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It is unclear if the city of Boston is exempt from the Dover Amendment. The Boston Globe has referred to an exemption for the city on occasion. The Massachusetts General Court approved exemptions for the City of Cambridge (Acts of 1979, Chap. 565 and Acts of 1980, Chap. 387) allowing it to regulate educational and religious uses of property, which Cambridge then incorporated into its zoning laws.
In November 2017, Republican governor Charlie Baker introduced the Housing Choice reform (adopted in January 2021), including relaxing the requirement of a two-thirds majority to a simple majority at the local level to pass zoning amendments for new housing, a requirement for 175 cities and towns in the Greater Boston area to rezone land for ...
In December 2021, Wu signed into law an ordinance amending the city's zoning code by eliminating off-street parking minimums for new affordable developments where 60% of the units are income-restricted at 100% the area median income in order to remove a barrier for the construction of new units of affordable housing.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
Town Council members expressed interest in creating a steering committee during a May 15 discussion, prompted by the planning commission's May 7 decision to pause review of the zoning code reform ...
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 ...
Zoning reform won’t solve the housing crisis, but it’s a prerequisite for any plan that could “Ending single-family zoning is not the silver bullet to end California’s housing crisis. But ...
Walsh's 2013 mayoral campaign logo. In April 2013, Walsh announced he would run for Mayor of Boston in the 2013 mayoral election. [4] Walsh resigned from his position as the head of the Boston Building Trades Council position in April 2013 after formally announcing his bid for mayor, but stayed on as the president of Laborer's Union Local 223 and remained a member of the Massachusetts House of ...