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Thoughts: How much do these folks get payed again to sit around and debate each others’ self destructive motion motions? There’s no way this can be true from a housing perspective, right?

I beg to differ.

The stadium will be in Boston. Edit: Oops looks like others beat me to the punch.

I think we’re in similar places life-wise. I might be a bit younger. What your saying definitely rings true. I actually got lucky with my current landlord. Our rent is lower than average and hasn’t gone up (knock on wood). However, if I want to buy a house someday then I’ll probably need to...

But when discussing “keeping the 20-something’s around”, we aren’t worried about freeing up units for the existing community. Rather, we want there to be enough units for new graduates as they move off campus and join the community. More on-campus housing doesn’t necessarily fix that. There are...

That won’t help the problem at all once those students finish their degrees.

These photos are changing my mind about whether (if possible) it might not be cool to keep the smoke stacks around post-redevelopment for purely aesthetic reasons.

Nor to be confused with public displays of affection, which are strictly prohibited per Boston’s current zoning code.

Do all big cities in the US have some similar quasi-government agency in charge of development planning? If not, and if the city council doesn’t own it in those other places, then what other systems are there?

Shouldn’t the city’s development/zoning be decided upon or at least approved by elected officials?

Wonder what the possibility of seeing that school bus yard at Washington/Cass redeveloped within my lifetime is? Regardless, this will be huge in terms of stitching the South End and Roxbury back together.

So the main benefit of leaving the board intact would be using them to purchase land? Can you expand on this a bit? What was so bad about the original proposal?

https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/03/01/debate-begins-over-revamping-how-boston-builds/amp/ Sounds like a big point of contention is whether on not to keep the BPDA planning board separate from the city. Can anyone with more knowledge on the issue explain what the pros are to keeping the board...

If you’re done with it why respond? I re-emphasize that there are tons and tons of things I wish were done better in this area that I don’t have the power to change. I’m not going to stop complaining about them. Thank you very much.

A road diet on the McGrath is nothing? When did I say I didn’t want decent bike infrastructure? Do you always resort to childish passive aggression when someone disagrees with you? Henry described it as “a highway” regardless of any planned name changes and cited the difficulty in crossing...

I’m unlikely to advocate for a change to the McGrath for 2 reasons: first, although I do drive to Union via this route once every other week, I’m a Medford resident not a Somerville one. Second, I don’t have the time and energy. That said, I find your position to be defeatist. Just because we...

I take issue with the bolded. If they’re redesigning the whole thing anyway, can’t we just get rid of this problem all together? Why are we still calling it a highway post-grounding?

That stretch is the stroadiest of stroads.

Once again wishing I could pay for single-access to the globe rather than a subscription. :( You used to be able to buy a paper at a newsstand or convenience store without agreeing to have it delivered to your house daily.

Yeah, weird anti-immigrant rhetoric aside, it’s a disappointingly small impact for the time being. Nice to hear that the state is pursuing additional legal action, but I’m not going to hold my breath.