Boston City Council, MA / Planning, Development & Transportation

Planning, Development & Transportation Hearing - Docket #1293, Communication re: a filing from the BPDA re: inclusionary zoning changes to the Boston Zoning Code.

Planning, Development & Transportation Hearing-Dockets #0104-Confirmation of the appointment of Alaa Mukahhal as a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals. #1283- Confirmation of the appointment of Raheem Shepard as a member of the Boston Planning and Development Board. #1285- Confirmation of the appointment of Priscilla Rojas as a member of the Boston Planning and Development Board.

Planning, Development & Transportation Hearing- Docket #0864- Message and order for your approval of the receipt of a Preservation Restriction on Hayden Building, 681-683 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111-1611

Planning, Development & Transportation - Docket #0343- Order for a hearing regarding calling for a moratorium on all development on all city owned land in district seven prior to the request for proposal process.

Planning, Development, & Transportation - Docket #0342, Order for a hearing to discuss the recovery and revitalization of the taxi industry

Planning, Development & Transportation Hearing

Dockets #0379 Order for a hearing calling for District Increment Financing (DIF) to be utilized in District Seven.

#0413 - Order for a hearing to discuss District Improvement Financing (DIF) from Kosciuszko Circle through Morrissey Boulevard Corridor.

Planning, Development & Transportation Hearing - Docket #0324 - Message and order temporarily extending Urban Renewal Plans in the City of Boston until March 31, 2025 or passage of a proposed relevant Home Rule Petition

Planning, Development & Transportation Hearing - Dockets #1171-1173, 1176-1179, 1212, confirmations of ZBA appointments and reappointments

Docket #0191, zoning relief for affordable projects

Docket #1099 & #1100 - Order to declare surplus the parcel of land currently owned by the City of Boston located at Harrison Avenue and at Washington in the Roxbury District and to transfer the parcels to the Public Facilities Commission for the care, custody, management and control of said parcels

Docket #0376 - A grant for accelerating clean transportation for all

Docket #0192 - Hearing regarding using planning and land-use tools for public good.

Docket #0314 - re: An order beginning the process of sunsetting urban renewal in the City of Boston until December 31, 2022

Docket #1023 - re: Communication was received from Susan L. Sullivan executive Director Newmarket Business Association regarding the proposed petition for Newmarket Business Improvement District

Docket #0849 - Message and order for your approval of the receipt of a Preservation Restriction Agreement on 41 Melrose Street, Boston, Ma 02116 by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities d/b/a Historic New England

Docket #0372 - Hearing on the status of the Zoning Board of Appeals Executive Order and Home Rule Petition

Dockets #0726, 0812-0814 - Declare surplus City-owned former Commonwealth of Massachusetts parcel located at Melnea Cass Boulevard in the Roxbury and transfer the care and custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission; Massachusetts Gaming Commission Grants to be administered by the Transportation Department to fund the Lost Village Project in the Charlestown neighborhood and a portion of the design cost under the Tetra Tech contract for the Sullivan Square/Rutherford Avenue Project and authorizing the City of Boston Conservation Commission to receive a property located at Morrison Street (unnumbered) in Roslindale

Docket 0330 - Hearing to discuss zoning and the community outreach process for life sciences laboratories in the City of Boston

Dockets #0102, #0103, #0389 - Order for the City of Boston Conservation Commission to receive a property identified as 0 Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury; Preservation Restriction Agreement on the Aldrich House located at 59 Mount Vernon Street, Boston; declare surplus City-Owned former Boston Transportation Department parcels of land and transfer the care, custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission, the land is located at: 18 Hamlet Street, Dorchester.

Docket #0204 – Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Alisa Drayton to the Board of Directors of the Boston Industrial Development Finance Authority for a term expiring April 1, 2025.

Docket #0347 – Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Three Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($360,000.00) in the form of a grant awarded by the Boston Redevelopment Authority with the purpose of funding a staff position in the Boston Transportation Department for three (3) years, under a Memorandum of Agreement, to assist in the implementation of transportation and infrastructure improvements associated with BPDA and Boston Transportation Department planning initiatives in the City’s neighborhood

Docket #0559 - City of Boston Conservation Commission to receive a property located at 108 Walter Street in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston.

Docket #0356 - Hearing regarding Community voice in Impact Advisory groups

Docket #0214 - Hearing regarding an Allston-Brighton Master Plan and Zoning Initiative.

Docket #0212 - Hearing regarding zoning relief for 100% affordable and deeply affordable housing projects.

Docket #0104 – Message and order to declare surplus City-owned former Public Works Department parcel property known as Windsor Street in the Roxbury District (Ward 09 Parcel 02025020) will transfer the care, custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission.

Docket #0105 – Message and order to declare surplus two City-owned former Public Works Department parcels, to transfer the care, custody, management, and control of said properties to the Public Facilities Commission. The parcels are located in the Roxbury District at: Tremont Street (Ward 09 Parcel 02240020) and Melnea Cass Boulevard (Ward 9 Parcel 02225005).

Dockets #0181 - Hearing regarding potential zoning amendments to be proposed by the Boston Groundwater Trust.

Docket #0109 - Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Sherry Dong as a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals for a term expiring July 1, 2021. Referred to committee on 11/18/2020.

Docket #0110 - Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Bethany Patten as a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals for a term expiring July 1, 2021. Referred to committee on 11/18/2020.

Docket #0111 - Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Mayra Negron-Roche to the Board of Directors of the Boston Industrial Development Finance Authority for a term expiring April 1, 2024. Referred to committee on 7/29/2020.

Docket #0125 - Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Michael P. Monahan as a member of the Boston Redevelopment Authority for a term expiring August 23, 2023. Referred to committee on 1/25/2021

Dockets #0195, 0247, 0363-0365, 0689, 0859-0860, 0910 -
Grants to fund various Transportation Projects in the City of Boston

Docket # 0984 - Hearing to review the Melnea Cass Blvd Design Project

Docket #1074 - Hearing to discuss speeding cars as a public health emergency and address infrastructure improvements.

Docket #1040 - Hearing to discuss pedestrian safety, traffic enforcement, and vision zero.

Dockets #0738 0743, 0866 0867, 0918 0921- Message and orders for the confirmation of Appointments and Reappointments to the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission, Boston Landmarks Commission, Zoning Commission and the Board of Directors of the Boston Industrial Development Finance Authority

Docket #0424 - Hearing discussing the status of Late Night MBTA Service in Greater Boston

Docket #0981 - Order for a hearing regarding zoning relief for 100% affordable and deeply affordable projects

Dockets #0252 & 0917 - A meeting on ZBA appointments

Docket #0662 - Hearing regarding implementing changes for safe streets during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Dockets #0662 - Hearing regarding implementing changes for safe streets during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

COMMITTEE MEETING re: Zoning Board of Appeals Appointments

Docket #0584 - Planning for an equitable recovery from the impacts of COVID-19

Dockets #0106 - 0128 - re: Various confirmation of appointments

Docket #1594 - Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Wen Wen, as an alternate member of the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission for a term expiring on May 1, 2023

Docket #1595 - Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Matthew Blumenthal, as an alternate member of the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission for a term expiring on May 1, 2024

Docket #1596 - Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Arian Allen, as an alternate member of the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission for a term expiring on May 1, 2024

Docket 1597 - Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Alice Richmond, as an alternate member of the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission for a term expiring on May 1, 2020

Docket #0647 - Hearing regarding a text amendment for Boston Zoning Code relative to Fair Housing and Integrated Communities

Docket # 0545 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a the amount of Fifty-Eight Thousand Nine Hundred Sixteen Dollars ($58,916.00) in the form of a Recreational Trails Program grant, awarded by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs/Department and Conservation and Recreation, to be administered by the Boston Transportation Department. The grant will fund additional expenses, fees, and professional services beyond what was originally anticipated for a new, accessible gateway and path in the Arnold Arboretum from the Bussey Street Underpass in Roslindale.


Docket # 0665 – Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a the amount of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) in the form of a grant awarded by the Boston Redevelopment Authority d/b/a the Boston Planning and Development Agency , pursuant to the 135 Morrissey Boulevard Cooperation Agreement. The purpose of the grant is to facilitate planning, design and capital improvements at and adjacent to the MBTA’s JFK/UMASS Station.


Docket # 0970 – Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a the amount of Two Hundred Sixty Thousand Dollars ($260,000.00) in the form of a grant awarded by the Boston Redevelopment Authority d/b/a the Boston Planning and Development Agency, pursuant to the Winthrop Square Cooperation Agreement, One Post Office Square Cooperation Agreement and the 15-19 Congress Street Cooperation Agreement. The purpose of the grant is to facilitate planning and design for the Seaport to North Station Rapid Bus Corridor, which was identified in the Go Boston 2030 as a key future rapid bus corridor.

Docket #1111 - Petition of Flixbus, Inc., for a license to operate motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for hire over certain streets in Boston

Docket #0738 - Hearing regarding biannual update of the Boston Planning & Development Agency Urban Renewal Program

Docket #1106 - Order for a hearing on a Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program Action Grant for the Joseph Moakley Park in South Boston

DOCKET #1051
Message and order to declare surplus City-owned former Transportation Department parcels with vacant land and transfer the care, custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission. The land is located at 40-50 Warren Street in the Roxbury District (Ward 08, Parcel 02550000)

Docket #1045 - Hearing regarding the expansion of City development requirements with a focus on achieving baseline tree preservation and total tree capacity on a development site

Docket #0879 - Hearing on the proposed North-South Rail Link

Dockets #0101 - 0103, 0504 - 0508 - Confirmations of the Appointments or Re-appointments to the Board of Directors of the Boston Industrial Development Finance Authority or to the Boston Zoning Commission

Dockets #0338 - 0342, 0775, 0776- Confirmations of the Appointments or Re-appointments to the Zoning Board of Appeal

#0777 - Confirmations of an Appointment the Boston Audit Committee

Docket #0736 - Boston Planning & Development Agency biannual Urban Renewal Upgrade Progress

Docket #0174 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend a grant from the Boston Planning and Development Agency in an amount not to exceed One Million Five Hundred Two Thousand and Fifty Dollars ($1,502,050.00) for the cost related to the design and construction of the Harrison Avenue Complete Street Corridor Project

Docket #0447 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) in the form of a grant awarded by MCAF Winthrop, LLC pursuant to the 115 Winthrop Square Redevelopment Project Cooperation Agreement. The Purpose of the grant is to fund a bus rapid transit plan as described in the project’s Transportation Access Plan Agreement

Docket #0131 - Hearing regarding the use of public ways

Docket #0347 - Hearing regarding MBTA's Better Bus Project

Docket #0107 - Message and order for approval to authorize a sale of a certain portion of public way known as Gold Street.

Docket #1511 - Hearing regarding city regulation of the proximity of certain businesses to recovery facilities

Dockets #1538 and #1539

Docket #1538 – Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00), in the form of a Community Mitigation Fund Transportation Planning Grant from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, to be administered by the Boston Transportation Department. The grant will fund engineering and design services for the reconstruction of Sullivan Square / Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown

Docket #1539 – Message and order for the confirmation of the appointment of Jeffrey Gonyeau as an alternate member of the Boston Landmarks Commission for a term expiring on June 30, 2021

Docket #1273 - Order for a hearing regarding the South Boston Seaport Waterfront and the South Boston Seaport Transit Strategic Plan

Docket #1087 - Message and order to declare surplus City-owned former Public Works Department parcels of vacant land and the transfer of the care, custody, management and control of said property to Public Facilities Commission. The land located at 400 Frontage Road in South Boston being Ward 08, Parcel 01024040, 200 Frontage Road in South Boston being Ward 08, Parcel 01024035 and Frontage Road in South Boston being Ward 08, Parcels 01024036, 01024107 and 01024037

Docket #1327 - Hearing regarding Boston Speed Limits and Pedestrian Safety

Dockets #1083, 1236, 1239 - Various grants to fund Efficiency and Regionalization, FY19 Success Link Employment Program, and Survey and Planning

Docket #0267 - Order that the Boston Planning and Development Agency continue biannual Urban Renewal updates to the Boston City Council.

Docket #1169 - Order for a hearing regarding dockless mobility and electric scooters in the City of Boston.

Docket #0170 - A hearing to examine plans regarding reconstruction of the Long Island Bridge and the reopening of service facilities.

Docket #0818 - Hearing regarding Land Disposition and Stewardship

Docket #1087 - Message and order to declare surplus City-owned former Public Works Department parcels of vacant land and the transfer of the care, custody, management and control of said property to Public Facilities Commission. The land located at 400 Frontage Road in South Boston being Ward 08, Parcel 01024040, 200 Frontage Road in South Boston being Ward 08, Parcel 01024035 and Frontage Road in South Boston being Ward 08, Parcels 01024036, 01024107 and 01024037

Docket #1159 - Petition for Above All Transportation, for a license to operate motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for hire over certain streets in Boston

Hearing on (Dockets #0506, 0807, 0980) Message and orders declaring surplus various parcels and transferring the care, custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission

Dockets #0808, 1024 - Message and orders transferring parcels from discontinued street parcels to sale parcels.

Docket #0720 - Hearing regarding an East Boston zoning initiative and master plan

Docket #0173 - Order for a hearing regarding Boston’s Resident Parking Permit Program

Docket #0175 - Order for a hearing regarding Equitable Access to Public Transportation with a Cashless Fare Collection System

Docket #0617 - Jitney Petition for Local Motion of Boston for a license to operate motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for hire over certain streets in Boston

Docket #0718 - Jitney Petition for Limo Liner, LLC for a license to operate motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for hire over certain streets in Boston

Docket #0449 - As-Of-Right Zoning Projects and Exploring Imposing Notice Requirements and Other Community-Informed Conditions

Docket #0332 - Hearing regarding a petition to establish the Greenway Business Improvement District (BID)

Docket #0291 - Order for a hearing to discuss flooding in the City of Boston

Docket #0286 - A hearing regarding surplus parcels on Condor Street in East Boston

Docket #0267 - Boston Planning & Development Agency biannual Urban Renewal Update to the Boston City Council

DOCKET #0168- Hearing on a medical marijuana dispensary at 1524 VFW Parkway in West Roxbury

Docket #0139- A hearing regarding two grants from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, for a cumulative amount of $250,000, the purposes of which are to fund a portion of the City's cost for the design of the Rutherford Avenue/Sullivan Square Project

Docket #1488 - A hearing order regarding a medical marijuana dispensary at 50 Clapp Street.

Docket #1462 - Order to declare surplus these City-owned formerly Boston Redevelopment Authority-owned parcels of vacant land and transfer the care, custody, management and control of said property to the Public Facilities Commission. Various Parcels.

Docket #1398, 1470-1482 - Various Confirmations of Appointments

Docket#0465-0467, 1007-1009 - Confirmation of appointments to the Board of Appeals and Zoning Commission

Docket #0881- Re: Medical Marijuana Facility located at 331 Newbury Street, Back Bay

Dockets #0416, 0417- Hearing to declare surplus certain City owned former Public Works parcels and transfer care, custody, management and control to the Public Facilities Commission