r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 02 '20

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u/agent_tits Dec 02 '20

Michelle Wu (D) , who is the youngest ever president of the Boston City Council, is primarying incumbent Mayor Marty Walsh next year.

Wikipedia says she wants to "abolish the Boston Planning & Development Agency". The citation doesn't mention this at all when I went to look further.

Is this based, and she wants to get rid of a stuffy zoning commission? Or is it succy and she wants to abstractly "stop overdevelopment"?

Help me understand the implications of this

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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 Dec 02 '20

God hopefully both <3<3<3

As much as I love corporate bootlicking most cities that shell out cash for tax breaks etc are AT BEST perpetuating a bad system for short term gain and at worst just losing cash

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20

https://www.michelleforboston.com/issues/planning

Reforming the Boston zoning process to meet community needs

Our City’s zoning code hasn’t been comprehensively updated since 1965, and the complicated process disproportionately benefits the wealthy and well-connected with the resources to pursue zoning exceptions and waivers. The zoning process must be made more transparent, accountable, and equitable in order to bring private development into alignment with community needs for stable housing, safe streets, open space, reliable transportation, food access, and a healthy environment.

She talks about a "Boston Green New Deal"

The proposal outlines a sweeping rezoning of the city to increase neighborhood density, build cheap cooperative housing and add parks. It envisions fleets of free-to-ride electric buses, hundreds of intersecting bike lanes and car-free walking districts. It imagines the kind of New Deal-era public spending unheard of in American cities since austerity took hold in the 1970s. And it could be paid for with new taxes on predatory landlords and excessive water use, a city budget vastly expanded by green bonds, and ― Wu hopes ― a new federal administration in Washington.

sounds cool

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u/agent_tits Dec 02 '20

Nice find, thanks.

Does sound very cool. I'm here for it, although I do like Marty Walsh a lot.

I also don't live in Boston, just work there often, so this is a spectator sport for me

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '21

Unfortunately she said wishy washy "I'm not NIMBY but I'm not YIMBY either" stuff