Download or read book Smart Growth Planning in Eastern Massachusetts written by Jason M. Paukovits and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shared Destinies written by Larissa Brown and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smart Growth and Transportation written by David Luberoff and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smart Growth Works for Massachusetts written by Karen Wiener and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eastern Massachusetts Regional Planning Project written by Massachusetts. Department of Commerce and Development and published by . This book was released on 1967* with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Consumption and Smart Growth in Massachusetts written by Katherine Van Tassel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Cont.) The Baby Steps and Mixed Use Village/Thoroughly Green scenarios reduced VMT by 14% and 32%, respectively. The Baby Steps scenario used 45% less electricity, the Mixed Use Village used 55% less, and the Thoroughly Green scenarios used 65% less than the BAU scenario. The annual cost savings per capita from the above energy savings run from $321 to $737 for transportation and CO2 reduction, and $242 to $408 for housing energy consumption. The total savings per capita run from $563-$1,145. The total savings for the hypothetical development are $1.2 million to $2.4 million. Policy makers should take the results of this scenario analysis to support the inclusion of energy implications in land use planning. Recommended measures include requiring an energy section in master plans, providing state-wide technical support for these plans, supporting processes to incorporate energy considerations in public planning processes, and funding for further research into the quantification of the energy land use connection and what steps towns can take to address it.
Download or read book Fostering Land Use Dialog written by Christopher Jon Hodges and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Preservation Initiative (CPI) was an innovative attempt by the Massachusetts state government to stimulate discussion about land use and growth management at the local level. Based on land use and zoning information, CPI relied on geographic information systems (GIS) to model a potential development scenario for each of the 351 municipalities in the state. The process for generating these buildout maps purposefully involved officials at local, regional, and state levels. This thesis examines the success of the CPI process in evolving land use dialog within and between communities, and amongst planners at all three levels of government. Town planners in two different metropolitan regions of Massachusetts - Boston and Springfield - were interviewed about CPI's impact on local land use discussions. This research was supplemented by interviews with other regional planners and CPI staff. The results suggest that while CPI may eventually lead to changes in local land use, in the short term few changes have occurred to the dialog on growth management in the state. The results of this investigation should aid state and regional decision-makers in determining what future policies and approaches are needed to promote smart growth and regional planning in Massachusetts and other states.
Download or read book A Regional Assessment of Transit oriented Office Development Opportunities in Boston s Suburbs written by Sean Patrick Robinson (M.C.P.) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite having an extensive commuter rail network, Boston is also known for its traffic congestion and long commute times. The suburbs account for a significant share of Eastern Massachusetts office employment. Yet, the MBTA Commuter Rail primarily serves a single purpose, transporting suburban residents to and from their workplaces in Boston. Only a small share of morning peak riders use the train for suburb-to-suburb commutes or reverse city-to-suburb commutes, and a very small share of Eastern Massachusetts suburban office jobs are directly accessed via Commuter Rail alone. This disconnect between the Commuter Rail and suburban office employment locations raises the question of whether the land areas surrounding suburban rail stations are being utilized to their full potential as transit-oriented employment destinations. Through the application of regional planning and smart growth principles, this research project uses GIS mapping tools and quantitative analysis methods to explore the interrelated patterns of office employment, Commuter Rail ridership, and land use in Eastern Massachusetts and the Boston metropolitan area. Beginning with the hypothesis that very few suburban office jobs are currently being accessed by morning peak Commuter Rail riders, I first perform a quantitative assessment of the spatial distribution of office employment in Eastern Massachusetts, as well as existing Commuter Rail ridership patterns. I then seek to apply regional planning and smart growth principles to identify suburban Commuter Rail stations that are most suitably located to accommodate Eastern Massachusetts' future office employment growth, to understand the existing land use patterns around such stations, and to estimate the capacity for future office space development at each selected station area. For station areas that both meet the locational criteria and have the physical land capacity to potentially become future office subcenters with agglomeration benefits, I then calculate the range of estimated additional office employment that could be accommodated at such subcenters.
Download or read book Imagine Boston 2030 written by City Of Boston and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Boston is in a uniquely powerful position to make our city more affordable, equitable, connected, and resilient. We will seize this moment to guide our growth to support our dynamic economy, connect more residents to opportunity, create vibrant neighborhoods, and continue our legacy as a thriving waterfront city.Mayor Martin J. Walsh's Imagine Boston 2030 is the first citywide plan in more than 50 years. This vision was shaped by more than 15,000 Boston voices.
Download or read book State Agencies and Regional Development Eastern Massachusetts Regional Planning Project written by Massachusetts. Department of Commerce and Development and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boston Regional Planning Project written by Massachusetts. Department of Public Works and published by . This book was released on with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Redevelopment and Smart Growth at Assembly Square written by Alice Augusta Savage and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Assembly Square is not yet finished. To tell the complete story of Assembly Square would require much more time to write than I had, and more time to read than the reader would likely care to devote. An earlier work by class of 1984 M.C.P. student Steven Landau covers the development of the mall at Assembly Square, and begins to look at its subsequent demise. My thesis picks up almost where this earlier work leaves off, but focuses on the time where there is the greatest uncertainty surrounding the site's immediate future. This period roughly coincides with Dorothy Kelly Gay's term as Somerville mayor, and ends when a new mall is opened and re-tenanted. During this time, public opinion and political will at the local level moved first against and then towards developers' vision of the site. My thesis follows this shift and attempts to explain why a smart growth advocacy group found itself in the bizarre position of fighting one of the cornerstone's of Governor Mitt Romney's smart growth plan for Massachusetts, and why public opinion was first with then against this group. I conclude that the rhetoric of Smart Growth is inconsistent with its practice.
Download or read book When Incentives Aren t Enough written by Matthew S. Robayna and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greater Boston area has some of the highest housing costs in the country, a trend which has only intensified through the nation's recovery from the recent global financial crisis. Greater Boston has a fragmented municipal system, with individual cities and towns controlling their own land use regulations. This fragmentation has led to a system where cities and towns regulate land use in an uncoordinated manner, leaving the entire region with a shortage of housing and raising housing costs. In 2004, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted Chapter 40R, the Smart Growth Overly District Act, to incentivize communities to implement zoning districts that allow dense housing by right. To date, very few communities in Greater Boston have enacted Chapter 40R districts, and once those districts are enacted, very few of the newly-zoned units are built. This thesis seeks to explore the causes behind these phenomena. Communities in the region are loath to implement 40R districts because of an aversion to growth, in particular multifamily development. Misconceptions about program requirements may also prevent town planners from using 40R as a planning tool for their communities. Developers don't often utilize 40R as a permitting mechanism because it is riskier to implement than Chapter 40B permitting. Even when 40R districts are established, units are not always built because of market conditions or land availability. While 40R has produced successful developments across the state, this report calls into question whether an incentive-based development policy is sufficient to deal with the region's current housing shortage.
Download or read book Smart Growth in Massachusetts written by Kelley Whitmore and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City and Town Centers written by Massachusetts. Office of State Planning and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards a Growth Policy for Massachusetts written by Massachusetts. Office of State Planning and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hub s Metropolis written by James C. O'Connell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban sprawl and “smart growth.” Boston's metropolitan landscape has been two hundred years in the making. From its proto-suburban village centers of 1800 to its far-flung, automobile-centric exurbs of today, Boston has been a national pacesetter for suburbanization. In The Hub's Metropolis, James O'Connell charts the evolution of Boston's suburban development. The city of Boston is compact and consolidated—famously, “the Hub.” Greater Boston, however, stretches over 1,736 square miles and ranks as the world's sixth largest metropolitan area. Boston suburbs began to develop after 1820, when wealthy city dwellers built country estates that were just a short carriage ride away from their homes in the city. Then, as transportation became more efficient and affordable, the map of the suburbs expanded. The Metropolitan Park Commission's park-and-parkway system, developed in the 1890s, created a template for suburbanization that represents the country's first example of regional planning. O'Connell identifies nine layers of Boston's suburban development, each of which has left its imprint on the landscape: traditional villages; country retreats; railroad suburbs; streetcar suburbs (the first electric streetcar boulevard, Beacon Street in Brookline, was designed by Frederic Law Olmsted); parkway suburbs, which emphasized public greenspace but also encouraged commuting by automobile; mill towns, with housing for workers; upscale and middle-class suburbs accessible by outer-belt highways like Route 128; exurban, McMansion-dotted sprawl; and smart growth. Still a pacesetter, Greater Boston has pioneered antisprawl initiatives that encourage compact, mixed-use development in existing neighborhoods near railroad and transit stations. O'Connell reminds us that these nine layers of suburban infrastructure are still woven into the fabric of the metropolis. Each chapter suggests sites to visit, from Waltham country estates to Cambridge triple-deckers.
