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majesticbagel t1_ixklfpo wrote

Reply to comment by joebos617 in The lack of homes could strangle our life sciences industry: Why the concentration of biopharma in Cambridge and Boston would ratchet up costs, exacerbate the housing crisis, and pitch the region from its throne. by writethefuture3

I wonder how much of whats wrong with our politics comes down to old people having nothing better to do. The only people who can afford to spend their entire day becoming a local government nuisance are those who don't work.

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CorbuGlasses t1_ixluvne wrote

It isn’t just the public, there are still lots of zoning board members in various communities that are stuck in car centric thinking.

I have an as-of-right project in an area with new more progressive zoning and one of the board members voted against because he didn’t like the new rules they had instituted. Nothing about the project, it was clearly political and he must’ve been outvoted and against the new zoning from the beginning.

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