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Your articles really are invaluable. Thank you for doing such amazing work! I just wanted to add something to your “important questions“ about new housing units that you did not specifically identify, which is traffic impacts. During my decades, in municipal public works, and the associated reviewing of such projects, it never ceased to amaze me how traffic engineers are able to use numbers and analysis that demonstrate little or no traffic impacts when anyone with a drop of common sense, and a little real life experience, knows that is BS. I wonder if there’s a way to create enforceable regulations that will levy fines and penalties against a project if post construction analysis shows that the preconstruction pipe dream calculations were incorrect? Or, better, require that the developers fund an independent traffic analysis that would be performed by a consultant hired by the city and paid by the city who would then be reimbursed by the developer? To me, and, I believe, to many of us, the worst part of ongoing development is the significant increases in traffic.
Thanks again for being such a valuable resource to the people of Framingham.
Chip, thanks for your comment. Traffic is such a huge part of the apartments conversation, and one I could dedicate a whole issue. I know traffic studies are a huge part to the approval process, but I am not 100% sure what the status is/was of studies for these various projects. I’ll take a look.
Please do not refer to human beings as illegal. It's dehumanizing and gross. You can discuss immigration policy without referring to people as illegal invaders.
Your articles really are invaluable. Thank you for doing such amazing work! I just wanted to add something to your “important questions“ about new housing units that you did not specifically identify, which is traffic impacts. During my decades, in municipal public works, and the associated reviewing of such projects, it never ceased to amaze me how traffic engineers are able to use numbers and analysis that demonstrate little or no traffic impacts when anyone with a drop of common sense, and a little real life experience, knows that is BS. I wonder if there’s a way to create enforceable regulations that will levy fines and penalties against a project if post construction analysis shows that the preconstruction pipe dream calculations were incorrect? Or, better, require that the developers fund an independent traffic analysis that would be performed by a consultant hired by the city and paid by the city who would then be reimbursed by the developer? To me, and, I believe, to many of us, the worst part of ongoing development is the significant increases in traffic.
Thanks again for being such a valuable resource to the people of Framingham.
Chip, thanks for your comment. Traffic is such a huge part of the apartments conversation, and one I could dedicate a whole issue. I know traffic studies are a huge part to the approval process, but I am not 100% sure what the status is/was of studies for these various projects. I’ll take a look.
You are filling a much needed void that would be apparent if you were not filling it.
Nick Paganella
Thank you, Nick.
Please do not refer to human beings as illegal. It's dehumanizing and gross. You can discuss immigration policy without referring to people as illegal invaders.
I like RIZOLI, go to work at CIRCUS 🤡, you make people LOL 😂, sorry for you wasting your time on these comments