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Council member inquires about parking summonses statistics and enforcement
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Council Member Brooks-Powers questions DOT officials about parking summonses, seeking information on the number issued, comparisons to previous years, and breakdowns by borough and type. The DOT representatives provide some information and promise to follow up with more detailed data.
- 8,900,000 parking tickets were issued in February 2024
- DOT officials were unable to provide immediate breakdowns by borough or type of summons
- Discussion touched on the Priority Investment Areas program and its impact on parking issues in historically marginalized communities
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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Thank you commissioner for your testimony, for getting it over.
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You gave me some reading to do last night.
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I'm gonna start with some general questions and then move from there.
0:33:14
So overall, how many Parkins summonses were issued in 2024?
Agnes Rusin
0:33:26
So, council member, in February in fiscal year 02/2024, we issued 8,900,000 parking tickets.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:33:37
8,900,000?
Mercedes Narcisse
0:33:38
Yes.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:33:39
And how does that compare to previous years?
Agnes Rusin
0:33:42
More or less, it remains the same.
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Don't have a in my in front of me right now.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:33:46
Do you have a breakdown by boroughs?
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Like, where you see a greater to you.
Agnes Rusin
0:33:51
I don't have with me, but we can provide it to you.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:33:53
Okay.
0:33:54
While we're in the hearing, if you could just have someone find out what that breakdown is by borough, I'd appreciate it.
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What are the most common summonses that are issued?
Agnes Rusin
0:34:07
I don't have the breakdown with me but we can share with you.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:34:13
If you could find out that'd be great.
Kathleen Collins
0:34:14
And
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:34:17
as you all looking for that information I'm assume the next question you may not have the answer to but if you could get it that'd be great too and that is were there specific neighborhoods where summonses were particularly high compared to others?
0:34:31
So like what community has the most summonses?
0:34:38
How has the priority investment areas program addressed parking issues in historically marginalized and under resourced communities?
Eric Beaton
0:34:48
So the priority investment areas were one of the things that we introduced with the streets plan and gives us a way to really focus on the communities that have been historically under invested in and have high concentrations of non white and low income population.
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So as with all of our programs, we think about where we're rolling out whether it's new truck parking, new meters, or different types of pilots.
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And we try to make sure that they're being well represented within those areas.
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For example, when we did over 1,000 intersections last year, as we developed those lists, we looked at them in priority investment areas to make sure that about half of the locations were in that top tier of priority investment areas.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:35:36
Thank you.
0:35:38
Does DOT implement specific measures to try and address parking violations in neighborhoods that have high numbers of summonses?
Eric Beaton
0:35:50
So I can't speak to the neighborhood specifically, but when we get reports of locations that are getting high numbers of summonses, that's an indication to us that there's something problematic going on there.
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So the goal is not summons.
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The goal is to have a functioning curbside system.
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So when we get reports of those locations, we look at them.
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We talk to Department of Finance to make sure we understand what's going on.
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And we can adjust the curb regulations if needed.