He worked to make Chicago business-friendly and oversaw a development boom as the city became a major destination for professionals.
The measure, which passed with nearly 64% of the vote, was pitched by its backers as a way to add more affordable housing in an expensive city undergoing a development boom.
Thanks to a development boom in Spain and Portugal, HomeAway.com listings by owners there have surged.
But a continuing development boom has threatened the city's watershed as never before.
Consequently, with the emergence of the PMIPv6 protocol, a new development boom for IP mobile multicast has been launched.
Critics have decried the public benefits as inadequate, but Mayor Ed Lee, a booster of the city's tech and development boom, hailed them as a win for a waterfront undergoing a renaissance.
Dock and wharf closures from the late 1960s prompted a second, privately driven development boom.
Still, he's worried many projects might not be financially viable if land prices continue to rise as they have during this development boom.
The culprit in the development boom, as Mr. Lombardi sees it, is neither the aggressive developers nor the lenient planning board, but the descendants of the original landowners.
As development boomed across Westchester in the 1990's, Yonkers languished, stained by corrupt politics and stinging accusations of racism.
