As a neighborhood activist all my life, now in East Boston, I have been following this ongoing story concerning the creation of new districts within Downtown Boston (“Zoning chair to recuse on key vote,” Boston Herald, Oct. 21). The real story here isn’t the recusing of the Zoning Board chair but of the push to rezone the area in question to keep building more high-end housing downtown.

I read of the support of this plan by the Downtown Boston Alliance which represents commercial property owners. I am opposed to the creation of new skyline districts where buildings would be zoned for 500-700 foot towers.

According to supporters of PLAN: Downtown, passage of the proposal “is critical for completing the neighborhood’s needed transformation such that it can align with a new normal.”

NEW NO

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