By Bill Forry, Editor
Bill Forry, Editor
There’s renewed hope this week that a confluence of state and city attention and monies will finally break an impasse over how best to move forward in rebuilding our vulnerable, but essential road system along Dorchester’s coastline.
Baker administration officials joined by aides to Mayor Walsh rolled out welcome news last week that Boston and the Commonwealth will jointly fund a $1 million-plus study this year to further advance planning that has already been done to modernize Morrissey Boulevard. The scope of the engineering study will go beyond what the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has already done along Morrissey. The new study will amplify those plans and add in the bottleneck-round-about at Kosciuszko Circle and the roads that feed it: Day Boulevard, Old Colony Boulevard, and Columbia Road to Dot Ave.
By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
December 17, 2020
Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
Affordable housing activists are calling on Mayor Walsh to strengthen the city’s Inclusive Development Policy (IDP) and urging state lawmakers to pass a home rule petition that would boost developer linkage fees.
At a virtual press conference last week, a group dubbed the Coalition for a Truly Affordable Boston said its members want the city to mandate that any new development build in, or pay for, 33 percent of the units to be affordable, a big jump from the current IDP formula of 13 percent. The activists also want changes in how the city defines income levels so that units are more affordable for residents with the greatest need along with the release of full data about the IDP and development in the community.