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Jersey City has been posted on this community a few times.
I've read somewhere that if an apartment builder builds a park next to the building, they get a lot of incentives including tax breaks. I really like that rule. It must be worth it since almost all the new big builds I see, there is usually a park next to it.
Jersey City, in Journal Square, when they adopted the JSQ 2050plan in like 2008, included mandatory zero parking.
There are community bonuses for things like parks and theaters that allow developers greater density and height. There's a million bonuses, not all necessarily community giveback, but with an idea around building a more walkable city.
The amount of pushback they've gotten since then had been crazy, but it's been great to watch their boards and council be pretty good about sticking to it. It's a difficult thing for a lot of people to understand, but if you build it, they will come very much applies to parking.
Jersey City has really tried to push itself to the forefront of smart planning over the last 20 years, modeling ordinances around things they've seen around the country that have worked, as well as taking a hard line on certain ideas. Project Zero has been huge in JC, and while they're not there yet, taking a city that, 30-40 years ago, was dangerous as fuck and recovering from being essentially a train depot that built Manhattan, they've come a long way. I've gotten to watch a lot of this take place from up close and it's been a real pleasure.
It also helps grease the wheels for communities to approve the building permit. Not even so they get a new park, but so they're current park that they use doesn't get overcrowded.