Remember how Brookline Town Meeting Chartered a Coolidge Corner District Planning Council (DPC) to look at appropriate development in that area? And remember how the reason behind the DPC was to put residents in charge of the vision for this important area of town?
Remember that?
Well, it looks like Jeff Levine, Brookline’s planning director has [...]
Let’s see, on the same day I’m at the Coolidge watching The Lives of Others (a very good movie indeed), the New York Times drops an editorial urging that basic rights - you know, like habeas corpus - be reinstated as a constitutional principle.
And a Republican senator from New Mexico admits to pressing for the [...]
The Globe reports today that School Committee member Ruth Kaplan is angling the Brookline legislative delegation to help ease the Brookline School Department’s impending fiscal crisis. Says the Globe (relaying Kaplan on the talks):
“Among the hot topics: having the option of insuring Brookline employees under the state’s plan; getting the local option to tax [...]
You’d have thought from last nights ZBA hearing on the mammoth Longyear development that an architect or engineer’s seal is the arbiter of quality in construction plans. Looking at the Massachusetts’ laws and regulations governing the use of architect and engineer’s seals shows what a sham last night’s Board deliberations were.
According to Massachusetts’ statutes [...]
A system of cronyism depends on putting the right stooges in the right places. And when it comes to Brookline’s Zoning Board of Appeals, nothing could be closer to the truth.
Imagine if you will a place where a motion to deny an enforcement action on an alleged zoning by-law violation is made by an [...]
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