“The Downtown’s deferred zoning update has abruptly lost one of its core propositions, replacing a pay-for-height proposal with new ‘skyline districts’ and leaving compensation for that height to the yet undecided Article 80 process.
“The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) outlined the changes in an April 9 public meeting on PLAN: Downtown, a sweeping set of reforms that drastically changes downtown zoning to allow more businesses and, in some places, increases the maximum building height by hundreds of feet.
“PLAN: Downtown was supposed to be resolved back in November but proved controversial enough to delay full adoption and split into three parts to be debated separately this year.
“Now PLAN: Downtown seems to have lost its central ‘height bonus’ model that allowed developers to build by right up to state shadow and aviation limits in exchange for proportional donations to a community fund.’’
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