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I believe that is part of the bus lanes on BHA plan that is inching towards construction.

There is in fact BRT infrastructure that numerous busses use between Blue Hill Ave + Seaver and Jackson Sq, to be extended to Ruggles. Runs right be the Franklin Park entrances. Arguably great mass transit here.

The demand for new class A space is quite different from the demand for B/C space...

Strongly agree. Added to this, the immediate incentive of your property taxes falling by 60% from conversion (besides other incentives) is a good reason not to wait for interest rates to drop.

Isn't the third track area needed if an OL extension to Roslindale Sq is built (yes I know, CR conversion here is better but the OL extension is on City plans)

It is highly unclear to anyone if Somernova was actually going to be a Greentech space in practice: it was probably branding for what would end up being mostly biotech. Even Greentown labs has a ton of traditional biotech startups. As you note, the climate tech sector is much smaller.

Bikers speeding down Peters Hill is not exactly what all the people wandering the Arboretum will want either. The hills to get to the entrances on Peters Hill from Roslindale Sq are also quite steep, if not steeper. This path seems like a pretty great project.

City of Boston has a bad track record of funding improvements they wanted developers to build.

No worse than triple deckers. And I'm not sure the reactivation is happening without this project.

Also reactivation of an entry to the arboretum, which is how you know its pastoralist nimby nonsense not actual concern for the park

I heard from an IAG member that the Arboretum road proposal is effectively dead after BPDA wouldn't fight back enough against the arboretum NIMBYs

Underground parking, yet site raised. We still can't even do serious consistent policy on a site by site basis let alone by the City.

IZ is a bad system, full stop. It was created in the 70s to block any new housing in places like Berkeley. That said, it can serve useful integration ends, if properly compensated for with density bonuses. All that is immaterial given today's policies, though, which require flexibility and...

Some back of the envelope math here about how self-defeating the City's IZ policy is here: 5-7M is the aff housing contribution to the Oxford St building. City property taxes on 115 condos are going to be well over 1M per year. Boston could *easily* either just pay the aff housing subsidy out...

I know several IAG members, including ones who have no problem with the agreement with the city that have told me they were blindsided by the whole thing. It seems like an unforced error by the City/BPDA here. I agree strongly that neighbors, electeds, and all sorts of NIMBYs have made a...

They told no one on the IAG or in the n'hood about it. Causing a major furor locally, despite it being a good one (removing the idiotic 93 ramp proposals).

Bike Hub on Richard Ross Way. Any details?

Fantastic. Has there ever been word about redeveloping the Star Market parking behind this?

Madison Park Village is remarkably nice compared with much of the neighboring ones. I'm also not convinced that the two and half story townhomes are _that_ much less dense than the surrounds.

This is a big deal. I am, however, concerned that the City is continuing to dump low income housing in Lower Roxbury, much as it did in the 50s and 60s. There's minimal market rate housing this side of Northampton St (esp south of Tremont) and a number of housing projects. Smart thing to do...