New York City Hoping To Require Bike Storage Space In Residences

City planners will be peddling an ambitious proposal today to create the nation's most rigorous bicycle-parking rules.

And unlike other recent construction requirements, this one - mandating that all new residential buildings and commercial towers include storage space for bicycles - actually has the tacit support of developers.

The proposal, which will be presented to industry insiders at the Center of Architecture, mirrors a trend among residential developers already trying to cater to tenants who want to bike to work.

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[Semaj51]

"The lack of a long-term place to park your bike at work or at home is the single largest impediment to commuting by bicycle," said City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden.

What about the impediment of cars/trucks and pedestrians? And don't forget about the fun of bike riding in New York during the months of December thru March. This new "need" sounds alot like someone's "great" idea and their attempts to justify/legalize their belief. When I was growing up, my bike was eigher stored in the garage, on the back porch, or chained to a pole or tree.

[RightWingMarine]

why do so many on the left attempt to use force as their primary means of change? Why not try and convince builders and designers to include bike storage areas of their own free will? Why must force through legislation be used? If a developer is building a building why can't they decide on their own what they will and will not include? Do they own the building or does it belong to someone else?

[wadenelson1]

Because there's no profit in doing what's right, usually legislation is required.

Here in Durango if the city didn't MANDATE it they would build condos and shopping malls without a single parking spot.

We ALREADY have a number of facilities with too-little parking with the expected results, including confrontations between parkers.

Greed is the evil that prevents the free market from serving the greatest # of needs.

[RightWingMarine]

so who gets to decide what is the acceptable level of parking spaces? A keenly interested bureaucrat or the developer and business owner who has to plan for how his customers will visit him. And even if a business decided to have no parking at all and this was inconvient for you, then don't shop there.

Greed is what caused the shop keeper to open a store in the first place. If they weren't greedy for more money they wouldn't open the shop.

All this space being used to create indoor parking for bicycles means there is less indoor space for apt units or office space leading to higher rents.