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I for one am not arguing that YOU can't have a car, or that many parents and others who find they need cars can't have them. The policies we're talking about aren't designed to drive you out, they're designed so that the new people we attract are more likely to be those without cars. That's vital for your sake as much as anyone's, because while off-street parking space can be expanded, on-street driving space can't. As the city grows, we MUST decrease the per-capita rate of car ownership, or we'll just have more and more people competing to drive more and more cars in the same, finite amount of street space?and ultimately, you, the driver, will suffer as much from that as anyone, maybe more.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 18:08
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While i respect your opinion and i myself lived carless for many years (almost a decade) in jersey city, i can tell you that if you have children, you have to have a car in this city. It is a must. If you want to drive out (no pun intended) all of the families from the city, then go ahead and advocate for a carless/car unfriendly policies. Families make good neighbors and are often the folks who are doing great work to improve the city and its services, keep it clean, supporting local business, volunteering. Quality of life for families is important too.
As a single person, i often didn't enjoy not having a car. I often felt kinda stuck. I like to be able to get out of the city on occasion and take road trips to other places, including visiting family and friends. Let's not fool ourselves - this isn't Europe where there is amazing rail service and other public transport that can easily take you to many different cities and even countries with relative ease. The train is great for nyc area and maybe some parts of jersey, but thats about it. I ofen see many people who grew up in a city and rarely left it - i dont enjoy that lifestyle.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 17:58
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Well said, and I just have one item in which I strongly disagree with you on. The people in power get it, from the planning department to the the Fulop administration to all his detractors on council. The new developments with the lease amount of parking in the city are located in Journal Square. It's nearly a 1:10 ratio for some developments there. It's silly when contrasted to the downtown and the 1:1 mandate, especially since the garages are not being filled up. But the city must follow the will of the people and 200 residents showed up a couple nights ago to demand that a variance not be granted and to force the developer to keep the 1:1 ratio. The city must follow the will of the people. There is a large segment of the population that will like to see a more urban and pedestrian-friendly environment, but we're terribly unorganized. The are no less than a dozens neighborhood associations that are extremely well organized. They are the ones advocating for the 1:1 parking requirement and they have the ear of council as a result. They write letters to the editor and get their position in the papers for all to read. We need someone who believes in the urban and pedestrian-friendly environment that will organize like minded individuals, have us show up on council meetings, and toot the benefits in the papers for all to read. Right now all we do is debate on these forums which is not good enough.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 16:46
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Hate to break it to you, but Jersey City is not Manhattan and never will be. It's more akin to Queens, with much higher car ownership rates. If "the parking bullshit" bothers you so much, you can always move right across the river. As long as we keep getting new developments like the one across from City Hall, ensuring that new residents can park their cars without flooding the streets doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 16:45
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Data in 07302 shows a 60% car ownership. Much of the problem on the streets is that permit parking only goes till 5pm, which everyone knows means 3pm since there is a 2 hour grace period. If permit parking went 24 hours, there would be a lot fewer cars on the street.
Additionally, permits are way to cheap. Third, I'm all for low parking minimums (even 0) in 07302. Garage doors affect the quality of the streetscape, there are scores of studies and surveys that back this up. Certain downtown blocks that have excess garages or front yard parking are an eyesore, and it is a shame. If you need a car, don't live in the neighborhood or accept that parking is a pain in the neck. It's a great way to promote a walkable, transit heavy community. If you need a car, cool, live in Lafayette or the Heights or one of the buildings that does have parking. Problem solved.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 16:45
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Exactly. All other measures for walkability/bikeability/livability of cities are great and necessary, with mass transit being especially in need of improvement around here; however, all those measures are undermined when you simultaneously cater to the car.
Monroe: Why make libertarian/choice arguments here? Love them or hate them, parking minimums aren't the free market, they're government regulation. And much of car monoculture is supported by huge subsidies from the general tax base, from excessive road construction, to virtually free parking on publicly owned and maintained street space, to wars protecting oil dictatorships ... This is one thing that always amazes me about the empire of the car: How few people realize that it's actually supported by a perverted socialism, a collection of big-gummint/crony-corporate programs, horribly misdirected to encourage the most destructive mode of land transportation.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 16:43
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It's not only about including sidewalk facing retail, but it's also just about the pervasive nature of automobiles in cities. It changes everything.
Mooby is spot on. The reason Downtown Jersey City is nice looking, quaint, and desirable is that it was mostly built before cars existed. It's built to human scale, not to automobile scale. There are so, so many articles written about this, but here is one I came across just this week: http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/0 ... y/388433/?utm_source=SFFB The fact that Jersey City is going against this, and so many of its residents are so up in arms about the parking bullshit, is troubling. And completely ridiculous. Jersey City holistically is the 3rd densest city in the US. Downtown JC is in the same density range as the majority of the 4 outer boroughs (and way denser than Staten Island). Somebody locally in power in JC has to wake up and realize that car ownership in dense cities is simply NOT the future, and change these ordinances for new developments. 1:1 parking in an extremely dense neighborhood, with extensive mass transit available to you 24/7, one mile from Manhattan, is so ridiculously absurd that it almost sounds like a joke. It seems that Jersey City really can't shake the "Jersey" mentality sometimes.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 16:20
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It's not the same feel as the parking garage above overpowers the retail.   Although, the one across city hall is designed well for what it's worth.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 15:55
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Says who? Just mandate street level retail to go along with the parking. That new development right across from City Hall is a perfect example.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 15:36
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Don't want a downtown area you moved to specifically because of it's walk-able character overrun by parking decks? F you. The funny thing about all these fights, is the DT that so many of us like would be illegal to actually build now given the current view on parking.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 14:43
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Don't like gay marriage? Don't marry someone gay. Don't like cars? Don't own one.
Good job on the vote!
Posted on: 2016/2/25 2:53
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Parking change sought by developer rejected by Jersey City board By JERSEY CITY — Faced with overwhelming opposition from residents, the city Planning Board last night voted down a request by developer LeFrak to lower the number of parking spaces planned for a building it is constructing on 10th Street. About two dozen residents of the city's Hamilton Park neighborhood spoke in opposition to the request, saying they already have difficulty finding on-street parking and worry about fighting with extra motorists for spaces. "It was a true testament to the power of the citizens to shape and truly make Jersey City their own," said Shannon Pennock, who sits on the board of the Hamilton Park Neighborhood Association, told The Jersey Journal about last night's decision. Read more: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... oper_rejected_by_jer.html
Posted on: 2016/2/25 2:41
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My letter worked.
Posted on: 2016/2/25 2:33
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*Sigh* There's widespread celebration that the building is forced to provide parking at the 1:1 rate prescribed in the zoning in a city where the percentage of households with car ownership is only at 60 percent. The Planning Commission heard from the public and absolutely made the right call in denying the variance. It's our zoning ordinance that needs to be reformed. I understand the concern of the local neighborhood association that there would be a greater potential for new residents of the building to take up a limited supply of zone parking spaces should the garage fill. It's a legitimate concern. I'm disappointed at others like DanL which jumped on the bandwagon but his opposition was that while he supported lower parking standards, but not for this particular developer. An old grudge interferes with what otherwise he believes is good city policy. Quote:
It's a pity we can't find an innovative solution to balance of addressing existing residents concerns and the pains of a growing city. Is it legally possible, as a condition of rezoning, to specify that residents in the new building are not eligible for on-street zone parking permits, and that owners of new developments be obligated to include a rider on their lease agreement in which a perspective tenant must sign? The idea, if legally permissible, would protect on-street spaces and the development would most likely to attract households without a car, or ones willing to pay for space in a private garage. Again, that may not be legally possible but we need great minds to come up with innovative solutions to our parking and transit problems and not just words inciting a lynch mob against a developer.
Posted on: 2016/2/24 22:38
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Good news.
Posted on: 2016/2/24 18:39
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So that means Jersey City is 38% car free! That is much better than I would have thought - that puts us in line with DC and Boston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ ... _households_without_a_car
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No. Voted down unanimously.
Posted on: 2016/2/24 18:19
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They did not get the variance.
Posted on: 2016/2/24 18:18
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I know your building as I lived in Dixon right above their main office for many years. Have you gotten a litter from both Dixon and your landlord stating that parking is not available to you? That should do it. Sounds like you are stuck in a zoning error which stinks.
Posted on: 2016/2/24 16:45
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Why use actual data when you can use guesswork, demagoguery and hysteria?
Posted on: 2016/2/24 16:22
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I haven't found this to be true. I live in a building that sits on Dixon Mills footprint but isn't Dixon Mills and cannot rent spots from Dixon Mills. The zoning incorrectly includes my building (12 units) therefore I am shut out from parking at Dixon Mills and cannot get a street parking permit. I've been exchanging emails with Ms. Osbourne's office for almost two years, as well as numerous exchanges with Fulop when he was a councilman. I'm told the laws have to be rewritten and then I don't hear anything back. I've been renting a third party spot for years and at this point have gotten used to it, but it drives me batty that this just can't get corrected so that other tenants can get permits.
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So what happened with this last night? Did they get the variance?
Posted on: 2016/2/24 14:57
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also remember that with the current rules many people who use a car for work don't actually need to get a permit (since they are gone from 8am-5pm when the parking rules are in effect) so regardless of the ability to get a pass there is likelihood that some people who live in that building will park on the street over night
I know that there was some push to change that but currently you don't even need a permit if you work a normal 9-5 Job (I would know as I lived here for 3 years without one since my car was leased by my company and JCPA wouldn't let me register it here as the registration wasn't to a JC address but in the end it didn't matter .... I just got a few visitor parking passes for days I was home sick)
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That's funny because I live in DTJC and generally have very little trouble parking.
Posted on: 2016/2/24 12:45
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This is really the crux of it. I can understand wanting to leave a bit of a cushion so there aren't a bunch of new cars looking for spots, but 1:1 just seems absurd. No building is filling up at 1:1. You want a big, big cushion? leave it at .8:1 (or better yet, maybe the city does an actual study of car ownership DT and in the new construction so they can use data to make decisions.)
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Ok, so the rowhouses that line the streets that you try to park on. Each one of them on average holds between 3 and 6 residents. Each house is wide enough for one parked car. Very few downtowners own cars.
Posted on: 2016/2/24 4:50
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Totally agree and they very well might (I just personally don't know it.)
Posted on: 2016/2/24 3:45
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Thank you. Just to explore the possibilities though, the affluence of Downtown could offset the presumed lower ownership due to transit proximity. It would be great to actually have these numbers, how can a Planning Dept possibly do it's job without them? I've heard we live in the era of "big data"...
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To address a couple of points here:
1- if the address isn't covered in the zone definition it doesn't matter if the building has parking or not, it still isn't eligible for zone parking. So the answer on this isn't clear cut but depends on the building. 2 - the vast majority of buildings downtown that have parking availability are NOT filled up 3 - parking authority has list of all buildings with 30 or more units and if the address is included in zone parking they don't give out permits unless they demonstrate the parking is full. I get the complaints from those residents who think it isn't fair that they have to pay for parking and other residents don't.
Posted on: 2016/2/24 3:28
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What did the planning board vote? I sent a note to Mr. Cotter (not that Mr. Cotter). . . requesting to not revise and appease the developers change of plans. Also, why do they have these meetings at 5:30 PM. If they moved it to 7 PM, wouldn't attendance increase, or is that the point. Less is best.
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