SouthBostonTODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door MAY 25, 2017: Vol.5 Issue 21 SERVING SOUTH BOSTONIANS AROUND THE GLOBE Zoning WWW.SOUTHBOSTONTODAY.COM Continues to Go to our South Boston Today be the Bane of page to view online content. South Boston Make sure you like & share ity Councilor Michael Flaherty oston has proposed an IPOD to deal B T th od u a with the concerns of residents o y C S of South Boston over the consequent ef- f fects of the expansion of Article 68 to all of South Boston. @SBostonToday Residents recently expressed their dis- like for Article 68 as written and recently interpreted in a developer’s proposal to demolish a single family home at 202 M Street and replace it with 5 condominium Want to see your ad in South units as an ‘as of right’ project. Boston Today & SBT Online? The Boston Planning and Develop- ment Agency (BPDA) defines the Inter- Office: 617.268.4032 or cell: 617.840.1355 or email at im Planning Overlay District as ‘short- [email protected] term zoning codes adopted by the City CONTINUED ON page 12 2 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com May 25, 2017 EDITORIALEDITORIAL Resident Parking for our Local Merchants? esident Parking, some ger constantly get ticketed and ness. Realistically, local shop like it, some don’t. fined for not having a resident owners could, if they wanted R But in some cases, it sticker on their vehicles. These to, open their stores in other can be a problem for business are folks who own stores and town,; but instead, choose to owners, many of whom may shops, pay taxes to the city bring their business here, often not be South Boston residents but still get penalized, some- providing jobs to residents. but have been with us for years times daily, for not having that Allowing them to at least park and have generously supported sticker on their window. here while they’re working our community. The resident Perhaps City Hall could (if they can find a spot) with- parking rules as they stand look into the possibility of out getting that bright orange now have been detrimental to coming up with parking waiv- poke in the eye could be a nice some of them. For example, lo- ers in the form of a placard gesture. It might be at least cal business owners, especially for our loyal local merchants, something to consider. Tell us along Broadway, who have even if it’s just for the hours what you think. 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In fact, as the snowflakes raise taxes on everything nonstop, tioned in this space last week. headlines screamed ‘Student Protest walked out, they were booed by the those who actually pay those taxes CIf you remember, Liberty of Pence at Notre Dame, Students other students who were disgusted are saying ‘enough’. In response, the University was praised for holding Walked Out during Speech’ This is at the ignorance and disrespect they governor called them ‘freeloaders’. a magnificent graduation ceremony something we’ve all come to ex- showed to the Vice President. This enraged what’s left of the work- that would make any student and their pect from CNN, the most distrusted Lessons learned: The media cannot ing families in California even more parents proud, while Harvard Uni- network in the country, but some of be trusted and they get worse with and here’s why. These California versity was chastised for allowing a the other ones were just as bad on this each passing day. And, the snowflakes politicians are deliberately flooding segregated graduation to take place. story. The goal was to attempt to con- and the crazy professors that indoc- the state with illegal aliens and giving But this being the graduation season, vince the viewing public that students trinate and herd them like flocks of them free benefits, even though the I’ll comment on the one that made the walked out en mass. But you can sheep are irrelevant and no one needs state is broke. Then, they are raising biggest news over the weekend which easily bring up the YouTube video of them around anyway. taxes on the workers to pay for these of course was Notre Dame, where the entire speech and you can see for Other crazy things in the news - benefits AND spending millions of Vice President Mike Pence gave the yourself that what the networks would and it doesn’t get much crazier than those tax dollars to defend them in commencement speech. have us believe wasn’t even close to California - is the feud boiling over court and protect them from being Most Americans are wise to the being how it really was. in that state between the governor, deported. So, who are the free load- news media’s tricks and the coverage As we said, a few dozen walked out, Jerry Brown, also known out there as ers? The people who pay for all these they gave to what happened at Notre but thousands more students and their Governor Moonbeam, and a grow- tax hikes imposed by the governor Dame was just more of the same. The parents stayed and listened intently ing number of frustrated taxpayers. there or those getting all the perks as video clips that most of the networks to the words of Mike Pence. He was As Governor Moonbeam and his reward for sneaking over the border? ran showed a few dozen snowflake often interrupted by applause and legislature, made up of a majority Most people in our own state of students walking out in protest as the when finished, he received a stand- of liberal Democrats, continue to continued on page 13 Got A Small Business? NOBODY TAKES CARE OF BUSINESS LIKE MASS BAY! Take care of business - Easy! Open an account at any branch! “THEY’RE LOCAL, AND THEY KNOW OUR SMALL BUSINESS IS BIG BUSINESS Easy! TO US. 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Walsh enhancement and preservation: economy that builds on momentum Streets and transit station areas, announced the release • Enhance neighborhoods: Im- of nearby economic activity and improve transportation connections, M of the last draft of the prove urban vitality and affirm each transit access. frequency and experience along the Imagine Boston 2030 Plan, a neighborhood’s distinct identity • Newmarket and Widett Circle: Fairmount/Indigo Line to increase framework for Boston’s growth to by investing in the public realm, An area where critical industrial access for residents, support job expand opportunity, increase af- strengthening neighborhood servic- uses will be preserved and strength- growth and training in transit acces- fordability and improve quality of es and connectivity, and encourag- ened, while transit-oriented job sible areas, invest in quality pre-K life in the City based on the input ing opportunities for development. and housing growth will strengthen and K-12 education for the grow- of over 14,000 residents from o For example, in Upham’s Corner, connections to neighboring areas. ing school-aged populations in the every neighborhood.