Sanchez asks DOT about parking permits and out-of-state plates

In terms of parking permits, has DOT studied how full the curbs are in the outer boroughs, particularly the Bronx, the South Bronx, and what share of parked cars don't belong to people or belong to people who don't actually live there?

And if DOT does not collect that data, does the agency have the capacity to gather such data in a piloted area?

So this is something that we've looked at over the years.

It was part of the congestion pricing parking study.

It's also something we've looked at previously around places like Yankee Stadium that have had specific parking needs.

And you see two things, right?

You can ask the question of, are the vehicles that you see parked on the street registered at the local address?

And you get a little bit of a mixed bag there.

But when you look overnight, you see the same vehicles that tend to be parked there night after night after night, which suggests that even if the registration is elsewhere, they probably are actually

belonging to someone who is spending their time in that district.

And this is a pattern we actually see all over the city is that a very, very large percentage of the vehicles parked in the free residential spaces do show that pattern of being there for very long stretches of time.

And we take that to mean our own by local residents.

So we know that this is something that comes up, especially in busy business areas or where there is entertainment around.

So it is a challenge where a lot of the problem is just that New Yorkers own a lot of cars, and that takes up a lot of the space on the street.

Having said that, yes, there are a lot of cars that belong to people that live around there, but a lot of the times they're not registered to New York.

They're not New York plates.

And so ideally, wouldn't residential parking permit?

address that and also yes they're parked I think to your point they are parked for a very long period of time they're not moving during alternate side parkings hence we had to pass the green sticker bill

once more but because of this wouldn't residential parking also encourage people to actually have to move their cars

So I think, yeah, there's a range of tools that we could use that would really encourage, incentivize, or require folks to register their vehicle where they're supposed to register it.

If it's permits or if it's sort of the way that, you know, you charge for street space in areas that have paid parking, you know, you could have discounts for...

Local residents whose vehicles are registered locally.

There's different ways to look at that, I think.

And that's, you know, that's exactly what our curb management group is going to be looking at those kinds of ideas.

Do you, does DOT agree that residential parking permits are a good way to mitigate parking scarcity for resident New Yorkers?

Does the agency plan to advocate for a permit system in the state legislative agenda?

So there's a range of things.

I think with residential parking permits, what we've seen is that in other cities, at least, they're not priced in a way that it actually ends up freeing up parking because it's priced so cheaply on an annual basis that it's not actually managing the demand.

So I think it can address, though.

I think you made this point, Councilmember.

It can help with the issue of out-of-state registration.

I think it could be helpful.

Like I said, I think there's also other ways to address that.

But RPP specifically, we haven't seen in other cities that they really made much of a dent in the actual demand for parking.

Chair, do you mind if I ask one more question?

Please, go ahead.