Boston City Councilors Lydia Edwards and Matt O’Malley are calling for the city to establish its own fair housing testing program in the wake of a Suffolk University Law School report that found significant discrimination against prospective Black renters.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is throwing his support behind changes to the city’s zoning code that would promote fair housing policies, including a review of small projects along with major developments.
An executive order by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is adding new requirements designed to weed out conflicts of interest for the city’s zoning board of appeal following a city hall employee’s recent conviction for taking a series of bribes from a developer.
A day after signing a home rule petition that would allow Boston to impose a 2 percent transfer tax on expensive real estate sales, Mayor Marty Walsh headed to Beacon Hill to lobby for a second petition that asks for the ability to modify the city’s development linkage fees in real time.
A Boston City Council member is warning that lessons from development in the city’s seaport area must be heeded as Suffolk Downs is redeveloped in East Boston, and calling for a major overhaul of the city’s planning and development agency.
Whatever the solution is to preventing corruption at Boston’s Zoning Board of Appeals, City Councilor Lydia Edwards’ proposal is not it.
A proposal for a top-to-bottom revamp of Boston’s Zoning Board of Appeals unveiled Monday was greeted with hesitancy and skepticism by real estate industry leaders.
One of Boston’s prominent voices on housing and development issues has launched a proposal to dramatically reform the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals in the wake of a scandal that saw a BPDA official take a $50,000 bribe from a developer to influence a board vote on one of his projects.
From Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards’ perspective, the worst outcome for the redevelopment of the 161-acre Suffolk Downs property would be a finished product that resembles the Seaport District.
Boston District 1 City Councilor Lydia Edwards, who represents East Boston, Charlestown and the North End, is calling for organized community opposition to HYM Investments’ 166-acre Suffolk Downs development.
