City councilors' calls to rezone South Boston to deal with scant parking and overdevelopment are getting a receptive ear from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, who agree a new code will cut down on a high number of zoning rule exceptions in the neighborhood.
"What we saw and heard from BRA representatives is that there is a clear willingness and desire to rezone South Boston," City Councilor-At-Large Michael Flaherty said following a hearing called by Council President Bill Linehan, who represents South Boston, yesterday with BRA execs. "I'm confident that they're hearing my concerns that the neighborhood is being overdeveloped."
Flaherty has called for one parking space for every new unit in Southie, instead of the current standard that has allowed as little as 0.6 spaces per unit for developments close to train and bus stops.
Linehan noted there were fewer zoning variance requests from developers last year in sections of South Boston that have special, up-to-date zoning — such as East and West 1st Street, which was rezoned in 2011— with the rest of Southie. He said only six variances were requested last year in the special district, compared with 137 last year in the rest of Southie. Linehan said new rules would make the zoning board "less apt to entertain zoning variances when the zoning is new, it's been deliberated through community process, and it's valid.
BRA Deputy Director Richard McGuinness said updating the zoning metrics would make development more predictable.
"If you looked at every numeric standard, and they're realistic, you don't see as much (variance) activity," McGuinness said.
Gary Murad, a B Street resident, said zoning exceptions have spurred development less conducive to neighborhood quality-of-life concerns. "It's these large, dense apartment buildings, they're not even condos," Murad said. "You don't get the same interest, long-term interest in the neighborhood, because a lot of people are transient."
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