Article: NURTURING BLUE-COLLAR JOBS

A Flynn administration proposal to set up zoning districts devoted to light manufacturing would help preserve blue-collar jobs. To defuse opposition from real estate interests, the administration should emphasize that the proposal is part of a package designed to encourage manufacturing in Boston.

The zoning plan, presented to the Boston Redevelopment Authority last week, ran into a barrage of opposition from property owners; some manufacturers even said the proposal would harm their businesses. The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce supported the concept, but called the proposal as written "a negative intervention by government."

A light-manufacturing category would be intervention, ...

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