The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) Board voted 4-0 on Thursday night to approve Trinity Financial’s 72-unit affordable rental housing project on the Fitzpatrick Brothers Auto Body site next to Shawmut MBTA station. The unanimous decision to green-light the project came after several years of vigorous opposition from some neighbors and abutters and after
The saga over a proposal to bring affordable housing next to the Shawmut MBTA Station will take another step toward a denouement as an advisory panel plans to meet and the close of the public comment period approaches. The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) is reviewing the proposal, which calls for 74 residential units, most of them one-bedrooms, at 150 Centre St.
Critics of the development proposal for 150 Centre St., the site of the Fitzpatrick Bros. auto body shop, have found a new battleground on which to wage war against the 74-unit project: an advisory panel focused on mitigation measures. The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA), which is reviewing the project, set up the advisory panel, known as an Impact Advisory Group