Recent content by SuffolkHeights11

Missouri said the administration is reluctant to push forward projects that do not have an overwhelming amount of public approval. Interesting theory of governance here. I look forward to the monthly city-wide votes on BPS expenditures, BPD overtime, BWSC's road closures to repair water and...

Wu’s about face on transportation is utterly baffling. She won reelection essentially unopposed and then decides to throw away years of work and funding for projects she championed. For what? Even if she is running for another office…does she really think the bus lanes on Blue Hill Ave would...

The Legislature's position on electrifying buses contains the same logical fallacy as Boston's position on decarbonizing its buildings, which is transportation causes emissions, therefore lowering transportation emissions lowers emissions. For buildings in Boston, the argument is buildings cause...

The problem isn't Linda Olson Pehlke, it's Brookline listening to Linda Olson Pehlke.

At this month's Planning Department meeting, the city approved 33 units of housing. 33 total, down from around 400-500 per month under Walsh. On top of this, the mayor has revealed herself as a economic flat-earther by embracing the strictest rent control proposal in the country if passed. It is...

I find it hard to focus on the MBTA budget when half of the total state budget (31 billion dollars!) is spent annually on health care. A truly staggering sum of money. How much could we improve the MBTA with even 1 extra billion? 2?

Another sad story for Boston. Interest rates started rising significantly in around March 2022. It is now the start of 2026 and the plan is what? Wait for interest rates to return to an ahistorical near-zero? Wait for a new president to remove tariffs? Wait for unions to lower their rates? The...

My point was that to pivot this project to residential, the developer would need to re-permit the project and trigger the higher affordability and net zero requirements. The building environment is so bad right now that even projects permitted under the more permissive rules you mentioned cannot...

It's hard because the mayor has made building residential completely infeasible in Boston. There is no way someone could build a residential tower here with 20% affordable units, net zero emissions, at the current interest rates. The revenue from the market units is not enough to pay the...

To echo others, the annual MA budget is 61 billion dollars. Not a typo. Massachusetts can and should fund generational transportation projects but it is a matter of priorities and political will. The easy way out to just to get the Feds to pay for it, but you run the risk of constant change at...

The answer to that question is likely no. Similar to Plan Charlestown, Plan East Boston, Plan JP/Rox, etc….an enormous amount of political and administrative capital expended to achieve “consensus” that never came and to end up with a watered down, overly complex plan that barely moves the needle.

This is a lawsuit to enforce a mechanic's lien, which is an encumbrance on the property to ensure the contractor gets paid. JF White stopped performing work on the property, so they need to file this suit within a certain period of time to preserve their payment rights or they will lose them...

“If we cannot save a historical building like this, what’s going to stop us from destroying 90 percent of buildings in Cambridge?” commission member Monika Pauli said ahead of voting." If this project is actually killed by something called the "Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District...

Admittedly have very little knowledge of T maintenance, but there were reports during the slow zone surge last year that overnight maintenance was accomplishing very late towards the ultimate repair goal due to the short window of time they have at night. By the time they shut down power and got...

Does anyone on earth have a more inflated sense of importance than members of made up neighborhood associations in Boston? The idea that the chief of planning owes you a personal phone call ahead of the general public to discuss new zoning is laughable. I don’t know how effective this new plan...