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About three-fifths of that new parking (up to 6,760 spaces) and nearly two-thirds of the housing (7,150 apartments) would be concentrated in East Boston as part of the Suffolk Downs development, which boasts direct access to two MBTA Blue Line stations. That project is expected to be built out in phases over the coming decade.
Outside the Suffolk Downs project, the BPDA approved 4,402 parking spaces, 5,197 new housing units, and 5 million square feet of space for com mercial, institutional, and other non-residential uses (for context, the massive Partners Healthcare headquarters building next to the Assembly Orange Line station in Somerville holds about 825,000 square feet of office space).
MAPC recommends rezonings to full city council
MAPC recommends rezonings to full city council By Region 8 Newsdesk | March 9, 2021 at 9:25 PM CST - Updated March 9 at 11:08 PM
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - The Jonesboro Metropolitan Area Planning Commission gave a favorable recommendation to a rezoning request at a new development in southwest Jonesboro.
MAPC recommended rezoning about 21.5 acres of land at 3506 Southwest Drive from C-3 general commercial limited industrial district limited use overlay to RS-6 single-family district.
Southern Hills Real Estate, LLC. made the request to the MAPC.
The area in the request is on the backside of the property east of Southwest Drive and at the southside of Southern Ridge Boulevard as soon as the street is extended.
MAPC discusses more affordable living options in Jonesboro
MAPC discusses more affordable living options in Jonesboro By Logan Whaley | January 12, 2021 at 9:49 PM CST - Updated January 13 at 8:32 AM
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - Jonesboro residents may get another option for affordable living.
The Metropolitan Area Planning Commission discussed adding cottage-style housing to the city at Tuesday’s meeting.
The Cottage Housing Ordinance features houses designed for 1-2 people without undergoing the subdivision process. The goal, the MAPC says, is to “encourage affordability, innovation, and variety in housing design and site development.”
“It kinda gives us another way to provide additional types of housing that we currently are not having,” Derrel Smith, Director of Planning with the Jonesboro MAPC, said. “We’ve had some of the local developers looking at different ways to find alternative housing in Jonesboro.”