The Back Bay is different from you and me
By adamg - 10/31/08 - 10:06 am
John Keith relays the news that ISD is getting a growing number of complaints about - I hope you're sitting down - people hanging for-sale signs from condo units in the Back Bay.
The Back Bay Architectural Commission is demanding enforcement of its guidelines, which call for limiting the size and colors of signs (no more than three colors). And the Greater Boston Association of Realtors is attempting to get brokers to voluntarily comply with those guidelines, because the last thing they need is for the socialist redistributionists down at City Hall swooping in and, um, redistributing the signs to Roslindale and Dorchester or something.
Earlier:
This could get uglier than the Great Sandwich Board Blowup of aught-six.
Comments
Not external changes
....and thus not within the commission's own authority statement:
This act enables the commission to review all exterior changes to buildings within the district. The area of its jurisdiction is within the boundaries of the centerlines of Back Street on the north, Embankment Road and Arlington Street on the east, Boylston Street on the south, and Charlesgate East on the west. The residential portion of the district, with which these guidelines are concerned, is that portion which is zoned for residential use and which lies north of the alley between Commonwealth Avenue and Newbury Street
http://www.cityofboston.gov/environment/pdfs/backbayguidelines.pdf
BBAC
Just another reason to never buy property in the Back Bay... even when you're leaving, your freedom is regulated into conformity.
The thing is thats why
The thing is thats why people like those areas. In addition to easy city access they get a pretty clean looking area to live in. Those people wh bought those condos probaly noticed the lack of signs outside and appreciated it , even if they didnt realize it at the time. Something about 50 for sale signs in a close radius that makes any area look like the slums.
Are the complaints against individuals or developers?
The signs that I notice are the billboards and clusters of signs that are put up on buildings under construction or newly developed.
Some of these are huge and have a cluster of smaller signs for contractors and developers around them.
I wonder if that is what people are concerned about.
Gosh
Can you imagine living there and having to put up with that crap?
So, uh, how much are they asking?