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Could not agree more, especially the costs of the market rate housing across the pike

Perhaps Cambridge could use some of the money it currently spends on having ultra low property taxes on building these bridges instead of pretending a developer will.

Why?

Really gotta love Cambridge building windswept, pollution choked fields, I mean green spaces, in these triangular parcels instead of cool flatiron buildings. Same thing happened at 1st, Binney, and Edwin Land. Let people go to the good parks!

I agree, which is why i'm so confused there wasn't a clear attempt to save that plan.

I'm confused how a short term loss of subsidy tanked the old project here, but also not unhappy that they want a no parking project now.

Nice to see infill in Cambridge, but still tiny compared to what's going up across the Somerville line

I mean it's a restoration of the grid in the west half of Southie. It's too bad they realized commercial space would be useful too late for Old Colony --- only Lynch nearby. Shops serving Carson beach would be great.

This is all true --- and in terms of people who wanted to increase height limits how about Mayor Walsh and Councillor Bok? Plan Downtown started under Walsh and has been slowly descoped to allow less height. Wu may be coming around on some development questions, but not worth pretending she...

Yes! Building on this useless surface lot.

Most of the Wentworth people I meet in biotech are first gen college students...they do a lot of good work there.

The problem the owner/operator devs face has been the ZBA for a long time now. Ultra NIMBY in Roslindale and bad everywhere else. They don't have the lawyers and exp to get things through, so they get treated the worst. Lots of cases like this in Rox and Dot.

Commuter engineering school can't build labs on their campus because we need housing everywhere is *quite* the take. I repeat: how on Earth is it going to solve anything to stop the construction of news labs and offices in central locations? Going deeper into dirigisme is going to do nothing...

Wentworth is an engineering school that trains a large number of people working in biotech. The idea that buildings housing academic and industrial space on their campus is a poor use because there's also an art museum nearby is ridiculous, and given the demographics of Wentworth, pretty...

I mean the city could also just loosen zoning for housing and/or grant more variances like they do for commercial space. The idea that it's commercial developers' fault is ridiculous and indicative of why we have this mess anyhow.

Basically agree --- in practice loose zoning allowing say 4 plexes everywhere and townhouses would lead to some sfh's being built but I don't trust any Boston suburb to design an sfh district that's not horrendously exclusionary.

Interesting that they're restudying the triangular parcel (Arlington, Tremont, Marginal) that would've been the park in Columbus Center. It should be built on tbqh, else it'll just be a green patch surrounded by exhaust.

lol "linkage payments" from projects that at best will barely pencil. Parcel 14 is asking for subsidies!

Eh, I think it underestimates how much you could cantilever from terra firma while narrowing Herald and Marginal streets. Undeveloped as yet parcels like the Drucker garage could just take the road space too. There's also areas like along Hudson St, that would be real land parcels if they took...

Sure, but in 5 years, all of that will be built on. There's reasons Ink Block is short, but most of them have to do with its permitting being from much more conservative 2012 and desire to keep costs low. As you point out, the C Mart development is going to be huge.