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Planning department outlines public‑land strategy, coastal resilience work and steps to enforce community benefits
Summary
Officials highlighted public‑land dispositions for affordable housing and library projects, coastal resiliency planning, and a new enforcement role to ensure community benefits and financial commitments are delivered.
Planning Department leaders described how the agency is deploying public land for public use, reported examples of upcoming public‑land projects, summarized coastal resiliency work and funding, and outlined new compliance enforcement for community benefits.
Devon Cork and Kairo Shen said the department’s real‑estate division manages city‑owned parcels and seeks to use land for public benefit. Shen cited Parcel R1 in Chinatown as a forthcoming project that will include affordable housing and “a new Chinatown Boston Public Library branch.” He also noted Garrison‑Trotter Phase 4 (Hollander…
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