BPDA Resilience, Affordability, Equity Partner Organization Challenge

Instructions

Please briefly respond to the six questions on this form (also listed on the RAE Challenge section of the website). When answering each question, consider planning, pre-construction, construction, and post-construction impacts. In your response, describe specific exemplary practice(s) or deliverable(s) and how those advance our Resilience, Affordability and Equity (RAE) goals. More important than the narrative is the measurable outcomes the project or plans should seek to achieve. Be specific about what needs to be measured and the expected result.

Use the RAE Resources Page as a guide to answer the questions in this Challenge. The additional links and specific examples provide detail and context to aid responses about city goals and potential outcomes. 

If you have questions or comments about this form, please contact Kristiana Lachiusa, Deputy Director of Community Engagement, at kristiana.lachiusa@boston.gov.


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Questionnaire

1. Context. What are the primary ways that a project or plan should contribute to, fit within, or advance BPDA and City planning and urban design visions for Boston’s squares, corridors, and built environment? What are the aspects of a project or plan that embrace its place within the neighborhood and community where it is proposed, and strengthen the social, cultural, artistic, and linguistic interactions within the design of the architecture and public realm?

General Outcomes.  Include specific metrics that quantify and measure these outcomes.

2. Resilience. What are the primary ways a project or plan should address issues of climate resilience? List the top ways in which projects or plans have a positive impact on Green Building and Zero Net Carbon, Coastal Resilience, and Climate Ready Boston, including Heat Island Reduction, Urban Forestry, groundwater recharge and stormwater management.

Resilience Outcomes.  For each issue listed, describe what data-specific outcomes developers should measure as validation. 

3. Affordability. What metrics could be used to determine whether a project or plan will meet City goals of providing affordable places for Boston residents to live, work and play? Summarize what aspects of projects or plans address affordability and growth without displacement. Furthermore, address how these affordability goals would reinforce the City’s updated focus on planning for the built environment, namely to enhance mobility, support transit utilization, improve access to a range of uses, goods, services, arts, and culture, retain and encourage growth for local and small businesses, provide affordable day care, etc.

Affordability Outcomes.  For each goal listed, describe what data-specific outcomes you propose should be measured as validation. Please provide a breakdown of units by tenure, price/rent, unit size, and income-restriction.

4. Equity. What are the primary ways that projects or plans can affirmatively further fair housing and address the broader issues of wealth inequality and wealth creation in communities of color and low-income communities, the concentration of poverty, community engagement, historical neighborhood impacts, the creation of a sense of community belonging and lasting, both in terms of the development team and the development itself?

In addition, please include responses related to DEI-oriented development goals, and/or MWBE business development, including but not limited to:

- pre-development (e.g., development entity, ownership, equity and debt investment, design, engineering, legal, other consultants);

- construction (e.g., general contractor, sub-contractor, trades, workers performing construction, suppliers, engineering, and professional and other services such as landscaping, catering, fuel supply, rental equipment, etc.);

- ongoing operations (e.g., building tenants, facilities management, contracted services).

Equity Outcomes.  For each goal listed, describe what data-specific outcomes you propose should be measured as validation.

5. Innovation. Are there other innovative or unique resilience, affordability, and equity impacts - preferably measurable ones - that projects or plans can address? 

6. Prioritization. What aspects of projects or plans should we consider prioritizing to exceed certain resilience, affordability, and equity standards?

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