Developers trying to get the city’s approval for transit-oriented housing near Shawmut Station showed off their latest plans last week, scoring points with supporters but making little headway against neighborhood opposition. At an online meeting arranged for Oct. 3 by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA), members of the Impact Advisory Group (IAG) responded to
To the Editor: I have been a resident of the Melville Park neighborhood of Dorchester for 36 years, and in that time have seen much change. I have been active in the Melville Park Association, one of the many associations established throughout the city with the support of the various administrations to assist in addressing local issues. For the past six years our
The proposal to build 74 residential rental units, roughly 60 percent of them marked for affordable housing, next to the Shawmut MBTA Station drew roughly 130 people to an online meeting last week as city planning and development officials weigh whether to sign off on the project. The comment period on the project, proposed by developer Trinity Financial for 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
Many years ago, the only experience most people in Dorchester and Mattapan had with turkeys was on the last Thursday of November, and those specimens usually came frozen and ready for the oven. While the gobblers had disappeared as everyday wanderers across Massachusetts for more than 100 years until about 1970, a long repatriation effort by state wildlife experts over the