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I appreciate the sentiment, but I still disagree. Trying to tackle a complex problem with a complex solution just causes compounding complexity. Maybe accessibility to the 128 station should be improved. Maybe SFH isn’t the best use of land near that Littleton stop. Shawn gave a great example...

I was moreso envisioning “the following zoning laws are illegal within x miles of a train station” rather than “here is the zoning you will use”.

+1. Get rid of local zoning! It was a mistake for the state to leave the specifics of enforcing this law up to the individual towns. Sudbury in 2024 was never going to agree to building more houses for the undesirables to start moving in that could also cause the value of their rotting...

This one just popped up on FB for me!

How dare you overreach my overreach!

From the top of the station landing garage:

+1. We should outlaw zoning all together. The West End was torn down by the public sector, not the private one. The city of Boston and state of MA did it to themselves. If anything, less local control might have saved the neighborhood.

Was Lord and Taylor any different?

If rich people were leaving the state, I’d expect more homes to be on the market in the region’s nicer suburbs?

Blame these, at least, on Beacon Hill, not City Hall. And Wu seems to be doing more to encourage housing development/affordability in the city than any mayor I’ve seen in my lifetime.

It’ll be Jemison holding the bag, no? Granted, they’ve seemed to be in perfect step with each other.

Thoughts: How much do these folks get payed again to sit around and debate each others’ self destructive motion motions? There’s no way this can be true from a housing perspective, right?

I beg to differ.

The stadium will be in Boston. Edit: Oops looks like others beat me to the punch.

I think we’re in similar places life-wise. I might be a bit younger. What your saying definitely rings true. I actually got lucky with my current landlord. Our rent is lower than average and hasn’t gone up (knock on wood). However, if I want to buy a house someday then I’ll probably need to...

But when discussing “keeping the 20-something’s around”, we aren’t worried about freeing up units for the existing community. Rather, we want there to be enough units for new graduates as they move off campus and join the community. More on-campus housing doesn’t necessarily fix that. There are...

That won’t help the problem at all once those students finish their degrees.

These photos are changing my mind about whether (if possible) it might not be cool to keep the smoke stacks around post-redevelopment for purely aesthetic reasons.

Nor to be confused with public displays of affection, which are strictly prohibited per Boston’s current zoning code.

Do all big cities in the US have some similar quasi-government agency in charge of development planning? If not, and if the city council doesn’t own it in those other places, then what other systems are there?