Here we go again.
In his resignation letter from the Brookline Zoning Board of Appeals, Attorney Lawrence Kaplan alleges, publicly for the first time, that he was “assaulted” at a May 24, 2007 ZBA hearing on One Somerset Road.
So how come charges weren’t brought? Brookline Police sought a summons based on Kaplan’s allegations (made at [...]
Three ZBA members resign “in disgust”, including Lawrence Kaplan. Kaplan is a key figure in the Brawl at Town Hall [see TAB story].
At least the disgust that led these three to resign puts them in emotional simpatico with those of us disgusted by their service on the Board. Another of the resignees, Bailey Silbert, is [...]
Will there be any section of Brookline that won’t be a local historic district in the next ten years? Not at the rate frantic residents are moving towards them as a tool to fend off unwanted development.
Boston, like many major metropolitan areas in the US, is going to experience a new wave of speculative [...]
Oh, this is rich. One of the agenda items for the November Town Meeting is a proposal to make permanent the so-called Coolidge Corner Planning Council (Article 10). Good idea? Bad idea? I have no idea.
What I’ve heard, though, is that there is a movement afoot to have this question [...]
Remember last week when Selectman Gil Hoy said that the Boston Archdiocese’s housing development at St. Aidan’s, “won’t be that bad?” And remember how this site said that if the project were near Hoy’s Reservoir Road home it would be that bad alright? [see previous post]
Remember that?
Well, last night the Brookline Selectmen were urged [...]
Jessica Scarpati has a post up on the TAB’s blog that features reaction from Selectman Robert “The Mensch” Allen on the retirement of Building Commissioner James Nickerson.
Says Allen:
“The problem is is that people — we’ve fallen into a pattern of listening to a very vocal minority, and if you really talk to the many, many [...]
“Increasingly, there has been much to say by way of the media or in other forums by some who feel the Building Department could better enforce the Zoning By Law.” - Brookline Building Commissioner James Nickerson announcing his retirement.
Damn that media and other forums. Why, if they only knew the truth it’d be clear [...]
Or leaving as Hamlet?
TAB reporter Jessica Scarpati (boy, she’s a good one) says that controversial Brookline Building Commissioner James Nickerson is retiring [see story].
And check out Nickerson’s farewell letter. Methinks the man doth protest too much.
On Saturday, I wrote that the Massachusetts Division of Public Records denied my appeal concerning Brookline Police Chief Daniel O’Leary’s withholding of police reports stemming from the Brawl at Town Hall, reports used to pursue criminal charges against a resident [see the opinion here].
After spending more time with the opinion, I came to the conclusion [...]
