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Good god he pulled out the cringiest NIMBY arguments too. Traffic and shadows? I agree with "more residential" but I think traffic and shadow arguments need to be retired for good. At this point even valid traffic complaints automatically make me feel angry because traffic complaints now come...

Totally not an issue Rifleman was obsessed with. Naw, can't be the same guy.

I'm not following this analogy. Horseshoe sales might be down due to there not being a lot of Horses in Cambridge. I'm pretty sure though that there are still men in Cambridge and that they still wear clothing. I'd have some very mixed feelings about it if they didn't.

Someone should call out the fact that blocking late night business is prejudiced against those with sleep disorders that give them circadian rhythms not considered "normal". I'm one of those people, I'm naturally awake at night. Preventing businesses from having late night hours for us is like...

I don't know about you, but I personally can tell the difference between a maple and an oak but telling the difference between different maples ?????? I'd be lost. I'm having really nasty allergies right now and am currently looking at every tree with suspicion thinking " Is this tree causing...

Dude, the FAA max is only 300' here. And from what I can tell, nothing has been proposed yet for us to tell whether or not they are going to that max. 300' doesn't tend to meet much opposition when not located next to a single family residential neighborhood.

Ummm. Everyone seems to be assuming jobs only happen in Boston. Here in Portsmouth and across the river in Kittery there's more jobs than people. It's not a phenomenon exclusive to Boston. They've been screaming "housing crisis!" here too but unlike Mass no one seems to even be trying to do...

So, I was just going through the 2018 census data for housing permitted. ...We're still building wayyyyyy too little housing. Mass is carrying New England for the most part and they're still not building enough... Maine and New Hampshire are doing a pathetic job as well. Rhode island too...

https://www.boston.gov/departments/neighborhood-development/housing-changing-city-boston-2030 I've seen this give a ballpark figure while establishing its goals, maybe check the original plan or the revised plan. Housing more students in dorms is part of the goals.

Are you requiring they be headquartered here? That's silly. Every tech major is making a presence of some sort here (except I guess salesforce). Boston proper is not actually all that weak at all in the "finance" sector, but those businesses have no desire to locate to kendall. Biotech builds...

You'd have a point with residential but considering Kendall is more desirable than Boston proper for locating a business I'm pretty sure more expensive commercial space in a tall tower here will have no issue getting leased quickly.

YIMBYs need to place more of an emphasis on running for local government positions and pooling their money to buy off politicians for their selves. The people buying off their own politicians is starting to make headway on the national level, maybe it should be applied to the local level as...

And they should be pushing FAA limits with how hot that area is right now. I'm not saying that out of height fetishism, but rather I'm noting they are not maximizing density here like they should be. Instead they're going to artificially limit floor space and send costs skyrocketing anywhere...

Considering how desirable Kendall is and how no one can get enough residential/commercial/lab space there their only option is to build up and they just aren't doing it.

The T would be able to handle its passengers if it wasn't for chronic underinvestment... The problem is not that people are choosing to use it. And "Traffic sucks" is exactly why I'm disappointed when the proportions of these large mixed use developments end up leaning towards commercial...

The housing and apartment vacancy rate has been lower. Prices and land value aren't so volatile that they'd shoot up to Boston prices in that scenario. There was a while where the housing vacancy rate in Portland was 0.0% and it had everything to do with Boston transplants. My little brother...

What is with this tone deaf conversation? Housing costs are skyrocketing in secondary cities. People who work in Boston but can work remotely but want to be close enough to stop in the office once a week are moving to places like Portland ME causing a housing shortage more severe than what's...

If everything is approved and financing is secured what's too optimistic about that?

They can accommodate a220s though. The a220-100 is approved and the a220-300 likely lies in the near future. If you're feeling hopeful for jetblue, they do have a220s on order...

I know, that's why I wanted to know what they're really called because I knew everyone was calling it a brand name!