Globe names developer and project in zoning bribery case

I would urge everyone to read the linked Banner article provided by dvg. I didn't know Buddy's son and Buddy are apparently knee deep in a corrupt system that demands a rigorous process and adherence to regulations for some and secret approval without community input for others. Based on events in my own neighborhood in Dorchester, I have long suspected that some members of ISD and BPDA are corrupt. Why are some variances subject to public hearings and some just happen with zero community notification?

In my neighborhood, 2 houses zoned as 2 family have each been illegally converted to 4 family houses, with additional egresses and additional electric service boxes on the outside of the houses. Several of us have called and written our city councilor and ISD. I wrote a letter directly to Buddy. Some neighbors filed 311 complaints (that are still classified as open) .None of it mattered.

This Lynch guilty plea is the tip of the iceberg. And all of it leads back to the mayors office.

I hope that Uhub and other outlets continue to expose and report this situation.

It’s flawed and has been going on for years. It’s public record on who all the players are. The same developers, the same lawyers. Why had it taken this long and where do we go from here?

We applied for a simple variance recently (to add a handicapped-accessible bedroom) and it took us 6 months to get it. To get it we had to travel to 1010 seven or eight times to get a question answered and to attend our ‘hearing.’ We called our assigned ‘handler’ many times but he NEVER returned a phone call, not once.

(Funny thing is, when we went to 1010, we were often told that we should have called our handler instead of coming in.)

The inspections never happened when we had them scheduled, which cost our contractor, electrician and plumber untold lost hours. Many of the visits were canceled without prior notice, and some were just canceled, we think, because we never heard one way or another.

1010 is a dysfunctional labyrinth of non-answers and non-responsiveness. Once we had to go down to 1010 to get an answer in writing so we could proceed to the next step in the variance process. When we got there, we were told that that they’d mail the document later as their printer was not working. We waited until they found another printer.

The cost for the simple 6-month process was approximately $700 and all we got was aggravation.

And there is no more project info at the BPDA website. All docs are taken down. Gotta love 'em! They try so hard to right their ship but it's just a bunch of front office deals with "downstairs".