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BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE: THE MASS HOST COMMUNITY AGREEMENT FIASCO REARS ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN

Written by DAVID RABINOVITZ Posted January 28, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Empty storefronts don’t employ staff; there’s no one to purchase coffee, gas, lunch, or snacks from local merchants.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: alking Joints Memo Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Beantown Greentown, Between the Rows, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, CCC, Deep Roots, host community agreement, municipal, RiverRun Gardens, towns, zoning

HOW THE MAD DASH FOR HOST COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS IS A WINDFALL FOR LANDLORDS (AT THE EXPENSE OF LOCAL ECONOMIC PROGRESS)

Written by DAVID RABINOVITZ Posted January 13, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo

Marijuana applicants are often desperate to lock up space, willing to bid up rates well over market value in order to price out a rival.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Beantown Greentown, Between the Rows, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, CCC, Deep Roots, host community agreement, municipal, RiverRun Gardens, towns, zoning

REST IN YEAST (FOR NOW AT LEAST): A LANDMARK BAKERY SAYS GOODBYE TO ITS CAMBERVILLE HOME

Written by DIEGO MARCANO Posted January 1, 2020 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Two days before New Year’s Eve, the company’s 12 staffers woke up unemployed. Still, in hope of reinventing their venture somewhere else, Andrew and Greta are taking everything with them

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bakery, buildings, business, Cambridge, development, gentrification, Greta and Andrew Platt, hikes, planning, RENT, SOMERVILLE, Somerville News Garden, The Biscuit, zoning

A WINDOW INTO THE STATE HOUSE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 9, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Rep. Mike Connolly’s blog offers a critical look behind the curtain of Mass politics

 

The Massachusetts State House is not a bastion of democracy. I think a growing number of people in the Commonwealth are pretty clear on that fact. Dominated for decades by a series of imperial House speakers, and to a lesser extent by its Senate presidents, ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Blog, Column, corporation, Councilor Denise Simmons, Democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, general court, Gov Charlie Baker, Housing, Jason Pramas, legislature, Maria Robinson, massachusetts state house, news, oligarchy, policy, Politics, Real Estate, Rep., Rep. Mike Connolly, Republican Party, Republicans, Rules, socialism, zoning

FOR DEVELOPERS IN BOSTON, IT MAY PAY OFF TO BLOW OFF INCLUSIONARY BUILDING REQUIREMENTS

Written by DAN ATKINSON Posted November 28, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

The building was finished in 2017. But when the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) reviewed the completed project, it discovered the developer had sold the units that had been designated for affordable housing at market rates.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: 135 Athens Street, 160 West Broadway, Boston, Boston housing, Boston Planning and Development Agency, BPDA, BRA, development, fines, gentrification, Housing, inclusionary development, market rate, property, zoning

UNWILLING CONVERTS: SOMERVILLE’S LARGEST CONDO GRAB IN HISTORY YIELDS RELATIVE TENANT WIN IN TENSE MARKET

Written by ROB KATZ Posted March 28, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“We have to recognize, you know, people enter the building renting because the circumstances mean that renting is what works for them ... I think we have to have protections and safeguards to allow those individuals to continue getting the benefits they’re entitled to.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: building, condos, Curtatone, development, displacement, gentrification, Housing, organizing, SOMERVILLE, tenants, zoning

“WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!”

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 6, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Apparent Horizon column North Andover MA collage

 

Moral panic hamstrings promising North Andover cannabis farm deal

 

Last fall, I wrote about the history of Osgood Landing—a large industrial facility in North Andover—as part of a column (“An Andover North Andover ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: agriculture, Alcatel, Apparent Horizon, ban, cannabis, Column, Democracy, economy, fail, Farm, grow, indoor, Industry, Jason Pramas, Lucent, Marijuana, Merrimack Valley, moral, news, North Andover, Osgood Landing, panic, Politics, pot, prohibition, reactionary, retrograde, town meeting, weed, Western Electric, zoning

FROM DECAY GROUND TO PLAYGROUND (AND BACK AGAIN)

Written by OLIVIA FALCIGNO Posted November 14, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Somerville residents reclaim empty lot, then forced out in latest rift of 10-year saga

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: development, empty lot, Mayor Joe Curtatone, planning, recreation, Sewall Street, SOMERVILLE, Star Market, ZBA, zoning

TOXIC DEVELOPMENT: SOMERVILLE OFFICIALS SIDE WITH DEVELOPER IN LONG BATTLE OVER POLLUTED DAVIS SITE

Written by CAROLYN BICK Posted October 25, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The oil spill is just one of the many issues Iappini and others have endured, and which have been a common topic of neighborhood gossip for years around Davis Square.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Board of Aldermen, Carolyn Bick, davis square, DEP, development, Dilboy, EPA, MassDEP, Nancy Iappini, SOMERVILLE, Summer Street, toxic, VFW, ZBA, zoning

THE BRA CONSPIRACY AGAINST MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Written by BILL HAYDUKE Posted November 6, 2014 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Another reason medical cannabis is doomed in the City of Boston

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston City Council, Boston Redevelopment Authority, BRA, Commonwealth, Department of Public Health, Deval Patrick, DPH, mayor Marty Walsh, medical marijuana, permitting, prohibitionists, zoning

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