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Cracking the Code: Updating Boston’s zoning to unleash the city’s potential

BOSTON – Bryan Glascock, Deputy Director for Regulatory Reform at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, has his work cut out for him. Appointed by Mayor Marty Walsh in 2014 to be Boston's first zoning chief, Glascock's job is to cull Boston's 3,000-page zoning code and

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Bay State housing proposals detailed in Senate report

BOSTON – Arguing the need for a "revolution in housing production" to keep pace with demand, a report released Wednesday by a Senate committee recommends 19 proposals taking aim at everything from foreclosures to gentrification, homelessness, preservation, production, public housing, support services and zoning. Along with support for housing-related

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BRA woos City Council to extend development power

BOSTON – The Boston Redevelopment Authority's bid to retain for 10 more years the power to reshape entire neighborhoods took center stage at a four-hour City Council hearing Thursday. But the council stopped short of delivering the favorable vote sought be the agency to extend the life of its

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Towers approved to replace Government Center garage

BOSTON – A piece of Boston's Brutalist-style Government Center will fall under a plan approved Thursday for two towers on the downtown site. A 480-foot residential building and a 528-foot office tower will replace the Government Center garage, a hulking concrete structure stretching over Congress Street that opened in