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Friday, March 15, 2013

Boston Redevelopment Authority Approves 3% Salary Increase

All but nine senior staff members at the Boston Redevelopment Authority will receive their first raise in five years.

  Boston Redevelopment Authority staffers will receive raises for the first time in five years, the Boston Herald reported this week. With a budget separate from the city’s budget, the BRA recently approved 3 percent raises for all employees except for nine senior staff members, including Director Peter Meade and Chief Planner Kairos Shen. The increase puts eight staff members above the $100,000 salary level, for a total of 34 BRA employees who make six digits, according to the Herald. BRA spokeswoman Susan Elsbree told the newspaper that the raises represented a cost of living increase. BRA employees have worked without raises since 2008 and even received a pay cut one year, in 2009, the Herald reported. The BRA employs 207 people today—a…

Monday, August 20, 2012

Track West Roxbury Redevelopment Projects

Eleven steps major West Roxbury projects have to complete from proposal to final approval.

If you start with an open hand and close a finger for each time you can recall hearing the Boston Redevelopment Authority's name spoken in scorn, we suspect that you’ll end the exercise with a fist—perhaps a tightly-clenched one. The agency's rules can frustrate developers and designers, and its decisions often seem arcane and opaque to West Roxbury residents. But the Authority tries to be open, according to Heather Campisano, the authority’s Deputy Director for Development Review. As an example, she outlined in a conversation with Patch how the BRA handles input from the public on projects larger than 50,000 square feet. Major steps: To find out about the BRA’s meeting schedule, go to bostonredevelopmentauthority.org and check the “events…

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