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Traffic is not something this generation of NIMBYs invented as an argument, it's the second-oldest NIMBY complaint of them all, and has never gone away as far as I can tell. The shadows thing is a quirky upstart complaint that may have elbowed traffic aside in one or two cases, but traffic is...

Well, I was trying to imply that the "associated issues" I mentioned were bigger than just this 150 unit development. If the 150 unit apartment building were truly sui generis, it wouldn't matter much. But there's been lots of bruising fights over development in Newton, and there's a proposal...

All three of the candidates who have to date announced bids for mayor are on the City Council. Two of the three - Fuller and Lennon - voted in favor of this zoning change and special permit. The third candidate - Sangiolo - voted against. I'm pretty certain this vote and the associated...

I agree wholeheartedly!

Comparing these pics to the set BeeLine posted on March 17, I cannot see a hint of evidence of any progress. ETA: hell, even the one sign on the construction fencing that was hanging crookedly back then, is still hanging crookedly now. I mean, if I hadn't been on this site long enough to know...

When I went by dry dock 3 about two weeks ago, there was a US Navy Hospital ship in there undergoing repairs. Still there as far as I know.

This isn't a redevelopment of the dry dock pier (dry dock #4, that is). This is a new mostly-floating structure between Legal Sea Foods and the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. Perhaps one segment closest to the Pavilion is on that pier, the rest looks to be floating. No change to the dry dock.

Outstanding looking idea.

This part of your post is a completely valid complaint and I agree with it 100%. It truly sucks. Yeah, I sort of agree. However, they have good arguments about how poorly they’re served by transit and how this increase in density will indeed exacerbate that. As others have pointed out...

Oh ye of little patience. These mixed income PHA-replacement deals go through iteration after iteration. Go read about the process Corcoran went through on Columbia Point. Took years and years before shovels turned dirt. They have done these sorts of deals in multiple cities other than...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District This is substantially less true than it once was, and is becoming less true with each passing year. MA is estimated at 75% white non-Hispanic in 2016, and that's falling. Boston is about 55% white non-Hispanic in 2016, also falling. Now some...

1. Water is still wet 2. Fire is still hot 3. A Boston developer / GC team fell short of diversity hiring goals 4. The City of Boston did not punish the developer 5. The City, developer, and GC are promising to try harder next time 6. Not one quote from any single trade union representative in...

Maybe you're being sarcastic, but if not: I don't see why it would matter to have shadows on Symphony Hall. For churches, I get it, the shadows would potentially block sunlight from coming through the stained glass windows. That's not my fight, I don't attend those churches, but I get the...

Re: Whiskey Priest/Atlantic Beer Garden Redevelopment | 150 Seaport Blvd | Seaport ha, well give it credit for being a tough little tree, it looks pretty healthy for something that's fallen over several times.

Re: Whiskey Priest/Atlantic Beer Garden Redevelopment | 150 Seaport Blvd | Seaport exactly, bigpicture, from the DEP file # hanging on the tree: https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/document-file-04-2017/04262017151318.pdf I think it's very reasonable to assume the developer has reason...

There is only scattered resident permit parking in Newton, not much of it near this site. Instead, parking is constrained around there by being metered, and forbidden overnight. And overnight parking is forbidden nearly everywhere in Newton during winter months, to keep clear for plows. So...

I'd be curious whether such a deed restriction would stand up in court, and even if it did, how it'd get enforced? Some property manager's going to be required to check RMV databases regularly to be sure tenants aren't cheating? Really? (These affordable units are described as apartments, not...

Re: North-South Rail Link She's damned right to be fanning that hope. We need to do both: expansion first and then the NSRL. Along with a shitload of other transit investments that probably won't happen so long as Baker is Governor and DeLeo is Speaker (but we can lay groundwork now). I...

They just spent a ton of money rebuilding Government Station. Transfers among Blue / Green / Orange already exist, they're just not in one mega station as you propose. Your mega-platform money would be better spent doing the Red/Blue connection, which has never existed, and which couldn't be...

the schematics you linked to are out of date. When Govt Center was torn up the rail routing was re-aligned. Those old ones don't show the Brattle Loop, which was created during all that realignment, and is the main consumer of space under the plaza.