Let's try a different take:
You can hope the red line gets fixed in one hand and shit in the other and see which one gets filled quicker.
I’m actually not miserable because I don’t live next to a log flume ride that some people insist is mass transit.
I'm confused. Are you trying to make an MBTA service level joke? I use the red line through here daily. It's honestly not that bad.
Wow you quadrupled down on your take, impressive. I dont disagree but when you let massive developments that hang their hats on public transportation completely skate and not pay their fair share to keep the system functioning, well this is the system you get.
And not to forget, the Expressway is actually on the other side of the station from the location for Dot Bay City, unless we are to accept the assertion that Morissey Blvd is an expressway. Which yeah, maybe, but at the same time, there are facilities for crossing as a pedestrian, and traffic calming measures coming as part of this development.
I don't think that there is a definition of "expressway" that does not include Morrissey Boulevard.
For this very reason, I'd say that the best and highest use of this land would be to turn it into the marshy swampland it once was.
I hope large new developments don't get shut down unilaterally because of climate change. I think mitigation would be a better course, such as setting aside areas of the development for wetlands, to help absorb storm surges.
And crazy but true, this development is doing just that. This will make Morissey less likely to become a canl.
Being honest, those don't seem like unreasonable demands. I could see where the neighborhood would be annoyed with how much favor the developers have tried to buy by engaging other groups (see prior post...)Local residents, yearning for hardscape and a surface parking lot, sue to block the addition of housing, modernizing amenities, and resilience efforts for the floodplain near where they live.
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Harbor Point abutters appeal state permit decision for Dorchester Bay City | Dorchester Reporter
A group of tenants in the Harbor Point Apartment community and their landlord— the Corcoran Jennison Companies— have filed an appeal to the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) challenging that agency’s decision to grant a key permit to the developers of the Dorchester Bay...www.dotnews.com
Perilla also asks for the development team—and UMass in particular— to commit to a Harbor Point proposal to re-purpose a currently vacant parcel on Mount Vernon Street— known as R2— into a “community recreational area,” including a soccer field, basketball courts, and playground.”
In addition, Perilla makes the case for a mitigation fund to specifically benefit the Harbor Point tenants. “To date, Accordia and UMBA have designated generous funding commitments to organizations with tenuous connections to the Columbia Point peninsula, while their primary abutter— the residents of Harbor Point— were not mentioned in their MEPA filing when they discussed their plans to address mitigation and community benefit.”
We hate this project, it might make flooding here worse (it won't), BUT if you give us a playground and some cash to use at our discretion, we might back down.
Build the towers taller.
"engaging other groups" aka paying bribes to neighborhood associations of nimbys no one should listen to? It's not even clear that the payoffs are going to legitimately organized nonprofits --- but if you're a group of local nimbys, the city of Boston will let you get your pound of flesh no matter how illegal.