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Boston City Council Considers Eliminating Parking Requirements for Affordable Housing Developments
The order responds to recent lawsuits from the owners of Turtle Swamp Brewing and their landlord, Monty Gold, who are exploiting Boston's parking rules to delay affordable housing developments in Jamaica Plain.
May 19, 2021
Plan for Franklin Park Would Ban Cars From Circuit Drive
"We want to elevate multimodal routes for bikes and pedestrians," said Lydia Gikas Cook, a landscape architect working on the plan, on Wednesday.
March 10, 2021
Boston Planners Approved Over 11,000 New Parking Spaces in 2020
The development projects that Boston planners approved in 2020 would add enough parking to store up to 11,162 more cars within the city limits – and the vast majority of new parking garages will be built in areas within easy walking distance of an MBTA rail station.
March 9, 2021
Northampton Resets Its Planning Process for Main Street Redesign
Northampton plans to reconstruct its Main Street in 2025, and the project presents an opportunity to redesign the wide Main Street corridor from the intersections of Elm and West Streets, at the edge of the Smith College campus, to Market and Hawley Streets, near the railroad viaduct.
March 1, 2021
Could Flipping Parking Lots Help End Car Dependence?
Miami-based startup REEF Technology made headlines last month when it raised $700 million to buy up parking lots and rapidly transform them into a range of more profitable uses.
December 15, 2020
Updated Suffolk Downs Plan Acknowledges Climate Goals, But Still Proposes 6,760 New Parking Spaces
The board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) voted Thursday evening to approve a massive development of Suffolk Downs, a former horse racetrack that straddles the Boston-Revere border adjacent to two Blue Line stations.
September 24, 2020
Brewery Landlord Sues to Block Housing for the Homeless, Because Parking
The Jamaica Plain landlord of Turtle Swamp Brewing is arguing that his tenant's "ability to find parking" on Washington Street is more important than housing over 200 homeless people.
August 11, 2020
How Did the North End’s Car Owners Steal a Public Playground?
An overlooked parking lot in the North End is technically a public park.
July 30, 2020
Study: Apartments With Free Parking Reduce Transit Ridership
If your home comes with a free parking spot, you'll probably use it.
January 29, 2020
