Multi-Family Zoning Requirements for MBTA Communities

[Wonk]

Are we for or against triple deckers?

 

[Longfellow]

Triple deckers are great, but some neighborhoods are already filled with them and are ready for the next step. No argument against other cities building them though, triplexes are great.

 

[stick n move]

It astounds me how respecting property rights has become a hot take. (Legit) externalities that escape property lines are one thing, but how are some neighbors able to decide, on land they don’t own, that a code complaint, three decker is ‘too tall’ for the downtown of an inside-128 ‘burb? So many liberal outcomes would be achieved, at zero cost, by simply getting out of our own way.

Ad nauseam, I hear the MBTA Communities Act described as “Big Government Overreach” imposed by the state upon our tiny, freedom loving town.

Marginally reducing collective control over private property is what again???

I thought the exact same thing looking at the globe comments about the mbta communities act where people were saying “this is communism!” and it blew my f’n mind. Relaxing zoning which was implemented top down by the government which tells people what they can and cant build on their own land and in its place allowing entrepreneurs and corporations to build what the free market will allow according to supply and demand is communism now? LOL! We do live in a post truth world now, but god damn.

 

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Framingham wins 'conditional approval' for MBTA Communities Act plan. What it means

Sisitsky submitted his plan to comply with the law late last month after city councilors voted to table discussing the issue until February.

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