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Mayor Wu Files Ordinance to Create City Planning Department​

Mayor Michelle Wu has filed an ordinance to move the BDPA under City Hall's jurisdiction and create a city planning department. The proposal would put the agency's budget and oversight under City Council control with divisions for planning, design, development review, and real estate. The ordinance is part of Wu's efforts to restructure the city planning process which have been in the works since she released a white paper in 2019 calling for the dissolution of the BPDA.
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Michelle Wu Files Ordinance to Create City Planning Department
 
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Good find! Disappointed in "65% in 10 minute" result. I definitely have avoided the Green line post-Kenmore, and never been on the Mattapan trolley.
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Good find! Disappointed in "65% in 10 minute" result. I definitely have avoided the Green line post-Kendall, and never been on the Mattapan trolley. View attachment 47418
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96.5%, turns out spending way too much time looking at the map does work for memorizing it. Only missed Valley Rd and ~50% of the C branch.

By the way, you're missing out, go ride the Mattapan trolley.
 
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Can someone from Salem explain how this enormous landscaper storage facility got built on prime waterfront property?
I'm guessing it went something like this:
Land owner: "We'd like to put some luxury condos on this prime waterfront property."
NIMBYs: "Are you nuts?!! This city is already over crowded as it is! We don't want more housing!"
Land Owner: "Oh, OK. How a nice high end retail/hotel complex?"
NIMBYs: "Are you nuts?!! This city is already overrun with tourists! We don't want any more coming in!"
Land Owner: "OK, what do you think the city needs?"
NIMBYs: Well, our houses are old and we don't have a lot of closet space...."
Land Owner: "On it!"

Edit: Google Maps is telling me that it its not in fact just a storage place. I was going by this sign:
 

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Can someone from Salem explain how this enormous landscaper storage facility got built on prime waterfront property?
I'm guessing it went something like this:
Land owner: "We'd like to put some luxury condos on this prime waterfront property."
NIMBYs: "Are you nuts?!! This city is already over crowded as it is! We don't want more housing!"
Land Owner: "Oh, OK. How a nice high end retail/hotel complex?"
NIMBYs: "Are you nuts?!! This city is already overrun with tourists! We don't want any more coming in!"
Land Owner: "OK, what do you think the city needs?"
NIMBYs: Well, our houses are old and we don't have a lot of closet space...."
Land Owner: "On it!"

Edit: Google Maps is telling me that it its not in fact just a storage place. I was going by this sign:
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I mean... Its also not exactly *new*. That building is part of Shetland Park and that entire complex was an old textile mill; a quick Google suggests those buildings date to the 1920s after the Salem fire of 1914. A lot of that complex is mostly office space at this point, but yes, the same company that owns Prime Self Storage also owns the entire complex.
 
Oh wow. I guess I pre-judged based on the windows which, honestly, look pretty modern. Thank you for the context. I rescind my snarky comment.
 
That roofline is designed to allow daylight over the entire floor of the building. It was common in older factories before everything was just illuminated with electric lights.
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Other remnants of the old industrial waterfront, such as the canal, now make it possible to have a beer on the water while gazing at an electrical substation, which I think is awesome. Check out Notch if you have not already!
 
Clearly they riffed on the curvilinear forms of the Knights of Columbus tower, and by that measure I like it more than I probably should.
 
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