Officials Help Area Residents Win More Parking at Medical Facility
BENSONHURST — Councilman David G. Greenfield (D-Borough Park) and Assemblyman William Colton (D-Bensonhurst/Gravesend) successfully led a group of Bensonhurst and Borough Park residents in their effort to force developers to increase the number of parking spaces at a nine-story medical facility under construction on Bay Parkway and 60th Street.
The residents were able to convince the city Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) to require the developer to provide 177 parking spaces at the facility instead of the 116 spaces he had proposed.
Councilman Greenfield attended every one of the five hearings at the BSA over the last year on this application, which was unanimously rejected by Community Board 12. He also wrote several letters to the BSA insisting that parking be increased.
Under city zoning regulations, the developer was required to provide 231 parking spaces at the building, but used a loophole to submit plans to the Department of Buildings that would only require 116 parking spaces.
In response, Greenfield led the neighborhood by continually pushing the BSA to increase its parking demands. As a result, the BSA voted last week to approve the medical facility, at 6010 Bay Parkway., under the condition that it has 177 parking spaces — 50 percent more than the developer wanted.