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CoriCel3sti t1_j2c846o wrote

It's exhausting after thanksgiving my kids school just said it was "recommended" but not many wore them and half the class got sick. I find it so weird that peanuts are not allowed because it could kill a kid but the school is just fine with putting other kids health at risk and okay with them getting sick over and over again. After a break where kids are traveling and hanging out with lots of people it makes total sense to make masks mandatory for at least a little bit.

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BackBae t1_j2c7mlf wrote

I can’t believe tearing down an unused auto body shop on top of a T station and replacing it with housing will destroy character…

The neighbors want to preserve a “pedestrian friendly environment” by… vehemently opposing high density housing? Things need to look “more home like”- because single family homes are the only type of home…

That’s a damn high parking ratio for being- again- directly on top of a heavy rail station, and people are still complaining about parking??

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potus1001 t1_j2c6q3g wrote

If you have a source for that percentage, I really would like to see it, because I disagree with your statement.

If we’re only talking about union employees, for them to not get a step increase, they need to be at the top step of the CBA grid. The average grid has between 9-11 steps, so let’s just go with 10. Since all new union employees start at step 1, it takes 9 full years for them to reach the top step, 10 full years before they wouldn’t get a new step.

I don’t know the exact percentage, but I’d be willing to bet that 90% of state employees within a union have not been with the state for 10 years or longer.

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ShawshankExemption t1_j2c61hf wrote

When you buy your house you get no covenants, no promises that your neighbors will change, that their houses wont change. It’s rights to that one property, it’s not rights to influence what your neighbors do and make demands of them.

Safe neighbors, walkability, outdoor space, arent contra more housing, they aren’t contra apartment buildings.

Quite literally people do want to live in these ‘congested’ areas. That’s why there is demand for housing in them. Hell 20-30 years ago and before dorchester was considered a congested area compared to the suburbs. There is a damn mass transit station across the street.

NIMBY is ‘not in my back yard’ its someone who thinks their property, their yard, extends to their neighbors, and down their street. It’s someone who thinks they have a right to dictate to others what they can do with their own property simply by having been in the general area first. By preventing these condos/apts they are preventing families from safe shelter, people from moving out in their own for the first time, from downsizing in old age to housing they can manage.

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