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some1saveusnow t1_jbw1dnm wrote

Reply to comment by AMWJ in Board of Zoning Appeals shutting down Starlight Square, rejecting city council & Central Sq. Business Improv. Assn. requests to renew by Cav_vaC

You’re lucky this is only the Cambridge sub or else you’d be -35 by now. Reddit is super anti-NIMBY. You make good points, and I’m someone that enjoyed Starlight. But yes they obvi aren’t getting that noise down to at or below starlight levels, and for that poster to suggest that residents who may have been there before have to just deal with it cause “that’s what central square is”, don’t understand how residential neighborhood politics work, or local politics in general. I mean, half of Reddit doesn’t either. In the city subs it’s like 75%

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PunishedDommyMommy t1_jbwyy37 wrote

> don't understand how residential neighborhood politics work, or local politics in general.

Bemoaning the extreme NIMBYism in Massachusetts does not indicate anything about my understanding of local politics. Believe it or not local politics takes many forms, and I believe Cambridge and Boston in general get it wrong, both structurally and on many individual issues.

I am also not telling them to "deal with it". I'm asking them to engage in good faith with the offers put forth by organizers to mitigate noise issues.

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