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This all reminds me of this funny email I got from the CRA a while ago.

CX needs to do their part and lower the rent on the retail storefronts to attract tenants. And Cambridge needs to up their vacancy tax on retail

I know what the law, which changes every 4 years, says. In my book, anyone who comes here to come build a life for themself and their families and contribute to our culture and economy is an American. Don't really care what color someone is or where they were born. Just like my dad, your family...

These people aren't illegal, they are Americans and it's sad that you've read so many facebook posts that you now support putting them in camps. Is the idea here that we have a bunch of lazy im"migrants" living large off the dole, and that we let them do this for basically no reason? Were you...

I also resent the idea that we should be wanting to go to breweries or tatte. There are a lot of people in Camberville who spend a lot of money on the local economy who enjoy neither!

You would need single stair reform for anything else to be feasible. The large floorplate is an artifact of the double loaded corridor

5% a year seems like a pretty good compromise all things considered as compared to a rent freeze or a rule that's below inflation. Buildings are not valued based on their maintenance costs, they're valued based on rent increasing forever. Buildings will have to take a haircut in value (and thus...

Well, we'll need to do it when I get my four track mainline to Portland, ME /s

That’s true but if we’re in a lending environment that expects sky high rents to increase 5% a year forever, how are we supposed to do anything at all ever anymore? If I were a politician I would start to think IZ is the only countermeasure against that if rent control isn’t allowed, as short...

More $15 bowlslop to be sure.

I think to be perfectly fair we do see general caternary issues causing issues in the green line tunnel. I think Eng has been taking stock of a lot of the system and the (150 year old) deferred maintenance some of it needs and its fair to say his guys think this is necessary. I do think you are...

So I live/lived in this area now - recently moved a bit further out - and I don’t want to speak over anyone but from what I’ve seen a lot of this east Cambridge specific stuff is declining. Happy to be corrected but it’s become extremely expensive and gone the way of southie where the incumbent...

That parcel in 2024 vs 2020

It is funny to be self congratulatory about the treehouse (good building it seems like) when you happened to surround it with turds

I was being silly and reading the old northpoint thread (since 10 years ago I was less focused on these things) and this render while relatively accurate to the content of CX, seems to be totally nonsense when it comes to the OBrien highway, apparently converting it to a neighborhood street...

We don't even need the buildings to look good. I think we have lost that argument. What would be nice is if the form made sense. If we had smaller urban streets on a grid and the buildings were single prisms that were not landscraper-y, fine, make the facade vinyl panels or whatever makes your...

Its definitely an interesting topic--but I think the notion of a city and a suburb are different things. A city is something that until recently was something that was understood to be a place of change, growth, etc. whereas when you're looking for a SFH you're "buying the neighborhood" as much...

I guess what I am trying to convey to you is that while strategic discussions are welcome, expecting your specific views to be catered to by the megacoalition is silly. I mean, left wing people get told that all the time--there are people a few posts up gloating about what's happened in...

Behold the myopia of the American voter--based on your views on youth sports, I'll threaten to vote for the guy who doesn't even want there to be elections! I'll do it!!!! Guys I'm about to vote for the fascist!!! You're making me do it!!!

The cost of elevators is what's blocking the headhouse... Is there anything stopping us from digging a ped tunnel under the tracks with an ADA ramp? Also how much we wanna bet cops are gonna find a way to park their cars on the bridge?