Even the broadsheet’s former headquarters and printing facilities in Dorchester is being redeveloped into transit-oriented housing.  Read two views and vote in an online poll.

— News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

The Deco apartment building next to Quincy Adams’ MBTA station
A file photo

Is the state right to now require communities with MBTA stations to allow multifamily housing nearby?

The Boston broadsheet recently published dueling opinions on its Op/Ed page from a housing advocate and Massachusetts state rep representing one of the few Red parts of the Commonwealth in the wake of recently passed controversial legislation. 

That and attached a readers’ poll to its coverage on this hot talk topic.

A primary bone of contention: overriding communities rifle with NIMBY’s versus those who seek to maintain local control.

No input, however, was sought from either Quincy residents or any local officials tied to the Koch Maladministration.

Still generous contributors who just happen to be active developers in Quincy
Conjoined LBC Boston headshots

Then again, with essentially all of the thousands of new transit-oriented multiple residencial units that have built in Quincy as well as are continuing to metastasize near most of Quincy’s MBTA station are not offering family-friendly units, the family housing angle broached via the broadsheet is irrelevant in the Q. 

That and so is the all but abject lack of any City of Quincy resistance to most any outsized for the lot redevelopment proposal so long as, that is, the real estate developer is a generous Friend of Koch campaign benefactor.

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Source: Is the state right to now require cities and towns with MBTA stations to allow multifamily housing nearby? – The Boston Globe