Zoning Policies For Boston

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Excerpt from East Boston Interim Planning Overlay District Policy Recommendations Zoning is the most important tool available to manage and control the long and short-term impacts of real estate development on people and their environment, and to take advantage of private investment in real estate for the benefit of the public. Zoning regulations based on comprehensive analyses of current uses and trends, future impacts, and a positive vision of what should b can direct the type and location of investment in such a way as to both preserve advantageous qualities and to create new opportunities, and to bolt new undesirable uses. In Boston, the positive vision for the future is a joint creation of the residents of each neighborhood and the City. Perhaps, because the develop ment pressures are so great there, the people of Each Boston have worked especially hard to preserve the quality of life in their neighborhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.