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...community concerns to developer interests. “[The BRA should] simplify things in a way that’s accessible to any regular person,” said Boston City Councillor Sam Yoon at a recent community meeting in which he advocated for a re-structuring of the BRA??s authority. “Let the community make the tradeoffs.” Proponents of the current structure add that the community has the chance to offer its say through the Harvard Allston Task Force, an advisory panel of local residents appointed by the Mayor to facilitate...
...Task Force is the BRA??s entity. They set the agenda. They run the meetings. It’s not at all in practice an open, community-driven, responsive group—there’s a bounded mandate, a wall inside which it lives,” said Harry Mattison, an Allston resident and Task Force member...
...needed to be filled.” But Jake Carman, a founder of the Allston Brighton Neighborhood Assembly, who has been far more critical of the current planning structure than Mattison, said that “you have to question where exactly the power lies” in the BRA??s development process, which he criticized as “incredibly unfair” because the community is unable to vote on the BRA??s decisions. While neighborhood groups such as Mattison’s attempt to “work within the system...
...should] simplify things in a way that’s accessible to any regular person,” said Boston City Councillor Sam Yoon at a recent community meeting in which he advocated for a re-structuring of the BRA??s authority. “Let the community make the tradeoffs...
...Jake Carman, a founder of the Allston Brighton Neighborhood Assembly, who has been far more critical of the current planning structure than Mattison, said that “you have to question where exactly the power lies” in the BRA??s development process, which he criticized as “incredibly unfair” because the community is unable to vote on the BRA??s decisions...