Planning Review Team
The character and quality of Boston's built environment influences how its residents and visitors move throughout the city. The Planning Review Team seeks to enhance mobility and help neighborhoods maintain their unique characteristics and high quality of life in the face of new development. The team works closely with the Urban Design Division in the Planning Department and the City’s Streets Cabinet (which includes the Public Works Department, Public Improvement Commission, and Boston Transportation Department) to ensure new development is appropriately mitigating its impacts on the surrounding neighborhood’s transportation networks, public spaces, and infrastructure. Ensuring planning and zoning consistency in the built environment is a core component of short-term planning. The team’s review of development proposals ensures consistency with planning policies and the zoning code.
This team reviews development proposals to ensure consistency with current planning policy and zoning standards. Staff collaborates with other members of the Planning Department and partners within the City of Boston to support the design, preservation, enhancement, and growth of neighborhoods through the application of the zoning regulations, consistency with City mobility policies, implementation of Boston’s Complete Street Guidelines, and incorporation of sustainable infrastructure recommendations. The Planning Review team also provides transportation planning support to the Zoning Reform and Comprehensive Planning teams.
Starting in October 2025, the team will be responsible for executing Transportation Access Plan Agreements (TAPAs), as well as the enforcement of all past TAPAs that were executed with the Boston Transportation Department (BTD).
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