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Today I was looking for the 33 mount vernon street project documentation on the winchester town website and it really just hit home how ridiculous it is that every single town in the boston metro area has its own separate website with varying quality and varying degrees of usability that you have to search through in order to find documents or community meeting times for the different developments going on. Depending on what criteria youre going by theres 101-177 towns and cities in the boston metro area. Its a completely overwhelming amount and theres no way anybody would be able to keep track of all of the different projects and community meetings going on across 100+ towns and websites.
Would it not make more sense to put them all in one place on one website… like the mass state website? Bostonplans is great, but outside of boston each town does things differently with vastly different degrees of quality. Why cant we put everything onto one website in the style of bostonplans where everything is easy to find/use and keep track of? It could be separated by metro area and everything in the boston metro area could be in one place. Having everything in one place would make it a million times easier to keep track of everything thats going on.
The way it is now its essentially impossible to keep track of all of the different developments happening across the metro area and where and when the community meetings for each different project are taking place. Maybe this would be a way to actually use the counties for something and have each county website aggregate all of the developments proposed in each county into one place? Theres a few different ways it could be done, I’m interested to hear some other ideas of how this could be made better, but the way its being done now isnt working well at all. Theres been a lot of changes going on with the different zoning and regulations (again frustratingly on a town by town basis) but I havent heard about trying to make it easier to keep track of the developments going on, I think this could be just as important.
Would it not make more sense to put them all in one place on one website… like the mass state website? Bostonplans is great, but outside of boston each town does things differently with vastly different degrees of quality. Why cant we put everything onto one website in the style of bostonplans where everything is easy to find/use and keep track of? It could be separated by metro area and everything in the boston metro area could be in one place. Having everything in one place would make it a million times easier to keep track of everything thats going on.
The way it is now its essentially impossible to keep track of all of the different developments happening across the metro area and where and when the community meetings for each different project are taking place. Maybe this would be a way to actually use the counties for something and have each county website aggregate all of the developments proposed in each county into one place? Theres a few different ways it could be done, I’m interested to hear some other ideas of how this could be made better, but the way its being done now isnt working well at all. Theres been a lot of changes going on with the different zoning and regulations (again frustratingly on a town by town basis) but I havent heard about trying to make it easier to keep track of the developments going on, I think this could be just as important.
