Multifamily Housing Trends Aid Mayor's Go Boston 2030 Transportation Plan
Multifamily developers behind recent projects in Boston have sought to reduce the amount of parking they are required to build, and in Mayor Martin Walsh's Go Boston 2030 plan, released Tuesday morning, it seems the city is prepared to get on board.
“Transportation is the lifeblood of our city,” said Walsh at his presentation at the Boston Public Library. “It connects people.”
The vision and action plan entails 58 new transportation projects and policies to curb traffic, which some developers have already been obeying.
The 175-unit Lovejoy Wharf near North Station became the city’s first major development to offer zero parking for its residents. While its developers at Related Beal said they were being responsible builders shying away from adding to the city’s traffic burden, it also emerged they were saving $8M to $16M by avoiding the high-tech parking that would have been required for the development.
While the city attempts to get more cars off the road by its 400th birthday in 2030, the Boston Planning & Development Agency is accommodating even more of them in the interim. The BPDA could green light a 550-space expansion of a Seaport parking garage for $22M, the Boston Globe reports. Nearby, Massport has broken ground on an $85M transportation center and a 1,550-space parking garage on D Street.
