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**Question two:** Why do you live where you live? The first criteria happened to disappeared more recently that it was taken away. **Livability** would be number one on our list and its a real shame that often we no longer have it because of the 5 Year Expansion Disaster Plan when enacted it took away our view then all our neighbors where houses used to be as Boston University expanded to be three times the size and population. We now have loud noise and or constant noise some days! It is way too often – this is our side of the street! The plastics factory used to be our immediate neighbor and no hearing for us the Abutter was even mentioned. Much later one last moment closed hearing we had we were lied to by BU/New Balance they did not have all permissions to build the field with a million people attending screaming, clapping, whistling but they built it anyway! Along with stealing our public park that is another new addition to BU. In the near future third thing that will destroy what is left of our home building is what is called pop- ups! No hearings, no being heard never mind listen to ever by any of the abutters! Even Washington is against POP -UP'S and we have more to protect except the president of course. [http://www.beankinney.com/publications-articles-dc-office-of-planning-takes-stand-against-pop-ups.html][1] pop-ups often take the form of a century-old row house (our travel agency) that is purchased by a developer and then gutted and converted into multiple units. In order to capitalize on the ever-increasing value of real estate in D.C., developers will create a pop-up by extending the height (and width in our case) of the building to create additional units. Nonprofits don't need to obey zoning laws and have no rules and regulations except TB shots for teachers! It's time society think about the meaning of Private verses the meaning of nonprofit! 2 would be **climate.** When people think about climate I think that people should also think about the living quarters in which they live. For most of the 300 people in our building the climate is good all the time because we can control the heat and the air-conditioning without having to pay extra-its included in our rent. The **climate** in this building is also good because we get along despite being a lot like the united nations almost all of us have similar ideas as to what is home- thus we rarely have any problems with each other. I think of my neighbors as distant friends and the management is great no slum lord here. Do you get a news letter or Christmas/Hanukkah card from your landlord? The environment is also very good here not only with the neighbors but also the air quality. When the heart/air conditioning is turned on many of the allergens seem to fall to the floor. The apartments are also spacious by modern standards no claustrophobia here we even have a porch. I like to grow my our food. Back when it was quiet before the expansion disaster plan we tenants used to sit on the porch and watch the sunset. **Housing** would be number 3 because It used to be that our landlord was not greedy and I feel that we were treated as part of the family with mixed incomes. The place most of us call home is also centrally located across the street from Upper Brookline yes your right it seems I could go on and on talking about this building as it is very special! This entire street where we live on used to be Brookline before BU. changed it! Along with the noise ordinance change that is now different with the rest of the city! **Transportation** would be number 4 because it is far enough away too not be too noisy but yet close enough to be very convenient. The bigger trains for the commuter rail are a lot noisier. Although the train is very slow and sometimes too crowed to get on at least we have a train and bus system and it is only a minute or two walk to be at the station to catch the train. 5 In area nearby there are many **recreational possibilities** which are educational usually. Lively is not a word to describe Metro Boston but I do think Metro Boston is entertaining which is the third quality on the list for Gerhard Schmitt's first class on what makes a successful city. “The first is livability, second is Work” (or possibly volunteer) “and third is Entertainment.” When I am not being entertained by some event or something I find that everything I need is nearby as my home is **centrally located**. Although I am not sure how other New England people feel but if **culture** were food I feel we have the largest variety of good food in Metro Boston outside of New York City. I feel that Metro Boston has a lot of **culture** in terms of Architecture. **Question 3** To what extend does your own place of residence fulfill your ideal livability criteria? It fills the criteria currently between 95 and 99% . It used to be about 100 % . **The place I live has everything I need even a sense of community**. Once a year I have found a few of my neighbors in Brookline houses think community is important also they have a get to know your neighbor get together once a year in which people on my street and surrounding areas are invited for a pot luck. Unfortunately the outdoor neighbor Boston University become more and more unruly! **Question 4****What would you change?** If I were the mayor of my residence I would reprimand Boston University not following the rules. No company will be able to keep land that they acquired by secrecy or intimation or lying! People have to sign under the pains and penalties of perjury that they are telling the whole truth why shouldn't companies do the same? Especially companies that are supposed to be for the public good will be severely punished because everything is about acquiring land for them in Metro Boston! Universities are supposed to set a good example instead its almost always one of greed! The land that was acquired for pennies on the dollar in secret will go back to the public! The Bu/ New balance field that belonged to the plastics factory would be turned into a building called the people's house for true non- profits like starving artists for painting, bicycle repair store, farmers markets and meeting rooms for civic assembly, senior center with a public garden plots for residents to use at little cost. This building would create a true sense of community I would be excited to see it in my backyard where the plastics factory was! The skate boarding hoodlums that continued to harass and trespass and vandalize on the property of our homes will be arrested thrown in jail and the paraphernalia drugs /booze including skate board's will be burned to ashes because they have abused the right of having a skateboard! Party, cause destruction and pee in unison on your own swing set! If you want something that is disruptive or detrimental to neighbors do it on your own 100% owned and occupied territory if it is big enough not to bother anyone else then face the consequences! The park that was taken by Boston University again with no permission for all who lived near by will be converted back to a public park with lots of trees! If this isn't practical then it will be a pretty water cleaning park like in the lecture for this course (or was it the beginning one?) Some entrances would be changed to the other side as I would put a sound barrier on BU's side of the street to keep undergrads/fans who are animals in! The dead end that BU. turned into parking at the end of the street will be turned back into a turn around for cars. Unless signs can be put up not to turn around in the middle of the street least of all in the cross walk. Cars and trucks will be forced to go around the square similar to a rotary which will create no need for the triple parked cars to honk as the illegally parked cars and others turning around almost careen into each other. Lastly but not least for those residences that spent a life time paying for your house only to have some company create 24 hr. shade or noise around your home instead of in a more business type area you will be heavily fined with the fine going to the owner of the houses! In all newly buildings they would have to state clearly at all the times the actual address of the soon to be building. It would be law that the contractor in charge for has to divulge all plans for the cite! No posting vague ideas or ones turn out not to be true for the proposed cite to be developed! No more erasing recordings of questions asked by the public in meetings concerning anything to do with the public at large after the meeting is over! Private for profit companies have a lot rules and regulations- like for example day care centers or others. Private for profit companies spend the day filling out forms while nonprofits teachers the adults get vaccinated for Tuberculosis as the only requirement. Stop these supposed non-profits that pray on lone buildings and Mom and Dad owned buildings and the residents in them! Stop the rape and stealing for sport (means that you have the money but its easy so profit from it) of the buildings and areas near them that effect our homes! To rape one area of all resources and daily comforts and give money to another to look good it is not right and is not excusable! Nonprofits will need to obey zoning laws and will have rules and regulations! Read above if you still don't understand! As Mayor I would eliminate this double standard for many private companies! Very little Transit infrastructure in Metro Boston because companies do not want to take responsibility for all the traffic they bring in! Companies should have to put transit infrastructure in and train stops in their back yard for their clients, customers and the general public to use. After all business have fewer requirements than livable places where people live most days of the year including evenings. Everything that is undesirable goes to the abutters and when they are conquer the vultures the BU/New Balance then has new abutters which will be facing the same horrific problems. This is why all the housing surrounding us left one one wants to be the last one near BU! The most recent house that left BU. parked a bus on his lawn right next to his front windows! Companies would have to take responsibility for at least some transit infrastructure which would go in their backyard in an area that does not affect other residential buildings along with train stops in appropriate places for all people their workers, clients and customers as well as the general public. These train stops are not put where residential building can hear them very loudly! CSX was still more quiet than BU! Boston University sports teams and their owners would be paying for the police, fire and ambulance calls responders and the vehicles as well as the electricity for the private sports fields! These people are the ones that cause all the trouble and the expense! It is $100 an hour to light a baseball field and BU currently has three fields two that are twice the size of a baseball field! A Public house community center would create and maintain community among city dwellers. Most major cities have a district that has some true non-profits but we in Metro Boston don't even have one building! No Private universities do not count as non- profits – read above as to why! **Question 5** If I had to move and could afford to move anyplace I would like I would move into Courtyard Marriot 40 Webster Street, Coolidge Corner Brookline Massachusetts 02446 USA. Or maybe buy a home on Beals St. in upper Brookline – no one bedrooms are for rent. I would move across the street on the same street on which I now live- oh but wait the Brookline Police Armory was taken by BU. for 3 dollars so no transfer of our building and it's people on the same street is possible or is it? I wish I knew of some vacancies near Coolidge Corner a place we all know and love! It is nearly impossible to find another building like the one I call home other buildings cause me severe health problems. Yes too much irresponsible growth does not lead to a **Resilient City** definition chapter 19 the book "Information Cities for this course by Schmitt" Reference to being a lawyer in my building everyone in my building would know what the term "Public Nuisance " would mean. Public Nuisance such as in a vague Asbury Park ordinance that can apply to a number of situations. You can be charged with a public nuisance in Asbury Park due to the condition of a building, a barking dog as well as your actions of fighting and being drunk in public. A conviction for Public Nuisance in Asbury Park municipal court may lead to very serious fines and penalties. If you are facing a charge or summons for public nuisance in Asbury Park Municipal Court. In other words loud and or continual noise noise for several hours. Even Harvard Ave. residents who lived near by didn't want the skate boarders it creates a lot of noise when they land! Lucky for them they only had to wait a month for skate board shop to be kicked out ! Those photos I took where of three local food supermarkets, my local bed store, the closest library Brookline Coolidge Corner branch and more. I would have taken my local and best buy bicycle store but it was sold now going to be more apartments even thought we have no more parking and no room on the train most of the time especially during peak times and during Fenway park games! ![Urban area feels like country but everything a city has][2] ![Another good resturant][3] ![A line train that most people wanted to stay][4] I do not know how many I can post so please let me know if I need to re-post any. Some I cannot seem to find even though I took them yesterday. In terms of the Chaos and crime that happened with the expansion I don't know what the authorities are waiting for perhaps more BU Sports people to break into the train yard again and get run over because they passed out on the train tracks![skateboards fly in the middle of the street][5] [http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/][6] Map our transit all leads to the center then outwards ![local bed store][7] ![hangout circle jump curb trouble markers and noise][8] [1]: http://www.beankinney.com/publications-articles-dc-office-of-planning-takes-stand-against-pop-ups.html [2]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14614794364958761.jpg [3]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1461479618708078.jpg [4]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14614799089133619.jpg [5]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14614804893441364.jpg [6]: http://mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/ [7]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14614823597900952.jpg [8]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14614827385988967.jpg