Planning group: NYC parking spots should be converted to catch rainwater, avoid Ida-like flooding

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Planning group: NYC parking spots should be converted to catch rainwater, avoid Ida-like flooding
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“We need to just challenge that prioritization of vehicles,” says Marcel Negret. “Most of this space is taken up by cars and it's free parking…If we want to prioritize our needs for climate adaptation, we need to be more creative.”

They estimated if the city boosted the types of green infrastructure and permeable surfaces that trap excess rainwater on publicly owned land by 40 times, it could prevent the type of damaging flooding that inundated thousands of homes and killed 11 basement tenants last September.

“We need to just challenge that prioritization of vehicles,” said Marcel Negret, a senior planner at the RPA, who co-authored the report. “Most of this space is taken up by cars and it's free parking … If we want to prioritize our needs for climate adaptation, we need to be more creative in using this very important space.”

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