The group of Charlestown Navy Yard residents said the BPDA failed to consider their public comments and concerns about a project that would turn the Constitution Inn into 100 units of affordable housing.
A group of Charlestown residents is suing Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the city’s urban planning agency to stop the conversion of a former hotel into affordable and permanent supportive housing.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court by 11 Charlestown homeowners, takes aim at a Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) project that would renovate 147 hotel rooms at the Constitution Inn, located in the Navy Yard, into 100 rent-restricted residential units. Residents claim in the initial filing that BPDA approval of the project violated their First Amendment rights and that its implementation could cause “significant adverse harms.”
The project would set aside units for women and veterans and would incorporate a program tailored toward supporting people dealing with homelessness. The rest of the space would be rented back to the YMCA to use for their existing gym and swimming pool.