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Emily Chingay on eliminating parking mandates and supporting the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal

8:01:47

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Emily Chingay, a resident of Astoria, Queens, expresses her support for the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal and the elimination of parking mandates citywide. She emphasizes the need for zoning changes to address the competitive housing market and prevent residents from being priced out of their neighborhoods.

  • Chingay highlights her personal experience of living in Astoria for two years and her desire to remain in the community without being priced out
  • She stresses that eliminating parking mandates would make parking optional, not eliminate it entirely
  • Chingay argues that removing outdated policies like parking mandates can create more affordable housing in all neighborhoods
  • Support for City of Yes housing proposals
  • Concern about being priced out of the neighborhood
  • Support for eliminating parking mandates citywide
  • Need for zoning changes to address competitive housing market
  • Making parking optional, not eliminating it completely

[EXPERIMENTAL]

Which elements of City of Yes for Housing Opportunity were discussed in this testimony?

  • Parking Mandates

The following are AI-extracted quotes and reasoning about which elements of the proposal were discussed in this testimony.

This is a quick, close approximation. Occasionally, the connection between a testimony's transcript and specific elements of City Planning's proposal is tenuous.

Read about this AI-generated analysis here.

Parking Mandates

"I'd like to support eliminating parking mandate city wide."

This quote directly mentions the speaker's support for eliminating parking mandates, which is a key element of the City of Yes For Housing Opportunity proposal.

"Lower Manhattan currently doesn't have these mandates, but as our city continues to grow, We need to get rid of these outdated policies that create and and create more affordable housing in all neighborhoods."

This quote further elaborates on the speaker's support for removing parking mandates, mentioning that they are outdated policies and that removing them can help create more affordable housing.

"And also wanted to highlight that by eliminating parking mandates, it's just making parking these requirements. I mean, It's just making parking optional. So developers will most definitely continue to build create parking. It's just making it optional."

This quote directly addresses the proposal's aim to make parking optional rather than mandatory, which aligns with the Removing Parking Mandates element of the City of Yes For Housing Opportunity proposal.


About this analysis:

This analysis is done by AI that reasons whether or not a quote from the testimony discusses a particular element of the proposal.

All the prompts and data are open and available on Github.

You can search for testimonies that mentioned a specific element in the table on the main meeting page.

When an element is explicitly stated in the testimony (e.g. "Universal Affordability Preference" or "UAP"), the analysis is accurate.

But the connection between a quote from the testimony and an element of the proposal is sometimes implicit.

In these cases, the AI might eagerly label a testimony as discussing a proposal when the connection is tenuous, or it might omit it entirely.

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Emily Chingay
8:01:47
Hello.
8:01:48
Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak.
8:01:50
My name is Emily Chingay, and I'll keep this brief because I think there's a lot of really great things already said about.
8:01:56
Supporting city of guest housing proposals.
8:01:59
So I live in Astoria.
8:02:02
I've lived in my current apartment for about 2 years now.
8:02:06
And I love my neighborhood.
8:02:07
I love that I'm close by to my friends, my sister.
Agnes Vendina
8:02:10
And I
Emily Chingay
8:02:11
would really love to stay here and not risk being priced out and not being able to afford my community, my apartment, and I think just like many other New Yorkers here, they're always at risk of being priced out.
8:02:24
So as as we all know, the housing market is incredibly competitive.
8:02:28
And we are long overdue for some zoning changes.
8:02:31
So I really wanted to express my support for the city as housing proposal.
8:02:36
And, of course, I'd like to support eliminating parking mandate city wide.
8:02:41
Lower Manhattan currently doesn't have these mandates, but as our city continues to grow, We need to get rid of these outdated policies that create and and create more affordable housing in all neighborhoods.
8:02:53
And also wanted to highlight that by eliminating parking mandates, it's just making parking these requirements.
8:03:01
I mean, It's just making parking optional.
8:03:03
So developers will most definitely continue to build create parking.
8:03:09
It's just making it optional.
8:03:11
So you again for your time.

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