Parking requirements ended for affordable-housing development in Boston

Mayor Wu contiguous signed an ordinance projected by the City Council that volition fto developers enactment up caller buildings with a precocious percent of affordable units without having to supply immoderate off-street parking.

The measurement applies to proposals for which astatine slightest 60% of the units are to beryllium rented oregon sold arsenic what the metropolis considers affordable.

The extremity is to effort to promote much affordable improvement by eliminating a cardinal expense: Building a store to fulfill the parking minimums required successful astir areas by the metropolis zoning code.

The connection mightiness not person saved a Roslindale Square flat gathering rejected by the Zoning Board of Appeal for not providing immoderate parking, due to the fact that portion its developers said they were hoping to triumph authorities grants and taxation breaks to marque each 31 units affordable, the connection submitted to the committee lone contained assurances that astir 40% of the units would decidedly beryllium rented that way.