Development impact project regulations
Published: 1983
Language: eng
Subjects: Amendments; Zoning Codes; Development Projects; Housing; Law and legislation; Boston Zoning Code
Other titles: Text amendment [ to the Boston zoning code ] application no. 97, Boston redevelopment authority, development impact project regulations.
Description: ...amends the Boston Zoning Code by adding a regulation affecting large-scale real estate development to prevent overcrowding and deterioration of existing housing; to preserve and increase the City's housing amenities; to facilitate the adequate provision of the public requirement for low and moderate income housing; and to establish a balance between new, large-scale real estate development and the low and moderate income housing needs of the City of Boston, by provisions designed to: (1) afford review and to regulate large-scale real estate development projects which create new jobs and attract new workers to the City of Boston, and (2) increase the availability of low and moderate income housing by requiring developers, as a condition of the grant of deviations from the Zoning Code or the grant of an amendment to the Zoning Map, to make a development impact payment to the Neighborhood Housing Trust or to contribute to the creation of low and moderate income housing; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...