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Disagree --- along Herald, where the land really is subject to market forces, you're getting ~max height lab and dense housing. Along marginal, there's a school and a pretty unambitious aff housing project, neither of which are subject to market forces.

There's a bunch of corner stores that are grandfathered in to Boston zoning in the South End and similarly old neighborhoods. One way you can tell they're illegal is by how underretailed n'hoods like JP don't get any new ones.

FAR limits are pretty high though, 6-8 iirc.

Great match for the new buildings on harrison (esp 345), tbqh and the new lab buildings on washington up the block.

Yep! And City Hall would be not even particularly horrendous if it weren't surrounded by a vast, windswept plaza devoid of life, shopping, or movement. If it were surrounded by neighboring buildings and had ground floor activation, it would feel like an odd, ugly duck, but not a problematic...

This is *precisely* the attitude why we have no new or interesting architecture in Boston. Anything remotely new or interesting gets savaged in the press and in public. Vive la difference.

There's something darkly humorous about all the infill on the west side of 1st st that's 1-2 stories at best in the back or along the side streets. A beautiful reminder of the unseriousness of our planning.

Plus it's Brookline so they oppose any new housing regardless. Gotta keep the neighborhood vibes of a speedway deathtrap with narrow sidewalks!

Axios should not amplify this nonsense.

lol I wonder if Samuels has a plan ready for whoever wins the suit....

Eliminate design review, make development by right, greatly upzone. These things will drive costs down and enable better design. There's simply no way to look at what happens in reviews and say that encourages design --- it has been well documented it makes it more conservative, formulaic, and...

Don't worry, this one won't get funded either and we'll get another shot at it.

Isn't the Buckminster already being reno'd? Is there no clarity on what's happening there or are they just gutting it? Also, hows the Fenway Center connection going to work? Out the back? There's already a couple of buildings with bricked up windows at 683, 721, and 731. Are those GL...

And cutting all the lengthy review. Years of design review adds a huge cost and makes projects much more conservative. Look at what happened to the new building at Dartmouth and Newbury.

16 Taber St. Taber has 3 BPDA projects! https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/16-taber-street

If they're actual accessible park land, that's different. But there's enormous amounts of conservation land that is just closed and useless. Gov't protected NIMBYism

The "conservation areas" are almost all just NIMBYism to prevent development. Areas of land in the suburbs that no one can access for "environmental reasons" but really so that no one else can move to their town. The history of these places is well documented in CA (and I think in MA).

Seems like NIMBY nonsense to me. Increased property taxes from new construction don't count against the prop 2.5 cap and the buildings are downtown so the cost of services is very low. If anything, this will dramatically strengthen Beverly's finances.

Lol, it's insane how many fewer buildings are here than the generic subdivisions and subdivided lots nextdoor as you can see from the satellite map.

Plus, until the Pike is decked all the way out to the Newton line, I don't see any reason you'd build decks elsewhere.