A slate of Mayor Michelle Wu’s nominees for the Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA), a powerful panel, received approval from the City Council on Wednesday. A critic of the ZBA on the mayoral campaign trail and arguing the entity needs reform, Wu put forward her slate in September, proposing to reappoint just three people who served under previous administrations. The ZBA has 14
As a city councillor, Michelle Wu clashed with Mayor Marty Walsh over Boston’s Zoning Board of Appeal, a powerful city entity that is able to, as she put it in 2019, “interpret the rules for development and decide who can get around them.” Almost a year after winning the mayoral race, Wu is moving to oust most previous mayoral appointees to the ZBA, as the entity is known. The
Mayor Michelle Wu today announced a slate of appointments to the Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA). The appointees live across the City and represent the diversity