with 60 units and only 24 parking spaces. So, 33 fewer families can live in the neighborhood, but 11 more cars can.

“When this proposal first came to me there were significant concerns ... with what it would do to the character of the neighborhood, and also with parking which is always a concern with any new project in the district due to our traffic issues and lack of sufficient parking generally” Vernikov said at the hearing.

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what does paring have to do with building height???
- I first thought it was bullshit, but a higher building has more people with cars living inside, so it's more parking space needed for a house of the same ground area.
  
  They can absolutely build appropriate underground/lower level parking to accommodate most any sized building.
  Still, fuck cars. But this is just bullshit

"Due to our traffic issues" I wonder were these traffic issues are coming from. /s

Fuck her. Sheepshead Bay has pretty good subway access, too. You don't really need a car there, I don't think.

Hmmm. I wonder how they could improve the 'character of the neighborhood' and reduce their 'traffic issues'?
Perhaps, if we just give them more lanes and parking spots in New York Fucking City they'll solve it! Looks like a super pleasant place to hang out currently.
FFS. If you want a car-dependent nightmare dystopia, move literally anywhere else in the country! Sheepshead bay is in the damn subway network. Ride a bike. Go for a walk. Ride the damn subway. If it doesn't go to enough places, we should expand it!

I tough she was inside a trash can for a second.

The real problem is people needing a car in the first place. This woman does the bidding of people who only care about themselves, but she isn't creating the deeper problem.

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