If you build a 2000 unit apartment complex in Sherbone, all you are doing is ensuring traffic. Zoning is designed to maximize the use of public utilities. Shit, I don't even thing Sherbone has a public water system. I know Carlisle doesn't.

Can we turn off these annoying bots. They aren't funny or helpful.

Yeah, Driscoll was very big on development in Salem (a good thing IMO).

Me either, I'm usually there around 7PM.

When do they come in?

You were paying nearly $800 before? That itself seems absurdly high. Lots of tickets? How old are you? I’ve been with Progressive for years and only pay $286/six months.

All that’s changing is the zoning though. Developers will still have to determine if the market wants high density in a given location. The law only prevents towns from denying the ability to build densely if that’s the will of the market.

X2 for geico. Previously had Allstate and geico cut my rate by about 60%

Fressers in Randolph.

Fairly routine. You should see the chaos when LNG tankers come through .

A landlord has a choice to do the work themselves, have a staff, or hire experts (brokers, electricians, plumbers, etc). If the law forbids a landlord to charge for brokers (as it does for electricians and plumbers), it just increases the rent. As we see in NYC as they outlawed charging broker fees, rents went up to compensate. I'd be smiling ear to ear as a NY landlord, getting to raise the rent and keeping the excess each year the tenant stays.

The best part for consumers is if they want to pay the broker fee, they can, and it results them paying less over time. If they don't want to pay a broker fee, they can find someplace else, may end up paying more over time. It's a personal decision. Luckily for landlords, people are willing to pay extra to have the landlord pay the broker or their staff, or themselves.

Economist is a 9 letter word meaning cheap. If there is a way to get something cheap, I'll tell you; the law forcibly passing the broker fees to landlords isn't the way to do it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka

Meanwhile, in Braintree: https://twitter.com/bycathcarlock/status/1620107100545507329

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we went to cheers in december and it was definitely overpriced but pretty decent. bartender told us the best time to go if you are local is december to march since thats usually their slowest time

(Hint: the answer is almost 0% are normal middle class people on their way to work)

Took how many years since we voted? And when is online happening? Cmon MA.

And what percentage of that 10% is normal middle class people on their way to work vs at risk populations (homeless/drug addicts/strippers/sex workers)?

The real move here is to skip the Frog pond and skate on the pond in the Public Garden

Anyone making a sports wager to make money is stupid. Doing it for fun is your business.

" the so-called MBTA Communities law — requires communities served by the MBTA and commuter rail to zone for denser housing near transit systems."

I get the point of this law, but this is a little ridiculous how it is implemented. I can see building dense housing within walking distance of train stops, but they are doing this by town and even the ones next to them. Example, there is a train stop in Natick, but Dover and Sherborn count. I used to live in that area and it is a 20 minute drive to the train station. Sherborne doesn't have a lot of amenities..

Same with Billerica. Carlisle is impacted but had like one country store and very sidewalks. In some towns, the train is on the border and you can be a long ways from the station.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/multi-family-zoning-requirement-for-mbta-communities

Mirror image meaning they’re correct? It’s just common sense that building more supply reduces prices, and it’s been shown to be empirically true in dozens of studies.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/06/02/new-round-of-studies-underscore-benefits-of-building-more-housing/

Actual facts don’t matter to these people.

Cool.

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