Development impact project regulations - job training

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• Text amendment no. 81 [ to the Boston zoning code ].

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...an amendment to the Boston Zoning Code the purpose of which "is to promote the public health, safety, convenience and welfare and to mitigate the adverse impacts of new large-scal real estate development projects on existing development by providing for job training for low and moderate income people. In particular, the owners of new commercial uses, which are more capital intensive and less land intensive than industrial uses, can pay more for land than owners of manufcturing uses; therefore these uses directly result in higher land costs and indirectly cause further land price increase sby increaing housing demand. Workers will therefore need to be trained so that they will have the job skills necessary to compete for these new jobs."; sets forth regulations concerning Development Impact Project Plans and the required Jobs Contributing Grant to the Neighborhood Jobs Trust; this item was in the BRA collection...

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