Pouring it on: Smith Street Developer Seems Likely to get all Seven Stories

“The pen may be mightier than the sword — but it’s not always faster than a real-estate developer with a concrete truck.

The city is aiming to use a stroke of a pen to limit the size of new buildings on many blocks in Carroll Gardens, but it doesn’t look like the new zoning will be approved in time to force developer Billy Stein to reduce the scale of his controversial Smith Street project.”