A recently released planning report from the City of Boston shows officials plan to keep building in areas prone to flooding.
By Kayla Devon
The City of Boston recently released two city planning reports, "Climate Ready Boston" and "Imagine Boston 2030." Both reports identify sustaining current housing from climate change and growing resilient building.
However, as Stephen Gray, assistant professor of urban design at Harvard and a co-chairman for Boston’s 100 Resilient Cities Resilience Collaborative, points out in The Boston Globe, the reports entirely contradict each other. In fact, four of the five areas designated for development in the "Imagine Boston 2030" report were identified as highly prone to flooding due to climate change in the "Climate Ready Boston" report.