General Boston Discussion

Charlie_mta said:
You're probably right with regards to NIMBY opposition and lack of political will. But it is physically possible to leave the existing Charles River Park buildings largely in place while infilling around them with small streets and density of varying heights. A few years ago I came up with this infill layout concept, which needs to be updated.
Beige color areas would be new development, and new streets are in red.
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Wow, that's amazing. It would be incredible to see this come to fruition. So much housing could fit on those yellow polygons.
 
Charlie_mta said:
You're probably right with regards to NIMBY opposition and lack of political will. But it is physically possible to leave the existing Charles River Park buildings largely in place while infilling around them with small streets and density of varying heights. A few years ago I came up with this infill layout concept, which needs to be updated.
Beige color areas would be new development, and new streets are in red.
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Ive gone in and drawn some new streets myself, its just too tempting not to try to fix. This is the type of actual visionary planning we need to see for places like the west end. Something like this should 100% be on the table. I know the existing residents would push back hard against it, but making it so idk 15% of downtowns total land area is no longer a gated community would have far reaching benefits for the city. Boston is tiny and opening up this much room downtown while at the same time drastically improving and fixing a dead part of the city would be huge. Just the amount of new housing that could be built alone is worth it, but then on top of that the new street/ped/bike connections, retail, food, and just having this whole area finally be a functional part of the city would be amazing… I wish we could still do stuff like this today.
 
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