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"Yesterday, I dutifully sent in my letter supporting the state House bill protecting major parks from overshadowing by beyond-zoning towers. Today, I find out that "a request was made" to exempt the Greenway from the protective legislation -- so that the BRA can proceed to legalize all those unlawful towers it plans to encourage along the Greenway corridor. Well, gosh, who might have made such a request? Perhaps Mayor Tom Menino, who is officially opposed to the bill, the same Menino who told the Boston Globe last September that we must not canyonize and overshadow the park? Perhaps he made the request in concert with Peter Meade, chair of the Greenway Conservancy created to care for the park, who happens to work for the PR firm representing the Raymond Company, proposing a tower project at One Congress Street. I just cannot believe the benighted governance in this city. And the power of a group of corporate lobbyists calling themselves a "conservancy," who insinuated their way into complete control over our public parkland by promising private funding but have managed to get, so far, $12.5 million in public money and have preempted the role of protecting the public space so that NO ONE CAN."
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"Yesterday, I dutifully sent in my letter supporting the state House bill protecting major parks from overshadowing by beyond-zoning towers. Today, I find out that "a request was made" to exempt the Greenway from the protective legislation -- so that the BRA can proceed to legalize all those unlawful towers it plans to encourage along the Greenway corridor. Well, gosh, who might have made such a request? Perhaps Mayor Tom Menino, who is officially opposed to the bill, the same Menino who told the Boston Globe last September that we must not canyonize and overshadow the park? Perhaps he made the request in concert with Peter Meade, chair of the Greenway Conservancy created to care for the park, who happens to work for the PR firm representing the Raymond Company, proposing a tower project at One Congress Street. I just cannot believe the benighted governance in this city. And the power of a group of corporate lobbyists calling themselves a "conservancy," who insinuated their way into complete control over our public parkland by promising private funding but have managed to get, so far, $12.5 million in public money and have preempted the role of protecting the public space so that NO ONE CAN."
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