An advisory group is supporting developers’ plans for a co-living complex at 525 Lincoln St. in Allston, including a 20 percent affordability component and ban on undergraduate residents and short-term rentals.
While the Boston market holds interest for co-living project operators, the city presents challenges from a regulatory perspective. Boston’s zoning code is complicated, with many neighborhoods, in effect, having their own zoning ordinances.
Copley Wolff Design Group has an increasingly important seat at the table when project teams meet to map out new developments that put open space in the forefront. Ian Ramey joined the firm as principal in 2015 after 19 years at Morgan Wheelock, Carol R. Johnson Assoc. and Shadley Assoc.
Boston’s biggest experiment with “co-living” is looking a bit more companionable.
