Six-Sixty Belmont | 13 fl | Proposed

[cherrypark]

I mean, everything is in the margins. But what bugs me is what you highlight in the bottom. Going beyond the zoning gives the government leverage to extract benefits.

We see this on Mill St. the opposition killed the project, and instead of some affordable housing we got none, and nothing, and those people who live there now are still equally fucked. Yet the same people bleating about affordable housing claim it as a win.

I digress...the point is, people who care only about height are shortsighted and blind, 8 stories but worse is worse...I don't care what you think about height.

Full agreement there - they could build an unfinished concrete block that fits the code and has zero street engagement and maximized surface parking and that would be that. The complaints about having to do this consultation to give exceptions misses the point that there are trade backs for those exceptions (of which this one is a pretty modest exception to boot).