Recent content by curcuas

The problem with parking requirements is (mostly) about: - Mandating parking in transit rich and highly walkable areas - Mandating far too much parking for commercial (or residential) - Mandating parking in areas where you can park on the street easily enough The problem isn't 1/unit for...

Establishes a great precedent for future projects as the road gets shrunk.

This is correct. They're somewhere between traditional chasidic and orthodox, depending on where and how. The Messianism, well, I don't want to pry into men's souls, and leave it there. They're a great service for the Jewish community no matter of background.

Given the massive downtown in the lab real estate market and the number of unbuilt projects closer to transit, it's hard to think of this as something that's going to happen...anytime soon. Somerville should encourage this to be ~all housing with (as @kdmc points out) room for creative space...

Right, because breaking the state limit for how hard you can tax commercial property *during a commercial property downturn* is good public finance for a city. And pray tell, why should residents get a property tax break? Last I checked property owners are pretty well off? No matter one's...

What an absolutely ridiculous statement. Who do you think maintains all the private parks in Boston? In New York City, where the most notable parks in Manhattan are run by private foundations? If funding parks well led to a notable increase in taxes, we'd be in a serious hole of financial...

If you don't want to see buildings when you're in the Arboretum, shouldn't the Arboretum buy all the land around it so you can't see those buildings? But wait, then that land would be in the Arboretum and you could see buildings from it.

It's interesting to compare this project to the Dot Ave rezoning projects, where they're planning parks along interior streets surrounded by towers of res/commercial and not putting them directly on Dot Ave. And Dot Ave is much less busy.

The Southie busses are some of the most frequent in the City and have very short rides places you want to go.

That's a hell of a lot of parking. Incl restoring city owned parking lots....

The sociology of (academic) architecture.

Is there a sense of when the contract will be awarded for the other half of the project, the pedestrian connections to the Esplanade?

This is great. So much housing and actual activation for Boston Ave instead of leaving it a wasteland of rail on one side and parking lots on the other. Height is the way to go.

Possible he can sue here...

Car wash does good business.