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For more than 50 years, the California Coastal Commission has been tasked with protecting the state's coastline from unchecked development, but critics say the commission has gotten too powerful and is working against the state's housing and climate goals. In other news, a running club by and for women of color has taken off in south San Diego. Plus, the Clippers minor league is coming to San Diego.
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) Board voted 4-0 on Thursday night to approve Trinity Financial’s 72-unit affordable rental housing project on the Fitzpatrick Brothers Auto Body site next to Shawmut MBTA station. The unanimous decision to green-light the project came after several years of vigorous opposition from some neighbors and abutters and after
Mayor Wu has put forward her first appointees to the board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency. In filings with the City Council, Wu submitted the names of three people, including one who is a reappointment: • Priscilla Rojas, the current BPDA board chair who was first appointed by Mayor Marty Walsh in 2015 and in 2020 became the first woman and Latina to helm the
The mayor named outgoing Boston Housing Authority Administrator Kate Bennett and business representative Raheem Shepard to the powerful city board she plans to abolish.
Arthur Jemison will take the helm at the Boston Planning and Development Agency next Monday after the agency’s board of directors voted him into the post during its May meeting last week. Jemison – a former US Department of Housing and Urban Development official whose decades in private and public housing work included stretches in Boston, Detroit, and Washington DC — is also