Thank Mayor Wu for Moving Toward Abolishing the BPDA

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Thank Mayor Wu for Moving Toward Abolishing the BPDA

Mayor Michelle Wu

Did you hear the news? This week, Mayor Wu signed a new ordinance creating a planning department, taking authority away from the Boston Planning and Development Agency, the BPDA. This is a big win.

While the BPDA is no longer destroying vibrant neighborhoods wholesale (like the BRA of old), it is still a tool of top-down power, overruling neighborhood input and bolstering inequality. The biggest problem with the BPDA, however, is that it answers to no one, with shockingly little oversight from the City Council or any community representatives.

Join us in telling Mayor Michelle Wu: Thanks for beginning this crucial process!

And let her know we'll be working hard to ensure the new Planning Department is transparent, strong, and community-driven -- and makes it easier to build affordable housing across the city.

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Alternatives for Community and Environment

Boston, MA

To: Mayor Michelle Wu
From: [Your Name]

We applaud you and City Council for creating the Boston Planning Department and moving toward ending the power of the BPDA. We appreciate your ability to listen to community needs on this issue over many years -- following the lead of Right To The City Boston and many others.

As you map out the path forward, please make sure that the new Planning process is transparent, strong, and community-driven, so we don't simply repeat the mistakes of the past. We need to see more affordable housing approved across the city.