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...years.In 1961, New York City adopted new building regulations designed to encourage more modern architecture and create more privately-owned public space. As part of this effort, the city offered extra floorspace in return for the inclusion of plazas and arcades in building plans. This “inventive zoning?? offered huge economic benefits to developers. Professor Jerold Kayden of the GSD has studied these effects and is featured in “Deathbowl to Downtown.”“Because it was a very good economic deal for the developers throughout the 1960s, they almost...
...plan includes fallback zoning regulations—so called “base” zoning??to be followed only if either Harvard or the city does not live up to its end of the bargain...
...panelists said problems like predatory lending and “snob-zoning?? ordinances could be resolved by legislation...
Councillors cited the zoning??which came out of an 18-month long, 18-member Eastern Cambridge Planning Study—as being historic both for the way it was done as well as for the housing the zoning will create...
Peixoto, who made an unsuccessful bid in 1999 for a council seat, says he decided to run again this year when he heard that one-term CCA councillor Jim Braude—known for his liberal stances on everything from street perfomance ordinances to zoning??had decided against running...