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Lol this is great, and another reason why I generally avoid the opinion section: “[New high rises] are very expensive to build, so you get luxury housing,” he said. “There are more cost effective ways to build [housing].” One example is Suffolk University’s plan for an 11-story building on...

This is on my bingo card for all urban areas. Given some of the grand single families near Mt Auburn/along Brattle, I'm going to be very curious to see how this lands across the city. Positive outcome for sure, wish Boston would take even the first step and eliminate parking minima city-wide...

Crazy, a midair collision between a DC-8 and a Lockheed Constellation (jet vs prop). 44 fatalities between the planes, 6 more on the ground. The second plans made it to Staten Island before crashing into a field. Apparently Edmund Hillary was booked on one of the flights but got to the airport...

Wasn't familiar with any other tax raising proposals except for making candy subject to state sales tax, from which it's currently exempt. Obviously the revenue generated from the traffic cameras would fund the capex and opex of these systems. Generally I think Healey has been pretty clear that...

Don’t try to apply logic. The chaos and the infuriation is the point. Wind is bad-coded so it must be stopped. Accept that’s the regulatory landscape based on dubious foundation.

Local residents, yearning for hardscape and a surface parking lot, sue to block the addition of housing, modernizing amenities, and resilience efforts for the floodplain near where they live. https://www.dotnews.com/2025/harbor-point-abutters-appeal-state-permit-decision-dorchester-bay-city...

Executive order just dropped. Indeed all new leases are halted and they are explicitly looking at amending or terminating existing leases (italics). Nothing in this withdrawal affects rights under existing leases in the withdrawn areas. With respect to such existing leases, the Secretary of...

I don’t think bowing down or paying indulgences gets these over the line. Any form of non-carbon energy is now part of the culture war and will be targeted with cancellations where possible or delays/lawsuits where things are underway. For example there’s reporting that a day 1 executive order...

Wish I knew. It’s been near this site for years and I can’t quite see the detail in my photo but will take a closer look next time I’m near

Glad to have it, but it's amazing and NOT AT ALL blackmail when $200k in cash makes the concerns about shadows and height just melt away. One interpretation is that perhaps arguments made by neighborhood groups aren't always in good faith, and the cumbersome approval process we have is ripe for...

Well let's hope the new administration only focuses their efforts on new projects, not halting projects under construction...this might be it for awhile. There's a lot of nuance, but permitting is effectively under direct executive control, and despite clear legal precedent for permitted...

Busy steel day (this morning)

Looks like it's official, Centurion lounge coming to Terminal C https://thriftytraveler.com/news/airport-lounges/boston-american-express-centurion-lounge/ The article references and includes renderings from Massport, but I can't see today's meeting minutes up on their site yet. The images...

LOVE to see this go up. The edges around the Fenway and Emerald Necklace as they abut Bowker, I-90 and Storrow are just miserable to get around as a pedestrian or cyclist. The pedestrian improvements are really great here and even with a small concession here and there, this is a meaningful...

Looks like this is officially making into Healey's new budget, due Jan 22. GOOD https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/13/metro/maura-healey-eliminate-broker-fees-legislation/ “Broker fees are an unfair cost for renters, and they should not be on the hook to pay for someone they didn’t hire,”...

I was just thinking about the status of the bridge this morning. As the mayoral race heats up I hope all candidates are really pressed on this issue. Where do you stand, how do you plan to address the homeless and vagrant crisis, and should the bridge be built. I expect the anti-Wu candidates...

For all the lovers and haters, public comments are open until February 10... Personally I'm a fan. Cambridge street is too wide and full of traffic and despite being at the boundary of beautiful Beacon Hill, the architecture is miserable and uninspiring for the most part. Would be a nice...

If this is in response to parking minimums (vs the general issue of the housing crisis) I think the problem is it's incredibly easy to fear-monger exactly the way Flynn is, since cars have managed to be such a central part of American life, everywhere except for maybe the densest parts of NYC...

Who would have ever thought that Ed Flynn would turn up the volume when limitations on parking come along...the disingenuous conflation of "eliminating parking mandates" with "banning parking" is peak brain-rot for the low-engagement voter perpetuated by people who know better. No one is trying...

It's a bunch of anecdotes, but looks like the newest air source heat pumps are performing decently in the deep cold (down to single digit negatives). https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/08/science/heat-pumps-are-designed-operate-when-its-still-cold-out-really-cold-out/