“Promote compact, energy-efficient development concentrated around public transit and other existing infrastructure.” Mass Audubon, Losing Ground 1. Preserves trees Sprawl is the worst enemy of trees. Because of limits on the number of people who can live in Newton and other towns close to Boston, people have moved farther away…
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I am voting for Lisa Gordon for Ward 6 Councilor. I admire her clear thinking on the key zoning issues that will impact our community for generations into the future. She untangles the MBTA Communities Act, which has a state imposed deadline of the end of this year, from the…
Many numbers have been thrown around about how many housing units might be built with the proposed zoning. These high numbers are reported with no explanation of what they mean and how they were calculated. One does not need a math or engineering degree to understand and explain the plan…
Some City Councilors are pushing to separate the Village Center zoning and the MBTA Communities Act zoning with the goal of changing zoning only to meet the minimum theoretical number of housing units allowed under the new rules. By confining the zoning process to just the MBTA Communities Act requirements,…
I am writing with deep concern about the effect the Village Center Overlay District discussion has had on civic life in Newton. In my opinion, it is simply sucking the oxygen out of the city and the current City Council. My greatest concern is the growing anger that is now…
It seems like a waste of taxpayer money to put so much effort into the Levingston Cove project when the apparent design goals — preventing access to Crystal Lake — are met so perfectly by the chain-link fence around the project. Eric Bender Newton Centre
I have lived on Elmwood Park for over 30 years. For 9 of those years, the park has been used as a dumping ground for various huge pieces of machinery or mounds of snow piled so high I couldn’t see the house across the street. I’ve made complaints to City…
Last week, I had the honor of representing Massachusetts on Capitol Hill. Along with roughly 600 of my fellow American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) volunteers from across the country, I traveled from Newton to Washington, D.C., to urge lawmakers to make cancer a national priority. Together, we called on…
I strongly disagree with a recent letter from Ms Morrison that, in my opinion, undervalues the importance of community service/interaction as a qualification for serving public office. While the other qualifications listed in her letter are certainly equally important, the importance and significance of someone having coached kids’ soccer, especially over multiple…
My comment pertains to the new sidewalks that were installed along the section of Needham Street under the Route 9 bridge and continuing to National Lumber. Redoing these sidewalks was such an opportunity to beautify an otherwise unattractive area. Instead of the new, all black hard top that now covers…