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GoblinBags t1_iyfarmt wrote

Reply to Outdoor lighting regulations? by walkingknight

IANAL: I agree that the friend should call the police and let them decide. It's a nuisance law and an attorney's services will probably be required to fix the issue.

https://www.calalaw.com/practice-areas/real-estate-law/private-nuisance/

> Massachusetts law uses the ordinary person standard to determine whether something is a private nuisance. You must prove that an ordinary person would be bothered by the alleged behavior or circumstances causing the public nuisance. For example, if you have an extremely sensitive sense of smell and a nearby odor is causing you grief, from a legal standpoint, you may not have a case if an ordinary person wouldn’t find the same odor offensive.

> In Massachusetts, a property holder must prove that a nuisance has caused “significant harm” to their interest. The nuisance has to impact their use and enjoyment of the land directly.

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outb0undflight t1_iyes6yw wrote

Reply to comment by Robespierrexvii in Comparison is the thief of joy by Puzzled-Owl-290

>Well to that I say at least back there I had sidewalks and trash bins.

The trash situation in this city is genuinely unforgivable. There's a weird dearth of public trash cans and the city's trash collection policies are fucking insane.

If you're going to insist that all my recycling goes into a bin you need to make that bin big enough to hold at least a moderate amount of recycling. If you get one item in a big box you basically cannot fit anything else in that bin. I got a new monitor on Black Friday and put the box out with my recycling today thinking, "Eh, maybe I'll get lucky and they'll pick it up." Nope. Literally stood there and watched the guys just ignore it and leave it on the ground. And they wonder why people just dump their trash.

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thisisntmynametoday t1_iyerab4 wrote

Reply to comment by your_city_councilor in Paying Polar Park’s debt: For the second year, underwhelming tax collections were saved by a public property sale by outb0undflight

If you’ve worked in a restaurant than you know having food service past 10pm is a way to barely break even during those hours and burn out BOH staff. And you would know that pregame hours in the early afternoon are usually slow as well. Money is made during weekends and dinner service, and having 75 days a year, including ~12 weekends a year with ballpark induced reductions in revenue is tough to recover from.

It you want to succeed in off hours, you need to be a bar, first and foremost. Worcester is nowhere near close enough to being an 18 hour city.

Business owners have repeatedly said parking is an issue, specifically the 2 hour limits on street parking without renewals and stringent parking enforcement. Businesses have said that their staff struggle to find parking, and face a lot of tickets.

The lack of parking in the neighborhood was an issue on weekends before the park, and it’s made far worse by adding in~9000 fans 75 days a year. The city closed a municipal lot on Green Street. That’s something that should have been addressed since the planning phase of the park. Building one garage in the second year of operations is a developer and city failure. Placing the burden on business owners to petition for basic levels of competency from developers and the city is incredibly myopic and condescending.

Scholarship has repeatedly shown that tax payer funded ballparks are a black hole, and not the economic saviors people think they are. Worcester just chose to ignore that and gave away millions of taxpayer funded bonds to the millionaire owners of a AAA team.

The only way out of this is a massive investment in public transport, walkable neighborhoods, and a series of parking options to help with the influx of visitors for games. Also, we need to kill the idea that outside developers have our best interests at heart. Build up and invest the community we have, not the outside investors the Chamber of Commerce has always tried (and failed) to help invest in our city.

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dj88masterchief t1_iyenatg wrote

Reply to comment by lukewarm_sax in Ease of Travel to New York City by 53mV3

I literally just found this thread while in NYC.

I took the Acela Train from Boston, and the ride was cool. I love trains and I don’t get to ride often enough. But the train is 75% of why I made this trip.

So in short +1 for the train.

P.S. The Acela did Boston to Providence in less than 30 minutes which was pretty cool.

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metacomet88 t1_iyen6tm wrote

Reply to comment by saintsandopossums in Paying Polar Park’s debt: For the second year, underwhelming tax collections were saved by a public property sale by outb0undflight

So none of the places you mentioned closed due to a downturn in business because of the park…

New restaurants close all the time. Maddis was pretty mediocre. Hangover/broth had a bad reputation and were banking on fading food trends.

I’m not saying the park is all good, but looking at a few restaurants in the neighborhood closing within 6 months doesn’t necessarily say anything about the role the park is playing.

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