Lyra (née The Huntington) | 252/258/264 Huntington Avenue | Fenway

[dshoost88]

Sprinkle these around Back Bay and Downtown and we got ourselves a sustainable city. I like to think of more high-rises in a reformed West End, but that's another force to be dealt with.

Why stop there? Huntington Avenue and the Green Line E-Branch have slowly demonstrated what a truly transit-oriented development corridor looks like when you leverage the transit availability and walkability of the corridor.

Every single rapid transit corridor throughout the city--and region--should be greeted with the same level of high rise residential zoning as of right. Forest Hills, Cleveland Circle, Wellington, Orient Heights, Davis Square, Maverick, Dean Street, Community College, Fields Corner, Newton Highlands, Wollaston, Savin Hill, and, yes, even the West End--the status quo built environment is insufficient to address the housing shortage, and communities need to reduce as many barriers as possible to foster up to this level of development to address our housing shortage.

 

[JeffDowntown]

Why stop there? Huntington Avenue and the Green Line E-Branch have slowly demonstrated what a truly transit-oriented development corridor looks like when you leverage the transit availability and walkability of the corridor.

Every single rapid transit corridor throughout the city--and region--should be greeted with the same level of high rise residential zoning as of right. Forest Hills, Cleveland Circle, Wellington, Orient Heights, Davis Square, Maverick, Dean Street, Community College, Fields Corner, Newton Highlands, Wollaston, Savin Hill, and, yes, even the West End--the status quo built environment is insufficient to address the housing shortage, and communities need to reduce as many barriers as possible to foster up to this level of development to address our housing shortage.

You actually cannot build like this up much of the Blue Line corridor -- Logan airspace restrictions are really tight there. That is why the Suffolk Downs proposals are so modest in height.