RightSize2020

Did you vote NO on the referendum? We'd like to stay in touch.
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Thank you!

Thank you. Thank you to the 13,398 Newton residents who voted No today. We hope that this significant showing of voters will send a message to the leadership of Newton that we are not happy with the way we are being represented. We may not have won this referendum, but there will be future projects and we hope that our leadership will more carefully consider them, and listen.

The Campaign for Responsible Development just released the following press release:

Newton’s Voters Swayed by Northland’s Campaign Money Blitz
Newton, Mass.

Today Newton’s voters approved the zoning change that is required for Northland’s 1.4 million square foot development on Needham Street. In doing so, the voters chose to allow a developer to reap huge profits from a massive development that could result in a traffic and parking nightmare, overwhelm local schools and cost the city millions of dollars a year more than new tax revenues. The result of the vote, while disappointing, is understandable. Northland and its PR machine spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars spreading misinformation about the proposed development and instilling fear about potential alternatives. Many City Councilors and the Mayor aided in this spread of misinformation and fear. Many voters chose a bad project over the uncertainty of the alternative; and this was a difficult choice to make.

However, voters should not have been forced into such a dilemma! Had the City Council instead forced Northland to meaningfully address adjacent neighborhood concerns about this project during the Land Use process, we would all be looking forward to the day construction begins.

Instead, we worry about the potential impact on traffic, parking, schools, and the city’s finances from this development and we worry about the precedent it sets: a developer that refuses to address concerns gets to maximize profits, while our City takes on all the risks.

The Right Size Newton organization will continue to monitor the Northland project and make our concerns known to our elected and appointed officials to try to mitigate the damage to our community from this project.

Posted on a listserv this morning. This sums it up. City Council please listen.

And sending a message to the City Council which has been ramming through developer-friendly changes all over the place....the referendum is the only way that the rest of us have a voice left.

Vote No on selling off Newton to the highest bidder.

Voting Day. Please vote and urge friends and family. It is so important to vote today.
Thank you.

Well, Fran is doing the Yes GOTV. Unfortunately, she was told some lies. Don't believe what you hear. Have a listen to some of our videos below--for the truth.

Hear Tarik Lucas talk about why you should Vote No. See the headline--HUGE. And they aren't kidding.

Huge new development also on ballot for one city Voters will pass judgement on the future of 23 acres of their community.

Did you get a vote Yes voicemail today? Don't be fooled. They use words like: "unprecedented," "open space," "overwhelmingly," "negotiations".

As one, No supporter states, "to paraphrase Inigo Montoya: they keep using these words. I do not think they mean what they think they mean."

You keep using that word. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Watch Channel 5 News tonight at 4:30 and 5:30 and watch Tarik Lucas' interview.

Huge new development also on ballot for one city Voters will pass judgement on the future of 23 acres of their community.

Another Upper Falls resident speaks out about being involved in the Northland meetings from day 1 and was marginalized and not taken seriously.