"As additions to the toolbox go, the MBTA Communities Act has barely been removed from its packaging," writes one housing proponent. "Zoning is not a housing production program, but it is a necessary step," writes another.
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"This legislation was an attempt to solve a well-documented pressing problem: We need more, and more dense, housing," writes one reader, while a Milton resident writes that the problem is the accessibility of the T and its woeful service.