New readers to this site (and there have been quite a few these days) may see the posts below as the sum total of evidence offered to support claims of Brookline cronyism.
Oh no old darlings. The sine qua non of Brookline cronyism is On Brookline’s two part series on the demotion of Dennis DeWitt [...]
Tomorrow evening’s Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on the Longyear development will likely find Board member Enid Starr weighing in on the standing of abutters and on other matters.
Who is Enid Starr? Well, she is mother to a law partner of Jeffrey P. Allen, the Longyear developer’s lawyer. In September of 2005 the [...]
Archie takes a look at “aggrieved parties” in zoning matters, and brings into focus why a developer’s lawyer might see tremendous benefit to a ZBA dismissing the standing of abutters (see previous post).
Read Archie’s guest commentary here.
Here’s what happens to a community group that takes the lawyer on the town’s payroll - Jennifer Dopazo - at her word. They get screwed.
Readers will recall from my February column (read here) that Dopazo manipulated Chestnut Hill residents into believing that a stop work order on illegal construction at 71 Spooner Road [...]
According to the Jesse Mermell Web site, Rep. Frank Smizik, Selectman’s Chair Robert L. Allen, Jr. and the former School Committee one-person-wrecking-crew Marcia Heist have signed on to chair Jesse’s awesome campaign for Brookline Selectman.
Marcia and Bobby together again! OMG!
Marcia says that, “Jesse’s understanding of both fiscal and policy issues impacting education in the Commonwealth [...]
Recent proceedings before Brookline’s Zoning Board of Appeals have revealed a rather chilling development concerning the rights of property owners. A new tack taken by lawyers for developers is to challenge the standing (i.e., the right of a party to bring a complaint) of abutters to the property under development.
And it may be working.
It’s [...]
Upon reading today’s Globe story that leaks Governor Patrick’s budget for 2008, I imagine there are some in Brookline town government who see the focus on local aid as cause to break out the Moet & Chandon. Not so fast, I’d say.
This is what you get when you put a Republican hack - Leslie [...]
There have been a spate of Public Records and Open Meeting Law violations in Brookline recently. The TAB tried to get e-mails from Selectmen Hoy, Daly and Merrill…they were told the e-mails didn’t exist…then the paper got what they were looking for last week. I don’t even expect that the sixth floor of [...]
I don’t get it. In reporting that Library Trustee Jesse Mermell’s candidacy for Selectman, our local scribes at the TAB and Globe lead with some variation of “it’s official, she’s running.”
This - along with the nonsense ginned up by an alleged magazine (see previous post) - would seem to indicate that Brookline residents are [...]
It’s not well known around these parts that the Brookline Building Department has been in the practice of “decommissioning” attics and basements in order to adjust the floor area ratios (FAR) of new construction taking place on the same parcel.
This is how it works. In the case of Spooner Road (see previous post), developer [...]
