Mar 29, 2023 SCUBA divers are safe from the NIMBYs in Rockport for now, thanks to a decision by three Judges of the First Circuit Court of Appeals By Jeff Porter Law360 shares the good news that three Judges in the First Circuit Court of Appeals have affirmed the Federal District Court's dismissal...
Mar 16, 2023 Another NIMBY challenge in Nantucket, this one challenging public waterfront access By Jeff Porter The Boston Globe is reporting on NIMBY opposition to a clam shack on Nantucket's Straight Wharf. It seems that residents of the adjacent...
Sep 20, 2022 Boston wants to reduce its Designated Port Area but what's good for the goose has to be good for the eight other ganders. By Jeff Porter Several months ago Mayor Wu announced that she was putting the planning of the Downtown waterfront on ice so the administration could...
Jul 13, 2022 The Supreme Judicial Court's Boston Municipal Harbor Plan ruling Is EXACTLY the same as the Supreme Court's West Virginia v. EPA ruling! By Jeff Porter Massachusetts's Supreme Judicial Court has agreed with a Superior Court Judge that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental...
Mar 10, 2022 A plan for East Boston is great. But we need one for downtown too! By Jeff Porter Kudos to Shirley Leung of The Boston Globe for concisely recounting the past 15 years of Boston waterfront planning, where it has and...
Mar 09, 2022 Retreating from the ocean may be easy, but that doesn't mean it is the right thing to do. By Jeff Porter The collapse of a section of Newport's Cliff Walk has captured our attention. In a Boston Globe report, Dean Greenstein of Roger...
Aug 30, 2021 Boston's Acting Mayor is Rescinding the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan. What's Next? By Jeff Porter Much has been written over the past few days about Boston Acting Mayor Janey's decision to cut and run on the Downtown Municipal Harbor...
Aug 03, 2021 The Truly Catastrophic Consequences of Letting Nature Take Its Course By Jeff Porter Kate Orff, a landscape architect and MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" recipient, is working hard to protect the rest of us from the...
Jun 01, 2021 Boston Harbor "Levee" Plan Doesn't Have a Snowball's Chance in a Warming Climate By Jeff Porter Yesterday former State Senator Golden penned this op ed in the Boston Globe calling for a regional "levee" to protect the 15 Boston...
Apr 05, 2021 When will we have a 21st Century Plan for our Waterfront? By Jeff Porter As many of you already know a Superior Court Judge has overturned Boston's Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan only because it was approved by...