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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Showing up with @abundanthousingma.org to support more homes in every neighborhood of Boston and all the nearby towns as well. 🏗️🏠🏙️🎉 #housingshortage

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Join @abundanthousingma.org & @dotgrow.bsky.social are teaming up to host a Pro-Housing Mixer at Dorchester Brewing Company (1250 Mass Ave) on Thursday (February 27th) 6:30--8:30pm — and you’re invited! Register at www.abundanthousingma.org/boston-pro-h...

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Want to be on our mailing list? Join us as we continue to advocate for creating more homes at all price throughout Dorchester and the larger Boston metro region to fix our housing shortage. actionnetwork.org/forms/join-d... #YIMBY

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Squares + Streets Zoning Reform has had its kickoff in #Dorchester. We're excited! 🎉 www.dotnews.com/2024/squares-street… Join our monthly zoom meeting Wed 6/26 @ 7pm to learn more about the planning process ahead from our...

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

The problem is national and it is getting worse.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

The latest study shows MA needs to build an additional 106,000 more homes than we are building now to meet *current* demand for housing, never mind to accommodate further economic growth & prosperity. -- 2023 Housing Underproduction Report @...

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Find us in the 1800 block of Dot Ave at Sunday's #OpenStreets if you want to talk about upcoming planning events and how we can make it easier to create more homes throughout our neighborhood.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Read our Commentary re @BostonPlans upcoming Squares + Streets planning initiatives in #Dorchester in this week's @DotNews www.dotnews.com/2024/squares-street…

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

Sometime soon @BostonPlans will kick off the Small Area Planning process for Squares + Streets in Fields Corner & Codman Square. A few staffers might join us tomorrow to meet DGT members and share more details, but no formal presentation about it. Info at...

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

🎉Spring Housing Hang @blarneystonedot Saturday 3-5 Join us for bites & beverages on the patio, weather permitting (high tops inside if not). Connect w other folk advocating to build more homes for more neighbors, to help our Dorchester community to grow and thrive. #Dorchester

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

It would be a beautiful thing if three-deckers were allowed as of right on every street in Boston. www.dotnews.com/2024/what-s-not-lov…

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

And to @MassAGO & @MA_EOHLC -- thank you for your pledges of enforcement. Land use regulation is a *state power* partially delegated to towns by c 40A. Through the MBTA CA, the legislature took back part of that delegation. Milton voted to break the law.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Finally, the refusal to acknowledge the existence of the MBTA 215 bus route, which connects Quincy Center to Ashmont Station, with numerous stops along Granite Ave in East Milton, just bc the "NO" people drive everywhere ... SAD www.mbta.com/schedules/215/line

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

And the Ashmont-Mattapan High-Speed Line is undeniably part of the MBTA's Red Line route, and has been considered "rapid transit" since its inception. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmont%E2%80…

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Milton's petulance re being classified as a rapid transit community for the MBTA CA is especially sad in light of their place in the history of transportation in the United States. East Milton is the site of the nation's first commercial rail...

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Looksee, here is tonight's thread from the BPDA's final public meeting re Squares + Streets zoning reform amendment ... threadreaderapp.com/thread/17550...

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

What else are we up to? Other zoning initiatives underway.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Kick off events for Rosi Village & Cleary Square

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Soooo many more opportunities to talk at us and engage in good faith learning about what is up.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Changes consistent with feedback from BTD.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Changes in response to comments from Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Disappointing re parking garages (as a standalone permitted use) expanding into S3.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Clarifications re office use and ground floor restrictions.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Modernization of land use regulation changes since Dec 5 version of the amendment. Added number of rooms as a metric for the sake of taking into account more micro units. Updated Lodging house definition.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

[The spoken words closely match what is on the slides.]

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Clarification about what counts as outdoor amenities/uses

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

S5 restricted only by height, not height & floors

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Showing Plan Mattapan which has a draft applying the S+S districts (S0-S4, no S5 for Mattapan (at this time)). Similar mapping is expected in the Small Area Plans.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

"The squares and streets planning process is expected to be 6-9 months given the size of the planning area, which is 1/3rd of a mile around the square."

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Engagement template for Small Area Plans is similar in format to the engagement for the zoning code amendment process we are in now, extending bw 6-9 months.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

There have been SOOOO many meetings and opportunities to participate and comment, y'all. Fall engagement summary report: www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/e…

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Every comment/suggestions from the public will have a direct response from BPDA before the March meeting.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

From the chat:"Through the feedback process, my neighborhood group has requested two additional form factors be incorporated into the Amendment, S0A and S1A, with S0 and S1 being relabeled S0B and S1B, respectively. What is the process for responding to these kinds of changes?"

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Updated, annotated draft language will be released this week. Looks like they are NOT going to be on the Feb BPDA Board meeting, ceding basically one additional month. 3/14 BPDA & 4/10 Zoning Commission. More office hours! "This is a pencils down moment, no major revisions"

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

They've had lots of outreach about timeline. These building blocks are necessary to have in the code. To be clear, no significant change of timeline.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Standard meeting etiquette review, plus this additional slide encouraging asking clarifying questions, etc.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Tonight is being translated live in Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Spanish, Mandarin & Cantonese Chinese, & Vietnamese.

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Coming to you live from the @BostonPlans final Squares + Streets zoning code amendment public meeting. www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/c… 🧵

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Dorchester Growing Together @dotgrow.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

The Squares & Streets Welcome Materials, including more info on the Small Area Plans, is available at www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/1…

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