Let me repeat what I expressed five years ago. The redesign of Lincoln Station to a populated Town Center would need substantial infrastructure development like two lane roads, open areas, parking spaces and playgrounds. I visited Newton Center yesterday. This place was a sleepy corner when we were covering it through our Walk for Hunger May walk. It is an urban island now, but no tall housing nearby. So the planning needs to be in two phases. Phase I acquires land, develops a town center, creates space, attracts(allows) business. Phase II acquires more land, develops housing in a manner keeping the character of the town and looking into the projected demography. Phase I has to be voted to lead to Phase II. Phase I is town money, state funding can be sought. Phase II is developer's money and will be in developer's control. Phase II does not automatically produce Phase I. It is not acces road development as in Oriole Landing. I am not brighter than people in the planning board, but I saw then and see now that the people are not "planning" using the models but are talking in slogans and misleading vocabulary.. Best regards, Bijoy Misra
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 5:32 PM Benjamin Shiller <benshil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I doubt that the additional housing supply would materially impact housing > values in Lincoln (unless they make it a less desirable place to live). > Lincoln is not an island, but rather part of the Boston metro. The 600 > housing units we are talking about won't substantially change supply around > Boston. The overall housing choice act might, but whether other towns > develop is out of our control. Thus, I hope that we can stop focusing on > home values in relation to the HCA (no matter which side one is on) vote, > and focus on the other issues at hand. > > Ben > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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