It applies to communities adjacent to communities with MBTA services, and a greatly reduced zoning burden is placed on such communities. Additionally, the burden is only that land be zoned so that housing can be built. The adjacent communities are usually wealthier and more segregated anyways.

It corrects for the negative effects of hyper local control of zoning. Communities with decent MBTA service have underproduced housing for decades to the detriment of the region. There are parts of Marblehead that have better T service than I have in Lynn; they must build more housing. carrot&stick

Well, lost my vote. Good luck with that

I had no clue Baltimore had an el

The Blue Line and the commuter rail are too far apart at Wonderland for a walking connection to work between them. I think it’s actually a longer distance apart than at North Station. Even enclosed and flat (which, that’d be one long pedestrian overpass) that’s a long walk.

I disagree that they do the same thing. North Station has much worse connection to most places in Boston because of the lengthy walk to the subway. Especially when they only unlock the first two cars of the train, furthest up the platform. A cross platform tnsfr to Orange at Sullivan Sq might help

I like 2 and 3

Thank you! Adding it to the .kml file of oddball three deckers I’ve started putting together. Makes me wonder how many more of these 4 floors are out there.

Hope those fourth floor tenants get a few hundred off the rent for what they must go through bringing up their groceries 😆

Location listed is incorrect fwiw. that's the back of St. James Church so this must be Salem. 90% sure this somewhere along Bridge Street and the North River.

after some googling I think my guess is properly called an "advertising coach" or "advance advertising coach" from a circus/sideshow train?

I’d say 1.2 square miles. Here’s how Wikipedia renders the info of a small MA municipality (Nahant) and using the land area of 1.0 sq mi like they do feels correct to me. I would have less understanding of that area rendered in acres I think.

I know Chicago makes do with all those apartments around the city with open air apartment entrances from the rear porch with the exterior stairs, but ideally if we adapted this design to eastern MA I’d like there to be a stairwell that’s enclosed rather than apartment doors opening into the outside🥶