AMWJ t1_jbvjgsx wrote on March 12, 2023 at 1:22 AM

Reply to comment by PunishedDommyMommy in Board of Zoning Appeals shutting down Starlight Square, rejecting city council & Central Sq. Business Improv. Assn. requests to renew by Cav_vaC

I didn't mean fully noise-proof, but noise-reduction to what the levels were before Starlight opened.

What more do I want? In addition to the one-on-one fixes, they mention some structural solutions, like barriers, that I wanted them to consider proactively, rather than now that they were being shut down.

And, while I understand they did everything they could do to reach out for one-on-one repairs, I can also sympathize with a resident who doesn't want to engage with the institution that made their living space louder: if my next door neighbor started playing drums throughout the day, I'd be skeptical of their attempted solution of "thicker doors", and be more in favor of "stop playing drums".

The Starlight should've reached out to the building owners, and the city, proactively before these noise concerns started. Maybe they did, but the article's quote makes it sound otherwise.

some1saveusnow t1_jbw1dnm wrote on March 12, 2023 at 3:53 AM

You’re lucky this is only the Cambridge sub or else you’d be -35 by now. Reddit is super anti-NIMBY. You make good points, and I’m someone that enjoyed Starlight. But yes they obvi aren’t getting that noise down to at or below starlight levels, and for that poster to suggest that residents who may have been there before have to just deal with it cause “that’s what central square is”, don’t understand how residential neighborhood politics work, or local politics in general. I mean, half of Reddit doesn’t either. In the city subs it’s like 75%

PunishedDommyMommy t1_jbwyy37 wrote on March 12, 2023 at 10:41 AM

> don't understand how residential neighborhood politics work, or local politics in general.

Bemoaning the extreme NIMBYism in Massachusetts does not indicate anything about my understanding of local politics. Believe it or not local politics takes many forms, and I believe Cambridge and Boston in general get it wrong, both structurally and on many individual issues.

I am also not telling them to "deal with it". I'm asking them to engage in good faith with the offers put forth by organizers to mitigate noise issues.