Another choose has dominated in favor of Boston within the battle of the bridge, shifting town nearer to rebuilding the highway to Long Island.
A Suffolk Superior Court choose on Thursday rejected Quincy’s attraction of a certification below the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act, ruling that the state’s prime environmental official has the facility to grant the proposed bridge from Moon Island in Quincy out to Boston’s Long Island one in all its assorted requisite permits.
This was the one excellent attraction on one of many permits following a Supreme Judicial Court ruling earlier this week on a neighborhood one as Boston continues to attempt to construct a bridge out to a potential future addiction-recovery campus on the island. Long Island previously was residence to 1, but it surely closed when town needed to demo the prevailing bridge in 2014 over structural considerations.
Wu stated in a press release, “The decisions this week are the latest affirmation of Boston’s approach to exploring the potential of Long Island to connect our residents with substance use disorder services and housing supports. We look forward to collaborating with regional partners to ensure that every person impacted by substance use has a path to a stable recovery and housing.”
Now all the native and state permits and certificates have been dominated on, so the remaining hurdles are one federal and two state OKs that town’s utilized for. Boston has usually received in court docket within the assorted Long Island bridge instances, and metropolis officers have stated they anticipate to have allowing finished by the tip of the yr.
Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch’s chief of employees Christopher Walker stated town’s weighing its choices on the MEPA resolution, however is prone to attraction.
“We remain steadfast in believing the bridge proposal is seriously deficient both environmentally and structurally and we will continue to be making that case in multiple venues going forward,” Walker stated.
Superior Court Judge Rosemary Connolly busted out some mournful prose as she waxed philosophical as she dominated on the case.
“Perhaps in other circumstances, building a bridge between two communities would be welcomed,” the choose wrote. “However, here instead of bridging a divide, the structure itself is the source of the divide.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”