"I've been working on zoning for 20 years, and zoning policy for 20 years, and I haven't seen anything like this before," zoning expert Amy Dain said of the MBTA communities law and its scale. "It's really exciting." Dain draws parallels to the "Big Downzone" of the 1970s, indicating that the scale of allowing more multifamily housing under this law is unprecedented since then.
"Definitely, there's been nothing close to this - definitely not on the side of allowing more multifamily housing - since then," she said. "And really, I don't know that there's been ever a time where there's been such scale of zoning for multifamily housing all at once." This encapsulates the transformative potential of the MBTA Communities Act as various towns begin to adapt.
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