Boston city councilors agreed yesterday it’s time to modify city zoning regulations to make it easier to build more of the city’s iconic triple deckers as a way to help ease the city’s housing shortage.
Councilor Henry Santana (at large), who introduced the proposal, said that triple deckers once provided a relatively inexpensive way for families, immigrants and others to get their start in Boston and that there’s no reason not to try to encourage mass production of the units once more, save the prejudices of a century ago against poor people.
It now goes to the council’s Committee on Planning, Development and Transportation for a hearing and possible drafting of a zoning change…