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This is why we need min lot size reform; 3A was a good starting point, but it's not how you'd get to small lot houses. Townhouses combined with apt's do fit the bill for it.

zoning zoning zoning. it's all county level in VA and progrowth factions can stomp out the type of pastoralist nimbyism we see in Weston. Not necessarily enough to build things denser than single family homes outside of essentially urban arlington and alexandria though.

I still wonder about the financials on this one and even if it all does pencil, it certainly seems a highly ineffective use of subsidy.

I believe this is incorrect: the development was going to pay for phase 2 of this work, which would improve and extend the path on the other side. My source here is a housing advocate who lives very close.

The real laggard is Chelsea, which has punitive levels of IZ. There's next to no new private development there despite plenty of brownfield like Everett and an insanely bad housing crisis.

I believe there was substantial enhancement to this connection that this building was going to pay for. Unfortunately, NIMBYs killed it.

You can go down to 60% aff for many grants, iirc, which is why the no parking min's kicks in there in Boston. Point stands, though. The interesting question is could they make it pencil at 100-120% AMI mostly? Guessing not.

No there's no physical connection. The Boylston entrance to Hynes station is just at the far end of the platform. You can often walk right up there from the inside. The Mass Ave underpass is from the fare control lobby at the Newbury entrance. They're still doing construction on it.

This is 100% true. The BPDA behaved so egregiously, negotiating in bad faith that they were open to all sorts of lawsuits. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes for the City of Boston.

Given the City's total failure to expedite parcel 14, there's no way Hynes is done by 2030.

More equipment as of this evening.

Basically everything going up in Nubian is the limited amount of market development they allow --- Taber St, the Harrison Infill, etc. Between gifting city owned parcels to screwball nonprofit development schemes that won't pencil and mistreating the market rate developers, even if they're...

Let. People. Build. Market. Rate. Chinatown nonprofit NIMBYs would never have it though.

Interesting to see them finally push housing; locals demanded commercial instead of housing at the power plant redev.

I mean this is completely not true. There's a load of contingencies that made this proposal work from essentially free land, given up as undevelopable by previous owners, to qualifying for a bunch of public services to avoiding affordable housing subsidies b/c of the burden they'd impose. The...

Wow, that's a huge vacant lot, great to get it developed

Those victorians are eminently movable by those who want to save them, too....

The funny part about that is *every single one of those windows* will be blocked even by a shorter building (5 vs 6 stories) AND the proposed cantilever would if anything move building mass away from the open interior space that affects all those windows...

Bland midrise buildings, housing hundreds of people (ideally well over a thousand) even with only overpriced coffee shops as retail would be so self-evidently more vital than the Hurley and Lindemann. It's fair to criticize what may get built, but people make cities --- and letting people live...

Besides the normal nimbyism, the opposition to height and a sidewalk cantilever on what's a hot and unprotected sidewalk in a pretty derelicty square is obnoxious.