After days of heated negotiations, we can all breathe easier that the bulk of the City of Yes housing package survived the gauntlet of the City Council with its major provisions untouched, with only some concessions to the jittery outer-borough members who most balked at its approach of a little housing in every neighborhood. Among these concessions were the inclusion of a three-tiered system for parking mandates, leaving some sparser parts of the city with similar levels of parking requirements and others with heavily reduced mandates. Additional tweaking around the type of allowable accessory dwelling units and other matters cumulatively […]
