Banning new high rise buildings isn't such a bad thing IMO.
Mind you, lack of high density living space contributes to sprawl ... so you can't have it both ways.

Oh man, the Shadowperson Antidefamation League is so going to be on their asses...



"I'M JUST A NORMAL GUY!"

build the parks on top of high rise buildings.

burndtdan: build the parks on top of high rise buildings.

They're already (supposedly) going to be building them on top of highways. I am for more sun, less high-rises. And for green rooftops!

If you choose to live in a city you're going to have to deal with things like high rise buildings, light pollution, noise pollution & traffic congestion. It's all part of the urban hipster experience.

Sunlight is carcinogenic. Why do these asshats support cancer?

BobtheFascist: If you choose to live in a city you're going to have to deal with things like high rise buildings, light pollution, noise pollution & traffic congestion. It's all part of the urban hipster experience.

So are city-planning ordinances and "air rights".

/snark that, why don't you?

"There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas"

Wot good is a dark park unless yer a rapist/mugger type?

quatchi: "Wot good is a dark park unless yer a rapist/mugger type?"

I like my Too Dark Parks.

Peter Pan had salmonella?

So Boston is even afraid of its own shadow now?

BobtheFascist: If you choose to live in a city you're going to have to deal with things like high rise buildings, light pollution, noise pollution & traffic congestion. It's all part of the urban hipster experience.

Have you ever been to Boston? Boston Commons? It's about as far away from Urban Hipster as you can get. There are enough places downtown to build up. Leave the ring around the park open.

/Asinine tag must be for subby looking in the mirror

Peter Pan is too busy driving the bus. Am I right, Mass-holes?

What evil lurks in the hearts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives?

ryarger:
Have you ever been to Boston? Boston Commons?

Common, dammit. It is Boston Common. There is only one of them.

And if you live in a city you should probably get used to the idea of tall buildings and the shadows they may cast.

dillenger69:
Banning new high rise buildings isn't such a bad thing IMO.

Sumatra:
I am for more sun, less high-rises.

Move to Hingham. Leave the city for people who actually like cities.

Having lived in Boston all my life, this is an old issue. Beacon Hill/Back Bay residents have been biatching for years about Boston slowly turning into Manhattan (Endless streets of skyscrapers blocking out the sun most of the day.

I get it, but at the same time, C'MON!

ThisSideofSteinway: What evil lurks in the hearts of the Massachusetts House of Representatives?

The knadow shows!

Sumatra: burndtdan: build the parks on top of high rise buildings.

They're already (supposedly) going to be building them on top of highways. I am for more sun, less high-rises. And for green rooftops!

Ugh. And the building shakes every time a semi passes underneath?

/Hot as the sun you'll never see again.

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