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closerocks t1_j8oj3qx wrote

Reply to comment by tjrileywisc in Most towns are going along with the state’s new multifamily housing law. Not Middleborough. by TouchDownBurrito

Mixed-use zoning still reduces the commercial tax base because is typically used for low value commercial like nail salons, coffee shops, and dentist chains. High-value commercial like manufacturing, pharmaceutical, chemical, R&D lab, nuclear medicine isotope production would still be isolated in an industrial ghetto. They should be colocated with residential so that the people that work in these companies can live within walking distance.

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tjrileywisc t1_j8op2yp wrote

I don't think Lincoln has much of the latter anyway, does it?

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closerocks t1_j8ozlzl wrote

I have mixed feelings about Lincoln. It is an agricultural community that used extremely exclusionary practices to preserve open space. Which to me means that it should be treated as a nature/agricultural preserve and the state should have the right of first refusal on any property sale. The goal would be to eventually eliminating all buildings except historically/architecturally important ones and rewilding land.

Given Lincoln's proximity to Boston, it would be transit accessible nature space which is more important than most people can possibly imagine. One way to think of it us as a potential addition to Middlesex Fells and Blue Hills.

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