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Article: ZONES WOULD LET INDUSTRY TAKE ROOT WITHOUT THREAT OF ENCROACHMENT NEW PLAN FOR LIGHT MANUFACTURING OFFERED
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 1988
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CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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If politics is the art of the possible, then zoning is the
art of the achievable.
That's as good an explanation as any for the new look of
Boston's proposed light manufacturing districts. Six months after
city planners saw their original idea pummeled by critics, the
zones are back before the public -- this time, planners say, in a
palatable version.
"We thought we had a carrot at the beginning, but some owners
thought it was a stick," says Marilyn Swartz Lloyd, the Flynn
administration's chief industrial planner. "People are always
concerned about change. They needed more information and more
reassurances."
As director of the Economic Development and Industrial Corp.,
Swartz ...