Select Page Councilors: Eliminate Parking for Affordable Projects By Steve Adams | Banker & Tradesman Staff | May 21, 2021 | Reprints | Print
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Outraged at lawsuits challenging a pair of affordable housing projects in Jamaica Plain, Boston City Councilors Matt O’Malley and Kenzie Bok are seeking to remove off-street parking requirements for housing developments that include 100 percent affordable units.
Jamaica Plain commercial landlord Montgomery Gold is appealing the 38-unit affordable housing project by Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. at 3377 Washington St. and recently settled a lawsuit that delayed groundbreaking of a 202-unit affordable housing project by the Pine Street Inn at 3368 Washington St.
Jamaica Plain’s Turtle Swamp Brewing and its landlord, Monty Gold, have filed separate lawsuits in Suffolk Superior Court to block the construction of a 39-unit apartment building that would provide affordable housing to low-income seniors and a new space for Dominican restaurant El Embajador. Two-thirds of the apartments would go to seniors making no more than 60 percent of the median income in Boston, while one-third would go to seniors making no more than 30 percent of that number. The development is proposed for 3371 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain, directly adjacent to Turtle Swamp’s patio.
The development, a collaboration between New Atlantic Development LLC and nonprofit Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC), has been approved by the Boston Planning & Development Agency and the Zoning Board of Appeal. It also has the support of the neighborhood.
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