Beyond the usual suspects

The Urban Land Institute sure has kept us waiting. Initially expected to release its detailed written recommendations 90 days after a panel’s late September visit—which would put it right at the holidays—the ULI pushed the release back to early...

Feeling lukewarm

While the city adjusts to the firing ousting resignation of mayoral chief of staff Michele Webber late yesterday, in a fiasco initially reported by ABC40, and now picked up by the Associated Press and spreading across the wires, I’m reflecting on an editorial in...

Reader input on neighborhoods and engagement

Urban Compass reader Chris Eaton, who lives in Lexington after several years in the Pacific northwest, and is the consultant behind Springfield’s zoning ordinance revision project, wrote to share some ideas about neighborhood empowerment stemming from work in...