Lots of cities have turned off parking minimums because of how bad it is, but it's slow going.

It's truly abysmal

Outside of NYC, most if not all places lack adequate public transportation systems and walkable resources(grocery stores etc.)

There has to be a way to incentivize tenants to forego cars for a project like this to succeed. I kind of understand the 1:1 ratio thing, because while I agree it's ridiculous to cut housing units for parking spaces, the reality is that if there aren't enough onsite parking sports for a given MDU, you'll just have people clogging up city streets with overflow parking. Perhaps billing the building as carless or something and charging a premium for a parking spot to disincentivize car ownership?

You see this in major cities here in CA like LA or SF, where much housing was built and zoned before the surge in personal car ownership. Street parking is a nightmare, and neighborhoods are filled to the brim with people plopping their cars wherever they can. It has to be coordinated effort between residents and cities to help alleviate the situation. Even neighborhood vertical parking structures would help.

Sure. Walk a few blocks, take the q, walk another couple blocks, get groceries, walk back to the q, walk another few blocks after, and yay, grocery shopping done for a few days. Only took 4 hours and cramping hands. Hope you're healthy and young enough.

Speaking of Coney Island and corruption, there's a shitty developer trying to bulldoze the heart of Coney Island (the amusement park, museum, theater, etc) to build a shitty casino. Literally no one in the community wants this and we've been fighting back, but the city doesn't care about what the locals want. Eric Adams has a hand in all this, to no one's surprise.

The shitty developer (Thor Equities) has a history of buying and destroying historic buildings in the area, and has been caught red handed bussing in out-of-townera to feign support

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Coney is my performance home so I'm trying to raise awareness