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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh wants to make sure the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals doesn’t have a repeat of last year’s corruption scandal, where a city employee took a bribe from an unnamed developer to try and influence a board vote that resuscitated one of the developer’s projects.

In response he pushed forward an executive order that sets out conflict-of-interest rules for members. The order requires ZBA members to disclose all properties and projects in which they or business partners have an interest and are likely to require ZBA review. ZBA members will be barred from participating in review of any project in which they had a financial interest in the previous five years, and prohibited from having business dealings on any project they reviewed. Members and alternates will be required to submit annual statements of financial interest.

City Councilor Lydia Edwards, who led a charge last year for root-and-branch reform of the board, supported Walsh’s plan.

But what do you think? Will it do enough to improve the board’s image? Does it not go far enough? Or is the whole effort a misguided attempt to fix something that wasn’t broken, in the first place? Take our poll and tell us!