When our community fight won the opening of Fairmount Corridor stations, we knew that gentrification and displacement were on their way, too. Action for Equity is leading the fight for a new zoning overlay district for Special Protection Zones—to be piloted in the Fairmount Corridor.
Background on Anti-Displacement Zones and Special Protection Zones from here and other cities (2019).
Most recent draft of Article 91 Transit Oriented Development Overlay District for Special Protection Zones (August 2019).
Read the Special Protection Zone Framework for a Conversation (2014) provided to the City of Boston.
Right to the City’s People’s Assembly has chosen the Special Protection Zone as one of three city-wide demands
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Take a look at the map and data for the Fairmount Corridor that the City of Boston prepared for us. Download it here.
