More skyscrapers up to 700 feet tall were cleared to be built downtown with the approval of a contentious zoning plan by the Boston Zoning Commission. The Zoning Commission voted, 10-0, Wednesday to ...

The new zoning changes recently approved for downtown — paving the way for taller skyscrapers — could have detrimental effects on the venerated cherry blossoms, weeping willows and tulips of Boston’s ...