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From YouTube: Zoning for Our Community of 3-29-22
Description
City of Chelsea, The City of Chelsea has partnered with the Anti-Displacement Roundtable and the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) to offer a four session Community Conversation Series on zoning and land use. This series is intended to give residents a deeper understanding of how zoning has shaped the Chelsea of today, and how zoning can contribute to a more equitable Chelsea of the future.
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Acknowledge
our
partners
in
the
tonight
team,
the
anti-displacement
roundtable,
chelsea
city,
council,
laboratory
and
a
number
of
partners
that
made
tonight
possible
and
have
collaborated
with
us
on
this
important
educational
campaign.
So
the
purpose
of
tonight
is
to
dive
into
the
intricacies
of
zoning.
Zoning
is
usually
this
very
boring.
Mundane
legalese
that
really
shapes
the
world
around
us.
It
dictates
how
neighborhoods
look
it
determines
whether
or
not
folks
can
afford
to
live
in
your
neighborhood
and
it's
responsible
for
causing
a
lot
of
the
displacement
that
we're
seeing
across
the
city
where
rents
are
going
up.
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Well,
thank
you
alex.
I
really
will
be
brief
because
there's
a
lot
of
content
to
get
through,
but
I
just
wanna
wanna.
Thank
you
all
for
coming
out,
it's
very
important
for
us
to
hear
from
the
community
as
we
think
about
making
some
changes
to
our
zoning.
There
are
some
efforts
we
have
in
mind,
but
we
certainly
don't
want
to
do
anything.
That's
contrary
to
the
best
interests
of
the
residents.
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Hopefully,
one
person's
speaking
at
a
time,
and
so
here
at
the
city
and
our
department.
Our
goal
is
to
create
and
support
equitable
fare
and
affordable
housing.
So
that's
why
we're
all
here
tonight?
Does
everyone
sound
like
you're
in
the
right
place,
and
these
are
good
community
agreements
for
discussion.
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Thank
you
ariana,
so
hello,
I'm
dana
thanks
for
having
us
here
in
chelsea
tonight,
I'm
also
joined
by
my
colleague
lily,
who
you'll
see
kind
of
wondering
about
and
taking
notes,
so
we're
going
to
start
off
with
you
all
doing
some
some
work
at
your
table.
I
know
people
are
sitting
kind
of
around
the
room.
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If
you
are
at
a
space
where
you
don't
have
materials,
raise
your
hand
we'll
make
sure
to
get
them
to
you
or
you
can
move
up
to
some
of
these
spaces
up
here,
but
on
your
tables,
you
have
a
bunch
of
maps.
One
of
them
is
a
redlining
map
that
shows
kind
of
how
how
government
programs
allowed
investment
in
communities
and
then
a
lot
of
other
data
on
those
maps.
So
we
want
you
just
to
take
eight
to
ten
minutes
at
your
table.
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What
patterns
do
you
see
what
questions
do
you
have
and
then
we'll
come
back
on
your
tables?
Please
make
a
note.
There's
a
lot
of
paper.
There's
sticky
notes,
there's
big
pieces
of
paper.
There's
pens,
please
make
sure
you're
taking
notes
so
that
all
of
the
thoughts
that
you're
having
at
those
spaces
we
will
be
collecting
and
using
as
we
go
forward
throughout
this
process.
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But
we
want
to
start
with
a
conversation
here
tonight
about
why
zoning
matters
why
you
know,
as
alex,
was
saying
it's
a
tool
that
the
city
can
and
should
use
for
the
benefit
of
the
residents
who
live
here.
But
why
does
it
matter
in
the
first
place,
so
we're
going
to
do
a
little
bit
of
a
background
here
before
we
get
going.
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So
what
is
zoning?
You
may
see
pictures
like
this.
You
may
see
graphs
and
charts,
but
essentially
zoning
is
a
law
that
local
governments
adopt
and
it
separates
land
into
different
sections
or
zones
and
there's
different
rules
that
govern
those
zones,
depending
on
how
they're,
qualified
and
generally
there's
three
main
areas
that
zoning
will
try
to
address.
So
the
first
is
the
use
or
the
function.
So
you
can
think
of
this,
like
residential,
where
people
live
commercial,
industrial,
they
also
address
the
the
shape
of
buildings.
So
are
they?
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You
know
three
stories
or
five
stories:
what's
the
bulk
of
it
on
on
a
site
as
well,
and
so
there's
a
lot
of
language
that
you're
going
to
be
hearing
as
we
move
forward,
but
that's
really
what's
essential
and
important
here
to
get
to
catch,
so
we
want
to
watch
a
video,
so
just
bear
with
us.
While
we
get
that
going
and
there
should
be
spanish
translation
at
the
bottom
here.
I
Works
in
america,
you
can
see
how
things
have
ended
up
this
way.
Once
you
see
it,
you
won't
be
able
to
unsee
it.
Okay,
let's
look
at
mlk
boulevard
in
boston.
I
want
to
show
you
how
to
see
housing,
segregation
in
schools
and
health
with
family
wealth
and
policing,
but
first
an
explanatory
compliment.
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It's
the
1930s
in
the
week
of
the
great
depression
fdr's
president.
He
wants
to
bring
economic
relief
to
millions
of
americans
through
a
collection
of
federal
programs
and
projects
called
the
new
deal.
One
part
of
that
new
deal
was
the
national
housing
act
of
mexico,
which
introduced
ideas
like
the
30-year
mortgage
and
low
fixed
interest
rates.
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On
these
holc
maps,
one
of
the
most
consistent
criteria
for
red
line
neighborhoods
is
the
presence
of
black
and
brown
people.
Let's
be
clear.
Studies
show
that
people
who
lived
in
red
line
areas
were
not
necessarily
more
likely
to
default
to
their
mortgages,
but
redlining
made
it
difficult,
if
not
impossible,
to
buy
or
refinance
so
landlords
abandon
their
property
city
services
become
unreliable
in
most
places,
crime
increases
and
property
values
drop.
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All
of
these
conditions.
Fester
for
30
years
as
white
people
lead
to
the
brand
new
suburbs
popping
up
all
over
the
country.
Many
of
those
suburbs
institute
rules
called
covenants
that
explicitly
forbid
selling
homes
to
black
people,
and
all
of
this
was
firstly
now
it's
1968
and
mlk
is
assassinated
good
evening.
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In
the
aftermath,
congress
passes
the
fair
housing
act
of
continuity.
It's
a
policy
meant
to
encourage
equal
housing
opportunities,
regardless
of
race
or
religion
or
national
origin,
and
it
offers
protections
for
future
homeowners
and
rentals,
but
it
does
little
to
fix
the
damage
already
done
over
the
next
50
years.
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The
fair
housing
act
is
rarely
enforced,
so
you
can
still
see
housing
segregation
and
its
effects
in
baltimore
and
often
along
any
mlk
boulevard
in
any
u.s
city,
like
its
effects
on
go
so
home
ownership
is
the
major
way
americans
create
wealth,
right,
well,
discrimination
and
housing
is
the
major
reason
that
black
families
up
and
down
the
income
scale,
have
a
tiny
fraction
of
the
family
wealth
that
white
families
do
even
white
families
with
less
education
and
lower
incomes.
For
almost
30
years,
98
of
fha
loans
were
handed
out
to
white
farmers.
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Here's
the
feedback,
the
better
the
schools
in
the
neighborhood,
the
more
those
homes
in
that
neighborhood
are
worth,
and
the
higher
the
property
values
of
those
homes,
the
more
money
there
is
for
schools
and
so
on,
and
so
on
and
housing
segregation
and
health.
Because
of
urban
planning
that
benefited
those
richer
whiter.
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And
not,
coincidentally,
people
of
color
have
higher
incidences
of
certain
cancers,
asthma
and
heart
disease
and
housing.
Segregation
in
policing,
housing.
Segregation
means
we
are
having
vastly
different
experiences
with
crime
and
vastly
different
experiences
with
policing,
because
our
neighborhoods
are
so
segregated.
Sometimes,
racial
profiling
can
be
camouflaged
as
spatial
profiling,
whereas
living
in
certain
areas
can
make
you
more
likely
to
be
stopped
by
the
police.
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Next
there
we
go.
Thank
you,
so
I
think
we
want
to.
We
wanted
to
show
that,
because
we
want
folks
to
understand
kind
of
the
history
of
zoning.
Zoning
in
his
intent
is
laudable.
It's
a
valuable
intent
to
separate
harmful
uses
from
where
people
live
where
people
work,
but
in
history
it
has
been
used
in
a
very
negative
way.
H
So
this
is
a
quote
from
a
book
called
the
color
of
law,
and
you
can
see
here.
Our
system
of
official
segregation
was
not
the
result
of
a
single
law
that
consigned
african
americans
to
this
designated
neighborhood
rather
scores
of
the
racially
explicit
laws,
regulations
and
government
practices
to
combine
to
create
a
nationwide
system
of
urban
ghettos,
surrounded
by
white
suburbs.
H
So
zoning
is
the
system
of
land
use
regulations
that
most
american
cities
and
towns
use
and
again
it
defines
what
kind
of
building
can
be
built
on
a
plot
of
land.
It
has
a
long
history.
It
was
adopted
for
land
uses
specifically
back
in
germany
in
the
late
19th
century
and
adopted
in
the
united
states
in
the
early
20th
century
again
for
very
good
reasons
to
protect
people,
but
it
ended
up
being
used
in
many
ways
in
the
negative.
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Most
of
the
early
momentum
for
zoning
actually
came
from
urban
reformers
and
progressives,
but
the
movement
for
zoning
grew
as
jim
crow
laws
were
being
enacted
in
the
south
and
border
states
and
then
it
kind
of
grew
beyond
so.
Zoning
really
became
a
valuable
tool
for
segregationist
efforts
to
legally
enforce
separation
and,
as
you
saw
in
the
video
early
zoning
laws,
explicitly
forbade
african-americans
from
living
in
certain
districts
and
only
allowed
them
to
live
in
designated
areas.
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They
were
creating
single-family
districts
rather
than
explicitly
saying.
African-Americans
can't
live
here,
and
actually
there
was
a.
This
is
a
piece
from
a
primer
that
came
out
in
1921
the
national
advisory
committee
on
zoning,
frederick
law
olmsted,
who
some
of
you
may
know,
he's
a
massachusetts
resident
and
an
architect
and
planner.
He
said
in
any
housing
developments
which
are
to
succeed.
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Chelsea
was
first
known
as
minnesota,
and
the
native
people
who
were
here
the
massachusetts
tribe
were
lived
there
until
the
land
was
conquered
by
the
english
settlers,
and
you
know
there
was
displacement,
it's
the
anti-displacement
round
table
and
then
in
the
1900s
chelsea
had
an
industrial
boom
and
chelsea
became
a
very
dense
city.
A
lot
of
immigrants
moved
here.
K
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50
of
chelsea,
the
yellow
55
was
definitely
declining
and
45.
The
red
was
considered
hazardous.
Okay.
This
is
our
entire
city,
not
just
some
neighborhoods
of
it.
So
it's
interesting
just
to
understand
its
history.
This
is
due
to
things
like
the
infiltration
of
jewish
families
and
foreign-born
families.
It
meant
that
chelsea
residents
could
not
access
government
loans
and
this
kept
them
from
becoming
homeowners.
K
So
this
is
this:
is
our
local
history
quickly
to
other
other
key
moments
in
the
house
in
the
history
of
land
use
in
chelsea,
the
tobin
bridge?
Everyone
goes
over.
The
tobin
bridge,
hundreds
of
households
were
displaced
when
the
tobin
bridge
cut
right
through
the
middle
of
chelsea
many
of
your
families.
Many
of
you
can
you
know
there
are
people
here,
I'm
sure
if
you
can
remember
that
or
who
have
parents
or
uncles
or
aunts
who
were
here
when
the
tobin
bridge
went
through
next
slide.
K
Please,
fire
chelsea's
landscape
has
been
defined
by
a
history
of
fires
that
wiped
out
big
areas
and
we
started
you
know,
had
to
do
with
the
industry.
So
there's
like
everything
is
connected
together.
1908
over
1500
homes
were
lost,
1973,
1,
000
people
were
displaced,
300
homes
were
lost
and
again
many
people
in
this
room
have
families
who
have
experienced
this
few
other
landmarks,
1991
chelsea,
went
into
receivership.
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The
impact
on
public
health
was
significant
and
afterwards
also
the
widespread
loss
of
income
and
people
getting
sick.
Many
many
people
are
facing
eviction.
This
is
our
continued
legacy.
We
are
living
the
history
of
chelsea
now
so
housing
today
in
chelsea,
74
of
households
in
chelsea
are
renters
between
2011
and
2016.
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Means
that
they
pay
more
than
30
of
their
income
in
rent
at
47
of
massachusetts,
renters
54
of
properties
in
chelsea
have
had
a
housing
code
violation
and
of
those
85
of
those
were
classified
as
high
risk,
so
there's
a
little
snippet
of
housing.
Now
now
it
impacts
the
impacts
of
redlining
zoning
and
landscape
policies
go
beyond
housing.
You
saw
that
picture
of
the
factory
at
the
end
of
the
last
slide.
We
all
know,
chelsea
is
highly
industrial,
so
living
in
red
line
areas
has
been
linked
to
many
present
day.
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K
Please
wrap
up
what
you're
writing
what
you're
thinking,
what
you're
saying
and
I
would
love
to
hear
just
a
couple.
We
have
a
lot
of
people
here
and
we
don't
have
a
lot
of
time
for
a
full
group
thing,
but
can
we
actually
zoom
this
back
out
to
the
tube
thanks,
so
you
started
off
the
evening
looking
at
these
maps
and
then
saw
a
video
learned
a
little
bit
about
zoning
a
little
bit
about
the
history
of
chelsea.
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Now.
What
this
is
is
this
is
our
zoning
map
today,
so
they
mean
very
different
things.
This
is
remnant
three
three
three
unit
residences.
This
is
our
two.
This
is
our
one.
So
just
looking
at
that,
do
you
see
similarities
between
our
two,
our
two,
our
three
and
our
ones?
When
you
look
at
the
colors
there.
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Laws
and
regulations
that
regulate
land
use,
for
example
in
chelsea
there
is,
what's
called
the
designated
court
area.
It's
a
state
regulation
that
limits
uses
in
this
area
to
water
related
industrial
uses
with
residential
there.
You
can't
put
open
space
there.
You
can
only
do
industry
that
that
needs
to
be
on
the
water.
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Yeah,
what's
the
difference
between
r1,
it
depends
on
what
level
development
you
can
do.
I
want
500
square
feet
and
you
can
do
one
to
two
steps:
all
right,
two
missions
with
five
thousand
square
feet.
You
can
do
one
two
and
three
and
minimum
ten
thousand
five
hundred
squishy.
You
can
do
three
similar
5000
square
feet
and
just
the
level
of
density
that
you
put
in.
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So
you
want
to
do
zoning.
This
is
the
process.
You
do
you
go
to
the
building
department,
special
services
department.
They
will
apply
for
a
building,
permit,
they
look
at
your
building
permit
and
they
review
it
to
determine
if
it
complies
with
zones.
If
the
price
is
zoning,
they
can
issue
the
permit,
if
not,
they
send
it
to
the
sony
board
for
whatever
firm
you
need
special
permit
or
site
plan
for
you.
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The
question
was,
how
does
a
building
is
need
for
parking?
How
does
it
benefit
the
rest
of
the
community
generally?
They
have
to
provide
some
reasoning
for
finding
our
property,
for
example,
especially
if
it's
all
affordable,
there's
generally
fewer
cars
for
an
all-affordable
development.
So
it
makes
sense
that
you
would
allow
for
something.
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Once
you
do
that,
the
city
council
will
review
it,
they
will
send
it
to
the
planning
board
the
plan
for
the
former
public
hearing
on
it.
You
are
entitled
to
attend
that
meeting
and
make
comments
lately.
Lord
will
then
make
a
recognition
recommendation
on
that
dawning.
Member
of
the
city
council
city
council
will
hold
the
public
hearing
and
again.
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So
if
you
can
take
one
picture,
that
represents
what
you
learned
today
in
a
photo
of
zoning
results
that
you
like
in
chelsea
and
then
one
photo
of
zoning
results
that
you
don't
like
in
chelsea
and
you
can
either
print
it
and
bring
it
or
you
can
text
each
picture
to
these
phone
numbers.
So
here's
an
example.
These
are
mine.