49-51 D street | South Boston

PNF is out for this little project on D Street. Lots to like:

1. No parking
2. 71 residential units over 9 stories, >73,000 gross sf and 1,500sf of commercial
3. Midway between the Broadway and Andrew T stops
4. Continues the infill trend along the Old Colony corridor that's about to be built up

Unfortunately variances are needed still for FAR, open space, and side/rear setbacks. Despite there being no direct residential abutters, the neighbors are going to hate it and complain about parking...which amazingly does not require a variance.

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Looks pretty cool imo, nice to see many of these mid rises are moving away from being blue glass cubes. Its also cool that this area is going to be built up deeper into the neighborhood vs just lining dot ave like a mini sheikh zayed road. Hopefully more of these parcels end up as residential vs labs because the lab market is probably near capacity but we could keep building mid rises at a break neck pace if they just go residential. Cant wait to see it evolve.
 
D St being realigned and also made to have a tree lined median was interesting to see.
 
Is there a long term plan to try to get Marr out of the adjacent lots to connect this back towards Dot Ave better?
 
Suffolk 83 said:
Andrew Square neighborhood association was VEHEMENTLY against this proposal.
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they were against the zero parking. they are typically pro development in this area.
Justbuildit said:
There's a reference to D St realignment on the renders, but I couldn't find anything in a standalone article. In the PNF for this project there are a few references to adjusting the grid. Not sure about timing:
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the realignment is from the PLAN Dot Ave study. this development is not implementing it.
 
I know the development isn't implementing it, just referencing it, and it was the only explicit reference I could find. Thanks for the PLAN Dot reference, it wasn't obvious to find the source on Google.
 
Cowards. Stopping a residential development because it doesn't have enough parking is insane. Shame on Lynch (and duh, Flynn of course) for stoking bike v car culture war schlock and calling out Wu for supposedly driving this. It's this guy's property and he wants to build housing. An underground parking lot would kill the project. Surely building it taller to make the numbers pencil would also be blocked by the same neighbors. So now what? The parcel gets sold for a loss? Just absolute backward looking madness from the fine folks of South Boston.

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Zoning board rejects South Boston apartment building with no parking after residents and congressman complain of neighborhood parking crisis and unfair city treatment

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday rejected a proposed 70-unit apartment building on D Street, roughly midway between the Andrew Square and Broadway T stops, after residents and US Rep. Stephen Lynch and City Councilor Ed Flynn said the proposal would only exacerbate what they said was South...
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Justbuildit said:
Cowards. Stopping a residential development because it doesn't have enough parking is insane. Shame on Lynch (and duh, Flynn of course) for stoking bike v car culture war schlock and calling out Wu for supposedly driving this. It's this guy's property and he wants to build housing. An underground parking lot would kill the project. Surely building it taller to make the numbers pencil would also be blocked by the same neighbors. So now what? The parcel gets sold for a loss? Just absolute backward looking madness from the fine folks of South Boston.

www.universalhub.com

Zoning board rejects South Boston apartment building with no parking after residents and congressman complain of neighborhood parking crisis and unfair city treatment

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday rejected a proposed 70-unit apartment building on D Street, roughly midway between the Andrew Square and Broadway T stops, after residents and US Rep. Stephen Lynch and City Councilor Ed Flynn said the proposal would only exacerbate what they said was South...
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I'm not sure that we can keep harping about the Housing Crisis emergency when we keep turning down perfectly good housing proposals. Housing vs. Parking is a bit of a value proposition. We can dedicate high value land to housing or parking. If you value parking over housing in a location that is 0.4 miles from a subway station and 1.5 miles from the City Center, I don't think Boston is the best city for you. I hear Houston is nice.

Boston is really underserved by its politicians. Flynn represents South Boston/Seaport, South End, Downtown, and Chinatown. Are his constituents really this backward? Also for a congressman to insert himself in a local land use issue is just weird.

Also, Linda Zablocki has sure changed her tune since 2013: https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/09/11/south-boston-zablocki-interview

I think we need to look at investment for restaurants, for stores, for more walkability. I mean, we have many, many people moving in. We have many condos that are here. Most people don't use their cars. If we could have walkability, accessibility. We have a lot of seniors. So maybe there is some type of an incentive that maybe the mayor can look into for places like this area, some type of a city funding help to get these things moving, to get businesses in, to get it lively like when I was a kid.
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And now:
Linda Zablocki, president of the Andrew Square Civic Association, which voted to oppose the project, accused the Boston Planning Department of refusing to listen to resident concerns about parking during impact-advisory-group meetings it held - and raised the specter of people dying because of the way the proposed bike lane would cross in front of the small area the building's plans set aside for loading/unloading and ride-share pickups:

"We are looking for tragedies and they will come if we let this go through," she warned.

Also, she added, the proposed design is ugly: "It's very institutional."
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Not that it needs to be stated here, but this is located within short walking distance of not 1 but 2 red line stations in broadway and andrew. This is the exact type of project that should be built without parking, if not here then where? Just like smuttynose said were in a housing crisis yet turning down the things that would fix it.

The lack of urgency shows the level of disconnection between people who can barely pay rent and the people speaking out against these projects and finding any little reason in every project for why it shouldnt be built instead of finding reasons why it should be built. The reasons why it should be built… like people need a house to live in should outweigh the reasons why it shouldnt be built like maybe there will be some more cars.
 
Justbuildit said:
Cowards. Stopping a residential development because it doesn't have enough parking is insane. Shame on Lynch (and duh, Flynn of course) for stoking bike v car culture war schlock and calling out Wu for supposedly driving this.
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The obsession with parking is ridiculous. It's outrageous that projects like this get turned down during the housing shortage.
 
Smuttynose said:
I'm not sure that we can keep harping about the Housing Crisis emergency when we keep turning down perfectly good housing proposals. Housing vs. Parking is a bit of a value proposition. We can dedicate high value land to housing or parking. If you value parking over housing in a location that is 0.4 miles from a subway station and 1.5 miles from the City Center, I don't think Boston is the best city for you. I hear Houston is nice.

Boston is really underserved by its politicians. Flynn represents South Boston/Seaport, South End, Downtown, and Chinatown. Are his constituents really this backward? Also for a congressman to insert himself in a local land use issue is just weird.

Also, Linda Zablocki has sure changed her tune since 2013: https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/09/11/south-boston-zablocki-interview



And now:
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As a former member of a neighborhood civic association who regularly attended meetings, this city would be better off if none of these neighborhood civic associations existed.
 
And yet they're getting support from duly elected officials who represent large portions of the city. At a certain point we get the democracy that we deserve, so either these guys need to pay the electoral price or we need to accept the fact that carbrain is so deeply entrenched that even BPDA-approved projects can be overruled. Need to do more on the convincing.
 
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