Developer Wants to Build Parking-less Apartment Building Across From Arena

Developer Martin Domansky is planning a 55-unit apartment building on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Dean Street, across the street from the Barclays Center – and is trying to skirt a city regulation requiring parking spaces, according to the Brooklyn Paper.

Although there isn’t enough space on the lot for a street level or underground parking anyway, Domansky told the Paper that the building would encourage new residents to rely on public transportation.

City regulations would require Domansky to account for about two dozen parking spaces on the lot, but he is appealing to the Board of Standards and Appeals for a variance, said Brownstoner, who broke the story.

But not everyone is convinced that new tenants would forgo their cars, and instead would just fight for street parking like everyone else.

“Not having a parking facility at the site will exacerbate the parking problem in the neighborhood,” Richard Goldstein, president of the Carlton Avenue Block Association, told the Paper.

In November, City Council approved , which would designate about 80 percent of street parking for residents, at a yearly fee.

Republican senators, though, , calling the voluntary permit parking system “another tax on our communities.”