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On January 1, 2007, the rest of them were either laid off or permitted to reapply to the city's Municipal Protective Services Department as site officers. Boston Municipal Police was dissolved at 12 a.m. on January 1, 2007, [ 1 ] and replaced on the same day by the BMPS, an unarmed security force with limited police powers.
Under the tenure of Boston Mayor John F. Collins (1960–1968), the BHA segregated the public housing developments in the city, moving black families into the development at Columbia Point while reserving developments in South Boston for white families who started refusing assignment to the Columbia Point project by the early 1960s. [7]
On February 23, 1822, the Governor approved an act that granted a city form of government to Boston. The new charter for "the City of Boston" was drafted by Lemuel Shaw, later Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The voters of Boston approved the acceptance of the proposed city charter on March 4, 1822. [14]
On September 27, 2016, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh changed the name of the development agency from the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) to the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA). This change was part of a broader goal to make city government more transparent and to put a friendlier face to a bureaucratic agency that rules upon major ...
Roxbury (/ ˈ r ɒ k s b ər i /) is a neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. [1] Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for neighborhood services coordination. The city states that Roxbury serves as the "heart of Black culture in Boston."
The Edward W. Brooke Courthouse is a city courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts. The courthouse, part of the Boston Government Service Center , was built in 1998. It holds the Central Division of the Boston Municipal Court , as well as the court's administrative offices.
Government Center is an area in downtown Boston, centered on City Hall Plaza. Formerly the site of Scollay Square, it is now the location of Boston City Hall, courthouses, state and federal office buildings, and a major MBTA subway station, also called Government Center. Its development was controversial, as the project displaced thousands of ...
In April 2019, the Boston City Council passed the resolution. [62] [63] In December 2019, the Boston City Council passed an ordinance that Wu had introduced with Matt O'Malley that protects local wetlands and promotes adaption to climate change. [64] Mayor Walsh signed it into law later that month. [65]