Curbing Illegal Curb Cuts by Targeting Self-Certification
Brooklyn’s “paving wars” may yet come to a peaceful end, but not without striking a blow to the practice of self-certification. A number of City Council Members—including Vincent Gentile, Letitia James and Domenic Recchia, Jr.—have co-signed bills aimed at limiting curb cuts (whereby front yards are turned into parking spaces). The bills (here, here, and…
Brooklyn’s “paving wars” may yet come to a peaceful end, but not without striking a blow to the practice of self-certification. A number of City Council Members—including Vincent Gentile, Letitia James and Domenic Recchia, Jr.—have co-signed bills aimed at limiting curb cuts (whereby front yards are turned into parking spaces). The bills (here, here, and here), which are currently being considered by several community boards (CB9, for example, voted in favor of the legislation a week and a half ago), would not only require homeowners to correct curb cuts constructed without a DOB permit, they’d also make it impossible to use self-certification to create curb cuts. The Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens blog sees the change as a good first step for killing self-certification completely: Intro 619 would limit [self-certification] to exclude curb cuts. I would eliminate it altogether and put an end to self-certification once and for all. Chalk it up as one more miserable failure from the hand of Rudy Giuliani. Think the curb-cutting bills could be the beginning of the end for self-certification?
Curb Cutting Spreading in Carroll Gardens [Brownstoner]
Not in My Front Yard? [Brownstoner]
Council Tries to Clamp Down on Self-Certifiers [Brownstoner]
Ending Illegal Curb Cuts, and Self-Certification [BSCG]
Intro 619, Intro 639, Intro 620 [NYC Council]
Don’t like curb cuts? Set up an anti-curb-cut fund!
http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2007/08/please-give-to-anti-curb-cut-fund.html
“Curb Cuts” are illegal, in NYC Home Owners own their property. NOT city sidewalks. Get over it.
“Curb Cuts” are illegal, in NYC Home Owners own their property. NOT city sidewalks. Get over it.
I want more curb cuts and more donkey statues and grottoes.
you can park more cars on a street with curb cuts… a car parked in a driveway is only taking up about 6 feet of street space (the width of the car) versus 12-15 if it was parked on the street.
[…]Change may be the only constant, but there are more good diners remaining in the area. Several are along Fourth Avenue and there are many more along Third Avenue. One, at the corner of 3rd Ave and 7th St has probably the lowest prices in the area. It’s also many times larger than the Donuts Coffee Shop.
Meanwhile, along 5th Ave, on the other side of 9th St — the higher numbered streets — there are lots of diners. A good one is on 5th Ave near the Prospect Expressway overpas.
http://www.Johnbeck.tv
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First, they rid Carroll Gardens of the Mafiosi and the grottoes. Then the Mom and Pop shops on Smith. Then the curbs. Now they wanna change Brooklyn into Queens.
4:32,
I think that this is already NOT permitted, which is why the intro permitting the City to remove illegal curb cuts and bill the building owners makes a lot of sense.
5:07 – And you are on Brownstoner why, exactly?