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I would think it would lead to municipalities being much less cavalier about arbitrary IZ mandates and more market rate construction rather than a boom in affordable housing

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/15/science/starfish-on-winter-roads/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/15/metro/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-streets-cabinet-project-pause/ Fade me

It's not what you're missing, it's what I'm missing, which is the point of an economic feasibility study

Economic feasibility study? What are we doing here

Two community meetings next week, both Wednesday March 18 at 6:30pm Central middle school - to discuss and workshop plans for the Eastern Nazarene Campus Southwest middle school - to discuss the proposed 3a project at 90 Columbia St

I think a "burn it all down" approach is in the long run going to have the biggest impact on renters and low income people who can't/won't/shouldn't have to relocate when the regional economy sinks. I'll grant you, burning the regional economy will probably have the effect of long term rental...

Definitely, it would be better if I'd phrased it as "more expensive to build than they have to be". Those savings would have gone somewhere. Either into more units, more community amenities (playground was repeatedly asked for, bike-ped connection to pearl plaza), or allowing the commercial uses...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/11/metro/transportation-ezpass-stickers/

Fronting that the most important thing is the housing, I think people are being delusionally optimistic about non-automotive trips coming out of this place. This is auto-oriented, suburban density. That's what the developers see it as, that's what the town sees it as. This is the development...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/11/metro/massachusetts-municipalities-dire-budget-constraints-state-aid

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/entertainment/dining/2026/03/10/restaurant-liberty-at-the-landing-braintree-ma-hours-menu-prices/88902343007/ Liberty Tavern moving into the vacant spot at 35 Commercial St. This is right outside the East Braintree / Weymouth Landing CR stop.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/senate-housing-bill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.W0LO.8sOSVBUyNvYR&smid=url-share If the "ban corporations from buying SFHs" is the red meat needed to get congress to swallow the vegetables, sure, fine.

Flex posts have been removed from the Boylston Street bike lane along the common. I've been told by BTD that these are being replaced with cast-in-place concrete buffers.

I thought that project was dead, glad to hear it's not only still alive but is keeping the mixed use aspect. Walking distance to QA and has a bunch of bus routes at that intersection.

Putting this over an image of minions and going to do absolute numbers on Facebook

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/08/business/star-market-winter-hill-somerville-affordable-housing/

A standard expansion is a 19 dock station and 11 new bikes and costs roughly $50,000. Reading into "to support bikeshare operations" I suspect that some of the MAPC awarded money is going to fund the electrification of some of the stations rather than just being a straight expansion project. For...

Double replying because it's a totally different topic: https://www.mass.gov/news/healey-driscoll-administration-awards-10-million-to-expand-microtransit-and-last-mile-transit-connections-across-massachusetts Some big money for new BlueBikes stations, 1.3M as a group award to existing munis on...

I like this. I appreciate having the throttle for getting some initial momentum, particularly when I have a load, starting uphill, or in a spot where cars are going to be rapidly accelerating alongside me, but if youre passively sitting and holding a throttle to move I agree we're no longer...