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https://www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/2dff06b0-46c5-4d8e-9b9b-1b273f1098c2 Some recent information in the public comments received in response to PLAN: Downtown. Aside from the usual height complaints from 45 Province, the owner of PI Alley wants the ability to build a mixed-use tower above...

I don't disagree about the floodplains and the climate risks the region is facing, I disagree that the response should be to accept the inevitable and abandon half the city.

While I agree with almost everything in the Bronin report regarding zoning, this seems rather alarmist and assumes nothing will be done in the next 50 years to address this issue: The report also says Boston should consider a moratorium on new development in neighborhoods vulnerable to coastal...

https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2023/05/201%20Stuart%20St_Motor%20Mart%20Garage%20Application.pdf Some movement on this. The developer was scheduled to go before the Air Pollution Control Commission today as part of its transportation requirements under the initial approval back...

Other important players here are the banks. A lot of restaurants pledge their valuable licenses as collateral for the loans. If the licenses tank, the loans tank.

https://bpda.app.box.com/s/im9awdw0h8qa8tq3wiwuv7bhg2dbzzb2

150 feet. No parking. 24 hour activation in a highly trafficked area. Should be allowed as of right but regardless build it tomorrow.

Interesting report. Within the rankings Boston was top 10 in almost every category except infrastructure (no surprise there) and government & regulatory. If we could just get a basic level of functioning infrastructure this region could take off even further.

https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2023/02/Docket%20%230408%20%281%29.pdf Here's the final version.

Don't know if that occurred with this project specifically but that absolutely goes on across the city.

I hope so but I read this section on page 13 as addressing some lingering efforts to cut this project down, whether from the BPDA or otherwise. Shrinking the One Mystic Avenue Project would not reduce housing demand. Doing so would just leave the housing deficit to be made up somewhere else...

https://bpda.app.box.com/s/wlhw8eczs9gwb2hj435tasbvqxwpq8ta Supplemental Information Document. I encourage everyone to read the first chapter of this filing for its clear-stated rebuke of both the BPDA's initial skepticism of this project and a small minority of the Charlestown community's...

Green New Deal (except for parking)

Interesting dynamic at play with this one. The project actually complies with the underlying zoning as written and the BPDA is saying no, we want you to seek zoning relief because this project is not sufficiently dense/urban. Shows how backwards our processes are and I'm glad the BPDA is not...

Could not find the thread for Parcel H on Fan pier, but seemingly out of nowhere it is going before the Design Commission tomorrow night. If the mods know where this thread is please relocate. https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/calendar/2023/02/07/boston-civic-design-commission-meeting

That's the problem. It's not the free market deciding the most productive use of the land. It's essentially a closed market because the owner needs permission from multiple different arbitrary veto points (design commissions, shadow laws, litigious residents) and is heavily taxed in the form of...

https://www.universalhub.com/2023/four-story-residential-building-rejected-stretch https://www.universalhub.com/2023/board-rejects-four-story-residential-building New year, another shameful day at the Boston ZBA. Two four-story developments rejected as out of scale with their three-story...

100%. What happens when the community is against all of this?

What are the financing challenges here that would make a larger project infeasible at these parcels, say 300-400 feet? I would think people would be lining up to build on terra firma in Boston's urban core considering the market rates are up there with NYC/SF. Is it construction costs? Lack of...

Diane Valle of Charlestown noted that the master planning process in communities such as Charlestown is not going well, a comment that came as a surprise to Jemison. NIMBY attitudes are never going to change, but hopefully it's starting to become crystal clear to Jemison that you cannot engage...