@bikepedantic We need to make it more affordable for people to move to Cambridge. We also need to build many more Cambridges around the country, so everyone can benefit, not just those who can afford to live in the handful of places like this.
@DemonHusky definitely on both counts. a more ambitious Alewife Quadrangle plan than what i've heard snippets of would be my biggest unmet desire. @db
@DemonHusky this resident less than 200' from a one-story vacant building fronting onto Mass will be ranting in favor of skyscrapers when teh N Mass Ave plan ever kicks off @db
@bikepedantic @DemonHusky @db In practice, there is just no desire to really think of Cambridge as a city. Councillor Mallon today was speaking against tall buildings for affordable housing. While I have long been a supporter of hers, if she can't wrap her head around the value of enabling affordable housing via height and density, the chance of success more broadly is just so low that I lose hope.
Porter Square should look like North Station, and the surrounding area should mirror that.
@crschmidt yes to all. That is really really disappointing to hear about Mallon. @DemonHusky @db
@crschmidt @bikepedantic @DemonHusky @db Porter should look like Union.
@Ofsevit @bikepedantic @DemonHusky @db Union right now is not a thing I would aspire to. But maybe it will be good in a decade or two.
@crschmidt @bikepedantic @DemonHusky @db it's certainly tall!
@Ofsevit @bikepedantic @DemonHusky @db Not one of these buildings is even 2/3rds of the height of Avalon North Station.
And while one of them can reasonably be called tall, the other two aren't even that.
@crschmidt @bikepedantic @DemonHusky @db yeah but taller than 9 STORIES OMG YOU WILL KILL MASS AVE
@bikepedantic @db Mass Ave with buildings only 1 story is the biggest lack of ambition in the city. Serious ability to increase car-light housing, lowering the cost of living here