AHC: Make New York City as car-dependent as LA.

Van Nuys used to be a separate city, so did Hollywood.

And the San Fernando Valley took up a vote on whether to leave LA a few years ago. It didnt pass but the fact the idea was put to vote speaks volumes. And Santa Monica, Culver City, Burbank, Pasadena, and Beverly Hills are still separate, to name a few. Small neighboring cities usually like to maintain their independence from the larger ones.
 
And the San Fernando Valley took up a vote on whether to leave LA a few years ago. It didnt pass but the fact the idea was put to vote speaks volumes. And Santa Monica, Culver City, Burbank, Pasadena, and Beverly Hills are still separate, to name a few. Small neighboring cities usually like to maintain their independence from the larger ones.
Weren't Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island originally separate cities?
 
With more traffic into New York, particularly Manhattan, where do they all park? You could end up with the tallest building in New York being a parking garage.
 
With more traffic into New York, particularly Manhattan, where do they all park? You could end up with the tallest building in New York being a parking garage.
With a building height restriction in place, businesses would likely have to migrate outwards towards the Bronx, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Brooklyn, Queens, and Hempstead.

But NYC could easily mandate parking minimums like other cities do, which would eventually lead to the building of parking podiums as the lowest floors of buildings.
 
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