CITYWIDE — CITY AGENCIES WOULD BE PROHIBITED FROM ISSUING PARKING PERMITS TO PRIVATE VEHICLES unless they bear an elected-official license plate or have other limited exemptions, under a bill currently in the City Council.
Introduced in the 2024-2025 Council session, the bill is receiving new attention in light of a report that its sponsor, Councilmember Lincoln Restler (D-33) released on Monday, Oct. 6. The report, the fruit of a month-long survey of 60 blocks in Downtown Brooklyn, discovered that an average of 457 vehicles were illegally parked on any given day, most of which bore official government placards – or makeshift placards, such as city-owned vests, on their dashboards. Yet, according to the report, only 3% of these illegally-parked vehicles were ticketed.
Exempted from the proposed law would be parking permits issued for people with disabilities or parking permits that are mandated to comply with a collective bargaining agreement.
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