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 25, 2022 The Supreme Judicial Court's ruling for the City of Boston will reach many places other than Long Island By Jeff Porter Until today someone appealing a decision by a local conservation commission under both the Massachusetts wetlands protection act and a...
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...
Feb 17, 2022 We need to walk and chew gum when it comes to planning in the City of Boston By Jeff Porter The City of Boston is abuzz over Mayor Wu's announcement that she is putting the planning of the Downtown Waterfront on ice while the...
Sep 01, 2021 Endless Litigation is a HUGE Part of the Reason our Energy and Transportation Infrastructure isn't What it Should be By Jeff Porter This morning's editorial in The Boston Globe, "Offshore wind could die in the regulatory doldrums", is something one might have also read...
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 26, 2021 Protecting coastal communities from a GHG supercharged climate isn't just about the money By Jeff Porter We know it is going to cost millions if not billions of dollars to protect our coastal communities from the rising seas and storm surge...
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...
Jul 27, 2021 When it comes to climate resilience, let's not be like the kids in the house in horror movies By Jeff Porter Some of you remember summer visits to the Drive-In to see the horror movies that dominated the 1980s. You remember the villain lurking...