Residents of 12-story luxury building on Greenway object to proposed 13-story hotel

Should consider themselves lucky they have windows they can look out of at all, and not only windows into an air shaft that if open or un-obscured would give the neighbors on the other side a free show. Someone needs to make the complainants live in a sewer with CHUD.

Come on everybody, let's be sympathetic. These people moved to downtown Boston, right next to North Station, looking for a little bit of peace and quiet. And now this HUGE hotel is going to ruin the small town village feel of the area. Pretty soon there will be so much crowding, and noise, and traffic in the area that their kids won't be able to happily play in the middle of Causeway Street, as their parents did, and their own parents before them.

There's more than NIMBYism going on here.

...residents living on N. Washington Street and at the Strada building on Causeway Street expressed major concerns that the height exceeds zoning of 100 feet in the Bulfinch Triangle. At 147 feet (before 10-15 feet in mechanicals) the 88NOWA hotel will be slightly below that of the neighboring Murano which is 160 feet. Neighbors noted that the 100 feet limit has been repeatedly exceeded by the ongoing developments in the area.
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Another North End resident took issue with how the 88NOWA proposal extends into the existing public sidewalk space and narrows access at the intersection of Valenti Way and N. Washington Street.

If zoning restrictions are being ignored, it's a real issue, as are the concerns about buildings encroaching on public-access ways like sidewalks and streets. When developers are allowed to eat into those spaces, we won't have anywhere to put our spacious new bicycle lanes and community gardens.