JohnAKeith
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If the "40,000 units will be built" idea was realistic we'd have 10,000 units in the Seaport today, 15 years after promised. Instead we have fewer than 2,000.
If the "40,000 units will be built" idea was realistic we'd have 10,000 units in the Seaport today, 15 years after promised. Instead we have fewer than 2,000.
I think it’s fair to say that the zoning code is deliberately kept archaic. The reason for that is that we didn’t update it. Whenever you update zoning, you’re generally increasing zoning. You’re giving all the value to the landowners. Because the city and its citizens are so involved, there was always a need to**extract isn’t the right word**to make sure the private developers provide the right kinds of benefits beyond their profit* centric approach to building anything.
In order to get the exemption and variances from an archaic zoning code, we would be able to leverage the kinds of community benefits that people [from City Hall] deal with on the front lines.
“Hey, the local neighborhoods want an improved park. The local youth soccer league needs uniforms.” All of this is being extracted from private developers only because they are seeking variances. They’ll go before the zoning board of appeals and pledge that they are doing X, Y, and Z to provide community benefits. There is an agreement that this works.
Paris has been installed as firm favourite in the race to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Within hours of the French capital’s declaration on Tuesday that it intends to make its fourth Summer Games bid of recent times, bookmaker William Hill had made the city 5/4 favourite to host the event, ahead of the current United States candidate, Boston, at 9/4.
In acknowledgement of doubts over the New England city’s ability to last the course, however, the bookmaker is also offering prices on three other US cities, with Los Angeles fifth-favourite at 8/1, Washington D.C at 16/1 and San Francisco the outsider at 20/1.
Rick Sobey @rsobeyLSun
THIS JUST IN: Lowell would host fencing and tae kwan do if Boston 2024 Olympics happen. #Lowell2024 #Boston2024
https://twitter.com/rsobeyLSun/status/613760030425411584
Lowell for fencing & tae kwan do:
Lowell for fencing & tae kwan do:
Ok, this is getting ridiculous. Worcester has been announced for.... HANDBALL!
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...l-worcester/GXDuJqOpEIjX0r4rnQDTIL/story.html
I'm all for spreading out venues where it makes sense. Boxing in Lowell made sense. Sailing at Buzzard's Bay and whitewater on the Deerfield River makes sense. Sprinkling out prelim basketball and volleyball in Springfield and Holyoke, respectively, would make sense.
But handball in Worcester? Tae kwan do and fencing in Lowell? These smaller scale events are better off clustered in Boston, and have nothing to do with their new proposed locations. The bid is desperate, it shows, and it's killing any chance it might have had against Paris et al.
Ok, this is getting ridiculous. Worcester has been announced for.... HANDBALL!
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...l-worcester/GXDuJqOpEIjX0r4rnQDTIL/story.html
I'm all for spreading out venues where it makes sense. Boxing in Lowell made sense. Sailing at Buzzard's Bay and whitewater on the Deerfield River makes sense. Sprinkling out prelim basketball and volleyball in Springfield and Holyoke, respectively, would make sense.
But handball in Worcester? Tae kwan do and fencing in Lowell? These smaller scale events are better off clustered in Boston, and have nothing to do with their new proposed locations. The bid is desperate, it shows, and it's killing any chance it might have had against Paris et al.