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]
1:23’s comment stands for anyone who owns a car. Street parking is the same as driveway parking.
Understand that if you have a car, you wanna sleep close to it and hug it like a bear. Do you blame an obese family who’s dependant on wheels?
Umm. Queens in many places is much leafier and has less concrete than Brooklyn. Are you comparing LIC to Brooklyn Heights? Do you know many neighborhoods in either borough?
12.30 – please stay in Queens, it suits your taste.
If you bought a place, and it already had a curb cut, and you owned a car, would you put the raised curb back and park on the street?
Everyone here is accepting it as some sort if a given that available street parking is a good thing. Why is that?
Concrete is offensive?!? New to the city? Are your delicate sensibilities under attack by Brooklyn’s brutal reality?
12:24 – Go check out the block- They done some creative gardening to blend with the driveways. Much better in many cases than people’s non drivewayed front yards.
Curb cuts are really ugly and chop up the otherwise available curb space so they reduce total parking spaces. They are particulaly ugly on brownstone blocks.