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Docket #0267 - Boston Planning & Development Agency biannual Urban Renewal Update to the Boston City Council
A
Hang
on
docket
number
zero,
two
six,
seven
order
that
the
Boston
Planning
and
Development
Agency
continued
biannual
urban
renewal
updates
to
the
Boston
City
Council.
My
name
is
Michele
Wu
and
I
chair
our
Committee
on
Planning
development
of
transportation
and
am
pleased
to
be
here
today
with
many
representatives
from
the
Boston
Planning
and
Development
Agency
suggest
review
for
our
audience.
This
is
one
this
is
now.
A
Our
third
I
believe
update
with
the
BPD
a
following:
the
City
Council's
March
2016
approval
of
a
six
year,
extension
to
the
14
urban
renewal
zones
and
the
Massachusetts
Department
of
Housing
and
Community
development's
approval
of
our
approval
on
August
3rd
2016.
So
the
part
of
that
agreement
was
a
an
update
every
six
months
to
understand
the
progress
towards
the
land
disposition,
agreement,
inventory
and
other
pieces,
and
we're
excited
to
be
back
here
again
in
our
new
chamber
with
you
all
so
dr.
B
Thank
you
for
your
time
and
through
you
to
the
committee
members,
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
speak
with
you
once
again
about
urban
renewal
I'd,
especially
like
to
welcome
the
new
members
of
the
City
Council
to
the
urban
renewal
conversation
as
we
approach
the
two-year
mark
after
the
Commonwealth's
Department
of
Housing
and
Community
Development
and
City
Council
urban
renewal
extension
approvals.
We
would
like
to
provide
an
int
over
view
of
progress
to
date.
This
is
our
third
City
Council
update.
B
As
you
pointed
out,
it
was
agreed
to
by
an
action
plan
that
the
Boston
Planning
and
Development
Agency
in
the
City
Council
arrived
at
and
I'm
happy
to
report
that
we
are
on
track
with
our
commitments.
The
majority
of
our
work
thus
far
has
been
centered
around
the
urban
renewal
land
disposition
agreement
inventory
project
once
again.
Linda
special
and
disposition
agree
Mintz
lDA's
our
regulatory
devices
that
the
agency
placed
upon
parcels
sometimes
through
agreements
that
are
separate
and
apart
from
a
deed,
sometimes
through
agreements.
B
Restrictions
on
on
on
deeds
themselves,
parcels
that
the
agency
at
one
point,
took
ownership
of
and
subsequently
conveyed
our
long-term
least
for
development
are
often
the
subject
of
these
land
disposition.
Agreement
lDA's
that
restrict
are
otherwise
govern
the
use
of
these
parcels
that
we
once
had
control
over
the
the
the
results
of
that
Lda
inventory
project
will
once
again
be
presented
here
today.
Joining
me
for
the
update
renee
LaFave
to
my
right.
Renee
is
our
general
counsel.
At
the
BPD.
A
to
my
left
is
janet
carlson.
B
The
first
assistant
general
counsel,
at
the
BPD
a
and
to
Janet's
left,
is
Alison
Quinn
special
project
manager
for
urban
renewal.
In
addition,
records
manager,
Nate
Smith
legal
assistance,
Jove
Rose
Bordeaux
and
Alec
Benelli
in
urban
renewal
interns,
Ben
Taylor
Bianca
Chacon
in
Mark
Martin
Serrano,
have
all
made
significant
contributions
to
the
urban
renewal.
Lda
inventory
project
and
we
at
the
agency,
certainly
thank
them
for
their
hard
work
on
behalf
of
not
only
the
agency
but
the
people
of
Boston.
B
As
background
for
those
of
you
who
may
not
be
familiar
with
this
topic,
urban
renewal
dates
back
to
the
American
Housing
Act
of
1949,
when
the
federal
government
began
to
invest
significant
sums
of
money
to
redevelop
cities
that
were
rapidly
deteriorating
with
the
suburbanization
of
the
nation.
After
World
War
Two,
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
was
created
as
Boston's
urban
renewal
agency
in
1957
and
since
1974,
the
Department
of
Housing
and
Urban.
B
The
Department
of
how,
in
Community
Development
of
the
Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts,
has
overseen
urban
renewal
activities
within
the
city
of
Boston,
while
urban
renewal
has
many
negative
associations,
historically
I'd
like
to
reiterate
a
point
that
we
have
made
frequently
both
here
at
the
City
Council
and
externally,
with
with
the
people
of
Boston
in
their
communities.
Urban
renewal
today
is
a
much
different
tool.
B
Urban
renewal
provides
us
with
a
set
of
tools
that
encourage
responsible
redevelopment
and
revitalization
of
Boston's
neighborhoods
where,
but
for
these
tools,
development
may
not
have
otherwise
been
possible.
The
powers
are
used
to
make
blight
findings,
assemble
parcels
of
land
for
development,
clear
title
of
land
to
establish
clear
ownership,
establish
land
use,
controls
for
uses
such
as
open
space
and
the
promotion
of
affordable
housing.
B
As
you
may
recall,
the
Boston
City
Council
approved
a
six-year
extension
of
our
urban
renewal
plans
in
March
2016
in
April
2016.
The
Boston
planning
and
development
agencies
board
approved
an
action
plan,
a
requirement
of
the
six-year
urban
renewal
extension
providing
additional
Boston
City
Council
oversight
of
our
urban
renewal
activity
on
August
3rd
2016,
the
state's
Department
of
Housing
and
Community
Development
approved
our
request
to
extend
our
urban
renewal
powers
in
plan
areas
that
cover
parts
of
Charlestown,
the
Fenway
Chinatown,
the
South
End
Roxbury,
the
downtown
waterfront,
the
West
End
North.
B
Station
area
and
Government
Center
for
another
six
years
until
2022.
This
will
allow
the
B
PDA
to
move
forward
with
the
action
plan
d,
HC
DS
approval
came
after
we
facilitated
a
robust
year-and-a-half
long
public
engagement
process
to
inform
residents
of
Boston
about
the
history
of
urban
renewal
until
solicit
feedback
about
the
future
use
of
these
tools.
This
effort
included
over
a
dozen
community
workshops,
public
meetings
before
the
Boston
City
Council,
and
a
comprehensive
website
to
inform
the
public.
B
We
are
committed
to
transparency,
accountability
and
responsiveness
in
to
that
end,
the
Boston
planning
and
development
agency
continues
to
update
its
website
to
reflect
urban
renewal
activity
requiring
Boston
planning
and
development
agency
board
action.
Now
a
word
on
the
month,
so
called
minor
modification
procedures
associated
with
urban
renewal.
We
are
notifying
the
City
Council
and
the
state's
department,
and
of
Housing
and
Community
Development
of
all
minor
modifications
to
our
urban
renewal
areas
per
the
conciliation
agreement.
B
For
the
south
end
notification
of
minor
modifications
within
the
South
End
urban
renewal
plan
area
are
also
extended
to
state
legislators
that
represent
that
area
impacted
by
the
mana
minor
modifications
proposed.
We've
also
been
providing
the
Boston
City
Council,
with
digital
copies
of
all
minor
modification
notices
via
email
transmission,
the
urban
renewal
team
at
the
BPD
a
continues
to
collect
granular
data
in
an
effort
to
prevent
a
comprehensive
inventory
of
all
the
land
disposition
agreements.
B
Since
the
completion
of
the
South
End
urban
renewal
area.
In
the
last
city
council
update
in
2017,
this
team
has
completed
the
LDA
inventory
of
South
Cove
Park
Plaza
Fenway
Washington
Park
Kittredge
Square
in
the
campus
highschool
urban
renewal
areas.
These
six
urban
renewal
areas
will
be
presented
today
again
demonstrating
our
commitment
to
meeting
the
milestones
set
forth
in
the
action
plan.
The
remaining
urban
renewal
areas
left
for
us
to
inventory
our
Charlestown,
the
West
End
in
the
downtown
waterfront.
We
anticipate
completing
the
LDA
inventory
of
these
areas
by
late
spring
of
this
year.
B
As
the
LDA
inventory
project
continues,
the
project
team
has
been
carefully
thinking
through
the
most
effective
and
efficient
way
to
present
the
data
on
an
accessible
online
format
by
urban
renewal
plan
area
type
of
restriction
and
use
the
Boston
Planning
and
Development
Agency
urban
renewal
team
has
been
working
with
our
GIS
department
to
provide
online
access
to
urban
renewal
information
through
the
BPD,
a
zoning
viewer
upon
completion
of
all
urban
renewal
plan
areas.
This
team
will
ensure
that
this
online
tool
is
functioning
optimally
prior
to
going
live
upon.
B
Once
this
title
audit
of
BPD,
a
parcels
has
concluded
BPD
a
staff
will
re-evaluate
boundaries
to
make
recommendations
for
modifications
to
existing
urban
renewal
plan
areas
and
explore
the
notion
of
new
urban
renewal
plan
areas.
The
action
plan
also
requires
the
agency
to
examine
our
existing
procedures
for
the
disposition
of
BPD
a
owned
land
and
to
revise
protocols
accordingly
in
such
a
manner
that
reflects
community
planning
goals.
In
Arty's,
we
reviewed
existing
procedures
surrounding
disposition
of
our
land
and
made
refinements
to
those
procedures
to
ensure
transparency.
B
B
The
PERT.
The
proposal
envisions
the
expansion
of
the
Double
Tree
Hotel,
which
currently
has
140
rooms,
the
creation
of
171
rental
and
homeownership
units,
a
hundred
percent
of
which
will
be
income
restricted
and
a
community
space
that
it
is
currently
envisioned
to
become
the
chinatown
permanent
branch
of
the
Boston
Public
Library,
a
new
community
landmark.
We
hope
at
this
point
I'll
turn
the
presentation
over
to
Janet
Carlson,
our
first
deputy
general
counsel.
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
C
Lots
of
slides,
I
thought
first
I'd
recap:
the
prior
city
council
Lda
updates
for
those
new
members.
They
know
what
we've
already
covered
in
case.
They
want
information.
Okay,
so
the
first
thing
I
have
here
is
a
slide
of
the
original
urban
rural
areas,
and
this
is
an
old
slide
from
2003.
So
the
district
boundaries
are
not
correct.
We
have
a
later
slide.
That
will
happen
correct,
but
this
shows
you
some
of
the
ones
that
have
expired.
C
So
these
are
the
16
existing
urban
renewal
plan
Ares,
and
you
may
wonder
why
we
extended
14
and
we
have
16,
didn't
need
extending
North
Station
expires
in
2020
and
then
there's
West
End.
These
are
the
ones
that
have
expired,
some
of
which
were
earlier,
and
some
have
happened
since
the
2005
okay.
This
is
the
new
district
boundaries
with
the
present
or
we
know,
plans
on
them,
so
people
can
see
which
our
window
plans
are
in
their
districts.
C
C
In
the
second
update,
we
did
central
business
district,
South,
Station,
North,
Station,
Government
Center
in
Southend,
and
just
to
give
a
little
bit
of
the
boundaries
for
people
originally,
as
I
mentioned
in
earlier
updates,
there
was
a
central
business
district
terminal
plan
that
was
proposed
and
the
federal
government
said
no,
but
we
had
done
early
property
acquisitions
as
allowed
by
them,
and
so
they
created
four
little
CBD
or
central
business
district
plans
and
those
are
the
ones
I've
been
presenting,
the
other
one.
We
present
it
Bruns
our
King.
This
is
the
boundaries
of
it.
C
C
This
is
the
government
center
or
middle
area,
and
I
used
this
plan
because
it
shows
it
with
the
present
streets.
If
I
use
the
old
plan,
all
the
streets
have
been
rican
and
it
would
be
hard
to
see.
In
addition,
this
plan
is
interesting
because
it
shows
the
subway
lines
under
City
Hall,
plaza
and
under
the
City
Hall,
so
you
can
see
what's
under
there
and
then
what
we
had
done
in
Prior
updates
is.
C
We
had
put
some
next
steps
and
I
thought
I'd
go
through
an
update,
a
little
of
those
so
on
the
government
Center
one
we
had
city
hall
plaza.
We
are
presently
working
on
the
permanent
easement
for
the
MBTA
Government
Center
stop.
We
are
working
on
licenses
with
GSA
regarding
the
boundaries
so
that
we
can
each
do
our
improvements.
C
In
addition,
GSA
has
agreed
to
cut
the
grass
in
front
of
their
building,
which
is
on
City
Hall,
plaza
convergence,
Square
we're
still
working
on
we've
had
a
couple
meetings,
there's
some
issues
about
how
it's
being
used
and
what
it
should
be
used
for.
So
we're
gonna
continue
the
meetings
with
the
courthouse
and
with
the
city
of
Boston
on
public
realm.
C
We
laid
out
a
sidewalk
in
front
of
senator
Plaza,
which
was
never
there
before,
and
there
might
be
some
other
ones
that
I
have
to
work
on
and
then
the
last
one
over
on
Union
Street.
There
should
be
a
transfer
of
that
parcel
that
has
the
holocaust
and
union,
and
that
cannot
happen.
Till
connect
historic
Boston
is
finished
because
we
gave
them
licences
to
do
the
work
for
connect
to
start
Boston,
so
that
would
be
coming
up.
Okay,
the
next
one.
This
is
the
South
End
boundaries.
This
is
not
the
original
boundaries.
C
We
did
extend
the
lower
part
to
cover
crosstown
many
years
ago.
So
this
is
the
current
boundaries
for
South
End
and
on
this
one
for
next
steps
we
had
products
prior
to
this
said
that
we
would
be
transferring
some
properties
to
Boston
natural
areas
network.
They
have
now
been
taken
over
by
the
trustees
of
reservations.
We've
made
two
of
those
transfers
and
I'm
working
on
two
more
Washington
Street.
We
still
have
to
deal
with
we
own
a
strip
between
the
street
and
many
of
the
parcels
which
was
left
by
the
orange
line
of
the
T.
C
We
have
some
pedestrian
easement
to
do
notices
of
extensions
of
restrictions
in
the
late
80s.
We
started
deep,
restricting
some
of
our
properties
with
restrictions
that
had
terms
of
30
years
plus
20.
Those
type
of
restrictions
started
in
87,
so
we've
started
hitting
those
and
we've
done.
Nine
notices
of
extensions
since
87
to
extend
44
units
so
far
about
I.
Think
10
were
in
Southend,
think
24
were
in
Roxbury
Dorchester
and
Oh
10
we're
in
Charlestown.
Okay,
now
we'll
start
our
update
today.
This
is
our
new
information.
C
Okay,
so
we're
going
to
do
the
six
plans,
we're
going
to
start
with
Park
Plaza,
some
of
them
I
will
be
going
pretty
much
parcel
to
parcel
and
some
of
them
I'll
just
be
giving
a
flavor
for
what
it
is
and
giving
you
some
information
on
it.
So
the
Park
Plaza
this
is
the
boundary.
The
Park
Plaza
should
be
noted
and
I
have
it
in
the
last
slide
as
well
that
this
is
the
only
state
plan.
C
That's
a
state
plan
has
no
federal
involvement
and
it's
written
quite
different
than
the
others
which
I'll
be
explaining
in
a
few
minutes
and
there's
less
parcels.
So
the
parcels
are
in
Park
Plaza.
Are
we
lay
this
out
by
their
use?
So
there's
some
residential
commercial.
You
can
see,
then
there's
a
lot
of
residential,
but
let
me
go
through
these
slides
because
there
aren't
that
many
parcels,
so
this
is
the
Arlington
Hadassah
sub
parcel
of
parcel
one
its
heritage
on
the
garden.
C
This
is
the
Hadassah
Charles
sub
parcel
of
parcel
one,
which
is
the
Four
Seasons
Hotel.
It
also
has
residences
I
believe
parcel.
Two
is
actually
so.
The
first
two
were
the
only
two
we
owned
I
can't
go
backwards.
The
whole
parcels
the
rest
of
these
you're,
going
to
see
we
only
owned
pieces
of
so
we
only
transferred
pieces.
This
was
a
bunch
of
Road,
so
we
had
some
just
continuances
of
roads.
Oops,
wait
not
that
one.
This
one
Charles
Street
condominium,
I'm
personal
okay,
then
we
have
the
45
Stewart.
C
We
only
owned
a
few
pieces,
but
we
have
an
Lda
over
the
whole
site.
This
is
an
emerson
dorm.
We
only
owned
one
46
Boylston,
but
we
laid
the
LDA
over
the
whole
project.
This
is
the
one
that
had
the
NCAA
basketball
court
and
this
is
the
Kensington
this
one.
We
took
a
few
parcels,
but
we
didn't
own
the
whole
site.
We
only
did
pieces
of
it
and,
lastly,
this
is
not
something:
we've
transferred.
C
The
China
trade
building
was
redeveloped
in
the
80s,
with
an
urban
renewal
action
grant
by
private
party
and
when
they
were
going
to
get
foreclosed
on,
we
purchased
the
China
trade
building
in
the
early
90s
and
have
owned
it.
Since
it's
recently
gone
through
a
lot
of
updates
and
I
think,
are
we
almost
ready
to
almost
ready
to
totally
the.
B
The
building
is
about
85
percent
leased.
It's
a
it's
a
remarkable
success
story,
because
for
a
long
time
the
building
did
not
perform
well
with
regard
to
tenancy.
But
not
only
is
the
thing
we've
ignant
ass
ignition
of
capital
in
the
building
to
improve
it.
We've
attracted
we've
attracted
tenants
in
in
the
buildings,
even
got
what
we've
really
come
to
appreciate
as
a
significant
mission.
Most
of
the
tendencies
are
nonprofits
the
the
International
Institute,
which
provides
educational
services
primarily
to
low-income
immigrant
populations.
B
The
urban
college
of
new
england
is
also
a
tenant
there
which,
which
provides
higher
education
to
primarily
low-income
residents
of
the
city
of
boston.
So
the
building
has
has
had
a
twenty
plus
year
history
with
the
agency,
but
is
beginning
not
only
to
perform
well
as
a
going
business
concern,
but
also
in
providing
really
significant
services
to
the
people
of
boston.
C
So
we
own
that
the
park
in
front,
we
do
not
own
that's
a
city
park.
Okay,
now
on
the
park,
plaza
urban
renewal
plan.
As
I
said,
this
is
the
only
state
only
plan.
It
is
written
different
than
the
other
plans.
It
says
within
it
that
changes
in
height
and
floor
air
ratios
are
major
modifications,
so
you'll
see
a
lot
of
major
modifications
coming
through
on
the
park
plaza
plan
in
need,
city,
council
and
DAC
the
approval
for
those.
C
The
other
thing
that's
strange
about
this
is:
it
seems
to
imply
that
these
changes
apply
to
all
the
private
parcels
that
we
never
owned
and
I
can't
say
everyone's
complied
with
that
I
know.
Emerson
has
you've
seen
the
white
building
I
think
about
two
years
ago.
It
came
through
it
had
a
height
change
and
it
came
through
as
a
major
modification,
but
I
can't
say
that
every
parcel
is
complying
with
that,
because
I
don't
even
know
if
we
could
really
enforce.
C
Cuz,
it
was
private,
he
said:
that's
Park,
Plaza,
South,
Cove,
South
Cove
is
next
to
Park
Plaza,
it's
kind
of
between,
like
Bay
Village
area
and
Chinatown
and
Park
Plaza.
That's
the
plan.
Some
of
the
parcels
listed.
This
is
some
of
the
uses
of
what
we've
given
out.
I'll
go
through
some
of
these
now
I'm
a
number
of
these,
their
housing
and
you'll
see.
So
we
did.
C
We
started
our
form
of
deed
restrictions
right
now
in
87,
so
I'm
going
to
list
at
the
end
of
each
of
these,
the
deed,
restricted
ones
that
we
have
deed
restricted
since
87,
so
you'll
see
in
each
case,
but
a
lot
of
the
buildings
you're
going
to
see
when
they
look
older,
we're
probably
financed
through
HUD
and
other
sources
and
our
have
a
have
a
lot
of
affordable
housing.
I
just
don't
know
the
numbers
on
them,
so
the
Metropolitan,
of
course
that's
a
newer
one.
C
Then
this
is
a
done
by
Bradford
towers,
but
it's
called
South
Coast,
Plaza
East
and
then
there's
South
Col
Plaza,
which
is
actually
across
a
couple
blocks
away,
but
they
were
done
at
the
same
time
the
same
developer.
Their
housing
Revere
hotel,
which
wasn't
the
Revere
hotel,
originally
had
another
name
57.
C
Then
we
have
the
W
hotels,
newer
ones,
this
one
we
didn't
own
the
whole
parcel.
This
was
just
slivers
and
we're
on
the
hotel
part.
Not
the
residents
part
Tufts,
New
England
Tufts.
We
did
a
number
of
parcels.
We
did
the
parcel
in
the
middle
of
the
road
and
the
one.
If
you're
looking
at
the
Tufts
to
the
right
on
the
left
hand,
side,
we
gave
a
couple
properties
under
the
garage.
We
have
an
Lda
on
the
garage,
the
parcel
next
to
it.
C
We've
gave
some
parcels
out,
but
it
doesn't
really
have
an
Lda
on
it,
so
we
helped
Tufts
in
this
area.
We've
also
done
a
number
of
land
swaps
over
the
years
with
them,
so
that
we
get
some
parcels
we
want
and
Tufts
gets
the
ones
they
want.
Okay,
so
the
next
one
is,
can
you
send
on
Tyler
Street,
and
this
is
the
US
Department
of
Agriculture?
This
is
also
the
Shawn,
my
Air
Center
for
nutrition
studies
for
the
aging
or
something
and
I
found
that
interesting.
It's
a
federal
government
building.
C
This
is
this
is
interesting
because
Brian
was
talking
about
parcel
P
12
C.
So
this
is
the
parcel
that's
in
front
of
it.
So
if
you
look
at
where
this
is,
this
has
12
12
and
12
B.
This
was
formally
given
out
for
the
Don
Bosco's
High
School
in
the
90s
it
was
the
high
school
went
out
and
it
was
converted
to
the
hotel
as
well
as
a
YMCA.
In
that
conversion
we
swapped
land.
We
gave
them
a
piece
of
land
that
has
actually
the.
C
If
you
look
at
the
map,
the
part
on
the
right
opt
is
actually
where
the
silver
line
easement
goes
under.
That's
supposed
to
be
I
guess
the
portal
that
goes
under
so
that's
supposed
to
remain
open
space
and
they
actually,
we
gave
them
that
land,
and
then
we
took
back
some
other
land
around
the
hotel
to
make
a
more
develop
a
parcel,
and
that's
the
one
that
we
put
out
recently
that
Brian
was
talking
about.
Okay,
this
is
the
Josiah
Quincy
school,
so
you
can
see
there's
a
number
of
public
uses.
C
This
is
the
Eliot
Norton
Park,
which
is
also
public.
All
we
did,
if
I
your
house
on
this
Avenue-
and
this
is
CCPA
tight
on
see.
This
is
quite
large
lots
of
units
in
there
and
across
the
street,
from
it
is
a
little
tight
on
Park,
which
I
went
by
the
other
day
and
it's
astroturf,
it
looks
like
looks
like
it's,
not
grass.
This
is
may
want
village.
Maybe
our
village
is
a
deed
restricted
from
since
the
86
eighties.
So
I
have
some.
A
C
I'm
well
I'm
good
I
list
the
terms
as
well
so
you'll
be
able
to
see
yeah.
We
put
the
terms
in
I'm.
The
only
time
we
really
do
in
perpetuity
is
when
we
get
the
state
involved,
because
the
law
says
that
we
can't
do
it
unless
we
get
state
approval.
We
are
actually
working
on
that,
because
I've
heard
recently
D&D
got
some
state
approval
for
in
perpetuity,
and
then
we
should
be
able
to
follow
because
of
the
IDP
money.
C
We
should
both
be
getting
the
same
terms
so
we'll
be
approaching
this
day
in
trying
to
get
that
as
well,
but
the
ones
that
are
already
out
will
be
under
the
terms
that
they
have
okay,
the
next
one.
This
is
the
Boston
Chinese
evangelical
church,
as
it
presently
exists,
proposed
to
be
I,
guess,
do
a
new
building
or
something
they
have
an
annex.
Next
door.
C
Quincy
tower,
of
course,
was
honorably
Norland.
You
can
see
how
many
of
these
were
on
urban
Norland
and
these
these
bigger
projects
he
was
totally
or
moon
or
land,
not
just
slivers
MassPike
towers,
is
on
every
Noland,
sec,
be
a
trauma
village
and
then
I
listed
residential
uses
behind
the
next
page.
I
should
have
the
affordable
list.
So
if
you
look
at
the
affordable
list,
remember
we
have
the
deed
restrictions,
just
since,
like
87
or
so
so.
C
So
if
you
look
I
put
how
many
there
are
and
because
they
all
use
different
terms,
I
put
what
the
income
was,
because
some
use
low
some
use
very
low
for
the
same
thing,
so
I
put
what
it
was
and
then
at
the
end,
I
put
the
term.
So
you
can
see
the
in
perpetuity
and
the
reason
for
the
in
perpetuity
is
in
that
restriction.
C
C
C
We
let
private
parties
transfer
the
land
among
themselves,
but
then
we
laid
a
document
over
called
a
regulatory
agreement
that
basically
looks
identical
to
a
land
disposition
agreement
in
that
it
restricts
the
use,
the
sale
all
of
that,
but
it
doesn't
have
terms
for
the
purchase
of
the
land
like
the
money
and
the
transfer.
So
those
two
sections
are
missing
from
them:
okay
and
I'll
go
through
and
I'll
show
you
some
of
those
okay.
The
next
one
shows
the
uses.
C
C
We
do
for
the
term
of
the
plan,
as
maybe
extended
or
40
years
from
the
date
here
of
in
the
90s
I
think
we
were
doing
20
years,
but
as
we
got
to
2000,
we
started
doing
40,
so
it's
a
newer
ones
would
have
longer
terms
just
in
case
the
plans
don't
get,
but
we'd
lose
all
the
old
ones.
Okay,
the
next
one
here
is
symphony
east
and
west.
These
are
the
ones
that
are
kind
of
crossed
from
Symphony
Hall.
They
are
on
Huntington
and
Mass
Ave.
C
There
is
an
issue
on
this.
I've
listed
it
in
the
steps
to
be
followed,
so
the
buildings
are,
of
course,
the
developers,
but
in
front
of
each
there
is
plot.
There
are
plazas
they're
kind
of
sunk
in
and
they
have
commercial
around
them.
They
also
have
the
T
stops
there,
and
so
the
PRA
owns
those
and
we
shouldn't
actually
where
they
should
go.
Are
there
was
handicapped
access?
Those
should
go
to
the
building
owners.
C
Then
we
have
to
check
with
public
improvements,
Commission's
see
what
they
need
for
the
streets
and
then
the
T
needs
our
access.
So
we
need
to
get
the
three
parties
that
should
own
it
together
and
decide
how
the
parcel
should
get
divided.
Do
the
proper
on
survey,
work
and
get
our
authorities
for
transfer,
but
that
thou,
of
course,
would
not
be
any
RFP.
That's
just
straightening
out
the
public
realm
areas,
so
that
has
to
be
done
yet.
Okay,
the
next
project
is
st.
Pat.
All
this
was
done
in
the
early
2000s
and
has
restricted
units.
C
C
Then
we
have
next
to
the
church
park
is
the
carolina.
We
have
affordable
units
in
this,
or
at
least
the
one,
maybe
I
think
it's
gonna
be
on
the
list.
Mortville
house
is
actually
behind
Church
Park
and
then
we
have
a
couple
parks.
We
have
symphony
community
park,
it's
a
city-owned
park
and
that's
back
behind
it,
and
then
we
have
Everly
Road
playground,
which
is
also
city-owned,
and
when
we
deed
it
to
the
city,
we
don't
lay
lDA's,
we
just
deed
it
to
the
city.
C
If
it's
for
a
specific
purpose,
we
might
put
that
in
the
document
like
if
it's
for
agriculture,
we
did
that
recently,
I,
don't
know.
If
I
have
it
on
this
one,
but
it's
in
one
of
the
later
plans:
okay
and
then
we
have
okay.
This
is
a
strange
one.
This
is
way
out,
so
this
is
a
parcel
24.
This
was
formerly
the
Boston
English
high
school.
C
This
is
Boston,
English
hospital
I
mean
high
school
and
we
acquired
it
from
the
city
and
we
gave
it
out
to
Harvard
Medical
School,
and
this
is
Symphony
Road
garden.
This
is
not
a
city
garden.
This
is
DNA
n,
which
is
probably
now
trustees
of
reservations.
Now
I
haven't
given
you
all
the
parcels,
there's
a
few
more
there's
like
the
firehouse
on
Boylston
Street
that
the
ICA
used
to
be
in
that's
ours,
but
I
just
gave
you
a
flavor
for
it,
and
these
are
the
deed
restrictions
remember.
C
This
is
from
the
late
80s
on
that
were
in
that
area.
Most
of
the
transfers
were
made
prior
to
that,
and
so
the
next
steps
I
really
think
we
need
to
fix
those
plazas
in
front
of
them:
symphonies,
Dan,
West,
okay,
the
next
thing
on
campus
high
school
campus
high
school
was
like
everything
we
took
a
lot
of
property
here
and
what's
interesting
about
this
plan.
This
is
the
original
plan.
If
you
look
at
the
roads
here,
you
can
see
what
they
thought
they
were
doing.
C
They
were
putting
all
the
highways
in
that
is
not
what
happened.
You'll
see
in
the
next.
In
the
next
plan
is
it
became
one
road,
try
not
state,
but
the
plan
was
to
do
the
highways
yeah,
and
this
is
also
I'm
going
to
go
through
a
lot
but
well
pretty
much.
All
of
them
might
well
go
through
I
think
so
you
can
see
there's
a
lot
of
public
here
on
some
open
space
and
housing.
A
lot
of
the
housing,
especially
to
the
upper
right
is
Madison,
Park
and
you'll,
see
here.
C
Okay,
so
first
we'll
go
through
open
spaces.
This
is
Jeep
Jones
Park,
which
is
down
next
to
the
Islamic
Center,
which
we'll
come
to.
In
a
few
minutes,
we
gave
property
to
the
Commonwealth
for
the
Roxbury
heritage,
State
Park-
this
is
I,
know
they
use
that
name
a
couple
times
in
Roxbury.
This
is
the
part.
That's
on
the
the
Malcolm
X
Boulevard,
okay,
I
know
they've
used
on
that.
This
is
Justin,
I,
think
it's
Gordon,
Park
I'm,
not
sure.
If
I
pronounced
that
correctly.
This
is
that
little
parcel,
that's
in
the
middle
of
the
roads.
C
C
That's
the
Reggie
Lewis
track
and
Athletic
Center.
Okay,
then,
the
only
thing
so
far
that's
been
developed
on
parcel
P
3
is
p3i,
which
is
the
Whittier
Street
Health
Center
up
right
behind
the
Reggie
Lewis
track
Center,
and
in
doing
this
like
we
had
to
do
all
sorts
of
things,
there's
actually
a
road
between
the
two
buildings
that
doesn't
look
like
a
road.
There
is
an
N
star,
fost
substation,
behind
this
building
and
like
behind
Reggie
Lewis
that
we
have
to
keep
access
to.
C
This
is
the
Good
Shepherd
Church
of
God
and
Christ,
which
is
behind
P
3.
The
Islamic
Center
I
should
have
put
on
the
upside,
but
it's
I
put
the
churches
together.
It's
a
religious
organizations
together.
This
is
I'm
next
to
the
Jeep
Jones
Park
I'm
Malcolm
X.
Now
this
one.
This
is
the
old
BH,
a
Whittier,
Street
residences,
and
this
actually
we
didn't
I,
don't
think
we
gave
the
property
out.
C
So
when
we
lay
this
out,
we
have
to
have
a
document.
So
what
I
did
on
this
project
was
I
laid
a
regulatory
agreement
out
with
the
VHA,
and
this
is
the
one
that
we
applied
for
a
choice
grant.
Well,
let
me
show
you
that
other
two,
these
also
and
I,
didn't
show
you
pictures
because
they're
about
to
be
redeveloped
and
what's
there
now
is
a
community
center.
But
it's
going
to
be
16
years
of
housing.
C
This
is
going
to
be
six
units
of
housing,
we've
discontinued,
Brook,
Marshall
Road
at
the
top
and
the
housings
going
to
go
up
and
there's
going
to
be
access
road
in
the
middle.
It's
not
a
road,
probably
a
driveway.
These
all
are
under
the
you
designation,
they're
all
part
of
the
choice,
but
this
is
the
boundary
for
the
urban
renewal
overlay
district.
So
in
each
one
of
these
parcels
we
have
to
have
agreements
on
the
use.
Urban
little
urban
renewal
overlay
districts
do
not
give
you
all
of
your
zoning.
C
It
gives
you
your
use,
dimensional
parking
and
loading
if
there's
like
a
groundwater,
a
jihad,
ground
water,
over
conservation,
whatever,
if
it's,
if
it's
a
ground
through.
Thank
you.
It's
groundwater
used
to
have
to
do
that,
but
those
four
uses
are
pretty
big
and
this
was
very
useful
and
applying
for
the
HUD
grant,
because
you
had
to
say
that
they
had
all
of
their
approvals
and
all
their
permits,
and
this
got
him
to
that
point.
So
that's
why
we
used
it.
C
Okay,
now
we're
gonna
do
Madison
Park
Madison
Park
has
all
of
those
properties
around
it,
and
a
lot
of
them
are
together
so
I'll
just
kind
of
flash
through
these,
but
Madison
Park,
three
townhomes
they're,
like
scattered
throughout
these,
were
all
given
out
a
long
time
ago,
but
we've
recently
updated
all
of
the
lDA's
oh
and
going
back
just
a
second.
If
I
can
go
back
here.
So
when
we
did
the
urban
renewal
overlay
on
these
properties.
Here
we
have
LDS
and
I
redid,
all
of
them
and
updated
them
and
extended
them.
C
C
C
I'm,
looking
for
more
Hanes
houses
come
in
right
now
they
want
to
do
new
systems
and
I.
Think
they're
gonna.
Do
it
a
new
exterior
this
one's
already
under
construction?
As
far
as
we
having
and
this
one
is
not
Madison
Park,
this
is
actually
on
the
other
side
over
by
the
Roxbury
Heritage
Park.
We
have
that's
a
non-profit,
and
this
is
a
residential
commercial.
That's
behind
that
area.
C
C
C
This
is
the
boundaries.
If
you
look
here,
it's
pretty
much
open
space
and
residential.
That's
what
it
is.
It's
a
small
urban
renewal
area,
oh
and
the
green
there's,
a
green
on
the
right
hand,
side
that
shouldn't
be
green.
It's
city-owned!
Now
by
foreclosure,
it's
not
a
park.
It's
a
foreclosed
parcel
I
check
that
this
morning,.
C
Okay,
so
this
is
I'm
just
on
I'm,
not
doing
every
parcel
in
these
last
two
I'm
just
giving
you
a
flavor
for
what
they
are.
There's
people's
houses,
their
backyards,
I'm,
not
gonna,
show
you
this.
So
just
give
you
an
idea.
This
is
a
community
garden
that
we
gave
to
Boston
natural
areas,
network
which
I
assume
is
trustees
at
reservation
now
and
that's
another
one.
That
was
a
bien
am
one.
C
C
C
C
It's
got
public
uses,
it's
got
industrial,
it's
got
commercial,
open,
space,
housing
and
just
so
you
know
I
forgot
to
put
my
most
recent
project
on
which
is
Garrison
Trotter.
It's
not
finished
yet,
but
it's
five
parcels
and
we'll
be
adding
that
to
this.
It's
down
towards
the
bottom.
So,
just
to
give
you
an
idea,
oh
wait.
The
one
thing
I
should
say
before
I
start
this
is
Washington
Park
and
in
the
Roxbury
area
we
had
a
number
of
parcels
that
we
gave
out
in
the
60s.
C
So,
for
a
number
of
years
we
couldn't
develop
these
because
no
one
could
pay
the
taxes,
even
if
we
just
sold
it
for
the
tax
amount.
It
was
too
large.
We
have
recently
resolved
those
issues
and
we've
gotten
all
the
redemptions
on
the
tax
liens.
So
now
we
can
definitely
get
them
out
so
we'll
be
moving.
Some
of
those
I
believe
for
probably
housing
sites
I'm
guessing
so.
C
But
let
me
give
you
a
flavor
for
what
kind
of
parcels
are
here:
there's
Washington,
Park,
Mall
and
behind
it
there
is
a
parking
lot,
which
is
on
a
different.
It's
I
think
called
a
5.
I
didn't
show
that,
though
there's
the
YMCA's
on
Earthman
or
the
bridge
Boston
charter
school
originally
was
I,
think
a
health
care
facility
and
something
else
it
went
on
to
parcels,
and
this
happened.
Maybe
two
years
this
was
redeveloped,
we've
helped
with
the
charter
school
as
well
as
the
Pitt
playground,
both
of
them
Malcolm
X
Park.
C
This
is
not
the
part
we've
transferred,
probably
because
we
transfer
it
over
by
where
the
parking
is
and
there's
I
think
a
building
on
there.
But
this
is
this:
is
the
partner
learnings
Warren
Gardens?
This
is
their
open
space
that
was
ours
and
then
Warren
Gardens
the
project,
it's
huge.
That
was
all
everyone
and,
as
you
can
see
like
you'll
see,
we
don't
have
deed
restrictions
on
this,
but
this
was
all
affordable
housing
through
the
financing
in
that
fountain
hill
is
a
deed,
restricted
property
that
actually
was
foreclosed
upon.
C
So
we
don't
have
as
many
units
as
we
should
right
now,
but
I
think
some
more
it's
going
to
be
developed.
This
is
another
one
that
went
out
for
a
long
time
ago.
These
were
all
a
long
time
ago,
st.
joseph´s
now
in
st.
joseph´s
I,
think
there
is
one
issue
we
need
to
resolve
on
this
I
think
we
I
think
there's
a
strip
of
land
there's
some
strip
of
land
along
Washington
Street.
That
I
think
needs
some
transfer.
D
A
This
is
fascinating.
A
lot
of
information,
it's
clear
that
most
of
it
is
just
in
your
head
also.
So
thanks
for
everything
that
you
do,
I
was
trying
to
save
my
questions,
so
we
wouldn't
get
caught
along
the
way.
So
now
I'll
try
to
kind
of
remember
them.
So
I
wanted
to
start
with
Park
Plaza,
just
because
it's
small
and
kind
of
you
can
easily
grasp.
You
know,
get
wrap
my
mind
around
the
different
types
of
scenarios,
so
just
help
me
understand,
for
example,
with
the
Four
Seasons.
A
A
Point,
but
is
there
any
reason
to
what
so
what
does
it
mean
that
this
is
still
under
Evon
renewal?
Is
it
just
that,
if
somehow
you
know
the
who
ever
owned,
you
know
the
owners
decide
they
want
to
you
know,
fight
financially
doesn't
make
sense,
but
if
they
decided
they
wanted
to
knock
everything
down
and
start
over,
then
there
would
still
be
some
public
say
over
what
happens
there?
Is
that
really
it
that's
things.
C
C
B
The
Park
Plaza
urban
renewal,
but
if
I
had
to
pick
one
and
I
think
if
we
collectively
had
to
pick
one
that
probably
was
ripe
for
termination,
it's
probably
Park
Plaza,
because,
as
you
point
out
it
most
of
the
redevelopment
goals
have
been
accomplished.
There
are
restrictions
in
part
of
the
reason
we
sought.
The
extension
for
all
the
urban
renewals
two
years
ago
was
because
we
wanted
to
make
sure
we
had
a
granular
analysis
of
each
parcel
to
understand
what
were
the
use
restrictions.
What
was
the
nature
of
them?
C
B
B
We
would
have
to
come
up
with
a
fix
for
the
ultimate
ability
to
control
and
manage
and
maybe
even
dispose
of
that
parcel
someday.
We
don't
really
have
any
immediate
intent
or
any
need
to
dispose
of
it.
We
think
the
building's
providing
a
whole
lot
of
good
for
the
people
of
Boston
and
again
just
as
I
we
mentioned
I,
don't
know
if
we
mentioned
earlier,
while
the
parcel
12
development
proposal
that
just
came
in
last
month
envisions
a
permanent
home
for
the
library,
the
Chinatown
branch.
B
A
C
A
C
C
I
would
think
that
while
Kensington
would
and
I
would
think
also
the
newer
ones
are
when
you'd
have
the
longer
terms.
I
would
think
45
Stuart
may
have
it
too,
but
and
I'm
guessing
this
park,
this
Charlestown
condominiums
to
know
the
newer
ones
should
have
the
longer
terms
I'd
have
to
check
because
we
kind
of
inched
up
we
started
like
10,
then
20,
then
we
went
to
14.
A
A
There's
no
way
to
in
this
applies
to
what
I
was
thinking
about
the
affordable
housing
also
so
for
councillor
Flynn.
The
BPD
I
was
saying
earlier
that
a
lot
of
the
affordable
housing,
that's
deed,
restricted
and
protected
through
urban
renewal
has
a
30
year
time
frame,
plus
the
option
to
have
a
20
year
extension
and
a
lot
of
those
were
in
the
late
80s
arted
in
the
late
80s.
So
we're
coming
up
on
when
we
need
to
activate
the
20-year
extension
to
keep
them
there
and
there's.
Is
there
any
way
to
change
that?
C
F
We
also
do
it
through
refinancing,
so
if
we
have
regulatory
control
over
the
use
of
some
of
these
properties-
and
they
need
to
come
back
for
financing,
they
will
usually
obtain
financing
from
the
federal
government,
HUD
or
the
state.
And
then
we
can
add-on
through
that
refinance
additional
years
of
affordable
housing.
C
A
So,
okay,
so
this
is
at
the
risk
who's
getting
too
much
into
the
weeds
and
I'm
gonna
pull
back
up
after
this,
but
so,
for
example,
if
there
were
ever
an
interest,
let's
say:
there's
a
building
that
has
is
affordable
or
deed,
restricted
and
coming
with
these
terms,
if
there
were
some
proposal
to
allow
them
to
put
commercial
on
the
first
floor
instead
right,
let's
say
it's
not
there.
They
could
then
have
some
additional
revenue
stream
from
that,
but
then,
with
an
agreement
to
extend
the
terms
of
the
affordable
units,
you.
B
C
C
Condo,
which
are
rental
a
lot
of
these,
they
want
the
people
that
own
these
want
to
keep
them
affordable.
So
they
find
other
sources
of
money.
That's
when
they
come
back
to
us
when
they
want
to
rework
it
because
they
have
to
do
capital
improvements
on
the
project.
They
want
to
keep
the
affordability.
So
most
a
lot
of
these.
The
goal
is
to
keep
it.
It's.
B
It's
great
when
we're
dealing
with
an
owner
that
is
mission
oriented
that
is
affordable
housing
mission,
oriented
minimal
risk
there
as
long
as
it
stays
in
those
hands.
If
the
entity
is
in
the
business
of
creating.
You
know,
affordable
housing
that
that
that's
a
good
landlord
for
us
to
be
working
with.
With
regard
to
perpetuating
the
affordability,
the
danger
is,
when
that
falls
into
the
hands
of
a
landlord.
B
B
Can't
I
can't
answer
the
question
if
we
know
whether
or
not
word
we
just
walked
through,
obviously
not
even
all
the
urban
renewal
areas,
we
walked
through
a
big
chunk
of
them
and
in
there
literally
many
thousands
of
units
have
been
created
in
urban
renewal
areas
using
our
urban
renewal
tools
do
we
know
currently
whose
hands
all
of
those
developments
and
are
in
and
what
their
intentions
might
be.
With
regard
to
perpetuating
affordability,
I,
don't
I,
don't,
but.
F
Working
with
D&D
our
housing
policy
person,
Tim
Davis,
they
do
work
together.
They
identify
projects,
properties
that
have
expiring
covenants
and
they
do
bring
those
they
do
bring
those
forward,
and
then
staff
starts
working
with
those
owners
to
try
to
maintain
that
affordability.
What
we
try
to
do
is
get
owners
to
seek
other
public
subsidies
for
keeping
their
projects
affordable,
and
so
we
have
right
now
we're
working
on
at
least
three
with
D&D,
and
it
would,
and
basically
it's
what
city
resources
are
involved
are
in
this
project.
F
B
Those
exist
independent
of
urban
renewal
and
outside
of
urban
rural
areas
throughout
the
city,
so
their
expiration
and
the
potential
risk
of
units
being
lost
from
an
affordability
standpoint
being
lost
is
a
really
acute
concern.
It's
been
going
on
for
for
several
years,
because
so
many
of
those
expiring
mortgages
were
originally
granted
in
the
60s
and
70s
for
40
years.
So
we're
we're
in
primetime
for
them
to
be
expiring.
B
A
Okay,
I
I
will
just
ask
one
more
before
turning
it
over
and
then
I'll
I
have
more,
but
I
don't
want
to
hog
the
microphone
so
just
to
review
at
a
big
picture
level,
the
milestones
and
the
deadlines,
the
so
starting
from
when
the
when
DHCD
approved
urban
renewal
in
August
2016
there
was
that
there
was
a
two-year
plan
or
a
two-year
milestone
to
be
done
with
the
LDA
inventory
right,
so
that
would
be
August
2018.
Do
you
feel
you're
on
track
to
finish
them
by
that.
A
And
then
the
next
one
after
that
was
a
three-year
at
the
three-year
mark,
so
August
of
2019
to
have
some
sense
of
then
what
will
happen
with
down
juries
and
what
the
request
would
be.
So
that
would-
and
you
mentioned
the
four
steps
to
finish
the
inventory
figuring
out-
how
to
give
public
access
to
it.
Doing
the
title
audit
and
then
having
the
conversation
around
boundaries.
B
F
Our
plan
was
first
to
come
up
with
recommendations
really
at
the
staff
level
and
then
working
with
DHCD,
as
well
as
our
planners,
to
figure
out
what
that
should
look
like
and
then
working
also
with
the
city
in
terms
of
what
what
the
process
would
look
like.
Because
I
don't
think
that
we
can
answer
that
until
we
know
sort
of
what
is
in
front
of
us.
For
those
similar.
B
Obviously
the
mayor's
office
in
marijuana
is
an
enthusiast
for
community
engagement
and
community
process
on
these
sort
of
rather
weighty
matters
of
urban
renewal
where
they
belong,
where
they
don't
belong,
where
we
should
contract
contract
the
boundaries,
so
I
think
what
we
do
is
once
we
once
we
sift
through
all
this
data
that
is
being
mined
continuously
on
these
parcels
and
the
land
eustress
restrictions
associated
with
them.
We
try
to
discern
what
we
think
makes
the
most
incent
most
sense
engage,
engage.
B
The
council
engage,
obviously
the
mayor's
office
and
and
then
identify
a
path
forward
for
a
broader
community
engagement
to
see
if
the
wishes
of
the
community
job
with
what
we're
at
least
superficially
thinking
so
I,
think
both
the
the
the
substance
of
that
process
and
its
duration.
We
would
be
happy
to
engage
with
with
others
and
we'd
like
to
be
informed
as
to
what
you
think
makes
sense
to.
We
obviously
had
I
think
fundamentally,
it
could
be
bumpy.
B
F
B
C
A
A
B
The
it
looks
like
we
committed
within
three
years
of
the
approval
by
DHCD
the
state
we
committed
to
submit
a
plan
associated
with
with
further
extensions
in
redrawing
the
lines
of
urban.
Oh
sorry,
I
think
the
way
we
interpret
this
is
we
will
have
a
description
of
what
we
seek
to
do
by
summer
of
2019,
not
that
we
will
complete
that
plan
by
2019,
but
that
we
will
present
it
to
you
and
DHCD
here's.
B
A
I'm
sorry
I
should
have
brought
the
I
I'm,
just
remembering
in
my
head,
all
based
off
the
letter
from
DHCD
and
I'll.
Just
double
check
it,
but
that
sounds
like
it
could
be
correct
and
either
way,
there's
time
at
the
next
six
months
check
in
to
figure
out
exactly
what
that
means
and
nail
that
out
so
I'll
flag
that
thank.
B
G
The
BPD,
a
staff
for
being
here,
thank
you,
director,
I,
had
the
opportunity
during
the
summer
time
to
visit
MOUs
Pike
towers,
parcel
our
five
and
I
believe
that's
one
of
the
developments,
that's
expiring
or
there's
some
type
of
issue,
as
it
relates
to
possibly
a
sale
of
that
property
or
the
impact
it
would
have
on
the
residents.
Could
you
give
me
a
little
bit
of
background
information
on
it
just
so
that
I'm
clear
about
it.
F
Thank
You
counselor,
so
I'm
gonna
have
to
get
you
some
specific
information
on
this,
but
I
believe
Mass
Pike
Towers
was
originally
an
urban
renewal
parcel
also
a
chapter
121,
a
project
where
there
were
some
regulatory
controls
whereby
the
property
was
given
to
a
developer
to
be
put
out
for
affordable
housing
and
that
there
was
a
reverter
in
one
of
those
controls
where
if
the
housing
goes
away,
it
goes
back
to
the
community
so
that
it
could
be
put
back
out.
However,
the
time
to
exercise
that
option
expired
before
they
were
able
to
do
so.
F
G
Know,
thank
you
for
your
answer.
Just
speaking
to
some
of
those
residents,
it
was
clear
that
they
love
the
love
living
in
that
neighborhood,
a
lot
of
elderly.
As
you
know,
what
have
disabled
the
connection
to
the
Chinatown
community,
so
that's
I'm,
glad
the
BPD
a
in
the
mayor's
office
is,
is
making
progress
on
that.
Thank
you.
F
D
F
Have
to
double-check
the
ones
that
I
know
that
we're
actively
working
on
now,
especially
the
ones
with
the
city,
the
ones
I'm
thinking
of
our
in
the
south
end.
So
I,
don't
know
of
any
specific
ones
in
Chinatown.
But
we
have
our
housing
folks
that
we
can
go
back
to
and
and
double-check,
or
at
least
they
can
look
at
the
list
of
when
they
know
that
they
need
to
be
thinking
about
right.
The
expiring
use
on
those
okay.
B
Again,
counselor
our
housing
staff
is
knit
together
very
tightly
with
the
Department
of
Neighborhood
Development
housing
staff
in
and
we
share
information
to.
Frankly,
the
the
the
broader
assessment
of
the
state
of
affordable
housing
in
the
city
is
handled
primarily
through
D
and
D,
but
we
can.
We
can
get
with
DN
d
in
in
in
determine
what
they
are
tracking
as
far
as
an
at-risk
affordability
population
and
we'll
get
that
to
you
immediately
once
we
discern
where
the
danger
and
where
the
threats
are
to
affordability,
Thank.
G
B
You
for
your
kind
words
councillor.
As
you
know,
the
the
the
Chinatown
branch
has
been
absent
from
the
Chinatown
neighborhood
since
I
think
the
late
50s
and
in
Mayor
Walsh
committed
to
establishing
library
services
in
Chinatown,
we're
thrilled
to
be
the
the
landlord
and
to
host.
This
is
really
important
and
long
overdue.
Community
amenity
the
there
was
a
there-
was
a
grand
opening
a
couple
weeks
ago
and
there
were
hundreds
of
people
there.
B
Sorry
now,
two
months
ago,
in
January
we're
in
March
they
committed
to
community
space
that
ideally
will
house
a
permanent
branch
of
the
library,
so
we're
we're
hoping
that
that
that
proves
out
and
there's
fruit
with
regard
to
this
proposal
and
we'll
certainly
be
watching
it,
considering
it
closely
as
well
as
the
community,
we'll
certainly
be
watching
it
in
considering
it
closely
as
we
analyze
this
proposal,
that's
been
submitted
to
us
Thank,
You
counsel.
Thank
you.
The.
G
G
Did
redo
it
might
might
my
my
issue
would
be
as
we
as
we
factor
in
these
issues?
Can
we
can
we
also
factor
in
that?
Chinatown
has
limited
space,
but
there's
limited
parks,
they're
open
space
for
the
for
the
residents
and
that's
one
of
the
major
concerns
I
had,
and
so
as
I
visit
Chinatown
almost
every
day,
but
they
they
would
like
to
see
more
open
space.
G
They
would
like
to
see
more
parks
if
we
were
able
to
factor
that
in
as
we
consider
this
this
discussion,
that
would
be
a
that
would
be
important
for
the
neighborhood
to
have
more
parks
and
the
one
at
Taichung
there
is,
as
you
can
see,
is
very
small,
and
that
would
be
that'd
be
important
for
the
neighborhood.
If
that
would
be
a
major
consideration.
B
Sure
so
councilor
we
you're
right
that
that
is
one
of
the
most
densely
populated,
but
from
residential
standpoint,
as
well
as
commercial
and
institutional.
It's
an
extremely
dense,
neighborhoods,
very
small
in
in
in
built
almost
every
square
range.
So
we,
when
we
engage
a
developer
with
a
proposal
in
Chinatown
we
we
do
it
with
a
keen
eye
toward
identifying
the
possibility
of
open
space
there.
There
isn't
much,
that's
vast
over
there,
but
even
where
we
can
score
a
win
again.
Working
with
our
sister
agency,
the
the
Department
of
Parks
and
Recreation.
B
G
B
B
So
not
only
is
the
building
performing
and
and
as
a
business
proposition,
we're
able
to
give
affordable,
reasonably
priced
space
in
our
building,
but
but
the
fruit
that
affairs
citywide
by
providing
these
opportunities
to
a
population
that
is
very
often
vulnerable
and
in
in
in
in
in
in
in
in
in
in
this
city
in
in
2018,
is
a
really
big
win
for
us
and
as
far
as
a
social
and
economic
justice
gain
for
that
that
vulnerable
population.
So
we're
proud
of
that,
and
thanks
for
your
kind
words,
Thank
You
director.
A
Thank
You
councillor
Flynn,
so
I
just
wanted
to
follow
up
briefly
on
this.
So
thank
you
to
Richard
I
know
I
had
the
letter
with
him
from
DHCD.
It
sounds
like
it's
the
same
as
the
VRA
memo,
but
the
point
I
was
mentioning
it
says
within
three
years
of
the
date
of
this
approval,
VRA
will
submit
to
DHCD
a
proposal
for
what
the
VRA
intends
to
do
with
its
urban
renewal
urban
renewal
plans
over
the
remaining
years
of
the
six-year
extension
describing
with
respect
to
each
plan,
a
timetable
for
the
sunsetting.
A
The
applicable
plans,
an
analysis
as
to
whether
it
should
remain
drawn,
remain
as
drawn
or
be
modified,
with
an
explanation
as
to
why
and
a
framework
and
timetable
for
action
in
any
areas
where
the
VRA
is
proposing
or
not
proposing
to
seek
an
additional
extension.
So
I
guess
it
comes
down
to
the
word.
What
the
word
proposal
means
and
I-s
the
way
that
I
read.
This
initial
was
that
this
is
the
point
at
which
DHCD
would
want
to
see
the
major.
A
You
know
what
the
plan
for
what
will
happen
over
the
next
three
years
and
either
the
wind
down
or
an
explanation,
and
if
there's
you
know,
I
would
love
to
hear
if
this
leaves
room
for
a
significantly
different
plan
to
be
submitted
after
that,
because
if,
if
there's
gonna,
be
a
public
process
after
that,
but
this
is
really
supposed
to
be
when
the
the
meat
of
it
submitted.
You
know,
there's
no
point
having
public
process
if
nothing's
gonna
change
the.
F
Intent
behind
that,
when
we
were
working
with
DHCD,
was
to
come
up
with
our
recommendations
for
where
we
think
we're
headed
and
then
how
we're
gonna
get
there
and
how
we're
gonna
get.
There
is
the
public
process,
so
it
could,
it
doesn't
mean
it's
going
to
be
done
by
the
nineteenth.
It's
just
that's
the
plan
we're
coming
up
with
them,
but.
A
A
As
I
said,
there's
time
to
talk
about
this
at
the
next
session,
it'd
be
great
I'm,
just
flagging
this.
If
we
can
time
into
more
details
and
maybe
talk
with
DHCD
about
what
they
mean,
where
is
the
so,
for
example,
if
you
say
we're,
gonna
eliminate
two
out
of
the
fourteen
plans,
just
ran
hypothetically,
but
then
the
public
actually
says
we
want
three
eliminated
or
we
want
none
eliminated.
B
B
It's
a
mature
plan
right
clearly,
there
would
need
to
be
a
public
process
leading
up
to
that.
We're
not
we're
not
going
to
be
proposing
a
mature
plan
for
the
way
forward
next
summer
to
DHCD
if
if
there
hasn't
been
a
public
process,
but
at
the
same
time
what
concerns
me
is
we
we
have
much
hallmark
still
to
do
as
Janet
mention
inventory,
the
lDA's
and
then
making
sure
the
title
is
examined
and
clear,
so
that
plus
a
community
process
all
culminating
by
August,
2019
I.
Suppose
it's
I,
suppose
it's.
B
B
A
So
I
just
had
two
minor
final
questions:
one
on
the
urban
renewal
overlay
designation.
That
Janet
was
discussing
so
very
interesting
that
there,
so
this
is
basically
a
tool
to
create
or
change.
Zoning
that
you
said
is
just
done
through
the
VRA
or
through
the
BPD.
A
are
there
other
places.
Besides
was
at
Washington
Park.
Yes,
they
used
all
over
they,
so
they
could
use.
Are
there
any
other
places
you
anticipate
using
that
or
is
there
any
notification
when
that
is
used
to
any
other
agencies
or
the
public?
A
C
C
C
A
And
then
on
public
access
to
the
LDA
inventory,
I
know
when
we've
discussed
it
earlier
right
now,
there's
a
the
zoning
viewer
will
have
a
little
flag
to
say.
There's
an
urban
renewal
component
to
this.
Please
contact
the
agency
for
more
information
and
after
the
inventory
is
done,
you're
working
towards
being
able
to
just
directly
get
everything,
give
online
access.
A
B
B
Know
honestly,
my
aspiration
an
entire
aspiration
collectively
was
that
the
ideal,
as
far
as
informing
the
public,
about
where
there's
an
Lda
and
what
the
LDA
requires,
so
they
can
see
with
their
own
eyes
optimally.
You
you'd
have
that
flag
on
our
zoning
viewer
and
in
it
you
would
be
able
to
link
to
the
documents,
ideally
at
the
Registry
of
Deeds,
where
they
are
over
the
past
year.
Since
we've
been
working.
B
This
issue
from
a
both
a
technical
standpoint
and
a
legal
standpoint,
we're
very
concerned
about
the
the
the
difficulty
connecting
to
the
Registry
of
Deeds
in
a
meaningful
fashion.
First
of
all,
we
have
to
establish
and
maintain
the
link,
but
the
complexity
of
the
documents
that
you
would
be
linking
to,
and
in
most
cases
you
wouldn't
be
just
linking
to
a
a
single
page
that
tells
you
here's
the
LDA
and
here's
what
it
requires.
It
might
be
dozens
of
documents
associated
with
the
deed
restriction.
B
We
believe
that,
from
a
technical
standpoint,
it's
frankly
too
difficult
to
do
that
and
from
a
legal
standpoint,
not
that
necessary,
I
think
we'd
be
concerned
about
liability
that
we've
sent
you
to
the
wrong
place.
It's
going
to
be.
You
know
everyone's
own
duty
to
figure
out
what
they're
looking
at
whether
looking
at
the
right
things
insufficient.
It's
more.
We
feel
we'd
breed
more
confusion,
because
the
complexity
of
the
number
of
documents
and
the
complexity
of
the
terms
of
the
documents
is
ultimately
not
going
to
provide
meaningful
information.
B
The
way
we
thought
it
could
because
again
superficially
the
way
I
was
approaching
this
personally
and
as
an
attorney
I
still
thought.
It
was
probably
easy
enough
to
form
the
link
from
our
our
web
page
to
the
Registry
of
Deeds
one-stop
shopping
shopping
through
a
click
I'm
assured
by
our
technical
folks
and
our
legal
folks.
It
is
nowhere
near
that
simple
and
ultimately,
would
probably
breed
far
more
frustration.
B
So
what
we
thought
made
the
most
sense
as
far
as
providing
meaningful
information,
not
just
data
but
but
informing
people
mm-hmm
in
a
way
that
they
can
make
sense
of
what
they're.
Looking
at
is
to
is
when
they
identify
through
our
web
hours,
owning
viewer
a
parcel
with
an
Lda
that
they
can
immediately
email.
Our
staff
and
our
staff
will
respond
with
the
documents
and
provide
them
with
some
guidance
as
to
how
these
documents
work,
work
together
and.
C
Think
we
should
speak
to
him.
I
brought
an
example:
okay,
it's
an
LD,
I
wrote
this
up.
It's
a
deed
infant
project,
14
parcels
went
out
under
one
deed
and
LD.
A
six
amendments.
There's
been
two
releases:
various
deed
restrictions
I
had
a
really
difficult
time,
figuring
out
at
each
case,
with
a
unit.
What
was
covering
it
so
I
mean
we
definitely
need
a
conversation.
The
simple
ones
like
the
backyards,
the
problem
there
is
what
the
area
doesn't
cover
because
they
probably
consolidated
they're
assessing
parcels,
so
I
mean
so
they
need
a
conference.
C
A
C
Have
files
in
each
obviously
to
get
to
that
point?
We
have
a
file
on
each
are
sold
and
all
the
information
and
I
think
if
someone
just
says
I
just
want
the
documents.
I
don't
want
any
explanation,
I
mean,
then
we
just
give
them
the
documents,
but
for
other
people,
I
think
it
would
be
really
helpful
for
them
to
have
a
short
conversation
with
us,
but
there
might
be
some
that
just
want
the
document.
A
And
so
they
can
just
say,
send
me
the
documents,
the
ideal
I
think
should
still
be.
People
can
access
the
documents
directly
and
maybe
the
flag
is.
Please
call
us
for
more
context
or
information,
but
every
with
everything
that
we
do
on
the
council
or
in
general
I
think
the
goal
should
always
be
to
let
people
have
what
they
are
looking
for
and
if
more
questions
ask
us
after
that,
I
don't.
C
C
B
B
What
you
are,
and
we
I
thought
superficially
when
we
first
started,
having
this
conversation,
maybe
a
couple
years
ago,
that
this
was
going
to
be
easy
enough,
but
every
time
we
have
the
conversation
internally.
I
have
a
catalogue
of
concerns
associated
with
the
the
hurdles
to
providing
meaningful
information
to
people
through
this
click
over
to
the
Registry
of
Deeds
yeah.
It
sounds
superficially
like
it
should
work
and
maybe
even
work
rather
easily
and
I'm
assured
right-and-left
that
that
is
not
the
case.
Well,.
A
E
E
Wanted
to
compliment
the
BPD,
a
management
I
have
to
say,
I
am
continually
impressed
by
the
senior
management
team
of
the
BP
ta,
which
I
think
is
one
of
the
best
in
the
city
in
terms
of
the
depth
of
knowledge
and
the
detail
with
which
they
are
thinking
through
a
lot
of
issues.
But
I
do
want
to
echo
some
of
Michelle's
comments.
E
Itn
time
well,
as
you
guys,
are
doing
a
lot
of
other
things,
I
wanted
to
you
know
to
that
point.
I
wanted
to
point
out.
You
know
some
some
ideas,
because
the
LDA
inventory
I
mean
as
councillor
Wu
can
attest.
I
am
probably
one
of
the
biggest
aficionados
of
receiving
telephone
book
size.
Reports
of
infirmity.
E
Many
people
are
in
my
category.
Most
people
would
actually
love
to
see
a
tabular
form
of
the
lDA's
and
and
I
actually
think
a
tabular
format
that
elicits
some
of
the
information
would
be
much
more
helpful
because
there
are
key
issues
like
dates
you
know
like.
So,
let's
ask
what
are
the
key
things
you
want
to
you
want
to
keep
track
of.
You
want
to
keep
track
of
the
dates
you
want
to
keep
track
with
this
type
of
set-asides.
Is
it
affordable
housing?
Is
it
workforce
housing?
Is
it
community
space?
E
E
I'll
recall
the
BPD
a
was
very
helpful
in
saving
our
North
North
End
nursing
home,
which
partners
wanted
to
sell
and
we
intercepted
it,
because
there
was
an
Lda
that
that
that
that
mandated
a
nursing
home
use
and
and
so
we
were
able
to
navigate
a
solution
that
worked
for
everyone,
but
it
was
excruciating
ly
hard
to
actually
find
that
out
and
that's
one
of
those
things
that
you
would
want
to
have.
You
know
pop
right
up
in
some
sort
of
tabular
inventory
and
also
I've
heard
a
couple
of
times.
People
have
said.
E
Well,
you
know
we
missed
the
deadline,
and
this
is
expired
to
keep
track
of
those
dates
and
have
them
pulled
out
and
not
buried
in
a
PDF
file
that
no
one
actually
after
this
inventory
is
gonna
complete.
No
one
is
going
to
remember
or
go
back
to
and
you're
going
to
miss
more
dates.
So
you
know
having
that
IT
discussion,
I
think
is
really
important
and
I
would
also
I'm
going
to
throw
out
a
compliment
to
another
city
organization.
E
Isd
and
Chris
English
are
running
an
RFI
process
for
the
you
know.
They
described
yesterday
in
the
in
the
Airbnb,
a
short-term
rental
database,
so
that
they
can
coordinate
all
of
the
different
online
platforms
and
have
them
feed
into
a
Boston
platform
and
they're.
Actually
thinking
about
exactly
one
of
those
data
elements
that
we
need
to
extract,
and
it
might
be
useful
to
talk
to
those
guys
too,
because
they're
going
through
this
whole
data,
schema
kind
of
of
you
know,
let's
say
a
visualization
of
what
the
data
is.
E
What
are
the
important
data
elements
and
I
would
really
love
to
see
to
have
a
conversation
about
that,
because
I
think
that
could
make
this
a
process.
This
inventory
process
that,
rather
than
creating
some
files
that
no
one
ever
looks
at
or
a
select
few
look
at,
could
actually
create.
You
know
something
that
actually
helps
the
entire
process
makes
it.
So
we
never
have.
You
know
we
never
have
a
neighborhood
that
worries
about
losing
a
nursing
home
or
loses
affordable
housing.
E
The
the
last
thing
I
wanted
to
ask
also
was
having
just
come
from
the
North
End
actually
haven't,
come
late,
because
I
needed
to
make
sure
that
my
car
wouldn't
be
flooded
parking
on
the
street,
because
we
are
inundating
right
now
and
we
are
in
an
urban
renewal
zone
and
I
wanted
to
ask
if,
in
urban
renewal
zones,
there
are
maybe
any
infrastructure
requirements
that
could
be
mandated.
If
the
urban
renewal
zone
gives
you
any
extra
powers
to
help
us
fix
some
of
the
issues.
E
But
Boston
remains
one
of
the
few
major
cities
that
has
a
unified
storm
drain
and
sewage
system,
most
cities,
our
size
have
split
them
and
they
split
them.
Long
ago.
We
haven't
done
that.
That's
just
one
example
of
infrastructure
failing
in
our
city,
and
it
would
be
great
to
know
that
the
urban
renewal
zones,
if
they're
going
to
continue,
serve
the
greater
good
of
transportation
and
infrastructure
for
the
residents,
as
well
as
the
guiding
the
developers
and
what
they
can
and
cannot
do.
H
I'm
sure,
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
at
least
add
two
cents
in
my
name
is
Richard
Giordano
I
work
at
Fenway,
Community,
Development,
Corporation
I,
just
like
to
pick
up
on
mr.
Cavallari's
suggestion.
I.
Think
some
of
the
VRA
staff
know
that
c-dac
the
Community
Economic
Development,
Assistance
corporation
tracks,
expiring,
use
properties
and
they
keep
it
on
a
watch
list.
H
But
for
people
like
me,
they
do
it
in
a
very
simple
format
on
a
table
and
they
just
have
the
the
address
of
the
property,
the
date
of
expiration,
the
number
of
units
privately
owned
and
and
what's
going
on,
and
you
know
in
terms
of
a
quick
summary
for
other
folks
that
probably
helped
the
VRA.
You
know
track
and
manage
and
stay
on
top
of
all
of
these
things.
H
The
way
forward
was
saying,
with
the
North
End
that
stuff
that
they
do
it's
it's
clear,
simple
and
fast,
and
it
would
probably
help
all
of
us
and
I
think
it
might
go
back
to
council
of
Lynn's
question
about
expiring
use
properties,
because
c-dac
is
tasked
with
tracking
them
and
they
put
out
a
hot
watch
list
of
expiration
dates,
and
so
maybe
I
should
send
the
link
to
the
councillor
afterwards,
but
just
that
style
is
great
for
us
late
people.
So
thank
you
for
holding
the
hearing
and
thank
you
all
for
testifying
much
appreciated.
Thank.
B
You,
madam
chair,
and
and
thank
you
to
mr.
Cavallari
and
mr.
Giordano
for
their
comments
when
I,
when
I
listened
to
mr.
Cavallari
I
feel
like
I'm,
listening
to
the
words
in
my
own
head,
because
his
observations
about
making
information
more
readily
available,
but
but
also
tracking
it
and
storing
it
in
a
cohesive
place
where
we
can
identify
the
material
provisions
of
all
that
we
do
and
track
relevant
dates
and
requirements.
B
We've
had
conversations
with
the
council
multiple
times
about
that
in
recent
years
about
our
own
effort
to
take
an
agency
that
was
created
in
1957
and
has
for
most
of
its
history
well
up
to
the
present
day,
been
operating
fundamentally
as
an
analog
agency
in
a
digital
world.
We're
transforming
that
we've.
We've
done
really
significant
work
in
the
past
four
years
to
bring
this
into
the
21st
century
and
I.
Think
a
lot
of
people
have
have
sort
of
saluted
that
work.
B
Re
IT
department
has
transformed
this
analog
agency
into
a
far
more
sophisticated
entity
that
uses
information
technology
appropriately,
but
our
where
we
are
we
where
we
want
to
be
yet
no
we've
made
significant
progress
tracking
our
leases
digitally
the
material
provisions
of
leases
so
that
we
know
we're
enforcing
those
leashes,
particularly
with
regard
to
revenue
that
had
been
missed
in
the
past,
when
relying
just
on
monitoring
hardcopy
analog
forms
that
world
has
changed,
but
we've
got
to
make
sure
that
same
approach.
It
pervades
everything
we
do
so
that,
as
as
mr.
B
Cavallari
pointed
out
dates,
key
key
requirements
are
easily
accessible,
not
just
by
the
agency
I
mean
we
we've
been
working
on
that,
first
and
foremost,
making
sure
we
know
what
our
documents
are
require
of
us,
as
well
as
the
development
community,
maybe
going
back
decades
we're
working
hard
at
that.
But
we
also
want
to
make
sure
the
public
has
access
to
that
same
information,
so
we're
on
the
same
sheet
of
music
and
we're
spending
a
lot
of
time.
B
A
lot
of
effort
a
whole
lot
of
resources
on
information
technology
to
make
sure
we
get
there
and
again
on
I
know.
This
doesn't
necessarily
address
the
concern
associated
with
IT.
We're
committed
to
this
two-track
solution
do
as
much
as
we
can
through
IT
to
provide
information,
but
also
make
sure
we
have
human
beings
ready
to
go
to
to
answer,
and
that's
why
we
have
Allyson
Quinn
here
with
us
today,
because
Allyson
has
done
most
of
the
work
that
we
just
all
talked
about.
B
It's
really
Allyson
and
Janet
Carlson,
but
Allyson
Allison's
job
is
working
her
be
renewal
in
Lda
issues
and
in
anybody
who's
interested
in
what
we've
already
discerned
about
the
lDA's.
The
the
documents
and
what
the
documents
require.
Allyson
is
an
extremely
important
resource
to
be
tapped
and
I'd.
Welcome
mr.
Cavallari
and
anyone
else
who
is
interested
in
having
those
conversations
about
where
these
things
are,
what
they
require,
what
properties
they
impact.
We
have
an
awful
lot
of
information
already
at
our
fingertips,
so
we
can.
B
We
can
continue
to
use
the
analog
in
the
human
world
at
the
same
time
that
we
that
we
use
information
technology
in
a
more
robust
fashion
and,
finally,
again
I
appreciate
mr.
Giordano
highlighting
the
work
of
c-dac
and
in
tracking,
affordable
housing
risks,
primarily
with
regard
to
to
expiring
use
mortgages
again,
which
probably
speak
to
thousands
of
affordable
units
throughout
the
city.
So
the
c-dac,
while
non-governmental
entity
is
a
really
valuable
partner
in
this
effort.
My
bet
is,
you
know,
our
housing
division
looks
at
that
frequently
as
well
as
DND.
My
impression
is.