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https://commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/milton-planning-board-eyes-two-zoning-plans/ Interesting development - they are at least nominally trying to recover by saying they'll come up with 2 plans, one for adjacent and one for the current rapid transit community. "The law and the accompanying...

Anybody know what happened at the public meeting last night? "public hearing for the phase one project will be on Thursday, March 7, 2024" https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/03/06/after-a-4-year-delay-belmont-gears-up-to-build-its-first-segment-of-the-mass-central-rail-trail

Whose responsibility is it that all the crosswalks on the Somerville community path extension suck? The grade is bad, they're misaligned, and they put minimal effort into view lines to passing traffic. Is this something that Somerville is permitted to fix? The generator placement pisses me...

I know parking is going to be forced on this development, but how many spaces do you think are available within a 20 minute walk? I see all of the Casino parking, all of the Gateway Center (my map doesn't recognize properly the new Northern Strand extension path under the tracks), Sullivan...

Haha - I love the old industrial masonry (not the gas tanks), but the huge glass boxes in Northpoint hold no design value whatsoever to me- they literally reflect to avoid needing any character themselves. If only this development had tried a cohesive neighborhood aesthetic besides "STERILITY"

Inching closer to reality... "Massachusetts is set to receive about $350 million in federal money to help pay for the replacement of two aging bridges that carry traffic on and off Cape Cod... included in the fiscal year 2024 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act released by the...

Great puff piece profile of MTA repair ops with some solid photography. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/nyregion/subway-repair-shop-new-york.html

Trying to understand this issue - hadn't seen a map. Looks like they tanked the assignment intentionally by rezoning far away from where it should have been, and literally avoided the near-transit neighborhoods voting for increased density. Although - East Milton Square looks like a pretty good...

OPTIMISM (I have to imagine that's what the leasing agents say every morning.) They just need to land the first 4 buildings (3 residential) and I'll call this a TOD win. The little "shared work" retail shack is a timber structure I'm still hoping is not VE'd of any awesomeness - Leers...

What we really need are more Highland-size potholes to slow them down. /s

Moving North... I'm confused by the new McGrath Hwy plan to put 2-way bike lanes on both sides of the street, in addition to wide sidewalks. I'm not sure who this is helping exactly... It's taking elevated pavement, and turning it into grounded pavement with a few extra trees. Somerville loves...

Interesting conversation - which points need rezoning? Immediately altered section is south of the truss where a giant blvd is a strange change. These properties just south of the truss bridge are terribly sited. What a mess. There's a park that could be extended on the East. There are...

I feel the exact opposite - I appreciate that they didn't go with yet another glass box. I find the "Bacon Building" and the little labs to be far less out of place than the Boynton Yards or Cambridge crossing monstrous boxes of glass that have no relation to their neighborhoods. Is there a...

I like that there's actually depth, and not just different facade colors pretending to be depth. With the amount of residences now in this neighborhood the retail hopefully will fill up quickly.

Love that this is being worked on - but it feels like those renderings with trees all over the sides of buildings. This whole plan is heavy on city upkeep, and most trees likely to die being still in such a road corridor - who knows if they'll be replaced. Where is the bus lane? Where are the...

How do we convince Scape to go back and try their original co-living apartments since the lab market is dead, but housing has increased demand? No way they just pressed "delete" on the designs for the 250-unit multifamily development. The new ones down in Allston just opened - would love to see...

Good find! Disappointed in "65% in 10 minute" result. I definitely have avoided the Green line post-Kenmore, and never been on the Mattapan trolley.

January Presentation: - Lots of height reductions - Parking moved underground - Lots of pre-work to raise site significantly, including all of Schrafft parking lots - Still committing to walkable neighborhood - Very light on architectural details outside of desired material form - Presentation...

:( https://charlestownbridge.com/2024/02/01/the-chain-forge-project-is-no-more/ "the December 2022 memorandum indicates that the remaining balance of $987,043 in extension fees was increased to $1,500,000, and the redeveloper was required to pay $125,000 a month to the BPDA plus $7,500 a month...

AAwwww shucks, if only we had a rep on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to help...