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Northeastern University has agreed

On 840 Columbus Ave (Columbus Ave), nearby residents said: Enough.

As part of the project, the project will be constructed and operated by a private company, and Northeastern will sell some of the leased units it now owns in Fenway.

1980s

University: We want to build some big dormitories

Local: No! You can't do that! No!

University: Okay.

2020s

Locals: The students are out of control! The students are raising prices! You must build dormitories for them!

University: Okay, of course

Local: It's too big!

As a community resident and well-informed community member, I just want to say that your situation is interesting, but it is completely incorrect. The dormitory area should be able to provide residents with job and economic development opportunities. NEU has been using community investment to build dormitories for many years. The tower completely deviated from the agreement. Use satire cap well.

I don't understand how your reply addresses Swirly's point. More student housing places more students under the supervision of universities and removes them from the rental market to help align demand with supply. I understand that the development has not reached an agreement, and the benefits of the community cannot be reached, but how can reducing the number of units help you?

The area fought dormitory buildings in the 80s and 90s, and then requested construction in the 10s.

If they didn't lose their temper in the 90s, this would not be a problem in the 1920s.

Therefore, there is no housing for 175 students, which can prevent ordinary Bostonians from buying 58 houses on the market.

An entire apartment building that would no longer use an acre of land has disappeared due to your complaint.

People like you are why rents and housing prices in this city are too high. We should ask how to accommodate more people in each development project, not less.

So why is there no agreement for more work? On the contrary, it has fewer beds.

How many residents are now even the same as in the 1980s? I think there are a few, but not too many. You seem to be talking about them as if they are exactly the same person.

F these residents. We are facing a housing crisis. The more students they enter the dormitory, the better. This is why the whole area is messed up. The creepy burbs do not allow any density and where we need to house students, there is a problem with a big dormitory. I would rather let the students live in a dormitory than destroy my neighbors and live in simple apartments run by slum dwellers.

Students will recruit bad landlords, the more dormitories, the better

This is assuming that most students want to enter the dormitory. The building next to me is rented out to members of the Brotherhood. They have a lot of freedom outside the school, have a yard, and can invite a large number of friends to the party at any time. I did not see them, or indeed not many students wish to be confined to a restricted dormitory.

The university can establish a residence policy that the student agrees to. Some universities require all students to live on campus, or require 1/2/3 years of residence. They usually make exceptions if you are over 21/25, married, or have a permanent address in a nearby area.

Some of them do this because they think residential experience is important. Others did this in response to community concerns about the university’s expansion and takeover of the community.

Northeastern University requires students to live on campus within the first two years. When I started working in 2010, it was only the first year, but it quickly became two years.

Just dug out from the independent student newspaper:

No need for it...it is guaranteed to be in stock. I started commuting from freshman and sophomore year

This is still a requirement and you must apply for an exemption to live at home. Unless the university lied about this policy, the policy was partly to appease neighbors.

I graduated in 2006, so things may have changed since then...

That's right. The class enrolled in 2011 is the first subject to receive 2-year training.

Need to end. All colleges and universities that purchase the entire community need to contribute.

Their contribution at least exceeds that of the church.

I hope so.

Therefore, the more units they build, the older the houses they can sell. This means that more property will be returned to the tax list. The only trade-off is how high a new dormitory can reach the sky.

At least they contribute more than the temple

There are two points. First, Northeast Airlines has owned the property since the 1990s, and then was owned by the state as part of the national highway program, so it has not been a tax package for decades.

Second, it will pay taxes, just like the dormitory built in Burke St/Lightview Northeastern in 2018. Since they are built and operated by private entities, they are subject to tax. In 2020, Lightview paid more than one million dollars in taxes. It was confirmed at a public meeting that this will apply to 840 Columbus. This brings back the role of city taxation that has been missing for decades.

It is a private developer. The American campus community is building a 4-bedroom apartment, Lightview 2, but they did pay property taxes, but the rent is close to luxury prices

What the neighborhood wants is for NU to build a dormitory in the center of the campus, and their IMP has multiple potential dormitory places.

Buildings on the edge of the campus should have less impact on neighbors.

However, the cost of having the school let external developers build dormitories on land that was previously a public place has been reduced.

So what is your influence? Just height or other.

Here, you can have a dormitory or a classroom/research building. The dormitory does have more public interaction than the other two.

IMP does not use other sites in the dormitory. Other developments planned by IMP include the academic expansion of Ryder Hall (on Ruggles St), the Cabot Sports Center (alternative on Huntington), the new academic building on North Lot (Fenway), and the renovation and scientific building of the Gainsborough garage. All of these are academic buildings, involving buildings on restricted sites and demonstration buildings still in use. This site is a completely unused parking lot, of course it makes more sense to build a site here.

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