Mayor Wu Appoints Second Chief of Planning

Wait and see mostly with Wu's planning ideas. I think if she gets the comprehensive zoning and master planning stuff done that is huge, but if she gets rid of the BPDA before that is done or fails to accomplish it then Boston will be fucked as it will move too much control to the neighborhoods.

Her entire vision really depends on getting zoning standardized and overhauled in the city.
 
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Bostonâs chief of planning Arthur Jemison departs with a brief but meaningful legacy - The Boston Globe

He has worked to reassure businesses and community groups alike that Mayor Michelle Wu’s pledge to "abolish" the quasi-independent BPDA and bring most of its functions under City Hall control will make zoning more predictable and equitable.
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Aaaaand he’s gone. Can’t believe he’s apparently been commuting from Michigan since being appointed. Was the city buying his plane tickets? Pretty hypocritical considering City Hall’s focus on environmentalism.
 
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Bostonâs chief of planning Arthur Jemison departs with a brief but meaningful legacy - The Boston Globe

He has worked to reassure businesses and community groups alike that Mayor Michelle Wu’s pledge to "abolish" the quasi-independent BPDA and bring most of its functions under City Hall control will make zoning more predictable and equitable.
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Aaaaand he’s gone. Can’t believe he’s apparently been commuting from Michigan since being appointed. Was the city buying his plane tickets? Pretty hypocritical considering City Hall’s focus on environmentalism.
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I hear what you're saying, but, of course, from a sheer logistical standpoint, this is a ridiculously easy commute. 630 miles from Logan to Wayne International; I just checked; a 70-minute flight, realistically. Which is to say (as ridiculous as it is), probably the same amount of time as someone of his tier driving from Wellesley, parking at Riverside, and taking the D Line to Park St. and then getting off to walk to some office tower in FiDi.

All kinds of people of that echelon have arrangements to do these kinds of very short-hop airplane commutes these days, of course. So there's really nothing remarkable about this at all, other than that he happens to have been a Cabinet-level municipal employee...
 
I was more concerned about fuel usage. Surely a 70min flight burns more than a 70min drive or subway ride.
 
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Mods: perhaps its time to update the thread title to something like "Mayor Wu Appoints 2nd Chief of Planning"?

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Mayor Wu brings back Menino-era planner Kairos Shen to lead city planning - The Boston Globe

Shen, currently a real estate professor at MIT, is taking over for Arthur Jemison, who left earlier this month.
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Sigh... not this guy again. Kairos Shen was the reason the Dainty Dot was demolished. This guy has the potential to set Boston back 20 years.
 
At least he'll be in place for the downswing portion of the development cycle. I think the iconic buildings are kind of petering out regardless.

Nonetheless, this is like forming the New Galactic Republic and electing Palpatine Chancellor...
 
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