stellarfun
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How many major developments were proposed in those 42 Acres?
Harbor Garage proposal was the reason CLF challenged the so called Harbor Plan along with so called Whiskey Priest development to give them sometype of history for not just challenging the Harbor Garage proposal.
That's the devil in the details. Why didn't CLF make such an uproar about the entire Fan Pier development when it was all parking lots and plenty of open space?
The problem with Harbor Garage is their is no Open Space for the public. The developer will actually create better options for the overall public than leave it completely barricading the ocean. CLF is being very Hypocritical towards this specific situation.
If CLF challenged the original proposals in the Seaport with all the open space from the beginning of the developments then you can have an argument but they didn't. They waited to the Seaport to be completely built-up along with blocking the waterfront then decided to go after Harbor Garage and Whiskey Priest proposals which both sites are existing structures that add no value to the overall public.
For a non-profit company to say we think this garage is a better option then more open space for the overall public in this location along with more tax revenue for the city.
Maybe the IRS should be looking into these types of Non-profit companies which seemed to have a specific agenda.
^^^This is incoherent gibberish worthy of the everyday soliloquies of that other Donald.
1.) The 42 acres covers an area with two proposed towers, Chiofaro's and Hook Lobster's.
2.) Chiofaro's Harbor Garage building, if he ever gets to build it, will barricade the ocean (your words) about as much as the garage does now. Chiofaro is creating open space by placing the garage ramps on Milk St. The view one will get from the Greenway after this open space is created, is simply more of the Aquarium, with the ocean out of sight.
3.) As has been previously explained to you numerous times, 'open space' already exists between the current garage and the harbor. The open space runs between East India Row and Milk St, along the east side of the garage and is perhaps 30 feet wide. This is part of the Harborwalk.
4.) To my knowledge, the CLF has never asserted that retention of the existing garage is the best option for this parcel of land.
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An underlying issue with Whiskey Priest was that Cronin and the previous owner of the site -- either from willful disregard (previous owner) or ignorance and a failure to perform due diligence (Cronin, giving him the benefit of the doubt) -- were in violation of the terms and conditions of state-issued permit allowing building on the site. And Cronin, as the successor owner, was called on it.