Further Reading
Consensus Warrant Article Passes Town Meeting
Brookline overwhelmingly accepts plan to rezone its major commercial corridor to allow multifamily housing (Boston Globe, November 15, 2023)
Town Meeting passes major rezoning plan likely to reshape Harvard Street (Brookline.News, November 15, 2023)
Faced with a state deadline, Brookline approves major rezoning plan to allow more multifamily housing (Boston.Com, November 15, 2023)
Brookline town meeting approves new multifamily zoning rules along MBTA routes (WBUR.org, November 15, 2023)
Brookline overwhelmingly approves housing plan (Banker & Tradesman, November 15, 2023)
A win for housing boosters: Brookline OKs new zoning in a landslide (Boston Business Journal, November 15, 2023)
MBTA-CA Warrant Articles
Letter to the Select Board from the Coolidge Corner Merchants Association in Support of the MBTA-CA Proposal For Harvard Street (October 24, 2023)
After Years of Policy Clashes, Rival Housing Groups Reach Agreement on Harvard Street Zoning Plan (Brookline.News, October 18, 2023)
Letter to the Select Board From Businesses Serving Jewish Communities (October 5, 2023)
Select Board signs off on rezoning which could create 800 new housing units (Brookline.News, August 15, 2023)
MBTA-CA and Housing
People Are Happier in a Walkable Neighborhood (The Guardian, October 11, 2023)
Why Newton's Zoning Plan Is So Controversial - And So Needed (Commonwealth Magazine, September 28, 2023)
State may deny grants to communities that don’t comply with new MBTA housing law (Boston Globe, August 17, 2023)
Report shines light on Brookline’s financially vulnerable (Brookline.News, June 6, 2023)
The MBTA Communities law is putting Brookline’s liberal values to the test (Boston Globe, May 17, 2023)
Lexington seizes opportunity to pass inclusive zoning reforms (Boston Globe, April 14, 2023)
Every Study Ever Conducted On The Impact Converting Street Parking Into Bike Lanes Has On Businesses (Bloomberg News, March 13, 2015)
Climate and Housing
The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood, Mapped (New York Times, December 13, 2022)
Build Mixed-Income Housing in Wealthy Urban Neighborhoods (Rocky Mountain Institute, June 29, 2021)
The Weight of Cities (United Nations Environment Program, 2018)
Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan (MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, December 2022)