Roxbury Infill and Small Developments

Does anyone else find vertical orientation of signage to be annoying, and in this particular case, even harder to read against that background?

Never go to the town of Norfolk. All the street signs are read this way on skinny white poles. I delivered pizzas to Norfolk a lot before I had a smartphone or gps in my car, and had many late nights frustrated trying to read streetsigns.
 
I find it odd that the City is trying to find ways to only build extremely affordable housing in Dudley, when the business owners there are clamoring for residents with more disposable income to spend there.

It seems natural to allow lots of market rate and use tax $$ to preserve extent affordable housing instead of the reverse...
 
I find it odd that the City is trying to find ways to only build extremely affordable housing in Dudley, when the business owners there are clamoring for residents with more disposable income to spend there.

It seems natural to allow lots of market rate and use tax $$ to preserve extent affordable housing instead of the reverse...

Yeah, it is strange that a lot of the affordable housing being built is ending up in Roxbury/Dot/Mattapan.
 
Yea that's really "strange"! Like this stuff hasn't been happening for eons in this city and every other corner of America
 
Yeah, it is strange that a lot of the affordable housing being built is ending up in Roxbury/Dot/Mattapan.

IZ is not a great program in that it taxes development, which itself is what alleviates the housing crisis, in order to promote affordable housing. Far better would be tax all property owners.

That said, the key benefit of IZ is integration. Allowing affordable housing to be built in already poor neighborhoods is entrenching segregation. Putting it in new construction promotes integration and mobility.
 
IZ is not a great program in that it taxes development, which itself is what alleviates the housing crisis, in order to promote affordable housing. Far better would be tax all property owners.

That said, the key benefit of IZ is integration. Allowing affordable housing to be built in already poor neighborhoods is entrenching segregation. Putting it in new construction promotes integration and mobility.

Except the liberal, Trump hating middle and high income neighborhoods would vehemently oppose it. They would cite environmental and traffic concerns though so as not to sound racist.
 

I feel like in modern times, no one is able to build a reasonable looking mansard roof. They always have deep holes for windows, windows that protrude way out, a roof that appears tacked on, no pronounced gutter ledge with supporting brackets, etc. It's as if we didn't have literally thousands of them around to use to figure it out.

(this one in particular is not actually that bad though)
 
I feel like in modern times, no one is able to build a reasonable looking mansard roof. They always have deep holes for windows, windows that protrude way out, a roof that appears tacked on, no pronounced gutter ledge with supporting brackets, etc. It's as if we didn't have literally thousands of them around to use to figure it out.

(this one in particular is not actually that bad though)

I feel the same way. It is so rare new development pulls them off creditably. Every now and then someone gets it right but not near enough!
 
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