Come on guys, this is why we never get any support. We constantly blame others instead of promoting our ideas.
Its not really "blaming" menino when its a documented fact that he was a corrupt union hack. You think someone who cant even pronounce any words over 5 letters just got into office cuz he was the best candidate? He was compromised and used as a pawn for the shady dealings the city cut behind closed doors for decades, and the reason some train driver was reported to make 350k a year, while the t is crippled in debt and incompetent from top to bottom. Its a double edged sword because Boston is a much cleaner, safer city because of him, but at the same time its over run with corruption and far under developed causing a triple decker on blue hill ave to be worth a million dollars essentially meaning for anyone to survive that does not make a shit ton of money they need all kinds of handouts from the govt just to keep the lights on. These programs are then unmonitored and used by those very people to basically live for free on your dime in the projects while driving BMW's and always having the newest iphone.
We is the Yimbys and we are trying to drum up support at the BRA because of their acceptance of community input.Who is "we" and who are "we" seeking support from?
Not that it has anything to do with 111 Federal, but I wouldn't even give Menino credit for cleaning up Boston. Just about every major city in the US cleaned up to a similar degree over the same time period. Menino was just there to ride the wave.
Its not really "blaming" menino when its a documented fact that he was a corrupt union hack. You think someone who cant even pronounce any words over 5 letters just got into office cuz he was the best candidate?
For those of you just tuning in: No, there's no news.
The quality of this forum has deteriorated drastically in quality ever since the yimbyism movement washed over. I haven't seen so many thread derailments and flame wars since Ned Flaherty posted here. The similarities are striking between the two extremes.
Not that we need another affirmation, but I also hate to see threads about specific development projects turn political, finger-pointy and argumentative. I am a new contributor on here, but long-time browser and long-time boston resident, engineer, and appreciator of great architecture and development. Don't we all love to see great development manifest in our city - let's keep it about that.
Also, enough with this YIMBY-vs-NIMBY crap. The dialog that needs to be advanced is SIMBY (smart development in my backyard): the RIGHT building for the RIGHT parcel where maximum benefit for everyone is considered. Not squandering opportunities for thoughtful, infrastructure-supported density and height where density and height works, and preserving the beauty of our historic city where developmental aggressiveness would threaten it.
111 Federal is a parcel that supports smart density, so let's make that work here!
Not that we need another affirmation, but I also hate to see threads about specific development projects turn political, finger-pointy and argumentative. I am a new contributor on here, but long-time browser and long-time boston resident, engineer, and appreciator of great architecture and development. Don't we all love to see great development manifest in our city - let's keep it about that.
Also, enough with this YIMBY-vs-NIMBY crap. The dialog that needs to be advanced is SIMBY (smart development in my backyard): the RIGHT building for the RIGHT parcel where maximum benefit for everyone is considered. Not squandering opportunities for thoughtful, infrastructure-supported density and height where density and height works, and preserving the beauty of our historic city where developmental aggressiveness would threaten it.
111 Federal is a parcel that supports smart density, so let's make that work here!
BigPicture -- how do you convert smart development in my backyard into SIMBY -- I get SDIMBY
perhaps you could go for Appropriate Development in My Backyard
and get ADIMBY