TESTIMONY
Joseph Hopkins on Concerns Regarding Parking Garage Removal and Fire Department Access for a High-Rise Building
1:20:11
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Joseph Hopkins speaks on the impacts of removing a critical parking garage for disabled individuals and concerns regarding fire department access to a high-rise building.
- Highlights the necessity of the parking garage for disabled people, noting other garages are much more expensive.
- Advocates for the new building with over 400 apartments to include parking, pointing out not everyone in NYC uses public transport.
- Raises fire safety concerns for a proposed building over 500 feet tall on a single-lane, one-way street.
- Emphasizes issues with potential gridlock from moving trucks and the absence of plans for loading docks or waste management.
- Uses his personal scenario as a disabled individual who depends on his car for mobility, likening it to a wheelchair.
Joseph Hopkins
1:20:11
Okay.
1:20:12
I just wanted to say that I agree that housing is needed, but the removal of this parking garage, which is I am one of those disabled people, that use it going to other garages in the neighborhood.
1:20:28
They're vastly more expensive.
1:20:30
I don't know why this building can't with 400 or over 400 apartments or whatever the final number may be, be required to provide parking because not everybody in New York City takes the subway or taxis.
1:20:46
You've you know, people like myself, my car is the wheelchair I get around New York City in.
1:20:52
Also, another major concern that I personally have is for the fire department to access a building that's going to eventually be over 500 feet tall on a single lane One Way Street with trees in front of the building area on all sides.
1:21:15
I don't understand how that fire department can properly protect the citizens of the area, and especially the residents of the building.
1:21:25
The building itself may be made out of concrete and be fireproof, but unless there were sprinklers throughout the entire structure, the contents is what burns.
1:21:37
Also, the parking, the street parking itself to just try to imagine moving people moving in with trucks.
1:21:48
Over 400 moving trucks coming in when people enter every month and that's going to start, you know, as the building is there, it's going to be total gridlock on the street if it's not blocked entirely by these by moving vans or delivery trucks.
1:22:04
We haven't heard anything about loading docks, off streets, storage of their waste from the building.
1:22:12
How was that going
UNKNOWN
1:22:13
to be?
1:22:13
I'm hesitant.
Kevin C. Riley
1:22:14
Thank you.
Joseph Hopkins
1:22:16
Thank you very much.