Hey, there! Log in / Register
Stalling works: Roxbury Prep gives up on Roslindale high-school proposal
Support Universal Hub
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
Comments
I'm sure residents would
I'm sure residents would welcome 30% AMI Units at the site with open arms.
Or perhaps
It'd be a good site for a residential addiction treatment center. Not so much traffic for the neighbors to worry about.
Sure...
If you can get a developer that is willing to build only 30% AMI units on the site.
Chances are, you won't be able to find such a developer. Even the community-based/nonprofit NDCs will insist on 50%, 80%, and 100% AMI units alongside 30% units, so your point is moot.
It was a joke
Lighten up
Charter schools bad.
Charter schools bad.
More like
"anything that might slightly interfere with my ability to drive my car bad, regardless of what it is and how it might benefit other people or society at large"
You forgot the Bernie sticker.
It really helps "drive home" the wholly performative lifestyles of these hard-liners who choose their Internal Combustion Luxury over the well being of the city and society as a whole.
Disgusting is what it is.
Shame on ALL of them.
Ha, ha, ha
You really thought the main concern was traffic?
Well
We all know that car dealerships don't generate any traffic.
You’re clearly
Not familiar with this dealership, it’s been there for decades and has never created much traffic.
Car dealerships don’t attract
Car dealerships don’t attract hundreds of people arriving in a narrow window every day.
sure was!
traffic in this case meaning the transit of non-white kids through the area
Make it a Detox Clinic
Or an addicition treatment center.
Their clientele doesn't drive so the "traffic" arguement goes out the window.
Any kind of housing would be better
The charter school building boom is crazy when you consider all of the empty and half empty school buildings all over the city. Nobody factors that into the equation when they claim that charters don't siphon off our taxes.
Yes
Why should we be happy that there's a brand new, free to taxpayers high school in Mattapan instead of forcing kids to go to school in the condemned WREC?
#SMRT!
Ok, what?
Charter schools are not free to taxpayers. The condemned WRox HS does not have enough children assigned to get the funding needed to rebuild. We should have a new HS built in Mattapan. We should not build new schools without doing something with the land and buildings that stand empty why people are homeless.
How about an annex for Boston
How about an annex for Boston Latin School, they'll need the extra room.
And here chimes in
A commenter from West Roxbury.
I wonder
If a vote was held in WR to succeed from COB and be annexed into Dedham, what the numbers would look like....
Boston taxes are a lot better
Boston taxes are a lot better and Dedham is staunchly any kind of reasonable transit. Reason 1 and 2 we moved to WR and not Dedham.
C'mon
The BPDA sits on a project only if the Mayor says so. It's all politics. That's where the buck stops. The 5th, not the 9th floor. Pretending otherwise lets the city's top politician off the hook.
Do it on the mall side.
There is sacred space back there, on the rocks, dirt roads, cabins. No signs. You had to live near.
School should have made a deal with the building trades
They should have just said it was all about union jobs and Marty would have supported it. The BRA/BPDA is and always has been under the control of whoever is mayor.
Wu
Remember that when Michelle Wu criticizes the BPDA for being opaque and operating behind closed doors that she quietly opposed this project and wanted them to deep-six it. What is good for the goose...
Genius
Nice neighborhood! Gains a pot shop and loses a school!