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From YouTube: BPDA Board of Directors Meeting 8-17-23
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The Boston Planning & Development Agency Meeting (BPDA) is the municipal planning and development agency for the City of Boston, working on both housing and commercial developments. The Board of Directors meet monthly with developers, businesses and residents to provide direction for development in the City of Boston.
A
A
B
Afternoon,
thank
you
for
joining
the
August
17
2023
Economic
Development
and
Industrial
cooperation
of
Boston
board
meeting
at
this
time.
The
Boston
Planning
and
Development
agency
is
continuing
to
host
public
meetings
in
a
virtual
setting
for
the
health,
safety
and
accessibility
of
Boston
residents
for
more
information
and
updates
visit
bostonplans.org.
B
The
open
public
meeting
Law
requires
that
I
notify
the
public
that
this
meeting
is
being
recorded.
Please,
be
aware
that
an
audio
and
visual
recording
of
this
meeting
is
being
made
and
broadcast
by
Boston
City
TV,
which
is
part
of
the
city
of
Boston
office
of
cable
communications
at
Xfinity,
channel
24,
RCN,
channel
13
and
Verizon
FiOS
962
and
live
stream
at
www.boston.gov
forward,
slash,
cable
and
it's
like
a
roll
call
of
the
board
members,
Dr
lansbrock
person,
Mr
Miller
president
and
I.
The
chair,
Mike
Monahan,
is
present.
B
B
Or
second
second
motion
Maiden
seconded
now
take
a
roll
call,
Dr
landsmark,
aye,
Mr,
Miller,
bye
and
I.
The
chair
in
voting
I
motion,
passes
next
request:
authorization
to
enter
into
a
memorandum
agreement
with
the
city
of
Boston,
acting
by
and
through
its
Department
of
Public
Works
authorizing
the
use
in
payment
for
fuel
and
services
provided
by
the
Fleet
Maintenance
unit.
Lara.
C
Thank
you
to
the
chair
and
the
members
of
the
board,
as
stated
I'm,
requesting
your
authorization
to
enter
into
an
MOA
for
Fleet
Maintenance,
the
city
of
Boston's
Department
of
Public
Works
provides
a
shared
services
model
through
their
Fleet
Maintenance
unit.
They
provide
services
such
as
fuel
breakdown,
response,
inspection,
repairs,
Etc,
which
helps
us
achieve
efficiency
and
decrease
costs
by
keeping
our
relatively
small
Fleet
of
vehicles
in
good
repair.
The
bpda
is
able
to
be
a
good
neighbor
and
be
present
at
our
properties
and
programs
across
the
city.
C
The
term
of
this
memorandum
is
one
year
and
the
terms
have
not
changed
compared
to
the
prior
Year's
agreement.
Typically,
the
bpda
spends
less
than
fifty
thousand
dollars
per
year
on
these
services,
but
the
city
requires
that
all
moas
for
all
departments
authorize
up
to
two
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
in
case
major
repairs
to
engines
or
other
equipment
are
needed.
This
memorandum
includes
the
edic
era
and
office
of
Workforce
Development,
so
I'll
be
returning
to
present
this
item
again
later
today.
B
Good
any
questions
from
the
board,
so
you
know
what's
the
pleasure
of
the
board,
don't
move
second
motion
made
and
seconded
roll
call,
Dr
lansmack,
aye,
Mr,
Miller,
aye
and
I
vote.
Aye
motion
passes,
request
authorization
to
award
final
designation
to
and
enter
into
an
up
to
10-year
license
agreement
with
Thompson
Island
Outward
Bound
education
center
Inc
for
the
overnight
docking
of
vessels
at
Birth
number
10,
dark
and
adjacent
Watershed
located
in
the
Raymond
L
Flynn
Marine
Park
Dennis.
D
For
you,
my
anxiety,
it's
located
immediately
adjacent
to
the
Raymond
L
Flynn
Cruise
terminal
in
the
Boston
Harbor
water
Patrol,
which
you
can
the
Boston
police,
Highway
Patrol,
which
you
can
see
from
Summer
Street
in
November
of
2022
BPA
board,
authorized
a
10-year
lease
with
Thompson
Island,
our
Bound
for
the
use
of
the
land
side,
portion
of
birth,
10
and
approximately
5
000
square
feet
of
watershed,
adjacent
to
bro,
10,
to
use
to
Ferry
passengers
to
and
from
Thompson
Island,
as
a
condition
of
the
lease
Thompson
Island
in
Destiny,
significant
funds
to
install
new
floats
and
new
gangway
and
a
passenger
queue
area
at
Birth
10
all
at
their
expense.
D
Those
are
paired
and
improvements
have
been,
have
been
made
and
they
were
done
at
very
high
high
quality,
we're
very
happy
with
it
with
the
installations.
The
lease
did
not,
however,
contemplate
permitting
Thompson
Island
to
birth.
Their
vessels
overnight
at
the
floats
Thompson
island,
has
requested
that
overnight,
birth
can
be
included
as
a
permitted
use
within
the
lease.
D
Quite
frankly,
I'm
anticipating
a
seamless
continuance
of
the
respectful
operations
that
are
currently
going
on
no
additional
fees
proposed
for
the
license
BPD
will
continue,
continue
to
receive
134
thousand
dollars
over
the
term
of
of
the
lease
with
Thompson
Island,
along
with,
of
course,
the
services
that
Toms
Town
provides
to
the
city
of
Boston
students
take
them
out
to
Thompson
Island.
B
E
Thank
you,
Mr
chair
members
of
the
board,
Madam
Secretary
and
director
Jemison.
We
have
a
number
of
items
for
your
consideration
on
the
edic
agenda.
With
the
exact
details
included
in
the
board
memos,
we
have
seven
appointments
in
the
office
of
Workforce
Development
Aaron,
Park
data
analyst
and
learning
specialist
saljad
sarithi
crew,
leader
palapur
Tatiana
Joyce
assistant,
deputy
director
of
Grants
and
procurement.
E
E
We
also
have
three
contacts
in
the
office
of
Workforce
Development,
Jada
Burrs
in
Katiana
and
Glade
ogurlika
and
the
office
director's
office
John
Wilde.
We
also
have
three
status
changes
in
the
office
of
Workforce
Development,
Alexander
capersky
from
contracts
element
assistant
who
program
and
administrative
assistant
owd
in
the
planning
department,
Kathleen
Oliver
from
interim
deputy
director
of
regulatory
zoning
and
planning
to
deputy
director
of
regulatory
and
Zoning
playing
in
the
real
estate
department,
Delaney
Morris
from
Planet
2
to
senior
climate
and
Coastal
resilience,
infrastructure,
delivery,
project
management.
E
B
B
This
concludes
the
meeting
of
the
economic
development,
industrial
cooperation
of
Boston
I'm,
asking
for
a
motion
to
adjourn
the
meeting.
Is
there
a
move?
Second
motion:
Maiden
seconded
roll
call,
Mr,
Dr,
landsback,
all
right,
Mr,
Miller,
bye
and
I
vote.
I
motion
passes
the
board
meeting
of
the
economic
development
Industrial
Corporation
of
Boston
is
hereby
adjourned.
We
are
now
moving
on
to
the
agenda
of
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority.
B
Thank
you
for
joining
the
August
17th
2023
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
board
meeting
at
this
time
the
Boston
Planning
and
Development
agencies
continuing
to
host
public
meetings
in
a
virtual
setting
for
the
health,
safety
and
accessibility
of
Boston
residents
for
more
information
and
updates
visit
bostonplans.org.
The
open
public
meeting
Law
requires
that
I
notify
the
public
that
this
meeting
is
being
recorded.
B
Please
be
aware
that
an
audio
and
visual
recording
of
this
meeting
is
being
made
and
broadcast
by
Boston
City
TV,
which
is
a
part
of
the
city
of
Boston
office
of
cable
communications
at
Xfinity,
channel
24,
RCN,
channel
13
and
Verizon
FiOS
channel
962
in
live
streamed
at
www.boston.gov
forward.
Slash
cable
first
item
on
the
agenda
is
to
request
authorization
for
the
approval
of
the
minutes
of
the
July
13
2023
meeting.
B
B
There
is
no
presentation.
What's
the
pleasure
of
the
board
go
move
second
motion
made
and
seconded
roll
call
the
board
Dr
landsmark
aye
Mr
Miller
aye,
the
chief
votes,
I
motion,
passes,
request
authorizations
schedule,
a
public
hearing
on
September
14
2023
at
5,
50
PM
or
at
a
date
and
time
to
be
determined
by
the
director
to
consider
the
40
Roland
Street
project
as
a
development
impact
project
located
at
40
Roland
Street
in
Charlestown.
Also,
there's
no
presentation
for
this.
B
What's
the
pleasure
of
the
board,
who
moved
second
motion,
Maiden
seconded
roll
call,
the
board
Dr
landsmark,
aye,
Mr,
Miller
aye
I
motion,
passes,
request
authorization
to
adopt
plan,
New,
Market
neighborhood
plan,
which
will
guide
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
in
the
community
on
future
development,
public
realm
climate
resilience
and
transportation
improvements
through
a
recommendation
for
zoning
amendments,
Urban,
Design
guidelines,
climate
resilience,
adaptions
and
transportation
improvements
Ted.
You
can
begin
your
presentation.
F
Thank
you,
Mr,
chair
and
good
afternoon,
members
of
the
board
and
director
Jemison.
My
name
is
Ted
schwartzberg
I'm,
a
senior
planner
and
I'm
joined
by
my
colleague,
Alexa
penard,
who
was
my
co-lead
on
the
planned
New
Market
neighborhood
planning
process
next
slide.
Please,
the
Genesis
of
the
plan.
New
Market
process
was
in
Imagine
Boston
2030,
which
is
indicated
on
this
map,
recommended
retention
of
the
new
market
neighborhood
as
a
center
for
jobs.
F
Next
slide,
please
an
early
goal
coming
out
of
imagine
Boston
2030
was
to
make
a
new
market
remain
in
a
21st
century
industrial
neighborhood,
and
that
gave
us
our
first
planning
question,
which
is:
how
do
we
Define
21st
century
industrial
neighborhood,
because
for
Boston
our
work
with
stakeholders
affirmed
early
on
that
there
should
be
a
mix
of
essential
industrial
uses
like
food
production
and
distribution.
We
see
an
example
of
that.
F
Next
slide,
please,
the
process
began
in
2019
we've
held
over
27
public
meetings.
These
have
included
a
regular
planning
public
meetings,
Advisory
Group
meetings,
which
report
all
open
to
members
of
the
public,
open
house
or
open
houses
chats
with
a
planner
and
design
Labs
next
slide.
Please,
and
getting
into
the
scoping
of
why
we
should
undertake
this,
as
this
graph
indicates
before
during
and
in
in
the
current
days
of
the
covid
pandemic.
There
still
is
a
decrease
in
the
availability
of
urban
industrial
species
and
an
increase
in
costs
for
urban
industrial
spaces.
F
Next
slide
describes
how
the
boundaries
were
set
and
because
determining
the
boundary
of
a
study
area
is
itself
a
planning
decision.
Stakeholders
were
at
the
heart
of
that
decision
process,
and
these
are
examples
of
some
mapping
exercises
where
we
work
with
stakeholders
to
find
where
these
planning
issues
that
I
mentioned
earlier
were
most
important
in
the
built
environment.
New
Market
has
some
well-defined
Geographic
edges
based
on
large
Transportation
infrastructure
and
breaks
in
the
building
form.
F
In
contrast
to
our
planning
efforts
that
often
focus
on
residential
neighborhoods,
we
ask
for
whom
are
we
planning
the
people
who
work
there
now
or
people
who
will
work
in
the
future?
Who
who
should
be
working
in
New
Market
in
the
future?
Should
it
be
people
who
found
work
there
now
or
other
people
that
are
not
working
there
now
or
a
combination
as
a
definition
of
21st
century
industry
on
the
earlier
slide,
might
suggest
next
slide
to
ensure
that
our
planning
process
address
the
risk
of
failing
to
bring
about
Equitable
outcomes.
F
As
part
of
our
scope,
we
added
a
consultant
team
led
by
Will
nellia
Rivera
and
John
Hillman,
who
created
a
framework,
an
equity
framework
for
our
planning
process,
that's
included
in
the
planning
document
and
then
also
evaluated
the
public
process
and
the
policy
conclusions
in
the
document
along
the
way
to
ensure
that
answering
questions
like
those
I
posed
earlier
were
addressing
the
the
we're
addressing
planning
issues
in
a
way
that
put
forward
Equitable
outcomes
on
the
next
slide.
Rounding
out
our
scope.
We
also
addressed
climate
issues.
F
New
Market
is
located
at
a
topographic
low
point,
so
it's
vulnerable
to
storm
water
flooding
from
surrounding
neighborhoods,
as
well
as
coastal
flooding
from
a
flood
path
that
were
originating
at
the
Fort
Point
channel.
On
the
next
slide,
you
see
that
new
market
is
particularly
vulnerable
to
heat
events
and
on
the
next
slide.
This
is
a
map
of
Street
trees
that
New
Market
has
very
few
Street
trees
compared
to
the
adjacent
neighborhoods
and
then
on
the
next
slide.
You'll
see
that
there
are
large
paved
surfaces
that
contribute
to
its
vulnerability
to
heat
events.
F
This
slide
also
is
illustrative
of
the
mobility
challenges.
The
neighborhood
and
while
truck
access
is
essential,
those
same
wide
paved
surfaces,
create
flooding
and
heat
threats,
and
also
a
challenging
environment
for
vulnerable
Road
users
to
navigate
and
now
getting
into
some
of
the
proposed
Solutions
on
the
next
slide,
because
distribution
is
a
critical
land
use,
the
plan
seeks
to
retain
and
Mobility
Works
sought
to
balance
the
need
of
trucks
and
other
Road
users
that
serve
the
distribution
land
uses
that
we
seek
to
retain.
F
We
look
for
selected
intervention
that
would
provide
a
high
impact
return,
and
our
philosophy
was
that
not
every
street
had
to
be
everything
to
every
road
user
on.
The
next
slide
is
an
example
of
a
selected
intervention
that
we
worked
with
massdot
and
the
MBTA
to
address
and
in
the
middle
right
portion
of
the
slide.
You'll
see
a
recommended:
a
new
access
road
for
trucks
to
access
the
Regional
Road
Network
through
the
South
Boston
bypass,
South,
Boston,
bypass
and
I-93,
and
getting
into
how
this
complements
the
work
of
other
City
agencies.
F
Right
now,
the
the
well-known
intersection
of
malnia,
Casper,
Boulevard
and
Mass
Ave
is
300
feet
wide,
and
so
this
is
an
example
where
Street
infrastructure
contributes
to
some
of
the
safety
challenges
that
that
we're
all
familiar
with,
and
by
creating
a
new
route
for
trucks.
Again,
the
neighborhood.
It
provides
an
opportunity
in
the
future
for
transportation
planners
to
look
at
perhaps
if
the
neighborhood
needs
to
host
a
300
foot,
wide,
Surface,
Street
and
and
might
be
better
addressed
through
other
access
to
the
regional
Network
on
the
next
slide.
F
Just
an
example
of
a
street
section
and
the
planning
document
lists
different
ways
which
these
all
public
elements
can
come
together.
I
note:
we
have
a
planting
zone
on
the
inboard
side
of
the
sidewalk,
not
to
address
heat
and
flooding
and
right
now,
the
part
of
why
the
neighborhood
has
very
few
Street
trees
is
that
if
they
were
on
the
outboard
side
of
the
sidewalk,
they
probably
would
get
struck
by
trucks.
On
the
next
slide.
We
have
an
axon
view
to
see
how
land
use
public
level
Mobility
recommendations
could
come
together
in
a
hypothetical
building.
F
In
this
there's,
a
mix
of
uses
with
more
space
for
the
type
of
essential
industrial
uses
currently
found
in
New
Market
on
lower
levels
and
complementary
commercial
uses,
the
uses
of
the
future
on
upper
levels.
Loading
is
ample
off
Street
and
located
at
the
rear
of
the
building
to
minimize
public
realm
impacts
and
then
on
to
three
final
slides
to
talk
about
next
steps.
The
Next
Step
will
be
to
codify
the
plan's
recommendations
into
zoning
amendments.
F
All
these
zoning
recommendations
are
very
explicit
and
precise
and
enumerated
in
the
plan
having
been
developed
with
our
stakeholders.
We
recommend
three
different
zones:
a
Gateway
industrial
Zone,
a
core
industrial
Zone
and
arts,
industrial
Zone,
and,
as
I
mentioned
earlier,
no
area,
that's
currently
zoned
for
residential
use
is
recommended
to
have
any
changes
on
the
next
slide.
On
the
Sid
I
I
note
that
the
city
cities,
land
portfolio,
represents
a
major
underutilized
resource.
This
plan
recommends
that
the
city
examine
its
own
land,
use
in
future
studies,
for
example
in
the
image
on
the
left.
F
There's
a
surface
parking
lot
that
serves
1010
Mass
Avenue,
but
it
is
one
block
from
an
MBTA
station
and
across
the
street
from
a
city
park.
We
encourage
a
collaboration
with
the
planning
advisory,
Council,
public
facilities,
department
and
City
agencies
operating
a
new
market
to
explore
alternate
land
uses
for
Studio
properties
that
are
better
aligned
with
the
planning
goals
on
the
next
and
final
slide.
F
I
want
to
end
on
a
positive
note
that
this
is
an
exactly
for
use
of
existing
building
at
960,
Mass
Ave,
and
this
was
undertaken
during
our
planning
process
and
it
was
affirmative
to
see
the
market
carry
out
a
project
that
was
aligned
with
our
recommendations
in
real
time
and
the
way
it
aligns
with
our
planning
recommendations.
This
building
illustrates
that
building
scale
is
what
we
have
recommended
here
at
three
stories
and
we
also
recommend
adaptive
reuse
of
existing
structures
where
possible.
F
We
also
recommend
retention
of
existing
industrial
businesses
and
on
the
ground
floor
of
this
building
is
Standard
Electric,
which
is
a
business
that
was
in
the
building
earlier
and
will
remain,
and
it
also
retains
an
Arts
user.
The
record
code,
which
is
a
recording
studio
upstairs,
is
a
complimentary
commercial
use.
It's
office
space
for
Boston,
Medical
Center.
They
have
a
planting
zone,
inboard
of
the
sidewalk
and
then
finally,
a
street.
F
B
Thank
you,
Chad
any
questions
of
Ted
you're,
a
nun
with
the
pleasure
of
the
board,
go
move
second
motion
made
and
seconded
we'll
call
them
the
board.
Dr
lanzbach,
aye,
Mr,
Miller,
aye
and
I
vote
I
as
well.
Motion
passes
we're
going
to
take
out
of
order.
What
do
I
understand?
There's
a
representative
council
Arroyo's
office
that
would
like
to
speak
on
a
project
in
Hyde
Park
that
we
will
be
hearing
later
in
the
on
the
agenda.
G
Thank
you
so
much
good
afternoon,
members
of
the
board,
my
name
is
Jordan,
freeze,
I'm,
chief
of
staff
for
Boston
City,
councilor,
Ricardo
Arroyo
for
items
number
24
and
25
24
being
1702
Hyde,
Park
and
25
being
10
81,
River
Street.
We
just
like
to
offer
our
support
for
that
in
Council
Royal's
office.
Thank
you
so
much
for
your
time
very
good.
Thank
you.
Joe,
okay,.
B
B
Didn't
hear
any
before,
but
are
there
any
questions
of
Laura
Aaron?
None?
What's
the
pleasure
of
the
board
second
motion
made
and
seconded
we'll
call
the
board
Dr
landsmark
aye,
Mr,
Miller,
bye
and
I
vote
I
motion
passes.
Thank
you.
Agenda
item
number:
seven
request:
authorization
to
amend
the
ground
lease
between
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
in
Navy
Yard,
Plaza
development,
Associates
39,
limited
partnership
dated
July
9
1987
to
allow
Day
Care
Early
Education
Services
as
a
permitted
use
for
the
first
floor
of
building
number
39
and
the
adjacent
land
in
Charlestown
Dennis.
D
Thank
you,
Mr
chairman
building
39
is
located
in
the
historic
Monument
area
of
the
Charleston
Navy
Yard.
The
building
was
purchased
by
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority.
Now
the
Boston
Planning
and
Development
agency
in
1975,
when
the
former
bra
purchased
a
large
percentage
of
the
Charlestown
Navy
Yard
from
the
United
States
government
in
1987,
Boston
bpda
entered
into
a
lease
with
navy
ad
Plaza
development,
Associates
Dash
39th,
limited
partnership
or
39
partners.
For
the
rest
of
this
presentation,
the
lease
has
not
been
amended
since
1987
and
is
scheduled
to
expire
in
2067..
D
The
building
39
is
approximately
45
000
square
feet
on
two
floors.
The
lease
permits
the
building
to
be
utilized
for
first
floor
retail
and
Upper
Floor
office
uses
pleased
to
report
that
the
success
of
the
residential
development
in
the
Charleston
Navy
ad,
most
recently,
the
97
units
in
the
robot
building,
are
resulting
in
an
increased
demand
for
daycare
or
Early
Education
facility.
These
the
lease
with
39
Partners,
does
not
specifically
allow
daycare
on
the
first
floor,
where
we're
certainly
advocating
and
recommending
that
they
be
allowed
to
bring
in
daycare
in
the
first
floor.
D
But
the
lease
does
not
specifically
allow
that
so
we're
requesting
permission
to
remove
any
interpretative
subjectivity
and
the
permitted
use
section
at
least
to
allow
for
Early
Education
facilities.
39
Partners
has
an
opportunity
to
lease
approximately
9
500
square
to
building
99
500
square
feet.
Excuse
me
a
building
space
and
1500
square
feet
of
outdoor
space
to
The
Goddard
School,
the
garden
school
is
a
national
company
operating
Early
Education
facilities
on
on
a
franchise
basis
in
37
States.
D
The
franchisees
proposed
that
this
building
operate
three
other
Goddard
schools
and
three
other
locations
in
the
Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts,
we're
requesting
permission
to
amend
the
permitted
use
section
of
the
Lease
Only
to
allow
for
Early
Education
facilities
and
we're
not
requesting
any
other
change
to
the
lease
at
this
time,
and
thank
you,
that's
my
presentation
open
any
questions.
Thank.
D
We
did
have
a
car.
We
did
have
a
conversation
with
with
the
developer,
offering
the
opportunity
to
extend
the
lease
and
enter
into
those
negations.
Now
they've
they've
opted
not
to
do
that,
they're
going
to
which
they
have
the
right
to
do
so.
I'm
sure
that
will
that
that
that
conversation
will
be
happening.
You
know
sooner
than
later,
but
not
not
at
this
stage.
B
Thank
you
any
further
questions
of
Dennis
hearing,
none,
it's
the
pleasure
of
the
board
second
motion
made
in
second
roll
call
of
the
board
Dr
lansbach
aye,
Mr,
Miller
hi
and
she
votes
I.
Thank
you.
Motion
passes,
request
authorization
to
amend
the
lease
between
the
Boston
Redevelopment
and
authority
and
Cerrone
Navy
at
LLC
of
building
number
33
in
Charlestown
to
one
extend
the
termination
date
to
create
an
incentive
to
increase
the
number
of
affordable
units
and
three
consider
the
conversion
of
the
first
floor
into
retail
uses
Dennis
again.
Thank
you.
Thank.
D
You
Mr
chairman
building
33
is
a
47
unit,
Residential
Building
on
Third
Avenue
in
the
Charleston
Navy
Yard.
Also
in
the
store
Monument
area.
Saron
Navy
at
LLC
has
been
our
lessee
since
2019.
their
current
lease
expires
in
2066..
There
are
currently
six
affordable
units
or
13
of
the
47
units
in
the
building
that
are
affordable,
we're
requesting
today
to
stand
to
the
lease
termination
date
to
2094
to
add
a
an
option
to
extend
it
beyond
that
for
an
additional
fee
for
the
additional
29
years.
D
The
fee
would
be
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
should
they
elect
a
exercise
that
to
bring
it
back
out
to
a
99-year
lease
we're
proposing
that
the
base
might
be
the
higher
of
57,
850
or
four
percent
of
the
gross
receipts
received
by
Silo.
The
annual
rent
will
increase
by
the
higher
of
the
previous
year's
CPI
increase
or
continue
at
four
percent
of
the
gross
receipts.
D
We
had
conducted
a
market
analysis
through
one
of
the
real
estate
Consultants
that
we
hire
periodically
and
it
looked
at
many
other
land
leases
that
was
subsequently
developed
into
multi-family,
and
we
think
that
the
market
is
is
very
strong.
At
four
percent
of
the
gross
receipts
is,
is
a
very
Market
driven
request
for
for
rent
paid
to
bpda
we're
also
going
to
build
into
the
lease
a
periodic
analysis
requirement
to
determine
if
the
first
floor
of
the
building
is
suitable
for
conversion
to
retail,
there
is
a
lack
of
retail
in
Charlestown
Indiana.
D
The
monument
area,
in
particular.
We've
done
our
own
internal
analysis,
as
has
the
developer,
as
has
our
outside
consultant,
and
the
demand
is
just
not
there
today
to
convert
it
to
retail
we're
not
mandating
that
to
be
converted
to
retail,
but
we
are
requiring
the
analysis
every
five
years
to
see
where
the
market
for
retail
is
to
have
that
conversation
with
the
developer.
They
don't
object
to
the
concept,
but
there's
a
lot.
You
can
just
imagine
there's
a
lot
that
will
go
into
it.
We'd
be
just
displacing
residential
units
to
replace
them
in
detail.
D
We
are
also
proposing
an
incentive
to
increase
the
affordable
units
from
six
to
nine,
to
get
up
to
twenty
percent
there'd,
be
a
corresponding
negotiated
deduction
in
the
rent
paid
to
bpda
and
as
an
accommodation
for
the
additional
affordable
units,
and
we
will
also
receive
two
percent
of
the
gross
receipts
in
the
event
that
the
the
lease
is
sold
by
by
several
to
to
a
third
party
which,
in
that
market,
that
you
know
that's
inevitable,
that
that
would
happen.
D
I
predict,
they're,
not
planning
to,
but
most
most
most
leases
tend
to
trade
every
10
to
15
years.
There's
no
requirement
to
do
that,
though.
D
So
staff
believes
that
this
lease
amendment
is
is
in
our
the
agencies
in
the
city's
best
interest,
it
will
ensure
market
rate
for
the
use
of
BPD
land,
it'll
incentivize,
the
creation
of
affordable
units
and
it'll
require
a
periodic
analysis
of
supported
retail
needs
for
the
Charleston
and
ABI
residents.
D
B
B
H
H
The
bpda
then
conveyed
108
Walter
Street
to
the
Boston
Conservation
Commission
to
permanently
preserve
the
land
as
part
of
the
Roslindale
Urban
Wild
after
a
community
process
in
partnership
with
the
mayor's
office
of
Housing,
and
closely
working
with
an
independent
working
group
comprised
of
many
community
members,
the
bpda
issued
an
RFP
in
April
2021
for
104
Walter
Street
to
create
404,
affordable
home
ownership
units
last
August,
the
board
tentatively
designated
Habitat
for
Humanity
Greater
Boston
for
the
sale
and
Redevelopment
of
104
Walter.
As
previously
presented
to
the
board.
H
Habitat's
proposal
meets
the
community
schools
of
affordable
home
ownership
and
climate
resilience
and
was
overwhelmingly
supported
by
the
community.
All
four
income
restricted
homeownership
units
will
be
affordable
to
households
with
incomes
ranging
from
80
or
50
to
80
Ami.
The
existing
house
will
be
preserved
and
fully
renovated
into
two
units,
while
the
other
two
units
will
be
located
in
a
duplex
dwelling
to
be
newly
constructed
at
the
rear
of
the
property.
The
design
reflects
Community
preferences
by
preserving
and
rehabbing
the
existing
home
and
new
building
design
is
complementary
and
contextual.
H
H
B
B
I
Lee
Street
consists
of
1
374
square
feet
of
vacant
land
at
the
end
of
Morley
Street.
It
is
surrounded
by
residential
development
in
the
kitchen
Square
Urbano
area
at
Roxbury
on
November
18
2020,
the
DPA
staff
hosted
a
virtual
community
meeting
to
discuss
the
disposition
of
this
parcel.
The
community
members
at
in
attendance
at
that
meeting
expressed
their
want
for
the
parcel
to
be
privately
owned.
Green
Space,
due
to
the
location
of
the
parcel
and
the
request
made
by
the
community,
the
bpda
staff
decided
to
issue
applications
in
the
voters
partials
program.
I
The
bpda
did
not
receive
any
applications
after
three
releases
of
the
application
for
this
parcel,
which
caused
the
disposition
to
be
canceled.
However,
on
April
21st
2023,
the
bpda
had
conversations
with
the
butters
to
the
parcel.
A
request
was
made
for
the
re-release
of
that
application.
On
June
1st
2023,
the
BPA
made
the
application
written
on
a
Morley
Street
available
to
direct
the
butter
for
60
days.
The
asking
price
was
the
assessed
value
of
the
property
which
is
17
300
dollars.
I
The
bpda
received
one
application
from
a
betting
owner,
Mohammed
Yemen,
offering
one
thousand
dollars
for
the
property.
While
the
offer
is
low,
the
application
allows
for
any
offer
price
to
be
made
for
the
parcel
further.
The
proposed
improvements
to
the
land
in
mystery,
admins
applications
were
deemed
to
be
highly
advantageous
because
they
include
the
planting
of
at
least
four
hardwood
trees
native
to
Massachusetts
replacement
of
measure
missing,
with
gut
decorative
fencing,
the
installation
of
a
patio
gazebo
and
Landscaping
upgrades,
which
include
shrubs
flour
and
mistreps,
and
a
flower
garden
based
on
the
aforementioned.
I
B
Thank
you
Jonathan
any
questions
here
and
none
was
the
pleasure
of
the
board
second
motion
made
and
seconded
roll
call.
Dr
landsmark,
aye,
Mr,
Miller
aye
and
the
chair
of
roadside
motion
passes.
Thank
you.
Jonathan.
Thank
you.
Agenda
item
number
11
request
authorization
to
Grant,
tentative
designation
status
to
the
Maple
Street
Food
Forest
stewardship
Committee
in
the
Boston
Food
Forest
Coalition
Inc
of
apostle
l25
in
the
Washington
Park
Urban
renewable
area,
known
as
44
Maple
Street
in
Grove,
Hall
Jonathan.
Once
again,.
I
Thank
you
all
again.
44
Maple
Street
consists
of
approximately
10
406
square
feet
of
naked
land,
comprised
of
grassland
immature
trees
located
in
the
Washington
Park
urban
renewal
area.
In
Roxbury
mission
of
this
parcel
began
on
March
29
2022,
with
a
community
process
to
discuss
the
Redevelopment
of
the
parcel
with
the
community.
The
mini
was
attended
by
a
diverse
mix
of
area
homeowners,
tenants
in
community
leadership
from
a
project
right.
This
Noble
papal
Schuler
tenant
association
and
counselor
Fernandez
Anderson.
I
The
community
was
United
and
unanimously
requested
the
development
of
a
community
garden
in
open
space
for
the
residents
in
this
area.
Epa
staff
use
the
community
status
to
draft
an
RFP
which
saw
the
community
garden
development
that
would
achieve
the
following
goals
and
objectives.
The
community
garden
use
I
mean
a
community
garden
with
a
sustainable
maintenance
plan.
I
After
the
BPA
board
approved
the
RFP,
the
a
the
RP
was
released
on
February
9
2023.
You
know
at
the
bpda
proposal
deadline
the
agency
received
one
proposal
from
the
Maple
Street
stewardship
team
in
the
Boston
Food
Forest
Coalition
The
Proposal
is
to
convert
the
paraso
into
a
food
Forest
Park
containing
fruit
and
nut
producing
trees,
shrubs
and
other
perennial
plantings
chosen
to
provide
food
props
to
the
neighbors.
I
The
development
will
take
four
phases
to
complete,
consisting
of
two
phases
of
site:
prep,
soil
building
and
tree
and
invasive
species,
removal,
one
phase
of
structure,
development
and
pathway
Creation
in
one
phase
for
planting
signage
and
art.
At
this
time,
I
will
turn
the
presentation
over
to
Liz
Luke
Klaus
and
Alex
avenos,
to
give
a
more
detailed
presentation
on
the
proposal.
Liz
and
Alex
the
Florida
shores.
J
Thank
you,
Jonathan.
Thank
you.
Mr
chairman
and
VP
Daya
board
members
appreciate
the
chance
to
talk
for
I'm
Alex
alvanos
with
Boston
Food
Forest
Coalition
associate
director
and.
J
We're
a
501c3
nonprofit,
Community,
Land
Trust
that
was
started
at
eight
years
ago
in
Boston
by
a
group
of
neighbors
me
being
a
Boston
resident
myself
in
order
to
give
neighbors
more
control
over
development
of
their
neighborhoods,
especially
related
to
ecological,
Agriculture
and
open
space.
We've
created.
We've
helped
inspiration
of
10
food
forests
Parks
across
Boston
that
are
attended
by
the
neighbors
themselves,
so
that
they
feel
the
ownership
and
mission
of
those
parks
within
their
neighborhoods,
and
they
are
tasked
with
activating
their
neighbors
in
the
in
the
cultivation
of
those
spaces.
J
J
We
develop
Food
Forest
parks
that
are
ecological
parks
that
grow
like
Jonathan
and
saying
fruit,
nut
trees
that
provide
shade
that
are
great
at
captured,
storm
water,
that's
Western,
carbon,
all
the
benefits
of
ecological
agriculture
in
action,
in
addition
to
being
great
Community
spaces
to
increase
Community
resilience
as
I'm
sure
you
know,
Boston
is
one
of
the
fastest
changing
climates
on
the
planet
in
regards
to
temperature
or
infrared
state
right
before
the
fifth
or
the
sixth
greatest
seed
island
in
the
country
in
an
urban
space,
and
so
food
forests
helped
to
address
a
multifaceted
set
of
of
climate
items
through
a
resilient
approach
that
activates
community
members
to
take
care
of
spaces.
J
We
support
stewardship
teams
of
neighbors,
neighborhood
volunteers
to
caretake
those
spaces,
and
we
provide
educational
workshops,
technical
assistance
and
support
to
those
neighbors,
weekly
and
monthly
throughout
each
year
to
help
neighbors
actually
learn
how
to
take
care
of
their
spaces,
learn
how
to
prune
fruit
trees,
Harvest
Food,
prepare
and
store
that
food
and
activate
their
Community
for
stronger
Community
resilience.
Next
slide,
please.
J
This
is
a
little
bit
of
a
reiteration
of
those
things
you're,
seeing
some
of
our
wonderful
stewards
here,
Miss
Carolyn
of
the
Ellington
Food
Forest
Park,
which
is
pictured
at
the
top
of
the
first
slide,
the
lead
Steward
at
that
Park
in
Roxbury,
but
we
support
neighbors
to
care
for
their
food
floor
spaces
to
build
community
through
their
Gardens.
J
We
had
a
great
event
last
night
at
one
of
our
fourth
parks
in
Eggleston
Square,
where
they
were
learning
how
to
caretake
that
space
pick
apples,
and
we
had
tons
of
apples
that
we're
giving
out
to
community
members
through
some
of
the
trees
planted
years
ago,
and
then
we
helped
link
those
neighbors
to
each
other
throughout
Boston
to
build
Brazilians
across
Boston
neighborhoods,
and
you
can
see
a
picture
in
the
bottom
right
of
our
annual
Gathering.
J
That
was
happening
across
the
Nature
Center,
where
stewards
meet
each
other
and
learn
how
to
caretake
their
spaces
across
each
other
and
share
wheelbarrows.
Share
ideas,
share
food
and
get
each
other's
phone
numbers
to
learn
how
to
caretake
these
spaces
together.
Next
slide,
please
for
44
Maple
Street,
specifically,
we
were
engaged
by
the
neighbors
of
44
Maple,
that's
how
it
tends
to
have
to
move
Boston
food
for
us
folks
reach
out
to
us
either
from
the
city
or
neighborhood
and
say
Hey.
J
You
heard
that
you
built
these
other
parks
and
these
other
neighborhoods
build
up
something
similar,
and
we
say:
that's
that's
wonderful,
and
how
do
we
support
you
in
living
into
that
Vision?
And
so
you
can
see
on
the
left.
We've
done
many
Community
meetings
about
the
space
and
many
iterations
of
a
design
in
order
to
capture
a
community
input
on
what
type
of
Park
they
want.
What
food
Forest
elements
they
want,
how
they
want
that
to
engage
with
their
Community
concerns
and
work,
those
into
the
design.
J
The
lead,
Community
groups
that
we've
been
working
with
with
the
Sonoma
Maple
Shiloh
tenants,
Association,
the
smsta
Community
gardeners,
there's
Community
Learners
the
right.
That
would
be
a
joint
to
this
project
and
project
right
and
other
great
community
group
run
by
Mike.
Kuzo
and
they've
been
experimenting
the
project.
But
then
you
can
see
all
their
neighbors
pictured
here
that
we've
been
engaging
over
a
multi-year
period
of
time
to
get
their
input
and
involvement
in
the
design.
It
will
continue
to
do
that
as
part
of
our
one
next
slide.
Please.
K
So
in
the
last
slide,
actually
that
was
me
in
the
middle
I
was
brought
in
as
a
consultant
as
a
landscape
designer
to
help
neighbors
bring
their
Vision
to
life,
and
so
since
that
time,
I've
really
admired
the
work
of
Boston,
Forest,
Coalition
and
now
I
am
on
board.
It's
a
full-time
staff,
and
so
this
project
is
also
an
opportunity
to
think
about
bringing
sustainable
design
and
construction
and
Community
engagement
to
this
work.
K
As
part
of
the
discovery
process
of
bpda
asking
us
how
we
were
going
to
bring
this
site
to
life.
Some
of
the
things
we
talked
about
were
principles
such
as
sites,
which
is
a
lead
program
to
make
sure
that
that
we
hit
all
of
the
targets
to
achieve
a
sustainable
design
site,
also
there's
a
way
of
looking
at
embodied
carbon
and
how
sites
are
constructed,
and
so
those
are
some
of
the
principles
that
we'll
be
follow.
K
Following
in
this
photo,
you
can
see
that
the
site
is
in
a
residential
neighborhood,
surrounded
by
apartment
buildings,
to
the
left
and
Residences
on
the
right
and
in
the
small
you'll,
see
on
the
right.
There
there's
a
garden.
That
is
a
budding
the
site,
and
so
part
of
bringing
this
whole
Space
together
is
to
engage
the
Food
Forest.
That's
you
can
see
in
the
square
in
white
and
then
just
beyond.
K
That
is
the
Sonoma
Sonoma
Maple
Gardner's
lot,
which
is
very
active
and
and
folks
want
to
connect
those
two
together
and
so
on
the
bottom.
Here
you
might
be
able
to
see
it
at
the
winter
view.
Bringing
these
two
sites
together
would
really
bring
an
engaging
productive,
sustainable
site
to
the
community
on
next
slide.
Please,
and
so
on.
The
map
based
on
what
neighbors
wanted
I
came
to
this
process
a
little
bit
later,
because
they
had
been
working
for
a
couple
of
weeks
couple
months.
Then
they
wanted
a
gazebo
and
they
wanted.
K
They
wanted
to
also
bring
the
food
Forest
Concepts
to
life
and
so
by
gathering
what
they
wanted.
I
depicted
that
here,
the
overall
concept
is
to
bring
people
through
the
site,
meaning
actually
walking
through
the
site.
It's
a
very
deep
at
10
000
square
feet,
and
so
we're
also
thinking
about
issues
of
if
there
are
several
people
on
the
sites,
give
people
the
opportunity
to
have
larger,
engaging
spaces,
smaller
spaces
for
workshops
and
for
just
meeting
each
other
and
then
spaces
where
they
can
actually
engage
with
the
landscape
with
harvesting
food.
K
So
at
the
very
bottom
of
the
page,
is
the
entrance
and
you'll
see
on
both
sides.
There
are
Planters.
Those
are
elevated
planters
for
folks
that
are,
they
may
not
be
able
to
bend
down
to
the
ground.
They'll
have
access
to
Planters
there
entering
further
into
the
site
is
a
gathering
space
you'll
see
there
are
some
game
tables
there
and
the
place
for
dominoes
movies,
Community
Gatherings
of
various
sorts
just
to
the
right.
K
There
is
a
community
board
which
is
in
the
center
of
the
design,
because
in
its
circular
format,
it's
also
a
way
for
Neighbors
to
literally
almost
run
into
each
other.
Of
course,
they
would
not
be
running
into
each
other,
but
it's
it's
an
intersection
that
will
inspire
engagement
and
the
community
board.
Is
there
so
anything
that's
going
on
in
the
community
could
be
posted
there.
The
neighbors
also
wanted
that,
and
it's
also
the
place
where
art
could
be
displayed
and
can
have
engaging
opportunities
there.
K
Just
slightly
to
the
right
there.
Just
below
is
the
connection
to
the
community
garden.
They
have
a
water
hookup
so
and
they
have
vegetable
beds
and
lots
of
places
to
sit
there
and
so
connecting
these
two
again
people
a
great
opportunity
to
to
interact
going
back
into
the
site
past
the
community
board.
We
have
the
Gazebo,
which
is
a
feature
that
neighbors
really
wanted
to
have,
and
that's
also
a
space
for
for
Gathering
and
for
smaller
conversations
and
workshops.
K
Etc,
further
back
into
the
site
are
more
fruit
trees,
although
it
says
fruit
trees
there
only.
There
are
actually
fruit
trees
throughout
the
site,
because
that's
part
of
the
permaculture
discipline
of
mixing
fruit,
trees
and
berry,
bushes
and
perennials
that
are
Edibles
and
pollinators
and
the
way
nature
plants
is
the
way
that
we
want
to
plant
in
this
space
and
at
the
same
time,
we
also
want
to
have
permeable
paths
throughout,
which
is
what
neighbors
wanted
and
have
the
site
be.
K
Usable
oil
there's
a
tiny
space
there
where
it
just
under
where
it
says
fruit,
trees
for
a
kid's
Zone,
because
there
are
many
kids
in
the
neighborhood,
but
they
also
have
a
park.
It's
an
x-block
over.
So
there's
still
some
debate,
we're
listening
to
Neighbors
in
the
back
of
the
property.
Where
is
the
garden
shed,
which
will
be
a
place
to
store
tools
for
maintenance?
K
And
then
you
can
see
that
there's
a
circular
pathway
so
that
when
you
enter
the
the
whole
site,
it
will
always
encourage
you
to
go
for
a
walk,
which
is
what
what
people
want
and
what
I
also
think
encouraged
through
the
design.
So
and
then
next
slide,
please.
J
Neighbors
want
to
be
more
active
with
both
having
space
for
mental
health,
to
be
able
to
see
trees
and
interact
with
nature
and
to
move
around
a
little
bit
and
have
spaces
to
be
in
that
context,
and
obviously
being
in
Forest
there's
a
lot
of
science.
That
shows
promotes
mental
health
and
positive
ways
and
reduces
violence.
K
And
this
last
slide
just
shows
the
permit
culture
principles
about
how
there
are
canopy
trees,
fruit,
trees,
herbaceous
plants
of
various
sorts
that
go
all
the
way
down,
and
so,
ideally,
it
reduces
maintenance
in
some
ways,
because
either
in
the
soil
is
regenerative
and
fully
used,
and
these
are
some
of
the
types
of
canopy
trees,
nut
trees,
understory,
trees,
shrubs
and
perennials.
That
would
be
incorporated
in
the
design.
So,
and
with
that
conclude,
and
if
you
have
any
questions,
we're
happy
to
answer
them.
Thank
you.
B
B
Hearing
none
pleasure
of
the
board
well
moved
beckon
motion,
Maiden
seconded
roll
call,
the
board
Dr
landslot
aye
Mr
Miller
aye
votes
eye
motion
passes.
Thank
you
both
thank
you
request
authorization
to
execute
a
contract
with
Los
malos,
Cleaning
Services
Inc
for
snow
clearance
and
salting
sanding
services
on
bra
owned
properties
in
an
amount
not
to
exceed
250
000
per
year.
C
You
chair
Monahan,
we're
very
pleased
to
be
awarding
this
contract
well
in
advance
of
chance
of
snow
season
in
order
to
align
with
the
industry
and
their
capacity
and
to
help
us
care
for
our
properties
that
are
spread
across
Boston's
neighborhoods.
We
received
three
bids
for
this
work,
all
from
minority-owned
companies
located
in
Massachusetts,
two
actually
located
in
Boston,
which
reflects
our
success
in
diversifying
our
spend,
especially
on
Landscaping
site
maintenance
and
snow
removal.
C
B
Thank
you
any
questions
alone
here
and
none
was
the
pleasure
of
the
board.
We'll
move.
Second
motion
made
consecutive
roll
call,
Dr
landsbach,
aye,
Mr
Miller
hi
in
the
chair
votes
eye
motion
passes.
Thank
you.
Laura
agenda
item
number
13,
request
authorization
to
advertise
and
issue
a
request
for
proposal
to
engage
a
consultant
to
assist
in
the
preparation
of
planning
and
design
for
the
Western,
Avenue
Transit
way,
plan
and
design
effort
for
an
amount
not
to
exceed
nine
hundred
thousand
dollars.
Joe
May
begin
your
presentation.
M
Great
thank
you
good
afternoon,
Mr
chair,
Madam,
Secretary
members
of
the
board
and
director
jemisin.
As
noted.
My
name
is
Joe
Blankenship
I'm,
a
transportation
planner
here
at
the
bpda
I'm
here
to
I'm
here
before
you
today,
to
request
authorization
for
the
secretary
to
advertise,
an
issue
of
request
for
proposals
for
consultant
services
to
assist
ppta
staff
in
the
preparation
of
planning
and
design
work
for
the
Western
Avenue,
translate
plan
and
design
effort.
Next
slide.
M
Please,
as
you
may
recall,
as
you
may
recall,
the
Western
Avenue,
Corridor
and
rezoning
plan
was
adopted
by
the
board
in
October
of
2022.
The
plan
articulates
a
future
vision
for
Western
Avenue,
Everett
Street
and
Telford
Street
corridors
and
lower
olston
in
Brighton,
recommendations
for
land
use
and
Zoning
housing,
Urban,
Design
and
open
space
and
transportation
were
included
in
the
plan.
Next
slide,
please
specific
to
Transportation
Network
recommendations
for
short-term
and
long-term
infrastructure.
M
Improvements
were
made
among
other
policies
surrounding
parking
ratios,
curbside
strategies
and
transportation
demand
management
efforts,
we're
pleased
to
say,
BTD
is
currently
working
on
implementing
the
Western
Avenue
short-term
bike,
lane
recommendation.
That
was
the
result
of
the
Western
Avenue
corridor
plan.
M
The
Western,
Avenue
Transit
way,
plan
and
design
effort
will
advance
the
work
of
the
long-term
vision
for
this
Corridor
next
slide,
please,
as
a
refresher
on
what
a
transaway
is
simply
put.
It
is
a
well-designed
and
dedicated
space
on
a
city
street
that
provides
exclusive
use
for
Transit
Vehicles.
Two
examples
of
Transit
ways
include
New,
York,
City's,
14th
Street
on
the
right
hand,
side
of
the
screen,
as
well
as
portions
of
Columbus
Avenue
right
here
in
Boston
on
the
left
side
of
the
screen.
M
You
muted
yourself,
yep
I,
noticed
that.
Thank
you.
We
are
looking
to
request
authorization
for
the
secretary
to
issue
and
issue
a
request
for
a
proposal
for
consultant
Services
of
the
Western
Avenue
transway
plan
of
design
effort
for
an
amount
not
to
exceed
nine
hundred
thousand
dollars
next
slide.
Please
we
anticipate
this
work,
taking
12
to
18
months
to
complete
and
will
include
eight
specific
tasks,
planning
and
design
context,
evaluation,
development
context,
evaluation,
research
and
best
practices,
data,
Gathering
and
Survey.
M
B
M
B
Agenda
item
number
14
request
authorization
to
issue
a
certificate
of
completion
for
the
successful
completion
of
a
single-family
home
located
at
5
Sackville
Street
pursuant
to
a
land
disposition
agreement
by
in
between
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
and
Vincent
R
and
Carol
M
scaly
dated
October
26
1970.
Chris.
N
Thank
you
Vice
chair
and
members
of
the
board,
Chris
Breen,
our
Bernal
manager
here
or
you.
As
you
stated,
it
is
the
certificate
certificate
of
completion
request
for
parcel
r26
a
located
at
5
Sackville
Street
in
trial
cell,
which
is
now
being
sold
by
the
original
owners.
After
many
years
upon
inspection
by
staff,
we
found
that
the
project
remains
consistent
with
the
land
disposition,
agreement
for
the
single
family
use
and
the
overall
plan
submitted.
Let
me
know
if
you
have
any
questions.
Thank
you
very
much.
B
Thank
you
Chris
any
questions
of
Chris
hearing.
None
was
the
pleasure
of
the
board.
No
move
second
motion
made
in
second
and
roll
call.
The
board
Dr
landsmark
aye
Mr
Miller
aye
Chia
votes
eye
motion
passes.
Thank
you.
Chris
request
authorization
to
if
an
issue,
a
certificate
of
completion
for
the
successful
completion
of
the
restoration
of
4228
Washington
Street
pursuant
to
a
land
disposition
agreement
by
Between,
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
and
Rossi
substation
LLC
dated
April
7
2015..
There's
no
presentation.
B
What's
the
pleasure
of
the
board
second
motion
made
and
seconded
we'll
call
the
board
Dr
landsback
aye,
Mr,
Miller
aye
and
the
Chia
votes
I
motion
passes.
Thank
you
request,
optimization
to
issue
a
certificate
of
completion
for
the
successful
completion
of
construction
of
the
northeastern
exp
project
in
Roxbury,
in
accordance
with
section
c
dot.
Four
of
the
cooperation
agreement
buying
between
the
Boston
Redevelopment
Authority
in
Northeastern
University
dated
August
7th
2021.
As
the
previous
there
is
no
presentation
excuse.
C
Me
excuse
me:
I
Quinn
has
a
brief.
Some.
O
Thank
you,
secretary
Miss.
Thank
you,
chair,
Monahan
I
would
request
that
this
project
please
be
pulled
to
a
deferred
to
a
later
board
meeting.
Thank
you.
Yep.
B
Okay,
so
that
does
not
require
a
vote,
but
they
have
the
authority
to
pull
it
and
be
pulled
next
request:
authorization
to
one
issue:
a
preliminary
adequacy
determination,
wave
and
further
review
pursuant
to
article
ADB
Lodge
project
review
of
the
Boston
zoning
code
for
the
construction
of
206
residential
rental
units,
including
35
IDP
rental
units,
2100
square
feet
of
retail
space
and
68
vehicle
parking
spaces
located
at
1270,
Commonwealth
Ave
in
two
issue:
one
or
more
certificates
of
completion
of
compliance,
sorry
or
partial,
specific
case
of
compliance
upon
successful
completion
of
the
article
ADB
Lodge
project
review
process
and
three
execute
and
deliver
a
cooperation
agreement
and
an
affordable
rental,
housing
agreement
and
restriction
and
to
take
all
related
actions.
P
Good
evening
and
thank
you
Mr
chair
members
of
the
board,
my
name
is
Tyler
Ross
I'm,
a
senior
project
manager
in
the
development
review
Department.
The
proposal
for
you
is
1270
Commonwealth
Ave
and
article
are
80
large
project
located
in
Austin
neighborhood
on
June
22nd
2022.
The
developer
filed
a
project
notification
form
for
the
project.
The
proposed
project
consists
of
the
construction
of
a
six-story
residential
rental
building,
approximately
189
000
square
feet,
206
units
with
2100
square
feet
of
retail
space
on
the
ground
floor
and
approximately
68
below
ground
parking
spaces.
P
The
project
will
provide
206
bikes,
bicycle
spaces
as
well
for
residents
a
net
of
20
new
trees
on
the
site
and
provides
17,
affordable
housing
on
site
equaling
35
units
ranging
from
50
Ami
to
80
Ami
Additionally,
the
bpda
held
three
IG
and
public
meetings
on
July
19,
2022,
May,
15,
2023
and
July
22nd
2023,
all
of
which
were
well
attended
and
advertised
in
the
local
newspaper.
The
proponent
also
works
with
the
city
council's
office
to
relieve
concerns
voiced
in
an
opposition
letter
and
now
are
in
good
standing
with
the
local
elect
officials.
P
With
that,
I
will
now
turn
it
over
to
Yari
Cortez
from
the
planning
department
to
discuss
the
planning
context
for
the
project
before
Rob
Hagin
and
Matt
McCullum
from
the
development
team
begin.
The
presentation,
the
last
thing
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
the
members
of
the
public,
elected
officials
and
City
agencies
who
help
review
the
proposed
1270
Commonwealth
Ave
project.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Q
Tyler
good
evening,
chair
Monahan,
secretary
Pokemons,
director,
Jemison
and
members
of
the
board,
my
name
is
Yari
Cortes
and
I
am
a
planner
with
a
focus
on
all
Saint
Bradenton.
The
proposed
project
is
located
within
the
Allston
Bryan
Mobility
study
area,
which
focuses
on
increasing
Mobility
for
all
planning
staff,
also
considered
the
surrounding
contacts
such
as
the
proposed
Project's
location
on
Commonwealth
Avenue
in
a
commercial
and
mixed-use
Corridor
and
proximity
to
public
transit.
Q
Additionally,
the
PDA
staff
focused
on
the
ground
floor
pedestrian
circulation
by
recommending
the
building's
active
uses
on
Commonwealth
Avenue
and
minimizing
loading
activity
on
Gorham
Street
as
a
key
neighborhood
connector
to
public
transit.
Bpda
staff
also
focused
on
appropriate
screening
and
buffering
measures
to
create
between
neighboring
buildings.
These
recommendations
were
made
to
optimize
a
multimodal
experience
on
Commonwealth
Avenue,
Gorham,
Street
and
Brainerd
Street.
The
proposed
project
contributes
to
the
overall
walkability
and
Transit
oriented
involvement
described
in
the
Alston
Brighton
Mobility
study
by
creating
comfortable
multimodal
connections
to
key
public
transit
corridors.
Q
R
Thank
you
very
much
thanks
Tyler
and
thank
you
good
afternoon
to
Mr
chair
and
board
of
directors.
My
name
is
Matt
McCullum
I'm
here
representing
the
development
team
consisting
of
Heinz
and
Bennington
Capital
Partners
again
wanted
to
Echo
Kyler's
thoughts
and
just
wanted
to
really
thank
first
of
all,
you
Tyler
for
helping
move
this
through
and
shepherding
the
process,
and
certainly
the
bpda
for
all
their
efforts,
assistance
and
feedback
throughout
the
process.
R
The
community
has
been
great
assistance
in
helping
us
get
to
where
we
are
in
our
design,
the
ieg
and
certainly
counselor
Braden
for
all
their
constructive
feedback
throughout
the
process.
Our
team
feels
that
because
of
this
process
and
detail
and
changes
to
the
design
program
and
Community
benefits,
we've
arrived
at
a
really
well
designed
project
providing
much
needed
housing,
strong
Community
benefits
and
a
mitigation
package
next
slide,
please.
R
This
is
just
the
timeline
outlining
where
we,
where
we
commenced
and
where
we
are
today,
we
had
our
initial
pre-file
meetings
actually
in
May
of
2019,
with
an
Loi
filed
in
March
of
2022
with
the
PNF
files.
Shortly
thereafter,
in
June
of
2022
this
spring,
we
had
quite
a
few
public
meetings
and
two
or
three
iag
meetings
with
the
community
and
our
third
IG
meeting
was
the
end
of
July
next
slide,
please
just
turning
to
existing
conditions.
Obviously
we're
on
Comm
Ave
here.
R
This
is
a
1.27
Acre
Site
containing
currently
vacant
one-story
commercial
building.
That
was
once
a
CBS
and
a
surface
parking
lot.
The
site
is
well
located
between
two
green
line:
MBTA
stops
Briggs
at
Harvard
Ave
next
slide.
Please
I'll
turn
it
over
now
to
Rob
Hagan
with
CBT,
to
discuss
the
program
and
some
of
our
mitigation
package.
S
Thank
you
Matt
and
thank
you
Tyler
chairman
and
members
of
the
board
director
Jemison
and
secretary
palanis
I'm
Bob
Hagan,
the
CBT
Architects
and
I'm
grateful
for
the
opportunity
to
share
with
you
the
proposed
designs
for
1270
Commonwealth
Avenue.
You
see
on
the
screen
now
in
aerial
view
from
Commonwealth
Avenue,
which
is
intersecting
Street
of
Gorham
Street
out
of
proposed
development,
has
really
always
been
about
creating
a
thoughtfully
designed,
Urban
infill
building
that
enhances
the
public
realm
and
contributes
to
the
need
for
more
residential
housing
within
the
city
of
Boston.
S
Our
proposed
program
is
mentioned
earlier
is
206
residential
units
about
189
000
square
feet,
of
course
floor
area.
At
a
3.42
far
we
have
68
parking
spaces
which
works
out
to
0.33
spaces
per
residential
unit,
and
we
have
a
one-to-one
bike
ratio
for
the
building
as
well
and
a
2100
square
feet
of
communities
ago,
ground
level,
retail
space
along
Kosovo.
Oh,
the
design
itself
you
see
through
the
facade
is
a
combination
of.
L
S
Materials
with
with
composite
metal
panel
Bays
along
the
Commonwealth
Avenue
side
and
then
some
other
distinct
design
approaches
to
the
facades
on
each
of
the
sides
to
reflect
on
each
of
the
individual
streets.
Next
slide,
please
visually!
You
see
on
the
screen.
Now
is
our
ground
level
plan
you
see
on
the
left
hand,
side
Commonwealth
Avenue.
S
We
have
our
active
uses
up
along
com
nav,
including
our
retail
space,
our
residential
Lobby
right
at
the
corner
of
Commonwealth,
Avenue
and
Gorham
streets,
and
then
a
series
of
ground
level
units
along
and
Brainerd
Road
and
our
fitness
use
as
well.
The
goal
is
really
to
line
the
each
of
the
streets
with
active
uses
that
would
reflect
on
the
different
scale
streets
that
we
have
on
each
side,
including
providing
alley
access
along
Brainerd
Road
and
allowing
residents
for
the
existing
emboding
buildings
to
access
their
buildings
as
well.
S
Next
slide,
please.
So
it
is
a
tale
of
three
streets.
You
see
here
a
couple
of
sight
sections
at
the
top
of
the
screen:
Commonwealth
Avenue
on
the
left
hand,
side,
sort
of
a
Grand,
Boulevard
scale,
Brainerd
Road
on
the
right
hand,
side,
a
more
residential
neighborhood
approach
and
then
Gorham
Street,
which
is
really
the
connecting
Street
between
the
of
the
two
sides
of
the
building.
S
So
we're
proposing
a
clear
path
of
24
foot:
six
between
curves
arranging
of
13
to
24
foot,
six
proposed
clear
width
range
depending
on
where
trees
are
on
on
map
along
Brainerd
Road,
which
is
much
more
residential
in
character.
We
have
a
10
foot
clear
and
these
are
expanded
from
the
previous
whips.
S
You
see
for
Commonwealth
Avenue,
with
18
foot,
six
for
Brainerd
Road
at
Silver,
between
five
feet
and
seven
foot,
six
clear
path
and
we're
proposing
for
brainerd's
six
to
ten
feet
depending
on
where
you
are
and
then
Gorham
Street,
which
is
the
connector
we
see
to
tie
from
the
neighborhood
over
to
the
Green
Line
nbca,
stop
closest
to
us
feeling
where
the
existing
path
range
is
only
between
five
feet
and
six
and
a
half
feet
and
we're
closing
a
clear
path.
S
Range
of
between
six
feet
and
ten
feet
along
with
more
active
uses
our
next
slide.
Please.
This
is
a
view.
Looking
from
Brainerd
streets
toward
Gorham,
it's
on
the
left
hand
side.
We
worked
very
diligently
to
design
the
building.
It's
really
respond
to
its
context
and
to
step
down
the
scale
of
the
design
toward
the
brand
Street
side
and
to
provide
a
sort
of
a
series
of
recessed
entry,
tarents
that
comparises
to
the
ground
floor
units,
sort
of
kind
of
reflect
that
scale
along
greater
growth
and
then
next
slide.
S
Please
just
a
full
list
of
the
community
mitigation
and
benefits
proposed
for
the
developments.
We've
broken
it
into
five
different
buckets,
the
first
of
which
is
affordability
and
unit
mix,
the
second
open
space
and
public
realm
improvements.
Odd,
third
bison
car
parking
support
sustainability
and
the
fifth
sensitivity
to
our
context
so
for
affordable
building
unifex.
The
proposed
development
35
units
of
that
70
will
be
on-site
IEP
with
a
range
of
50,
60
and
70
Ami.
S
We're
proposing
a
fifty
thousand
dollar
contribution
to
the
Alston
Brighton
homeowners
fund,
as
well
as
a
250
000
contribution
to
fund
solar
projects
at
12.95.
1305
and
1309
Commonwealth
Avenue
under
open
space
and
public
realm
improvements,
we've
dedicated
approximately
5
000
square
feet
of
the
site
area.
That's
within
the
boundaries
of
the
property
line
to
the
public
route.
That's
a
10
of
the
total
site
to
enhance
those
pedestrian
experiences.
There's
a
net
edition
of
20
new
trees
on
the
site.
S
It's
a
line,
those
streets
with
and
we're
proposing
to
upgrade
all
the
sidewalks
to
complete
Street
standards.
We
are
also
providing
300
000
contribution
to
the
parks
department
that
will
be
dedicated
to
ringer
Park,
which
is
the
closest
Austin
Brighton
Park
to
the
site.
It's
about
a
seven
minute,
walk
we're
also
proposing
up
to
twenty
five
thousand
dollars
to
contribute
to
the
mayor's
office
of
RC
culture
to
advance
the
goals
outlined
the
Austin,
Bryden
Arts
culture
and
place
making
reports
on
bike.
Our
parking,
our
resident
parking
ratio
is
at
0.33
spaces
per
unit.
S
We
are
also
upgrading
the
current
blue
bike
station
on
the
site
to
19
blue
bike
spaces
and
sponsoring
one
additional
blue
bike
station
in
the
neighborhood,
as
well
as
adding
a
bike
fix
it
and
pump
station
on
our
site
along
Commonwealth.
Avenue,
we're
also
proposing
to
maintain
the
existing
alley.
Access,
as
shown
in
the
plan,
offer
our
property,
the
neighboring,
the
butters
to
be
able
to
use
and
then
we're
providing
on-site
bike
parking
for
a
minimum
121
spaces
per
unit
finals
for
sustainability.
S
The
proposed
development
is
always
focused
on
being
all-electric,
as
well
as
targeting
lead
both
in
passive
house
certification,
we're
also
looking
into
health
and
wellness
Focus
for
fit
well
certification
and
then
provide
EV
charging
for
25
of
the
parking
spaces,
with
infrastructure
capacity
for
100
the
ground
level
units
on
sensitivity
of
context
really
along
Broad
Street
and
Brainerd
Road,
designed
with
Terraces
to
really
help
engage
the
community
to
make
this
a
safe
and
active
streetscape
on
all
sides.
S
We've
also
committed
to
creating
a
urban
info
building,
as
I
mentioned
earlier
earlier,
to
help
increase
that
tax
contribution
for
the
parcel
and
then
two
minutes
of
working
together
with
Building
Trades
and
Carpenters
to
comply
and
also
comply
on
the
resident's
job
policy.
Our
next
slide,
please,
and
so
this
is
the
final
view
of
looking
back
on
Commonwealth
Avenue,
Forum
Street,
and
we
thank
you
for
your
time
and
we're
are
welcome
to
answer
any
questions
you
may
have
thank.
B
You
Rob
I,
have
I,
have
a
couple
questions
Rob
on
the
250,
000
solar.
You
were
able
to
get.
Are
you
going
to
be
able
to
get
the
ITC
and
the
IPC,
the
installation,
tax
credit
and
the
production
tax
credit
on
the
solar.
R
We
haven't
gotten
that
far
along
in
terms
of
the
credits,
yet
we
just
had
some
initial
discussions
and
confirmation,
but
also
writing
Community
Development
Corp.
But
no,
we
haven't
gotten
that
far
along
yet
and.
B
Yeah,
that's
fine!
It's
okay
I'd
be
curious
what
it
is
what's
what
it's
currently
going
to,
with
the
inflation
and
and
so
and
so
forth.
But
those
are
my
questions,
any
other
questions
from
the
board
hearing.
None,
don't
move
second
motion
made
and
seconded
roll
call.
Dr
landslock,
aye,
Mr
Miller
bye
in
the
chair
votes
eye
motion
passes.
Thank
you
both
Matt.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
So
much
thank
you.
T
You
good
afternoon,
Mr
chair
members
of
the
board
board
secretary
paulimus
and
director
Jemison
for
the
record.
I
am
Michael
Sinatra
development
review
Ombudsman
with
the
bpda.
The
project
before
you
this
evening
is
located
at
500
Western
Avenue
in
Brighton.
The
site
is
located
within
the
recently
rezoned
Western
Avenue
Corridor
study
area.
The
existing
site
has
been
owned
by
the
proponent
Ardo
garavidian
for
approximately
40
years
and
contains
a
vehicle
maintenance
facility
and
gas
station
as
well
as
Community
paid
parking.
The
current
land
square
footage
is
about
33
000
10
feet.
T
The
proposal
for
you
is
to
construct
a
new
six-story
building
of
approximately
96
703
square
feet.
Ninety
three
thousand
nine
hundred
three
square
feet
of
which
will
consist
of
116
rental
units
as
well
as
2
800
square
feet
of
ground
floor.
Retail
of
these
116
units
21
will
be
designated
as
IDP,
eight
of
which
will
be
artists
live
work
units.
The
project
will
also
include
a
new
public
park,
a
public
pocket
park,
new
tree
canopy
and
public
realm,
including
a
20-foot
setback
along
Western
Avenue
to
accommodate
a
future
protected
bike.
T
Lane
and
floating
bus
stop
as
contemplated
as
part
of
the
Western
Avenue
zoning.
The
total
number
of
parking
will
be
133
spaces,
64
for
residents
of
the
building
and
64
for
a
commercial
fee
paid
District
parking
program
as
well
as
five
short-term
service
retail
spaces.
Total
bike
parking
will
be
147
spaces
and
total
development
costs
will
be
approximately
35
million.
T
I
also
want
to
acknowledge
that
councilor
Breeden
submitted
a
letter
of
support
for
the
project,
which
has
been
publicly
posted
on
the
website
with
the
rest
of
the
public
comments
and
should
also
be
included
in
your
packet.
I
will
now
turn
it
over
to
Ben
zunkler
from
the
bpda
planning
department
to
run
through
the
planning
context,
and
then
we'll
turn
it
over
to
the
proponent,
we'll
briefly
run
through
their
presentation
and
after
which
we'd
be
happy
to
take
any
questions
that
you
may
have.
Thank
you.
U
Thank
you
Michael
and
good
evening.
Mr
chair,
Madam,
Secretary
members
of
the
board
and
director
Jemison.
As
Michael
mentioned,
my
name
is
Ben
zunkler
and
I'm.
A
senior
planner
at
wpda
focused
on
Austin
and
Brighton.
As
Michael
mentioned,
the
project
before
you
sits
within
the
BPA
Western
Avenue
quarter,
study
and
rezoning
otherwise
known
as
Wacker
Z
adopted
in
20
October
of
2022
and
the
BPA
Olson
Brighton
Mobility
study
adopted
in
2021..
U
Additionally,
bpda
staff
considered
the
mayor's
office
of
arson
culture,
Alston,
Brighton,
Arts
culture
and
place
keeping
report
completed
in
2021..
These
studies
identified
several
key
issues
for
the
area,
including
access
to
more
housing,
especially
affordable
housing,
more
open
space
and
better
connections,
a
stronger
Arts
and
Cultural
community
and
multimodal
improvements
for
safety
and
Transit
access.
Next
slide.
Please,
in
our
review
of
the
pros
project,
BPA
staff
considered
several
ways
that
is
consistent
with
plan
recommendations
for
the
area.
These
include
extending
multimodal
improvements
along
Western
Avenue,
increasing
the
quantity
of
Housing
and
exceeding
lacquer
Z
housing.
U
Affordability
requirements,
as
well
as
providing
artists,
live
work,
housing
on
site,
a
public
realm
design
that
includes
Community
spaces
and
zones
for
universally
accessible
activation
Provisions
for
continuing
design
review
at
the
bbda
following
board.
Approval
and
subsequent
zoning
board
of
appeals,
approval
as
well
as
achievements
and
sustainability
and
resiliency
through
passive
house
compliance,
legal
certifiability
and
all-electric
efficient
systems.
I'm
happy
to
answer
any
questions
that
you
may
have
and
we'll
turn
the
presentation
back
to
Michael
on
the
proponent.
Thank
you.
V
Yeah,
thank
you.
Mike
good
afternoon,
chair
Monahan
members
of
the
board
director
Jemison
Madam
Secretary
attorney
Nick
sazula,
McDermott,
Nicole,
Tian,
Miller
zoning
and
permitting
attorney
for
the
project
with
me.
V
Today
is
Gary
hendren
our
project
architect,
we're
here
representing
Arlo
garabidi
from
500
Western
LLC
he's
the
longtime
property
owner
and
developer
we'd,
also
like
to
just
quickly
thank
bpda
staff,
District
City,
councilor
Braden,
the
iag,
the
Brighton
Austin
Improvement
Association,
and
the
Austin
civic
association
for
all
their
time
and
valuable
input
on
the
project
as
reviewed
by
Ben
a
minute
ago.
We've
also
worked
hard
to
comply
with
the
new
Wacker
Z
plan.
V
V
So
it's
really
an
opportunity
here,
as
you
can
see,
in
yellow
to
remake
this
most
of
this
entire
Block
in
this
section
of
the
neighborhood
next
slide,
and
then
this
is
just
some
existing
conditions
again,
as
mentioned
it
was
a
previously
a
vehicular
garage
and
gas
station
use
had
a
convenience
store
and
surface
paid
parking.
It
is
vast,
unimproved
and
impervious
surfaces.
It's
got
excessive,
curb
cuts
and
no
usable
open
space.
So
this
really
provides
a
great
opportunity
for
development
without
displacement
on
this
site.
W
Thank
you
Nick
good
afternoon,
members
of
the
board.
This
is
our
street
level
plan
and,
as
we'd
like
to
point
out,
we've
actually
dedicated
a
great
deal
of
the
site
to
open
space
with
25
new
trees.
17
of
them
are
large
trees
to
create
a
shape,
Zone
and
an
area
that
is
currently
without
any
vegetation.
W
We'd
like
to
point
out
that
purple
square
is
the
Urban
Market.
There's
a
lot
of
development
going
up
and
down
Western
Avenue
right
next
to,
of
course,
is
the
radii
with
135
new
units
we'll
have
116.,
but
further
down
at
Everett,
Street,
there's,
probably
another
400
units
going
in
down
there,
but
we
will
have
an
Urban
Market
so
and
this
will
be
maintained
and
run
by
the
garabedium
family.
Who's
had
a
owns
the
property
going
to
maintain
the
property
and
they're
still
going
to
own
the
property
when
the
Project's
complete.
W
What's
important
here
is
that
we've
created
an
artist
community
at
this
level.
W
All
those
yellow
units
to
the
on
the
left
side
of
the
slide
are
artist
units
they're
all
in
the
IDP
category,
and
we
even
have
a
a
handicap
unit
in
the
artist
collection
we've,
given
them
a
common
room
we've
given
them
a
nice
art,
Courtyard
places
to
work
together
and
display
to
the
public
and
that's
a
real
amenity,
and
then,
of
course,
we
have
the
Bike
Room,
which
is
right
at
street
level
we
have
provided,
can
I
get
all
the
parking
is
under
the
building
and
you'll
see
that
we've
got
two
levels
of
underground
parking.
W
Next
slide,
please
I'm!
Sorry
I
jumped
the
gun
a
bit.
This
is
just
to
show
that
we
are
conforming
to
the
Wacker
C
plan
for
a
bus
on
the
shelter
and
a
East
eastbound
cycle
track,
which
will
be
safely
behind
a
nice
rough
shade.
Trees.
Next
slide,
please
a
little
more
detail
here
with.
W
We
are
also
providing
crosswalks,
which
were
requested
by
the
public
next
slide
and
then,
along
with
the
on
the
south
side
of
the
site,
there's
a
big
parking
lot
right
across
from
Richardson
street,
so
we
have
no
shade
or
Shadow,
and
we
have
a
3300
square
foot
Urban
Park.
We
don't
want
to
call
it
a
a
pocket
park,
because
this
is
not
a
pocket
park.
This
is
a
real
Park.
This
is
quite
large,
well
completely
open
and
and
completely
flush
with
Richardson
Street,
which
is
about
six
feet
higher
than
Western
apple.
On
the
other
side.
W
Next
slide,
please
and
we've
got
two
levels
of
parking
you'll
see
from
the
Wacker
Z
study
that
that,
with
the
bike
paths,
there's
192
cars
parking
being
eliminated
from
Western
Ave.
So
we've
proposed
through
the
community
meetings
to
have
a
community
level
garage
which
was
well
supported
by
the
communities,
particularly
in
the
businesses
up
and
down
Western
Avenue,
and
then
we
have
another
level
which
is
just
residential
parking.
So
we
are
at
0.5
for
residential
and
then
we
add
another
64
parking
to
support
the
developments
going
up
around
us
next
slide.
W
Please
and
what
we've
done
we've
been
consistent
with
again
the
scale
of
what's
happening
around
the
building.
The
radii
next
door
is
a
six
six
story.
Building
as
we
are,
we've
created
a
lot
of
activity
right
at
the
Western
Ave,
with
the
20-foot
setback,
so
we're
going
to
have
the
market
we're
gonna
have
some
outdoor
tables.
We
have
the
main
entrance
to
the
residential
building
and
then,
as
the
artist
spaces,
come
around
Western
Avenue.
We
are
providing
doors
and
access
for
the
artist
Community,
as
requested
by
the
the
art
community
Representatives
next
slide.
W
And
then,
as
you
come
around
to
the
South
Side,
like
you
say,
we're
well
set
back
from
Richardson.
We
have
the
nice
Park
area
and
lots
of
overhanging
balconies
with
a
lot
of
South
light,
and
so
a
lot
of
Outdoor
Experience
on
this
building.
It
will
be
in
conformance
with
passive
house.
W
It
will
have
the
entire
roof
will
be
a
series
of
solar
panels,
so
we
are
doing
alternative
energy
as
well
as
all
the
details
and
requirements
to
meet
the
passive
house
requirements
and
next
up
next
slide,
just
a
quick
cross
section
showing
how
we've
been
able
to
integrate
two
levels
of
underground
parking.
W
We
do
have
direct
experience,
I
just
finished
the
building
on
BL
Birmingham,
with
two
levels
of
underground,
we're
very
familiar
with
the
soil
conditions
so
and
and
how
this
is
going
to
be
built,
so
we're
very
comfortable
with
recommending
two
levels
of
underground
parking
here.
Next
slide.
Please-
and
this
is
the
the
view
from
Western
Avenue
with
ardo's
Market
I'm,
not
sure
that'll
be
the
name,
but
we've
named
it
after
him.
W
For
the
purposes
of
this
presentation
and
I,
think
we'll
we'll
have
again
a
20-foot
setback
and
lots
of
opportunity
to
have
an
active
Street
front
and
and
then,
of
course,
we're
trying
to
improve
the
safety
of
crossing
the
Western
app
and
we'll
be
conforming
to
everything
in
the
Democracy
study.
B
W
B
B
You
request
authorization
to
one
issue:
a
certification
of
approval
pursuant
to
article
80
e
small
project,
review
of
the
Boston
zoning
code
for
the
construction
of
44
residential
rental
units,
including
seven
IDP
units,
28
parking
spaces
and
54
bicycle
spaces
for
the
Dighton
Gardens
project,
located
at
25-37,
Dighton,
Street
and
two
execute
and
deliver
an
affordable
rental,
housing
agreement
and
restriction
in
a
community
benefits
agreement.
You
have
to
take
all
related
actions
Quinn.
You
may
begin
your
presentation.
O
Thank
you,
Mr
chair
members
of
the
board
secretary
Paul
Emerson
directory
Emerson.
The
project
before
you
is
for
an
article
80
small
project
known
as
Dighton
Gardens,
located
at
2537
Dighton
Street
in
Brighton.
The
proposed
project
would
be
an
approximately
49
000
square
foot,
four
story:
44
unit
residential
building
with
28
low-grade
parking
spaces.
Seven
of
the
44
units
are
designated
affordable
through
the
IDP.
O
The
proponents
work
closely
with
BPA
staff
and
counselor
Braden's
office
to
better
incorporate
the
design
of
the
proposed
building
into
the
context
of
the
surrounding
community.
The
project
will
voluntarily
provide
a
blue
bike.
Dock,
a
7ev
charging
stations
and
four
e-bike
charging
stations,
and
the
proponents
will
be
implementing
pedestrian
safety
improvements.
Nearby
crosswalks
the
building
is
also
proposed
to
be
all-electric.
O
The
proponent
will
continue
to
work
with
stakeholders
at
the
adjacent
right
and
Allston
Congregational
Church
and
The
Winship
Elementary
School
to
mitigate
impacts
of
both
construction
and
the
building.
The
project
received
a
notice
of
non-opposition
from
Council
Braden's
office.
The
BPA
held
a
virtual
meeting
on
June
6
2023.
This
meeting
was
advertised
in
the
local
newspaper
and
online
and
was
well
attended.
I'd
like
to
thank
BPA
staff,
Council
Braden's
office
and
members
of
the
public
who
contributed
their
time
and
efforts
to
improving
this
project
through
the
course
of
the
article
80
review.
O
X
Q
Thanks
Quinn
good
evening
again
to
our
Monahan
secretary
pohimus,
director,
jemisin
and
members
of
the
board,
my
name
is
Yari
Cortes
and
I
am
the
planner
with
a
focus
on
all
snickering.
The
proposed
project
is
located
within
the
awesome
brain
Mobility
study
plan
adopted
in
2021,
which
focuses
on
increasing
Mobility
for
all
Austin
Brain
residents
during
review.
Q
Bpd
planning
staff
also
referenced
the
surrounding
context,
such
as
the
proposed
Project's
proximity
to
the
Washington
Street
commercial
Corridor
institutions,
public
transportation
options
and
the
residential
fabric
during
the
U
staff
worked
with
a
proponent
team
to
create
appropriately
Dimension,
sidewalks
and
overall
site
circulation
to
support
a
safe,
multimodal
environment
around
and
through
the
site.
Additionally,
design
staff
worked
with
opponent
team
on
the
building's
facade
to
make
it
more
responsive
to
the
neighborhood
context,
planning
staff
Focus
on
ensuring
a
variety
of
unit
sizes
to
accommodate
diversity
structures
present
in
the
community.
Q
The
proposed
project
contributes
to
the
overall
walkability
in
transit-oriented
development,
describing
the
Austin
Graham
Mobility
study
by
prioritizing
bicycle
public
transit
and
pedestrian
movement.
The
proposed
project
also
sits
in
a
three-family
4
000
sub-district
and
is
adjacent
to
a
neighborhood
shopping
subdistrict.
Within
the
Austin
Bryant
neighborhood
zoning
District,
while
the
project
will
require
Sony
relief
from
the
Sony
Corp
appeals,
it
contributes
to
Citywide
goals
of
increasing
Transit
oriented
housing
stock.
I
will
now
turn
it
over
to
the
opponent
team.
Thank.
Y
You
great
thank
you
and
thank
you.
Mr
chair
members
of
the
board
director
Jemison
secretary
paulimus
attorney
Jeff
Drago,
with
Drago
and
Toscano
we're
the
zoning
attorneys
for
the
project.
I
also
have
Mike
McKay
who's,
the
architect
on
the
project
as
well,
who
you'll
hear
from
in
a
few
slides
Ms
chair
just
wanted
to
take
this
opportunity
to
thank
you
for
years
of
service
on
both
this
board
and
the
zba.
Y
It's
been
an
honor
to
present
before
you
all
this
year's
wishing
you
the
best
thank
you
Jim
and
so
the
project,
as
was
mentioned
a
while
ago
by
estate
guards.
This
is
located
on
Dighton
Street
in
Brighton,
it's
close
to
the
commercial
sector,
Washington
Street
at
the
corner
and
the
rendering
that
you're
looking
at
is
the
proposed
building
and
if
we
go
to
the
next
slide,
please,
and
so
the
proposal,
as
just
mentioned,
is
to
combine
three
separate
Parcels
right
now.
Y
There
are
some
dated
structures,
residential
buildings
on
there
now
we're
proposing
to
raise
those
buildings,
and
the
areas
now
comprise
of
mostly
hot
top.
This
will
create
44
residential
rental
units
with
underground
28
parking
spaces
associated
with
those
units.
This
building,
as
was
mentioned,
falls
under
the
Alston
bright
Mobility
study
and
to
encourage
other
modes
of
transportation.
We
will
be
providing
a
blue
bike
station
on
site,
as
well
as
a
dedicated
Bike
Room
on
that
ground
level,
where
the
parking
is
located.
Y
This
particular
sub-district,
although
it
is
a
three
f-4000,
is
surrounded
by
multi-family
residential.
Within
that
immediate
area
and
combined,
we
have
one
of
the
largest
Lots
at
25
959
square
feet
next
slide,
please
this!
The
yellow,
highlighted
area
is
all
of
the
parcels
and
if
you
can
see,
there's
there's
all
hot
top
and
Pavement
in
the
middle.
We
will
have
by
having
this
project
go
forward.
There'll
be
an
area
for
residents
to
have
green
space
and
green
trim
around
the
building
as
well.
Y
Next
slide,
please-
and
these
are
just
some
existing
conditions
of
the
turnaround
area
along
Dighton
Street,
as
well
as
some
of
the
existing
structures
on
site.
Just
to
note,
we
tried
to
have
a
mix
of
unit
housing,
so
we've
got
25
one
bedroom
units,
16,
two
bedroom
units
and
three
three
bedroom
units
to
encourage
some
family
housing
on
site
as
well.
This
project
would
also
be
at
a
16
affordability
level
on
site
for
inclusionary
development.
Next
slide,
please,
and
at
this
I'm,
going
to
turn
it
over
to
Mike
McKay
to
quickly
go
over
his
plans.
Z
Is
well
I'm
on
Jeffrey,
come
on
sorry,
I'm,
sorry,
Michael,
McKay
project,
architect!
Z
This
slide
is
the
is
the
site
plan
Dayton
on
the
lower
portion
of
the
the
drying
ties
into
Washington
Street,
going
to
the
right,
the
site
smokes
pretty
dramatically
coming
from
right
to
left
and
our
building
relates
to
that
and
I
also
wanted
to
thank
ppda
design
staff
I
think
we
have
a
better
building
because
of
the
input
from
neighborhood
and
staff
next
slide.
Please.
Z
This
is
the
Dighton
view
that,
starting
from
the
site
pretty
steep
slope,
we
also
have
a
brick
facade.
That
was
something
that
we
were
asked
to
do
to
blend
it
into
the
school,
to
the
right
to
the
left
and
there's
a
church
to
the
right
and
that
introduced
brick
on
all
four
elevations,
and
we
would
also
have
real
brick
as
Gary
hendren
mentioned
earlier.
Z
It
is
a
mix
of
materials
other
than
that
cement
board,
siding
on
the
upper
levels,
but
more
traditional
windows
in
the
brick
area,
with
slightly
more
modern
windows
in
the
in
the
panel
in
the
areas
next
slide,
please.
Z
This
is
the
right
side,
elevation
kind
of
not
visible,
but
it's
a
it's
off
off
to
the
side,
and
this
is
again
the
brick
panels
and-
and
this
come
inside
next,
please.
Z
This
is
another
Outlaw
view
elevation
from
the
from
the
back
next,
please,
and
one
more.
This
is
from
the
more
from
the
turnaround
at
Dighton,
a
portion
of
the
site
drops
off.
We
will
have
a
pretty
significant
weapons-based
landscape
to
open
place.
We
have
a
well-developed
landscape
plan
in
in
the
areas
and,
as
Jeffrey
mentioned,
a
blue
bike
station
will
be
on
site
as
well.
Y
That
would
conclude
the
presentation.
I
just
want
to
point
out
that
we
worked
extensively
with
bpda
staff
on
the
design,
the
bright
and
also
Improvement,
Association
and
Council
of
Brayden
to
come
out
with
the
project
that
we
have
today.
That
would
conclude
the
presentation
we
can
answer
any
questions.
B
B
Thanks
again
request
authorization
to
one
issue:
a
certification
of
approval
for
the
proposed
Harvard
Street
Neighborhood
Health
Center
development
located
at
8,
Old,
Road,
14,
Ellington,
Street
and
16
Ellington
Street
in
Dorchester,
pursuant
to
article
80e,
small
project,
review
of
the
Boston
zoning
code
and
to
execute
and
deliver
Community
benefits
agreement
and
to
take
all
related
actions.
Gwen,
you
may
begin
your
presentation.
O
The
proposed
project
will
consist
of
approximately
forty
two
thousand
square
foot
Health
Center
with
Clinical
Laboratory
and
Pharmacy
sub
uses
the
proponent
Services
clients
impacting
impacted
by
a
range
of
socioeconomic
challenges
and
surrounding
neighborhood,
and
aims
to
leverage
the
new
facility
to
enhance
its
mission
of
providing
accessible,
Health
Care
to
the
community.
The
article
80
process
commenced
in
May
of
2023,
with
a
virtual
public
meeting
held
on
June
20th
2023.
The
meeting
is
advertised
in
the
local
newspaper
online
was
well
attended
during
the
review
process.
O
Bpda
and
moh
staff,
as
well
as
Community
feedback,
played
a
key
role
in
solidifying
the
programming
of
the
site
and
how
it
best
relates
into
the
existing
context
of
the
neighborhood
I
would
now
turn
it
over
to
my
colleague,
Eileen
Michelle,
to
walk
us
through
the
planning
context
considered
in
the
review
of
the
project
before
the
project
team
Begins.
The
presentation.
Thank
you.
AA
Great
thank
you
Quinn
good
evening,
chair
Monahan
secretary
behemus,
members
of
the
board
and
director
jemisin.
My
name
is
Eileen
Michelle
and
I'm,
a
vpda
planner
assigned
to
this
project.
The
proposed
project
is
located
within
the
Dorchester
neighborhood,
but
it's
governed
by
the
greater
Mattapan
neighborhood
zoning
District.
Due
to
the
zoning
designation.
The
planning
recommendations
outlined
by
plan
matapan,
approved
and
adopted
by
the
bpda
board
in
May
2023
apply
to
this
site.
AA
The
proposed
project
is,
is
located
just
one
block
away
from
Blue
Hill
Avenue,
a
key
Corridor
identified
in
planned
matapam
in
the
plan.
Corridors
are
envisioned
as
candidates
for
denser
residential
and
Commercial
uses
and
Community
centered
amenities
due
to
their
Rich
Transit
resources
and
high
degree
of
accessibility.
AA
AA
Difficult
the
proposed
building
respects
the
height
recommendations
of
plan
Mattapan
and
the
low-scale
residential
fabric
abutting,
the
proposed
new
building,
Street,
trees,
accessibility
and
streetscape
improvements
are
appropriate
to
the
proposed
projects
scale
and
use
after
board
approval
and
subsequent
Zoning
Board
of
appeal
approval
of
the
required
zoning
relief.
The
proposed
project
will
continue
design
review
at
the
bpda.
AA
AB
Thank
you
very
much.
My
name
is
Charlie
Murphy
I'm,
the
president
CEO
Harvard
Street
Neighborhood
Health
Center.
We
appreciate
your
time
this
afternoon,
just
I'm
going
to
be
very
brief
and
hand
it
over
to
the
The
Architects
on
the
project
and
there's
a
breakdown
right
there
for
the
first
screen
to
just
give
you
a
kind
of
an
overview
of
who
we
are
at
Harvard
Street,
where
friendly
qualified
Health
Center
been
around
since
54
years,
we've
been
in
this
building
since
1975
the
building.
AB
You
see
right
there,
not
not
the
most
attractive
in
the
city.
We
are
seeking
this
new
project,
primer
opportunities
and
someone
that
building
is
getting
very
old
and
Incredibly
inefficient
and
then
also
the
new
building
will
allow
us
to
house
all
of
our
programs
out
of
one
roof.
Currently,
we
we
have
a.
AB
On
Blue
Hill,
Ave
895,
where
we
have,
among
other
things,
are
Behavioral
Health
Department.
This
will
allow
us
all
to
be
Under.
One
Roof,
which
is
much
more
efficient,
will
allow
us
to
grow
our
patient
count,
given
the
the
increased
capacity
as
well
as
increase
statcom.
AB
Again,
that's
just
a
quick,
quick
overview
like
to
pass
it
off
to
Martin
batt
and
Danielle
Barclay
from
his
genuity.
AD
Good
afternoon,
members
of
the
board
and
I
just
before
we
start
just
would
like
to
thank
the
PPD
after
their
guidance
as
part
of
this
project,
and
we've
attended
a
number
of
meetings
with
them
over
a
period
of
time
and
they've
really
provided
some
some
good
insight
into
making
this
development
fit
within
the
community.
Next
flight.
AD
Just
to
give
you
a
sort
of
site
overview
of
what
we're
looking
at
are
three
Parcels
that
that
Harvard
Street
out
of
the
development
rights
for
two
of
the
city
of
Boston
parcels
and
then
the
third
one
that
they
own.
The
goal
is
to
combine
those
three
sites
to
create
an
overall
Site,
Area
or
just
under
20
000
square
feet
next
slide.
AD
This
gives
us
sort
of
more
sort
of
close-up
view.
You
can
see
like
a
lot
of
the
other
applications
today.
This
this
side
is
actually
is
unrealized
derelict.
It
does
have
a
lot
of
current
national
on
it.
AD
So
it
does
add
to
the
current
view,
iron
effect
and
so
there's
a
lot
of
positive
things
to
happen
relative
to
this
specific
site
for
the
development,
and
you
can
see
the
orientation
of
the
site,
basically
Ellington
Street
to
the
South,
Michigan
Street,
sort
of
running
to
the
north
of
the
road
and
then
the
commercial
structures
to
the
East,
and
you
can
see
that
the
building
does
have
a
small
Frontage
on
Columbia
route.
AD
Just
by
the
nature
of
the
way
the
streets
can
set
there
and
we're
obviously
very
close
to
Woodville
Avenue
and
a
major,
obviously
public
transit,
and
we
do
have
really
good
public
transit
access
for
bus
Alliance.
Back
to
this
to
this
to
the
center
next
slide,
just
a
context
for
Madison
and
building
itself
is
in
a
way,
as
mentioned,
we're
really
trying
to
maintain
a
something
that
is
consistent
because
we're
boring
on
a
residential
neighborhood
in
an
emotional
neighborhood
and
just
making
that
transition
helping
make
that
transition
across
the
street.
AD
We
have
618
a
624,
Bluebell
Avenue,
it's
a
55
foot
building
and
we
have
a
number
of
buildings
that
are
residential
in
the
nature
that
are
between
30
and
40
feet,
as
well
as
some
other
larger
institutional
buildings
along
the
sort
of
neighborhood
and
some
of
the
carnivals
that
we
are
associated
with
next
slide
business
in
context.
You
can
see
on
Michigan,
Ave
and
Ellington
Street.
AD
It's
sort
of
very
typical
sort
of
you
know
in
a
Boston
Housing,
with
a
large,
triple
Deckers
and
similar
types
of
houses
of
that
era,
and
then
across
the
street.
You
can
see
an
Old
Road
on
these
two
lower
Futures.
AD
We
really
actually
front
the
back
of
a
lot
of
the
commercial
buildings,
so
the
street
itself
is
one
of
one
of
the
most
attractive
streets
in
Boston,
but
one
of
the
things
that
we've
been
working
with
is
how
to
make
the
piece
that
we
have
control
over
much
more
pleasant
effort
of
pedestrians.
You
can
see,
there's
literally
no
Street,
trees,
all
hard
surfaces,
hard
edges
and
so
we're
really
working
to
operate
on
road
where
we
have
control
over
next
slide.
AD
Please,
as
mentioned
there's
been
there's
a
number
of
other
plans
around
the
area:
Franklin
Park
master
plan,
the
Blue,
Hill
Avenue
transportation
action
plan,
as
well
as
the
Imagine
Boston
plan,
so
those
three
players
have
been
sort
of
considered
as
to
how
we
fit
into
the
context
for
those
public
plans
in
the
area.
Next
slide.
AD
This
is
our
site
plan
and
ground
floor
plan.
I.
Think
a
couple
of
things
to
note
is:
we
are
opposing
to
provide
tree
trees
on
older
and
Michigan
Avenue
and
Ellington
Avenue
and
effectively,
if
you
have
a
fairly
light
sidewalk
existing
there,
but
I'm
working
with
that
to
really
create
a
nice
Urban
Edge
that
will
be
pedestrian
friendly
on
all
road
we've
also
Incorporated,
two
public
amenity
spaces
at
the
two
main
corners
of
the
site.
AD
So
in
the
corner
of
the
Paul
Road
and
Michigan
Ave,
we
have
a
public
amenities
space
and
then,
similarly
on
board
of
Arlington,
Street
and
Old
Road,
with
the
idea
that
we're
trying
to
activate
those
importance
as
part
of
the
site
experience.
The
other
programs
that
we
have
on
the
ground
floor
include
some
some
of
the
healthcare
programs
that
are
really
the
sort
of
ones
that
are
in
and
out
type
programs,
including
epoxy
as
well
as
marketing
Services.
AD
We
did
locate
the
main
entrance
to
the
building
at
Mid
block,
so
it
really
didn't
reference
too
much
having
a
major
public
entrance
that
was
facing
one
of
the
whole
residential
streets
of
Ellington
and
Michigan.
As
part
of
that,
and
then
you
can
see
just
a
a
live
clean
lobby
with
circulation
that
takes
you
up.
L
AD
Upper
floors
there's
some
other
functions
on
the
ground
floor,
including
social
workers,
computer
things,
and
then
we
had
an
open
parking
area
with
six
parking
spaces,
two
of
them
handicapped,
as
well
as
a
bike
parking.
We
have
18
public
bike
parking
spaces
that
are
on
Michigan
Ave,
and
then
we
have
18
staff
bike,
hunting
spaces
that
are
located
in
an
enclosed
cut,
an
area
inside
the
party
popping
area.
AD
Overall,
the
building
is
approximately
46
000
square
feet
and
the
way
the
building
lays
out,
because
it's
a
very
unusual
shape
site.
We
have
two
floors
of
the
clinical
and
support
spaces
on
the
second
and
third
floor
and
really
a
lot
of
the
public-facing
services
on
the
ground
floor.
So
it
really
is
going
to
activate
the
streets,
but
the
second
floor
is
Family
Medicine
practice
as
well
as
Behavioral,
Health
Services,
and
then
some
support
officers
and
then
on
the
Upper
Floor
of
the
third
floor.
AD
AD
And
bassing
we
did
work
with
the
BBA
to
just
sort
of
break
down
our
massing
as
we
upon
the
residential
neighborhood
looking
to
set
the
building
back,
create
some
supplies
in
the
building
that
approximate
the
influence
of
the
adjacent,
grooves
and
houses.
It's
one
of
the
breakdown
now
how
window
amassing
on
the
two
elevations
that
are
really
abiding
the
residential
neighborhood
and
then,
as
we
get
further
along,
we
basically
respond
more
directly
to
the
commercial
Zone
on
this
Apostle
Street
Excel.
AD
This
is
the
conceptual
rendering
of
the
project.
This
is
looking
from
the
Columbia
Avenue
intersection
that
just
gives
you
an
indication
of
the
new
streetscape
new
entrance
and
the
sort
of
overall
penetration
approach
for
the
project.
AD
So,
as
you
can
see
from
this
we're
having,
we
don't
have
any
other
audience,
but
job
creation
is
competitive.
180
construction,
jobs,
increasing
Health,
Center,
activation
of
all
roads,
streetscape
indoor
community
space
desire
to
be
passive
house
standards
as
part
of
the
the
new
birth
and
new
Street
trees
to
combat
the
big
island
effect
and
the
rest
of
local
public
health
challenges,
and
with
that,
I
will
put
it
out
to
questions.
X
I've
just
got
a
quick
comment:
I'd
like
to
commend
the
health
center.
The
health
centers
are
so
critical
to
our
neighborhoods
and
it's
amazing
you're
able
to
do
that.
Work
in
that
old
building.
This
new
space
looks
fantastic,
so
best
wishes.
Thank.
B
B
Teresa
I,
don't
know
what
your
opinion
is.
It's
5
25..
Do
you
want
to
try
and
get
this
done,
or
do
you
want
to
take
the
five
minute
break
and
go
to
the
public
hearing.
B
B
B
The
next
next
one
is
the
public
hearing,
but
we're
going
to
take
out
of
order,
Council,
Dirk
and
I.
Think
you
there
or
Teresa.
Could
you
activate.
AF
Thank
you
so
much
dear
members
of
the
board,
I
would
like
to
thank
the
vpda
and
members
of
the
IAT
for
their
work
throughout
the
article
80
process
for
this
proposal
that
is,
165
Park
Drive
since
being
sworn
in,
I
have
quickly
begun.
Familiarizing
myself,
with
many
proposals
that
are
being
put
forward
in
the
district
and
I
recognize
that
the
proposal
at
165
Park
Drive
aims
to
deliver
one
of
the
greatest
needs
in
the
neighborhood
and
the
city,
affordable
housing.
AF
At
a
time
when
the
city
is
facing
an
acute
housing
crisis,
affordable
housing,
specifically
affordable
home
ownership
in
a
Transit
oriented
neighborhood,
surrounded
by
many
of
the
major
Employers
in
the
region,
is
a
welcome
and
needed
addition
by
providing
117
units
of
housing,
48
of
which
are
set
aside
to
be
affordable,
home
ownership
opportunities.
The
proponent
is
opening
the
door
to
a
neighborhood
whose
cultural,
entertainment,
educational
research
institutions
have
long
attracted
many
to
visit
but
prohibited
many
from
going
home.
AF
Furthermore,
the
developer
has
thoughtfully
recognized
the
residential
character
of
the
neighborhood
by
designing
two
contextually
appropriate
buildings.
The
design
work
to
knit
the
old
together
with
the
new
in
the
way
that
I
hoped
I
hope,
will
Foster
Community
integration
between
its
surrounding
neighbors,
with
long
Histories
on
the
street,
such
as
Saint
Cecilia's
house
and
Robert
Rick
Brighthouse,
the.
AF
Is,
among
other
things,
linked
to
access
and
green
spaces.
This
project
thoughtfully
considers
its
adjacency
to
the
historic
Emerald
necklace
and
has
designed
a
building
that
respects
and
enhances
the
surrounding
public
green
space
in
the
Back
Bay
fence.
Moreover,
I
can't
go
without
mentioning
that
Holy
Trinity
has
worked
patiently
and
meticulously
to
bring
the
community
into
the
process
that
also
restores
their
historic
church
and
improves
the
green
space
on
their
property.
I
hope
that
special
attention
is
paid
to
preserving
mature
trees,
one
of
our
City's
most
precious
resources
this
whenever
possible.
AF
Financial
role,
Samuels
and
Associates
will
play
in
the
development
of
the
48,
affordable
home
ownership,
building
in
the
development
and
Market
landscape
that
disincentivizes
residential
projects,
Samuels
and
Associates
subsidy
of
this
project,
via
their
proposed
lab
development
at
1400,
Burleson
Street
models
away
in
which
the
city's
commercial
and
residential
growth
can
and
must
be
mutual
mutually
reinforcing
if
our
city
is
to
achieve
sustainable
growth.
For
these
reasons,
I
would
like
to
express
my
support
and
hope
that
the
board
votes
to
approve
this
proposal
today,
sincerely
Sharon
Durkin
District
8
City
councilor.
AF
Thank
you
so
much
for
for
letting
me
go
out
of
order
really
appreciate
your
time.
Thank.
B
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Spanish
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AE
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B
B
The
hearing
was
duly
advertised
on
August,
2nd
2023
in
the
Boston
Herald
newspaper.
This
is
a
bpda
hearing
on
a
proposed
petition
by
the
agency
staff.
Members
will
first
present
their
case
in
a
subject
to
questioning
by
members
of
the
agency.
Thereafter.
Anyone
who
wishes
to
testify
about
the
proposed
project
will
be
afforded
an
opportunity
we
are
taking
support
in
opposition.
At
the
same
time,
if
you
are
planning
to
testify,
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now
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your
remarks
so
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the
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and
others
may
be
heard.
Finally,
the
components
are
allowed
a
period
of
five
to
ten
minutes
for
rebuttal
if
they
so
desire.
When
valsast
will
now
begin,
the
presentation.
O
Thank
you
Mr
chair
good
evening,
members
of
the
board
director
Jemison
and
secretary
paulimus.
My
name
is
Quinn
balsich
I'm,
a
senior
project
manager
in
development
review
at
the
bpda.
The
proposed
project
before
you
is
an
article
80
small
project
and
planned
Development
Area
located
within
the
Bartlett
station
master
plan,
Development
Area
number
94
in
Roxbury.
O
O
O
The
public
meeting
was
advertised
in
the
newspaper
and
online
and
was
well
attended
during
the
review
process.
The
open
space
and
accessibility
of
the
units
evolved
based
on
feedback
from
the
project,
Review
Committee
for
the
overall
master
plan,
Community
feedback
stop
response
and
the
existing
context
of
the
Bartlett
station
site.
O
Finally,
I
would
like
to
thank
the
PRC
elected
officials
and
the
Roxbury
Community,
who
have
consistently
worked
within
the
article
80
process
over
the
last
three
years
to
help
shape
the
project
that
you're
about
to
see.
I
will
now
turn
it
over
to
my
colleague,
Christina
Rico,
to
walk
us
through
the
planning
context
that
was
considered
in
reviewing
this
project
before
Andre
Jones
from
the
development
team
Begins.
The
presentation.
Thank
you.
AG
Thank
you
Quinn
good
evening,
chair
Monahan,
esteemed
members
of
board,
director
jemisin
and
Madam
Secretary
for
the
record.
My
name
is
Christina
Rico
senior
planner
at
the
bpda
and
I
am
pleased
to
join
you
this
evening
to
share
with
you
the
planning
context
which
informed
bpda's
staff
level
review
of
the
proposed
project.
AH
Hi
good
evening,
thank
you,
chair
members
of
the
bpda
board,
director
Jemison
secretary
paulimus,
but
also
a
note
of
appreciation
to
be
a
city
design
staff,
for
you
know
improving
the
project
with
their
suggestions
and
the
development
team
would
also
like
to
thank
the
Bartlett
Place
project,
Review
Committee,
Roxbury,
strategic
master
plan
oversight
committee
and
other
members
of
the
Roxbury
Community
Who
provided
valuable
input.
AH
As
Quinn
describes
this,
it
will
be
24,
affordable
ownership
units,
100
100
of
the
units
will
be
affordable,
but
I'd
also
like
to
note
that
it's
you
know:
new
Esther,
Community,
Dot
and
windale
development
partnered
on
the
about
a
place
and
George
Chen
and
Arnold
Johnson
from
Wendell
development.
It
was
their
Vision
to
make
Unity
station
Condominiums,
truly
family
size
units
of
the
24
units.
AH
Another
priority
for
the
developer
is
is
to
create
local
jobs.
The
stranded
priority
of
the
developer,
which
has
been
achieved
in
previous
phases
of
Bartlett
Place,
is
to
insist
that
60
of
the
contract
dollars
go
to
mbes.
Sixty
percent
of
the
contract
dollars
go
to
individuals
of
color
in
the
community
and
15
goes
to
WBS.
AH
With
that
brief
summary
I'll
turn
it
over
to
Benjamin
Lee
of
Michael
Washington
Architects
to
go
through
the
plans.
Thank
you.
AI
AI
It's
my
pleasure
to
present
Bartlett
Place
I'm,
building
up
one
in
F3
as
Andre
mentioned,
there's
24,
affordable,
family
style,
home
ownership,
units
with
green
spaces
and
with
the
sites
also
well
within
to
public
transit,
and
the
design
also
will
try
to
achieve
to
lead
gold
standards
next
size,
please
in
front
of
you
there's
the
next
two
slides
will
be
the
liberal
context
of
the
two
side,
F1
and
F3.
This
is
for
F1
next
size.
Please,
and
this
is
for
site
F3
next
size.
AI
Please,
and,
as
you
can
see,
this
is
the
the
site
master
plan
with
the
F1
along
Street,
along
the
left
hand,
side
and
F3
at
the
top
along
the
Lombard
Avenue.
AI
Our
next
slide,
please,
the
next
three
slides
is
I'm
currently
showing
the
context
of
the
the
site
layout
of
F1
and
F3,
and
the
top
you
have
F1
being
each
Bay
having
two
duplexes
at
each
Bay,
which
gives
you
eight
units
and
on
the
bottom
you
have
site
F3
and
similarly,
you
would
have
two
duplicates
at
each
Bay
and
that
will
give
you
16
units
in
total
next
size.
Please.
AI
This
shows
the
grading
there's
a
number
number
of
challenges
in
terms
of
like
the
slope
of
the
grades,
and
we
managed
to
have
all
the
ground
floor
units
to
be
accessible
with
group,
one
and
group
two
units
next
size.
Please-
and
this
slide
also
shows
as
well
developed
landscape
plan
with
open
green
space
for
the
residents
next
slide.
Please
these
are
series
of
elevations
on
the
front
and
the
side
and
the
side
as
you
can
see,
against
the
challenges
with
the
slope
slides.
AI
But
again
we
have
developed
the
units
to
be
accessible
on
the
ground
floor
next
size.
Please,
and
previously
there
was
F1,
and
this
is
for
F3
next
size,
please.
AI
This
is
a
typical
building
cross-section
of
the
the
residential
units.
Next
slide,
please,
and
then
the
next
number
of
slides
will
be
the
the
perspectives.
This
is
for
F1.
Looking
on
the
the
left
hand,
side
from
Lambert
Avenue
next
size,
please-
and
this
is
the
opposite
side
viewing
from
Gallow
Street.
As
you
can
see,
the
material
will
be
very
similar
to
the
neighborhood
contacts,
as
we
saw
in
previous
slides,
big
size
keys.
AI
This
is
the
the
rear
view
of
the
of
building
F1
next
size.
Please
and
the
next
three
slides
will
be
for
F3,
and
this
is
on
the
left
side
appearing
from
feeling
on
Lambert
Avenue
next
size
space,
and
then
this
is
the
opposite
side.
Viewing
from
yeah
I'm,
Carol,
Stream
next
size,
please
and
there's
a
degree
overall
rear
view
of
building
F3
and
next
slide.
Please
and
I
believe
this
concludes
the
product,
presentation
of
the
or
forward
building,
F1
and
F3.
Thank
you.
B
This
is
a
public
hearing.
We
will
now
take
testimony
from
the
public
if
you
are
planning
to
testify.
Please
click
the
hand
icon
on
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Zoom
control
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This
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that
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would
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speak.
When
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is
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will
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blue
if
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calling
into
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meeting.
You
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like
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testify.
Please
dial
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9.
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raise
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are
there
any
questions?
AI
AK
B
B
Request:
authorization
to
one
issue:
a
certification
of
approval
pursuant
to
article
80e,
small
project,
review
of
the
Boston
zoning
code
for
the
construction,
41
home
ownership
units,
including
seven
IDP
home
ownership,
units
up
to
26
parking
spaces
in
42,
bicycle
spaces,
for
the
proposed
development
located
at
9,
McKay
place
and
two
execute
an
affordable
housing
agreement
and
Community
benefit
contribution
agreement
and
to
take
all
related
actions.
Nick.
You
may
begin
the
presentation.
AM
AN
AN
AO
Yes,
good
evening,
Mr
chairman
members
of
the
board
director
Jameson
and
secretary
Paul,
neimes,
first
and
foremost,
I'd
like
to
thank
Jeremy
Monahan
for
his
service
to
this
near
Boston.
It's
good
to
see
you
Mr
Monahan,
for
your
service
on
this
board
and
on
the
Zoning
Board
of
Appeals,
so
my
name
is
attorney
Derek
small
I
am
a
zoning
and
permitting
attorney
here
in
the
city
of
Boston,
with
the
development
team.
AO
Today
we
are
here
seeking
approval
for
our
project
at
9
McKay
place,
which
consists
of
41
residential
units,
36
parking
spaces,
44,
enclosed
bike
spaces,
and
within
that
41
residential
units,
we
have
an
IDP
count
of
seven
units
or
17.
At
this
point,
I'd
like
to
turn
it
over
to
Chris
Brown
from
Zephyr
Architects
to
take
you
through
the
program
with
regard
to
the
plans
Chris.
AP
Thanks
chair
good
evening,
members
of
the
board,
so
on
this
particular
side
we
are
just
locating
our
particular
project,
as
it
was
stated,
we're
combining
six
adjacent
parcels
and
raising
three
existing
two
and
three
family
structures
to
construct
a
41
unit,
five-story
structure,
with
an
approximate
square
footage
of
fifty
four
thousand
five
hundred
square
feet
next
slide.
AP
Please
here
you
can
see
from
the
aerial
perspective
of
the
area
and
location
relative
to
the
Donald
Mckay
school
right
behind
us,
which
will
come
into
play
as
I
go
on,
and
you
can
see
the
the
kind
of
sea
of
residential
spaces
that
we
are
a
part
of
and
how
what
we're
trying
to
fit
in
for
our
context.
AP
Next
slide,
please,
from
the
street
view
we're
looking
down
the
K
straight
ahead
and
we're
standing
on
Maverick
Street,
the
kind
of
dilapidated
Park
you
can
see
to
the
right
is,
and
the
throws
three
next
structures
will
be
the
buildings
that
we're
trying
to
proposing
to
raise
and
trying
to
improve
upon
to
benefit
the
neighborhood
and
Community
next
slide.
Please,
thank
you
so
for
what
we
are
proposing
at
this
structure
of
with
the
corner
of
Maverick
Street
and
McKay
place,
we'll
incorporate
a
2,
000
square
foot,
Plaza
and
park.
AP
You
can
see
this
at
the
bottom
left
hand
of
the
of
the
plan.
This
will
add
much
needed
vegetation
and
public
gathering
space
to
this
Urban
fabric.
The
park
will
provide
Public,
Access
and
areas
of
respite
as
well
as
accessible
sloped
access
and
walkways
into
our
building
lobbying
entrance,
which
is
raised
to
meet
the
flood
demands
and
requirements.
As
incho
had
previously
mentioned.
AP
So,
in
addition
to
the
park
at
the
bottom
of
our
plan,
where
it
is
labeled
bus
stop,
you
can
notice
a
new
bus,
shelter
and
a
sidewalk
extension
so
that
there's
a
comfortable
area
for
local
community
members
to
sit
and
wait
for
the
public
transit
as
as
it
comes
by,
we
are
offering
seven
New
Street
trees,
as
well
as
retaining
one
existing
Street
tree
with
an
approximate
diameter
of
three
feet
and
with
these
extra
large
sidewalks
that
we
are
trying
to
create,
we
are
improving
the
pedestrian
experience,
as
well
as
increasing
availability
for
pedestrian
safety.
AP
So
we
do
have
our
garage
entrance
on
McKay
place,
and
that
was
one
of
the
areas
that
we
wanted
to
highlight,
specifically
with
some
additional
vehicular
measures
to
provide
safety.
Whether
it
is
an
alarm
when
the
door
is
opening
or
interior
speed,
bumps
to
make
sure
that
everyone
who
is
accessing
in
or
out
of
our
garage
is
doing
it
in
a
safe
Manner
and
making
sure
that
the
safety
of
the
school
children
is
of
the
utmost
importance.
AP
Next
slide,
please.
As
for
the
building
itself,
you
can
see
this
three-dimensional
View.
We
are
proposing
a
five-story
structure.
The
fifth
floor
has
been
very
carefully
laid
out,
so
that
is
set
back
and
makes
it
as
imperceptible
from
the
street
as
possible.
You'll
only
be
able
to
notice
edges
or
corners
or
glimpses
of
this
fifth
floor
from
some
very
acute
angles.
AP
The
further
down
Maverick
Street
you
get
until
it
gets
completely
obscured
by
neighboring
buildings
and
a
majority
of
our
units
within
this
building
are
going
to
be
two
and
three
bedroom
units
we've
aimed
to
provide
housing
for
a
variety
of
family
sizes,
regardless
of
whether
they
are
upsizing,
downsizing
or
planning
to
age
in
place.
This
is
an
elevator,
accessible
building
and
all
of
these
units
will
be
suitable
or
adaptable
for
anyone
that
does
have
any
physical
impairments.
AP
Seven
of
these
units,
as
mentioned
by
Derek,
will
be
income
restricted,
which
is
two
more
than
the
required
five
units
by
by
zoning.
So
we
are
trying
to
make
this
as
attainable
to
live
in
this
space
as
as
possible.
AP
Next
slide,
please,
this
particular
slide
is
showcasing
our
desire
and
our
attempt
to
match
the
existing
context.
Neighboring
buildings
we're
proposing
to
use
Granite
base
a
mixture
of
red
and
pale
white
or
off-white
brick
and
hybrid
siding,
so
we're
trying
to
as
much
as
possible
match
the
existing
fabric
of
the
neighborhood
next
slide.
Please.
AP
This
is
an
older,
slightly
older
rendering,
so
in
a
in
one
of
the
next
slides,
you'll
get
a
better
understanding
of
our
Plaza,
but
this
highlights
the
intent
that
we
are
trying
to
create
with
Street
canopy
vegetation
and
an
area
that
the
public
can
utilize
for
their
own
benefit,
whether
it's
for
public
Gatherings,
CSA,
pickups
or
any
additional
just
areas
of
respite
next
slide.
Please
here's
a
more
updated
view
where
you
can
see
our
our
sidewalk
extension
that
does
come
into
the
street
a
little
bit.
AP
It
shortens
the
street
and
allows
for
a
little
bit
more
sidewalk
extension
and
safety
for
any
of
the
pedestrians
that
are
walking
across
the
street
or
planning
on
waiting
for
a
bus
in
our
new
shelter.
Beyond
that,
you
can
see
the
plaza
that
we
are
grading
with
the
raised
vegetation
and
sidewalk
next
slide.
AP
Please
we're
looking
at
the
side
elevation
from
McKay
place
now,
as
you
can
notice
in
this
and
the
last
Slide
the
obscured
fifth
floor,
that
is
very
or
imperceptible,
and
that
way
we
are
maintaining
our
kind
of
datum
line
and
trying
to
stay
very
contextual
with
our
neighbors.
That
may
be
three
and
four
story
and
even
five-story
buildings
that
we
do
set
this
back
and
make
it
imperceptible
next
slide.
Please
this
particular
view
is
highlighting
our
Plaza.
AP
In
particular,
you
can
see
the
slope
walkway
with
seating
along
one
side
and
additional
Landscaping,
so
that
we
can
maintain
and
obscure
the
front
entry,
but
also
to
provide
Pleasant
shaded
areas
for
the
public
as
they
utilize
the
space,
whether
it's
for
those
Gatherings
or
they're.
Just
looking
for
a
nice
safe
place
to
stop
and
sit
down
next
slide,
please.
AP
I,
don't
need
to
run
through
this.
This
is
mostly
things
that
we've
already
discussed,
but
we're
just
highlighting
some
of
the
major
features
and
benefits
for
this
project,
whether
it's
the
41
units
of
two
and
three
bedrooms,
the
income
restriction
that
we
are
trying
to
maintain
or
the
increased
sustainability
with
the
park
and
Public
Safety
with
how
we're
trying
to
set
our
building
back
and
allow
more
visibility
and
protection
and
improved
pedestrian
experience.
AP
I'll
give
it
back
to
Derek.
Now
you
can
answer
any
questions
or
close
out
the
presentation.
AO
On
Project
yeah
highlights
so
Mr
chairman
members
of
the
board.
This
project
has
gone
through
an
extensive
and
robust
Community
process
for
well.
Over
two
years
we
have
been
engaged
with
the
community
with
regard
to
this
project
having
a
butter
meetings,
article
80
meetings,
meetings
with
the
Mckay
school
and
meetings
with
the
gold
speech
citizens
Association,
we
do
have
the
support
of
the
Gold
Street
citizens
Association.
At
this
time.
They
took
a
vote
earlier
this
week
and
voted
to
support
the
project.
AO
AO
With
regard
to
the
project
itself,
we
will
conform
to
VA
the
rjp
standards
and
hiring
local
residents
and
contractors
of
color,
and
we
will
be
engaging
with
the
trade
unions
as
well.
So
at
this
time,
we'd
like
to
close
it
up
and
ask
answer
any
questions
that
the
board
may
have.
B
AO
AJ
AJ
AN
You
thank
you
Ebony
and
good
evening,
chair
Monahan,
secretary
paulimes
and
members
of
the
board.
The
proposed
project
is
located
within
the
planning
boundaries
of
plant
East
Boston,
an
ongoing
planning
initiative
that
began
in
2018..
It's
one
part
of
the
planning
process.
The
bpdaa
planning
team
delivered
draft
recommendations
for
all
the
squares
and
corridors
in
May
of
2021..
AN
These
recommendations
include
active
ground
floor
uses,
supported
by
added
height
and
density
and
transformational
public
realm
improvements
near
the
neighborhood
squares.
Next
slide.
Please,
the
proposed
project
is
located
between
the
Orient
Heights
area
of
the
neighborhood
and
the
Belle
Isle
March
and
is
with
the
proximity
of
both
the
Orient
Heights
and
Suffolk
Downs
MBTA
stations.
AN
The
project
is
also
located
within
the
coastal
flood,
resilience
overlay
district
and
is
subject
to
the
requirements
of
article
25A
planning
and
design
review
staff
focused
and
providing
site
and
design
compliance
with
the
requirements
of
article
25A
Additionally.
The
staff
review
focused
on
ensuring
a
building
massing
and
height
that
is
sensible
to
a
neighborhood's
character,
mitigating
building
impact
at
the
Bell
aisle
Marsh,
and
securing
Street
and
sidewalk
improvements
that
include
Environmental,
Protection
or
resilience
measures
for
the
community
while
preserving
the
park
as
a
natural
resource.
AN
AK
Sam
Hill
and
Ebony
good
evening,
everyone
and
board
members
thanks
for
having
us
tonight.
My
name
is
Liz
beijio
I'm,
with
reggae
the
developer
and
I'm
going
to
talk
about
1141,
Bennington
Street
in
East,
Boston
and
Ebony.
Thanks
for
the
introduction
regarding
our
partnership
with
the
tobiah
family,
because
we
have
been
working
very
closely
with
them
over
the
last
three
years
or
so
just
to
come
up
with
a
proposal,
that's
feasible
and
responsive
to
the
community,
especially
just
getting
their
generational
history
in
East
Boston
next
slide.
AK
So
this
is
an
overall
timeline
of
our
community
outreach.
To
date
we
started
early
conversations
with
the
city
Anna
Butters
in
2020,
and
we
filed
an
Loi
with
the
city
in
April
of
2021.
and
since
then,
we've
held
numerous
meetings.
Not
all
of
them
are
captured
here
with
the
city
and
BTA
DCR
elected
officials,
and
we
have
sent
multiple
neighborhood
meetings
and
we
had
individual
one-on-one
meetings
with
several
neighbors
as
well.
So
we've
done
our
best
to
enable
those
conversations
and
corporate
feedback
and
respond,
as
we
could
next
slide.
AK
L
AK
AK
These
are
a
few
photos
of
the
existing
conditions
of
the
site.
It's
currently
being
used
for
construction,
staging
mostly
for
City
work
on
the
top
left.
You
can
see
some
of
the
remains
from
the
New
England,
casket,
building,
I
think
the
bottom
picture.
You
can
really
appreciate
the
separation
I
just
mentioned
between
the
site
and
Bennington
Street
due
to
the
tracks,
and
you
can
see
in
in
all
the
pictures
Austin
Avenue,
which
is
a
private
road
that
I
mentioned
that
runs
between
the
site
and
the
marsh
next
slide.
AK
So,
going
back
to
an
aerial,
I
think
it's
important
to
understand.
The
adjacent
landowners
you
can
see
in
yellow
is
land
owned
by
1141.
Bennington
green
is
owned
by
DCR
and
Blue
by
the
MBTA
Austin
Avenue,
which
you
see
labeled
as
private
way
as
a
private
road.
It's
owned,
half
by
1141,
the
other
half
by
vcr,
and
the
MBTA
owns
that
last
leg
of
the
road
heading
into
the
rail
yard
that
you
see
there
in
blue
and
all
three
parties
share
access
rights
to
this
road
next
one.
AK
So
this
is
our
proposed
side
plan.
The
red
dash
line
is
the
site's
property
line.
The
building
is
broken
up
into
two
wings,
with
an
interconnecting
bridge
between
them.
We're
locating
the
active
uses
which
are
the
residential
Lobby,
some
amenities
spaces
and
the
retail
space
at
the
corner
on
Bennington
Street
to
really
help
support
activating
that
street
level.
As
far
as
the
retail
we
initially
weren't
planning
to
have
retail
here,
but
we
heard
that
it
was
desired
by
the
community.
AK
AK
On
the
other
hand,
Vehicles
would
come
off
Bennington
street
down
to
Austin
Avenue
and
be
able
to
drive
between
both
Wings
to
access
the
garage
in
either
way.
We're
also
proposing
to
realign
the
intersection
where
you
see.
Palermo
Austin,
Ave
and
Bennington
Street
meet
based
on
some
of
the
early
Concepts
that
have
been
published
by
plantings
to
date,
and
this
would
ultimately
create
a
more
more
of
a
perpendicular
and
safer
approach
to
Bennington
Street,
and
this
move
really
creates
a
great
opportunity
to
expand
public
open
space
beyond
the
site
property.
AK
So
our
proposal
includes
site-specific
strategies
that
make
the
building
and
the
site
resilient.
So
all
the
residential
units,
the
building
entries
and
the
parking
garage
are
proposed
to
be
located
at
or
above
the
design.
Flood
elevation
we're
also
elevating
the
two
design
elevation,
almost
the
entire
length
of
the
site
along
the
MBTA
tracks,
and
we're
proposing
to
install
install
a
retaining
wall
along
the
full
length
of
the
tracks
within
our
sites.
AK
And
lastly,
we're
elevating
Austin
Avenue
to
the
design
flood
elevation
about
two-thirds
of
the
length
of
the
road
that
we
control
before
we're
tapering
down
to
meet
the
nbt's
existing
grades,
which
are
currently
low.
However,
we
committed
to
continuing
to
work
with
the
MBTA
on
a
flood
intervention
on
their
land
on
Austin
Avenue,
so
that
would
be
mostly
that
leg
in
blue
that
I
showed
in
the
prior
slide
that
leads
into
their
their
rail
yard.
AK
Next
slide
please.
So
this
is
an
overview
of
the
program
we're
proposing
ebony
mentioned
some
of
these
coins
But.
It
includes
220,
new
residential
rental
units,
ranging
from
one
to
three
bedrooms.
31
units
will
be
IDP
affordable
as
part
of
our
afh
strategies,
we're
committing
to
allocate
more
of
the
affordable
sport
footage
towards
the
larger
two
and
three
bedroom
units
and
we're
also
going
to
allocate
more
of
the
accessible
group
2
units
and
the
units
for
hearing
impaired
towards
the
affordable
IDP
units
as
well.
AK
AK
B
O
O
O
O
The
proposed
building
will
be
zero
net.
Carbon
ready
achieve
at
least
lead
silver
and
equip
at
least
25
percent
of
their
parking
spaces
with
EV
charging
stations.
The
project
will
also
be
contributing
75
000
to
support
the
Boston
Bike
Share
system
and
working
with
BTD
and
bpda
staff
to
identify
space
for
a
future
19.
space
Bike
Share
dock
nearby,
the
project
notification
form
was
filed
with
the
bpda
on
December
14
2022.
O
All
public
meetings
were
advertised
in
the
local
newspaper
and
online
and
were
well
attended.
The
project
received
strong
support
from
several
iag
members
and
we
received
a
letter
of
support
that
councilor
Durkin
read
into
the
record
earlier
this
evening.
I
want
to
thank
BPA
staff,
IG
members
and
members
of
the
public
who
contributed
their
time
and
efforts
to
improving
this
project
through
the
course
of
the
article
leader
review.
O
AA
Thanks
Quinn
good
evening,
Vice
chair
Monahan
secretary
bulimis,
members
of
the
Holy
Show
and
I'm
the
bpda
planner
assigned
to
this
project.
AA
Lastly,
staff
reviewed
the
building's
relatability
to
the
surrounding
residential
buildings,
many
of
which
are
inventoried
by
the
Massachusetts
historical
commission.
Next
slide,
please,
during
project
review
staff
focused
on
improving
the
building's
facade
relative
to
to
Kilmarnock
Street,
which
was
modified
to
reinforce
the
street
wall.
AA
The
project
also
responds
to
staff
feedback
regarding
the
amount
of
space
dedicated
to
the
drive,
aisle
and
drop-off
area,
which
is
designed
to
minimize
visual
impact
from
the
public
right
of
way
and
prioritize
pedestrian
access
to
the
site.
Lastly,
the
improved
landscape
Frontage
on
Park
Drive
was
reviewed
with
respect
to
the
emerald
necklace
context
across
the
Stream.
AA
A
A
We're
pleased
to
be
here
today
on
165
Park,
Drive
I'm,
going
to
be
very
quick,
but
I
would
be
remiss
not
to
thank
immediately
the
Holy
Trinity
Orthodox
Cathedral,
for
whom
we
would
not
be
here
tonight
without
their
vision
for
providing
increased,
affordable
home
ownership
opportunities
for
the
Fenway
neighborhood,
not
much
good
came
out
of
covet,
but
we
certainly
use
the
time
well
meeting
with
the
Holy
Trinity
Orthodox
Cathedral
during
that
time
period
to
really
bring
to
life
their
vision
of
maintaining
their
long-term
home
in
the
Fenway
area,
while
at
the
same
time
making
improvements
to
an
unimproved
parking
lot.
A
That
includes
48,
affordable
home
ownership
units
and
it
wouldn't
have
been
possible
without
their
Vision
without
their
generosity.
I
also
want
to
thank
councilor
Durkin
for
her
support
earlier
and
then
finally,
just
like
to
thank
Quinn
balasich
and
the
entire
bpda
staff
they
very
patiently
and
very
thoughtfully
helped
us
through
this
process,
which
leads
us
here
tonight,
and
we
look
forward
to
continuing
that
discussion.
Now,
I'd
like
to
turn
over
to
Jason
from
tat.
AQ
Thank
you,
Peter,
chair,
Monahan,
members
of
the
board.
My
name
is
Jay.
Samanski
I
am
a
principal
with
the
architectural
team,
we're
The
Architects
for
the
project,
so
this
first
slide
is
the
existing
site.
You
can
see
the
sites
located
on
the
corner
of
Kilmarnock,
Street
and
Park
Drive
on
that
corner.
You
can
see
the
Holy
Trinity
Orthodox
Cathedral,
which
will
remain
and
the
remainder
of
the
site,
which
is
largely
unutilized
parking
lot
next
slide.
Thank
you.
So
these
are
some
images
of
the
existing
conditions
top
left.
AQ
AQ
It's
a
proposed
site
plan
again
Kilmarnock
street
is
running
off
on
an
angle
to
the
right
park
drives
at
the
bottom
left
the
Holy
Trinity
Cathedral.
You
can
see
in
the
corner
there,
which
will
remain
the
ground
floor
of
our
proposed
project,
is
a
podium
which
houses
parking
for
the
cathedral's
use.
You
can
see
access
to
the
site
from
Kilmarnock
Street
via
an
existing
curb
cut.
In
addition
to
that
vehicular
access,
this
pedestrian
access
by
a
sloped
ramp
from
the
sidewalk
at
Kilmarnock.
AQ
AQ
This
is
a
site
section.
So,
on
the
right
hand,
side
is
Kilmarnock
Street.
You
can
see
the
change
in
elevation
from
Kilmarnock
down
to
our
ground
floor,
which
is
about
six
feet,
and
we
provide
a
sloped
walkway
to
provide
pedestrian
access
as
well
as
vehicular
access,
and
this
slide
also
shows
the
the
addition
of
some
Landscaping
along
that
entry.
Drive.
AC
AQ
AQ
This
is
a
little
bit
further
down
Kilmarnock
street.
Now
you're.
Looking
down
the
access
drive,
you
can
see
that
change
in
elevation
where
the
ground
floor
is
a
little
bit
lower
than
Kilmarnock
Street.
The
materials
are
brick
on
the
lower
floors
and
metal
panel
on
the
upper
floors.
In
keeping
with
the
in
the
neighborhood
context,
the
massing
of
the
buildings
respond
to
both
the
shape
of
the
site,
the
alignment
of
the
street
and
also
the
cathedral
itself
next
slide.
AQ
So
this
view
is
a
little
bit
deceiving,
but
we're
looking
across
Arc
drive
here
and
what
we're
showing
is
that
those
existing
mature
trees,
kind
of
grayed
out
and
that's
to
show
the
mass
of
the
building
behind,
but
in
reality,
for
the
greater
time
of
the
year,
the
buildings
really
won't
be
seen
from
the
street
because
of
that
mature
tree
growth
thanks.
A
AQ
So
now,
if
you
imagine
sort
of
stepping
through
those
mature
trees,
is
what
you'd
see
the
the
surface
parking
spaces
in
the
front
and
then
the
two
new
buildings
behind
that
creating
kind
of
a
an
Embrace
around
the
cathedral
which
is
to
the
right
of
this
slide
next
slide.
So
that
concludes
our
presentation.
Happy
to
take
any
questions
that
the
board
may
have.
B
B
Request:
authorization
to
one
issue
of
certification
of
approval
pursuant
to
article
80e,
a
small
project
review
of
the
Boston
zoning
code
to
the
construction
of
44
home
ownership
units,
including
seven
IDP
rental
units,
ground
floor,
commercial
space,
38
parking
spaces
and
50
bicycle
spaces
located
at
1702,
Hyde
Park
Ave
in
two
entering
the
community
enter
into
a
community
benefits
agreement
and
three
enter
into
an
affordable
housing
agreement
and
to
take
all
related
actions.
Stephen,
you
may
begin
the
presentation.
AR
Good
evening
and
thank
you
chair
members
of
the
board
Madam
Secretary
director
Jameson,
my
name
is
Stephen
Harney
and
I'm
senior
project
manager
at
the
bpea
and
I
want
to.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Today.
The
properties
I
bring
for
you
today
is
1702
Hyde
Park
Ave,
located
in
High
Park
on
December,
8th
2021,
the
Austin
Planning
and
Development
agency
received
a
small
property
review
application
for
the
component.
The
opponent
is
proposing
to
construct
a
new
four-story
residential
building
with
file
for
commercial
space.
AR
The
new
building
will
contain
44
condominium
units
and
a
4
000
56
square
foot,
mouse
or
commercial
space.
The
project
will
also
have
38
parking
spaces
and
50
parking
spaces
of
virtual
public
meeting
for
the
project
was
held
on
January
19
2022
and
again
our
May
3rd
2023
overall
The
Proposal,
was
well
received.
The
virtual
public
meeting
was
advertised
in
a
local
paper
and
buy
a
new
mail.
AR
I
would
now
like
to
pass
it
from
her
to
Eileen
Irene
is
the
bpda
neighborhood
planner
we'll
touch
on
the
resources
guiding
staff
review
of
the
proposed
project
in
key
considerations
once
Eileen
completes
her
slides
the
John
paulgini,
a
project
attorney
will
run
through
the
cross
presentation.
What's
the
presentation
is
complete,
John,
Eileen
and
I
will
answer
any
questions
put
forward
by
the
board.
Thank
you
once
again
for
your
time.
Today,
Steve.
AA
Thanks
Steven
good
evening
again,
Vice
chair,
Monahan,
secretary
Behemoth,
members
of
the
board
and
director
jemisin
for
the
record.
My
name
is
Eileen
Michelle
and
I'm.
The
bpda
planner
assigned
to
this
project.
AA
AA
Given
the
inapplicability
of
the
current
zoning
designation
staff
also
consider
the
availability
of
surrounding
transportation
resources,
including
improvements
to
embodying
sidewalks
and
the
public
Realm.
The
proposed
project
was
reviewed
within
the
context
of
MB
of
the
MBTA
tracks
behind
the
project
site,
which
required
modification
of
the
proposed
building
setbacks.
AA
Lastly,
the
plan
ground
floor
retail
use
adds
the
ads
to
the
customer
serving
amenities
of
the
area
to
support
new
residents
after
board
approval
and
subsequent
Zoning
Board
of
appeal
approval.
The
proposed
project
will
continue
design
review
at
the
bpva.
Thank
you
and
I
will
turn
it
over
to
the
development
team.
AS
Thank
you,
Eileen.
Thank
you,
Stephen
well
good
evening.
Everybody
if
I
may
I
want
to
say
a
few
words
to
miss
Monahan.
A
chairman,
Monahan
I,
want
to
thank
you
not
just
for
your
time
on
the
bpda
board
and
the
zoning
board
of
appeals
before
that,
but
most
important
for
your
hard
work
and
advocacy
through
your
hard-working
advocacy.
AS
AS
Dr
lancemark,
Mr
Miller,
director
Jemison
secretary
palamus,
I'm,
Attorney,
John,
Paul
Genie
with
me
this
evening
is
Tom
Garrity,
the
owner
of
this
property.
The
Garrity
family
have
been
landowners
enacted
in
the
community
of
Hyde
Park
for
over
70
years.
During
that
time,
they
provided
countless
jobs
for
people
working
there,
as
well
as
supporting
many
causes
that
are
important
to
the
area
of
Thai
Pot.
We
want
to
thank
all
the
agencies.
City
agencies,
most
significantly
the
bpda
for
working
with
us
over
the
last
several
years.
AS
On
this
proposal
and
to
bring
it
to
a
reality
for
those
of
you
who
don't
know
this
site,
it
is
nearly
a
half
acre
lot.
It's
formally
housed
a
scrap
yard,
Auto,
auto
junkyard.
It's
located
a
stone,
throw
away
from
the
rebuild
Commuter
Rail
station
in
an
area
that
was
identified
in
Boston
2030
as
a
residential
growth
quarter
to
do
its
aging
uses,
as
well
as
its
location
of
public
transportation.
AS
AS
Additionally,
this
proposal
to
the
hardware
working
with
bpda
staff
and
BTD
the
owner
has
will
grant
an
easement
to
the
city
which
will
allow
us
to
enhance
a
pedestrian
Realm
by
providing
larger
sidewalks
with
Street
trees
and
areas
and
new
bike
lanes
and
also
will
provide
seven
affordable
units.
The
architect
is
unable
to
be
here
tonight,
so
I
will
walk
you
through
the
slide
so
bear
with
me
on
that.
AS
Could
we
bring
up
the
presentation?
Can
we
have
the
next
page
this
yeah
here
you
can
see
the
site,
you
can
see
how.
AS
AS
This
is
a
lip
from
the
fatherhood
Bridge
looking
back
toward
Clary
Square
from
Reedville
next
slide.
This
is
just
a
ground
floor
plan
next
slide
floor
plans
pretty
similar
throughout
the
building
next
slide
again.
Another
slow
plan
backslash.
AS
AS
This
is
a
rear
elevation
of
the
Dr
of
the
building.
You
can
see
if
you
were
looking
at
it
from
the
train
tracks
next
slide.
Please,
and
this
is
a
view
of
the
building.
If
you
were
looking
from
wall
cloud,
Square
Readville
area,
looking
back
toward
Clary
square
and
Hyde
Park
next
slide,
and
this
is
actually
a
view
of
the
building
from
the
father
hop
Ridge.
AS
That
shows
that
it.
You
know
how
it
fits
into
the
context
and
you
can
see
how
the
building
has
been
recessed
and
set
back
to
provide
for
that
better
pedestrian
experience
next
slide-
and
this
is
again
is
a
view,
but
this
is
again
looking
from
the
hyperoxide
looking
toward
Reedville
next
slide,
and
that's
it
I
want
to
thank
you
all
for
allowing
us
to
present
tonight
and
I'm
here
to
answer
any
questions
that
you
may
have
very.
B
B
We
request
authorization
to
one
issue:
a
certification
of
approval
pursuant
to
article
80e,
small
project,
review
of
the
Boston
Zone
and
code
for
the
construction
of
28
residential
rental
units,
including
six
IDP
units,
15
parking
spaces
in
28,
bicycle
spaces
located
at
1081,
River,
Street
and
two
execute
a
community
benefit
contribution,
agreement
and
affordable
rent
deal,
housing
agreement
and
restriction
and
to
take
all
related
action.
Daniel.
You
may
begin
the
presentation.
Thank.
AT
AT
In
this
case,
six
units
within
the
proposed
project
will
be
created
as
IDP
rentals
of
approximately
21.4
percent.
In
addition
to
the
improvements
and
benefits
ownership,
make
the
35
000
contribution
to
the
city's
fund
for
Parks,
the
vpa
sponsored
public
meeting
April
26,
2023
BPA
hosted
the
virtual
meeting
and
the
public
was
advertised
in
local
paper
notice
was
posted
on
the
bpa's
calendar
for
the
record
Mr
chair
members
of
the
board.
We
did
receive
a
letter
of
support
from
both
Council
Arroyo's
office
and
representative
gonzalo's
office.
Letters
of
support
on
the
record
as
well.
AT
AN
Thank
you
Dan
and
good
evening,
chair
Monahan,
secretary
palimas
and
members
of
the
board.
The
post
project
is
not
located
within
the
boundaries
of
a
recent
planning
initiative.
Instead,
planning
division
staff
considered
the
neighborhood
context
adopted
city-wide
plans,
including
imagine,
Boston
2030
and
go
Boston
2030
disowning
code
and
public
feedback
to
review
the
project.
AN
The
key
considerations
of
bpda
Staff
during
the
review
of
Bose
project,
including
mitigating
the
impact
of
the
building's
massing
and
ground
floor
parking
in
a
two-family
Sony
sub
District,
providing
an
adequate
and
accessible
entrance
to
the
building
Lobby
and
ensuring
improvements
to
the
front
portion
of
the
site.
The
project
located
within
a
quarter
mile
radius
of
silver
line
bus
stops
and
close
proximity
to
the
Hyde
Park
at
Fairmont
Commuter
Rail
stations
contributes
to
city-wide
goals
to
support
Transit
oriented
development.
AN
V
Thank
you,
Daniel.
Thank
you
Angel
good
evening
on
how
good
evening
Mr,
chair,
board
members,
director,
Jemison,
Madam,
Secretary,
again,
Nick
zazul
and
McDermott
cruelty
and
Miller
zoning
and
permitting
attorney
for
the
project.
V
First
off
on
behalf
of
myself
and
attorney
Hanley
from
my
office
would
like
to
Echo
the
sentiments
of
our
colleagues
attorney,
Drago
attorney,
Paul,
Genie
and
others
tonight
to
Mr
Monahans
for
his.
You
know
service
of
the
board
in
the
city
for
many
years.
We
truly
appreciate
working
with
you
for
10
plus
years
here
and
then
even
further
at
the
zoning
board.
So
thank
you.
V
Mr
Monahan
with
me
today
is
Eric
zackerson
from
Context
LLC
he's
the
project
architect,
Joni
shahu
from
skybridge
properties,
an
affiliate
of
white
Acre
Properties
their
company,
which
is
the
property
owners
and
project
developers.
V
And
again,
we
just
quickly
like
to
thank
bpda
staff,
District
City,
councilor,
Arroyo,
state
representative
consalvo
and
then
also
miss
Melanie
Day
from
the
high
Central
River
neighborhood
group
for
all
of
their
time
and
valuable
input
on
the
project
and,
as
you
heard
from
Daniel
I'm
happy
to
report
that
all
three
of
these,
the
two
offices
of
the
district
city
council
and
the
state
representative.
V
Group
have
provided
letters
to
support
on
this
project
which
we're
very
proud
of
you
can
see
here
the
site.
This
is
in
the
Hyde
Park
Central
River
neighborhood
group.
It's
located
on
River
Street
between
Lincoln
Street
and
West
Street,
as
Daniel
mentioned,
or
maybe
it
was
Angel
mentioned
it's
within
a
half
mile
walking
distance
of
both
Hyde
Park
and
Fairmont
Commuter
Rail
stations,
and
it's
also
near
to
several
bus
lines
as
well.
V
Next
slide,
please,
you
can
see
the
site
here
on
the
screen
highlighted
in
white
1081,
River
Street,
it's
an
oversized
lot
of
about
15
000
square
feet.
We
are
in
a
two
F
5000
zoning
sub-district,
but
it's
a
much
larger
lot
than
anything
else
in
the
neighborhood
immediate
area.
It's
also
facing
along
River,
Street
and
you'll.
See
directly
adjacent
to
us
is
an
existing
four-story,
16-unit
Residential
Building
at
7,
Lincoln
Street
and
then
just
up
a
little
further
there's
another
four-story
Condo
building
at
1045,
River
Street
next
slide,
please.
V
These
are
just
some
contextual
images
of
the
immediate
area
around
us
next
slide
and
here's
some
images
of
these
of
the
actual
site
itself.
There's
a
two
family
on
the
site,
which
is
non-compliant
with
a
lot
of
zoning
setbacks.
V
It's
on
a
slight
incline
up
from
River
Street,
which
we're
looking
to
bring
the
building
down
to
at
grade
for
the
new
building,
and
it
will
be
demolished.
You'll
also
see
again
that
four-story
rental
building
on
the
top
left,
which
is
immediately
adjacent
to
us
at
7,
Lincoln,
Street,
and
that
director
budding
property
owner
has
actually
provided
us
a
letter
of
supports
the
project
and
we've
worked
with
them
throughout
the
project
process.
Next
slide,
please.
V
This
is
just
to
show
you
some
kind
of
existing
images
of
the
the
rear
yard.
It's
an
overgrown
invasive,
there's
a
lot
of
debris
back
there.
The
fence
is
falling
down.
What
will
happen
is
this
wall
will
be
cleaned
up
and
better
maintained
cultivated
with
new
Landscaping
Etc.
There
will
be
9
000
square
feet
of
open
space
throughout
the
project
both
at
grade
and
on
balconies
and
on
the
roof
deck
as
you'll
see
in
a
minute,
and
this
1800
square
foot
area
of
rear
yard
will
be
maintained.
V
Several
of
the
mature
trees
will
be
kept
on
site
and
then
obviously,
new
fencing,
new
plantings
and
things
of
that
nature
next
slide.
So
I
think
this
is
the
ground
level
plan.
I
will
throw
it
over
to
Eric
who
will
walk
you
quickly
through
the
rest
of
our
presentation.
Thank
you.
Eric
all
yours,
Eric.
E
AU
You
Eric
zackerson
I'm,
with
contacts
We're
The
Architects
for
the
project.
The
projects
you
see
in
front
of
you
is
River.
Street
is
on
the
right.
There
is
an
existing
curb
cut
at
the
bottom
right
hand,
corner
of
the
building
of
the
site.
That
is
what
we
will
use
for
vehicle
access.
This,
the
build
pedestrian
access
and
get
gas
to
access
will
be
right
in
the
center
of
the
street
in
the
purple
color
and
then
there's
also
bike
parking
located
on
the
upper
left.
AU
There
was
a
total
of
5
000
square
feet
of
green
space
on
the
site
as
well
it
and
then,
in
addition,
there's
open
space
on
the
levels
above
there's
one
unit
located
on
the
ground
floor
here
in
the
lower
right
in
the
blue
color
and
there's
a
500
square
foot
community
room
with
an
adjacent
patio
for
the
use
of
the
residence.
It's
a
dark
purple
in
the
upper
right
hand
section
here.
AU
There
will
be
a
number
of
trees
in
the
middle
of
the
site
removed,
but
many
of
the
the
trees
will
be
able
to
remain
and,
and
then
all
of
the
ones
that
you
see
that
are
green
and
white
here
are
to
be
planted
new
after
the
existing
retaining
wall
at
the
front
of
the
site
and
the
the
hill
and
the
building
are
removed
and
and
a
new
elevation
is
set
next
slide.
Please.
AU
This
is
showing
the
common
roof
deck
area,
which
will
be
at
the
top
now.
One
of
the
things
I
wanted
to
mention
is
that
each
of
the
units,
each
of
the
27
units
has
its
own
or
28
units
has
its
own
private
deck,
but
the
decks
themselves,
for
the
most
part,
are
rather
small
in
the
40
to
50
square
foot
range,
so
there's
also
a
common
roof
deck,
which
is
meant
to
provide
a
space
for
community
and
outdoor
amenity.
AU
It's
also
moved
towards
the
center
of
the
site
in
order
to
kind
of
prevent
and
create
a
sense
of
privacy
for
the
roof,
deck
and
privacy
for
the
Neighbors,
so
that
it
is
not
kind
of
close
to
or
leading
over
the
edge
of
the
property.
This
deck
itself
is
over
2200
square
feet
next
slide
again:
the
site
plan
showing
the
purple
Lobby
entry
here,
the
Green
community
room
at
the
top
and
the
unit
at
the
lower
right
next
slide.
AU
These
elevations
show
the
four-story
nature.
One
of
the
things
to
keep
in
mind
is
that
we
are
removing
the
fourth
four
foot
tall
retaining
wall
and
the
hill
ultimately
is
over
six
feet
tall,
so
the
the
new
building,
while
his
four
stories
will
be
at
the
sidewalk
level,
which
significantly
reduces
the
the
impact
of
this
new
four-story
building.
Next.
AD
AU
And
then
the
side
elevations,
while
there
are
decks
on
the
sides,
and
we
we've
tried
to
work
with
the
neighbors
to
make
sure
that
these
decks
as
I
said,
are
quite
small
enough
space
for
a
person
to
go
out
not
enough
space
for
Gathering,
which
is
why
we
have
included
the
more
communal
roof
deck
space
and
the
20-foot
rear
yard
set
back
so
that
there
are
some
outdoor
options
for
Gathering,
and
these
are
more
of
for
a
moment
of
respite
from
from
the
inside
space
next
slide
and
then
a
rendering.
AU
Looking
up
to
looking
up
River
Street,
you
see
yummy
lower
left
the
existing
curb
cut.
That
would
be
the
entry,
the
the
building
kind
of
at
sidewalk
level,
now
with
the
the
sidewalk
and
and
just
a
ghosting,
in
of
some
of
the
street
trees,
we're
planning
to
to
kind
of
replace
along
there.
In
order
to
make
this
quite
green.
But
as
you
can
see,
it's
set
back
20
feet
to
the
building
and
16
feet
to
the
to
the
decks
themselves.
AU
AU
There
are
trees
on
our
site
and,
in
addition,
removing
that
that
wall
allows
us
to
allow
some
of
the
sidewalk
to
it
to
extend
onto
our
property
in
order
to
make
this
work
with
the
Boston
complete
streets
program.
AU
AR
V
B
B
Thank
you
very
much
request
authorization
to
one
issue:
a
determination
wave
of
further
review
pursuant
to
article
ADB,
Live's
project,
review
of
the
Boston
zoning
code
for
the
construction
of
13,
new
residential
structures
and
the
renovation
of
an
existing
Stone
Farmhouse,
located
at
96-100
Rockwood
Street,
creating
36
residential
units
with
a
total
square
footage
of
approximately
99
250
square
feet
and
two
issue:
a
certification
of
compliance
upon
successful
completion
of
the
article
80
review
process
and
three
execute
and
deliver
a
cooperation
agreement
in
an
affordable
housing
contribution
agreement
and
to
take
all
related
actions.
Caitlin.
AL
Good
afternoon,
chair
secretary
Paul,
James,
director,
Jemison
and
members
of
the
board,
Caitlin
Coppinger
interim
housing
manager.
The
project
before
you
tonight
is
the
96
to
100
Rockwood
Street
project
in
Jamaica
Plain.
The
proposed
project
is
an
azerite
development
located
on
approximately
12
acres
of
a
parcel
of
land
in
Jamaica
Plain
bordering
the
town
of
Brookline.
The
project
site
currently
contains
a
stone
Farmhouse
building
that
will
be
retained
and
renovated
as
part
of
the
development,
as
well
as
several
minor
outbuildings
that
will
be
removed
from
the
site.
AL
The
proposed
project
consists
of
the
construction
of
13
new,
separate
residential
structures
in
the
renovation
of
an
exit
of
that
existing
farmhouse.
The
property
will
include
a
mix
of
two
and
three
bedroom
condominium
units
totally
totaling
36
residential
units.
In
total,
the
proposed
project
will
include
36
vehicular
parking
spaces
and
a
minimum
of
36
interior
secure,
resident
bike
spaces.
The
buildings
and
property
will
feature
energy
conservation
and
Sustainable
Building
Technologies
such
as
all-electric
heating
and
cooling
systems,
a
rain
Garden
to
collect
and
manage
rainwater
runoff
site
Additionally.
AL
The
project
will
Implement
a
number
of
pedestrian
safety
measures
such
as
speed,
Huntsman
sidewalks.
To
improve
The
Pedestrian
experience
in
this
neighborhood
as
part
of
their
mitigation
Additionally,
the
project
is
contributing
approximately
1.9
million
dollars
to
the
Neighborhood
Housing
Trust
of
further
affordable
housing
across
the
city.
I'm
joined
tonight
by
the
development
team,
Matt
Zucker,
Don,
Elise
and
Chris
Tracy
and
the
design
team,
but
before
I
turn
it
over
to
them
to
give
their
presentation
and
get
a
hand
it
over
to
Angel
Guzman
to
further
distance.
The
planning
context.
AN
AV
Hey
folks,
can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
my
name
is
Chris
Tracy
I
am
a
senior
I,
am
a
vice
president
at
O'neill
and
Associates,
with
a
business
address
of
18
Tremont
Street
in
Boston,
as
you
can
see,
I'm
coming
from
you
from
my
automobile,
but
I
assure
you,
it
is
in
park
and
the
engine
is
off.
Thank
you,
chairman
Monahan.
Thank
you,
members
of
the
board.
Thank
you,
director,
Jameson,
and
thank
you
executive
secretary,
Paul
Amos
for
having
us
tonight
with
me.
AV
Tonight
is
Matt
Zucker
from
the
lyx
group
from
the
ownership
team,
don
Zucker,
our
attorney
and
Lucio.
Trabuco
is
our
architect.
If
folks
should
have
any
questions
for
him.
First
off
on
behalf
of
our
development
team.
I'd
also
like
to
personally
thank
chairman
Monahan
for
his
service
to
the
city
of
Boston
throughout
the
years,
and
especially
for
his
advocacy
for
folks
in
the
labor
Community
I've
been
testifying
in
front
of
chairman
Monahan
since
I
was
a
college
graduate
13
years
ago
through
the
zoning
board
of
appeals.
AV
So
we
all
want
to
thank
Mr
Monahan
for
his
service.
Thank
you.
Chris
next
slide.
Please
I
want
to
First
Orient
folks
as
to
where
we
are
because
we
are
in
a
sort
of
unique
special
corner
of
the
city
here.
This
is
Jamaica
Plain,
where
it
borders
Brookline
we're
adjacent
to
the
Moss
Hill
Community
of
Jamaica
Plain,
but
we
are
right
up
against
the
Brookline
border
near
the
Lars
Anderson
Park,
the
park
school
and
the
Hellenic
College
of
Holy
Cross
next
slide.
AV
Please
we're
fortunate
to
have
a
12
Acre
Site,
as
Caitlyn
mentioned,
and
I
think
that
this
proposal
is
different
from
most
proposals
that
come
before
this
board
and
the
fact
that
we're
a
12-acre
site,
it's
a
more
of
a
horizontal
development
than
you're
accustomed
to
seeing,
and
we
really
strove
to
keep
the
bucolic
in
rural
setting
of
the
site
by
maintaining
as
many
trees
and
maintaining
as
much
canopy
as
possible
and
Don
could
speak
more
to
that
in
a
moment.
Next
slide.
AV
Please
I
want
to
briefly
touch
on
the
robust
process
that
we've
had
out
here
in
the
community.
The
ownership
group
was
contemplating
a
few
different
plans
as
early
as
2018.,
a
letter
of
intent
came
into
the
bpda
on
this
site.
In
this
current
plan
in
July
of
of
21.,
so
throughout
the
pandemic,
we
had
numerous
meetings
both
hosted
by
the
bpda
in
both
on
our
own.
We
met
with
the
Jamaica
Hills
Association
numerous
times
we
had
many
zooms
and
virtual
meetings
with
them.
We
also
hosted
them
on
site.
AV
At
the
Mansion
we
hosted
iag
members
on
site.
We
also
hosted
bpda
members
on
site
and
had
a
walk
through
of
the
site,
so
obviously
the
the
process
was
very
robust.
We
feel
the
project
has
matured
in
a
very
good
way,
and
we
obviously
want
to
thank
all
the
bpda
staffers
who
were
helpful
for
that
at
this
point
I'll
hand
girl
if
it's
Mr
Donne.
Thank
you.
AW
Thank
you,
Chris
I'm,
Don
Williams,
permitting
Council
for
the
project
good
evening,
Vice,
chair
Monahan,
and
thank
you,
sir
good
evening,
also
to
secretary
Paul,
James,
director
of
Jemison
and
the
members
of
the
board,
let's
advance
to
the
next
slide,
please
by
the
way
before
going
further.
Let
me
also
offer
a
thanks
to
Caitlin
Coppinger.
We
understand
Caitlin's
being
kicked
upstairs
to
more
of
a
policy
job
she's
been
a
superb
project
manager.
We've
worked
very
effectively
and
very
closely
with
her
on
this
project.
AW
As
our
comments
have
indicated,
this
is
a
unique
and
distinctive
site.
The
zoning
and
the
project
design
reflect
that
this
site
is
subject
to
conservation
protection.
Sub-District
zoning,
which
call
for
clustering
development
in
the
center
of
the
raised
plateau
of
the
site
protecting
more
sensitive
densely
wooded
perimeter
project
is
somewhat
unusual
in
that
it
has
been
divided
to
beat
by
right.
It
complies
with
these
three
units
per
acre
limit
of
the
CPS
running
on
the
other
dimensional
and
use
regulations
when
we
come
through
the
design
of
the
site.
AW
If
you
look
at
the
images
here
on
the
screen,
there
are
three
images
down
the
left
hand,
side
of
the
screen
and
then
one
at
the
bottom
right
you
can
see
there
is
a
common
Divine
language
that
these
all
speak.
The
goal
has
been
to
bring
variety
to
the
typologies
within
the
building
the
site,
but
they
share
elements
such
as
strong
Gable
forms
interpreted
into
contemporary
way
that
reflect
the
existing
Stone
Farmhouse
at
the
site.
AW
You
see
in
the
upper
right
hand
corner
that
is
going
to
be
retained
as
part
of
the
development
and
that
will
be
converted
into
several
units
as
well
at
the
site.
Next
slide,
please,
the
design
teams
make
great
efforts
to
respect
the
complex
terrain
and
topography
at
the
site.
You
can
see
the
buildings
follow
the
the
lines
of
the
the
terrain
here
there
will
be
minimal
cut
and
fill
much
of
that
is
used
to
bring
the
access
roads
through,
but
in
general,
this
project
will
set
lightly
on
its
site
next
slide.
AW
Please
is
a
quick
glimpse
into
the
sites.
It'll
only
looked
like
this
for
a
few
years
and
all
the
new
trees
were
bringing
to
the
center
will
grow
in
and
leaf
out,
but
this
shows
how
the
internal
Access
Road
curves
around
a
variety
of
different
unit
types
within
the
project.
Next
slide,
please,
from
the
outside.
It's
going
to
be
difficult
to
even
be
where
this
project
is
here.
The
existing
vegetation
is
very
dense
around
the
board
of
the
site.
AW
AW
Can't
one
touched
on
the
project
benefits
we'll
run
through
them
in
just
slightly
more
detail:
there's
a
red
line
down
on
the
left
side
of
your
screen.
That
indicates
where
new
sidewalk
is
going
to
be
created,
the
entire
length
of
Avon
Street
or
that's
Boston,
part
Brookline
on
the
upper
right
hand,
corner
of
your
screen.
A
blue
line
reflects
similar
sidewalk
work
along
Rockwood
Street
between
the
red
and
blue
lines.
We
see
a
yellow
diagonal
connecting
that
would
be
a
pedestrian
path
that
the
project
will
create.
AW
There
will
also
be
additional
work
done
with
beautifying
Landscaping
Landscaping
buffers
added.
There's
some
water
runoff
issues.
The
project
is
going
to
control
mitigate,
as
Caitlin
mentioned
before.
Project
is
making
a
voluntary
contribution
of
1.944
million
dollars
the
affordable
housing
fund.
It's
a
buy
right
project.
AW
The
project
team
has
committed
to
making
that
support
for
affordable
housing
Creation
in
Boston
and
finally,
fifty
thousand
dollars
will
be
divided
about
three
to
make
the
plan
Charities
twenty
thousand
dollars
to
go
to
the
Elliott
School
Long
beloved
institution
in
the
heart
of
Jamaica
Plain,
fifteen
thousand
dollars
a
piece
we'll
go
to
the
high
Square
task
force
and
bikes,
not
bombs.
One
last
point
we
should
mention
this
project
will
be
a
model
for
the
creation
of
new
multi-building
communities.
AW
It
will
be
lead
gold.
All
the
buildings
will
be
sold
ready.
The
entire
project
is
electric.
So
it's
it's
a
it's
a
very
Advanced
project
from
a
sustainability
standpoint.
B
G
AT
Thank
you,
Aaron
Mr,
chair
members
of
the
board
director
Jameson
secretary
Paul
hemis.
This
request
for
this.
The
embarrassment
comes
from
the
most
recent
review
of
the
approval
of
the
notice
of
project
change
for
seven
Channel
Center
Street
in
the
four
point
neighborhood
of
South
Boston
for
the
authorized
to
the
The
Decemberists
of
ten
thousand
dollars
for
the
Four
Point
Theater
channel
from
the
fund
maintained
by
the
bra
from
contributions
made
by
the
channel
Center
project.
Thank
you.
B
E
Yeah,
thank
you
Jim
and
Monahan
members
of
the
board,
Madam
Secretary
and
director
Jemison.
We
have
a
number
of
items
for
your
consideration
on
the
bra
agenda,
but
the
exact
details
included
in
the
board
memos.
We
have
five
appointments
in
the
research
department,
christelle
and
Kara,
and
Nicholas
Demello
research
assistant
data,
analyst,
Cecilia,
tecas
research,
coordinator
data
analyst
in
the
human
resources
department,
Joyce
Jin
human
resource,
General,
generalist
and
payroll
specialist
and
the
director's
office
Danielle
Conway
Public,
Records
specialist.
E
We
have
one
status
change
in
the
Urban
Design
Department
Kenya
Thompson
from
Urban
designer
One,
Two
Urban
designer
two,
and
we
have
one
policy
in
procedure
change
which
is
the
adoption
of
the
hybrid
work
policy.
We
also
have
two
out-of-state
travel
requests,
and
that
is
all
thank
you
and
I
will
have
answering
questions
if
you
have
them
thanks.
B
AX
Thanks
very
much
members
of
the
board
appreciate
your
hard
work
tonight.
You
Advanced
11
new
development
projects
with
876
total
residential
units
of
which
21
or
184
of
those
units
were
income
restricted,
total
the
total
developers
cost
estimate
was
approximately
500
million
dollars.
Products
represent
about
1.1
million
square
feet
of
development,
900,
000
of
which
is
residential.
When
constructed
the
projects
will
put
approximately
a
thousand
trades
people
to
work
and
create
125
directive,
577,
indirect
jobs.
AX
So
just
in
closing
tonight
it's
important
I
know
many
people
have
done
it,
but
on
behalf
of
the
staff
here
at
the
agency,
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
Mike
Monahan
Mike.
You've
served
on
this
board
for
10
years
at
the
bpda.
For
those
who
don't
know
you're
the
international
vice
president
of
the
International
Brotherhood
of
Electrical
Workers
for
the
second
district,
overseeing
all
New
England
Affairs,
40,
000,
Plus
members
in
all
the
50
local
unions
on
the
board.
AX
These
last
10
years,
you've
personally
overseen
that,
in
your
capacity
as
a
board
member
the
approval
of
approximately
100
million
square
feet
of
development,
including
over
50
000
units
of
which
approximately
thirteen
thousand
were
income
restricted.
Just
to
name
a
few
highlights
suffered
down
the
Bunker
Hill
Housing
Development,
South
Station
air
rights
exchange,
South
End,
Government,
Center,
Garage,
Landmark,
Center,
Redevelopment
and
Seaport
Square.
This
was
in
this
was
it
is
in
addition
to
your
12
years
on
the
Zoning
Board
of
appeal,
beginning
in
2002..
AX
You've
served
this
agency
in
the
city
for
more
than
two
decades.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
a
job
well
done
and
for
your
service
to
the
city.
On
a
personal
note,
I
want
to
thank
you
for
all
your
hard
work
and
advice
to
me
and
other
members
of
the
staff.
I
know
I
speak
for
many
people
when
I
say
you've
been
a
calming
influence
on
on
this
board
and
in
all
your
service.
So
thanks
again
and
look
forward
to
hearing
about
what's
next
for
you,
as
you
had
had
actually
Mike.
AX
If,
if
you
have
any
interest
in
saying
anything,
you're
always
welcome
to
do
so
yeah,
it's
that
meeting
pretty
brilliantly
anything
you'd
like
to
say
before
I
continue.
B
Just
it's
been
a
it's
been
a
privilege
and
honor
I
respect
him
as
decision
to
to
go
in
a
different
direction,
but
I'm
particularly
grateful,
of
course
to
Manny.
Manino
17
of
those
22
years
were
a
decision
of
his
to
12
in
the
zba
and
five
in
the
on
the
pra
and,
of
course,
mayor
Walsh
for
reappointing
me
to
an
additional
five
to
make
up
to
22.
B
But
it's
been
rewarding
voting
in
the
affirmative
for
hundreds
and
hundreds
of
projects
that
that
put
thousands
of
Boston
residents
to
work
and
gave
them
a
career
versus
a
job
and
not
to
mention
the
tax
base.
The
additional
revenue
for
the
city
of
Boston,
the
tax
base,
a
lot
of
those
projects
significantly
helped
the
city,
along
with
the
services
and
teachers
and
crops
and
fire
and
numbers
of
other
things.
But
thank
you.
It's
been
a
it's
been
a
good
ride,
but
all
good
things
come
to
an.
X
AX
If
I
might
thanks
again,
Dr,
landsmark
or
board
member
Miller
would
either
of
you
like
to
make
a
comment,
you
are
welcome
to
do
so.
If
you'd
like
before
I
finish
line.
AC
I
would
just
say
it's:
it's
been
great
to
work
with
Mike
he's
been
an
incredibly
strong
advocate
for
working
people
and
for
labor
in
the
city,
training
programs
and
he's
raised
great
questions
around
how
many
of
the
projects
are
getting
built,
particularly
around
of
facades
and
electrical
components
and
sustainability.
AC
X
You
Ted
and
I
would
just
like
to
add
Michael.
It's
been
a
relatively
short
time
for
me
to
work
with
you
on
this
board,
but
it's
been
my
pleasure
and
I
really
admire
what
you've
done
for
our
community
you're
always
advocating
for
the
people
who
live
and
work
here
and
I
appreciate
your
study
leadership.
So
thank
you.
Thank
you.
Brian
I'll
see
you
around
the
neighborhood
all.
AX
AX
So,
with
with
the
transition,
we
do
get
two
new
board
members
there's
been
for
those
who
don't
know,
we've
had
a
a
vacant
seat
for
some
time
on
the
board,
so
I
get
to
welcome.
Although
we're
excited
to
see
I
might
go
over,
get
to
welcome
two
new
board
members
I
want
to
take
a
moment
to
highlight
them:
Kate,
Bennett
and
Raheem
Shepard,
who
both
bring
their
own
distinct
experience
and
expertise
to
the
to
the
roles
for
humans
of
Hyde
Park.
AX
His
regional
manager
of
the
North
Atlantic
states,
Regional
Council
of
Carpenters
for
the
city
of
Boston,
a
current
member
I'm,
doing
Board
of
appeal
arcade
is
from
Roslindale
and
the
outgoing
administrator
of
the
Boston
Housing
Authority,
so
raheem's
Ben
appointment
is
part
of
the
tradition
of
this
board
and
having
a
union
representation
like
representative
Union
on
this
board
and
Raheem
will
also
represent.
Union
represent
provided
unit
representation
on
this
board.
AX
Kate
has
worked
at
affordable
housing,
development
policy
and
planning
for
over
25
years,
with
a
particular
focus
on
public
housing.
Revitalization
is
the
former
head
of
BHA
many
projects
in
front
of
this
board.
She
spearheaded
over
two
billion
dollars
in
Redevelopment
activity,
currently
underway
at
DHA
sites
across
the
city,
She's
Been,
instrumental
to
the
development
of
the
eha's
green,
healthy
housing
and
sustainability
programs,
the
expansion
of
Resident,
empowerment
and
self-sufficiency
initiatives
I
want
to
acknowledge
both
of
their
appointments
and
say,
I
look
forward
to
working
with
both
of
you.
AX
Last
but
not
least,
I
wanted
to
shine
a
little
white
on
the
fact
that
we
adopted
plan
new
market
tonight
plan
ways
out
a
vision
and
the
tools
for
a
new
market
deserve
is
a
key
Center
of
industrial
activity
and
employment
for
Boston
residents
in
the
area
primed
to
attract
the
industries
of
Tomorrow
New
Market
industrial
Zone
as
an
economic
engine
for
the
center
of
the
city,
and
this
plant
supports
the
enhancement
of
that
role.
AX
As
you
heard
earlier,
the
goals
of
the
planner
to
maintain
traditional
industrial
jobs,
attract
new
Industries,
promote
job
equity
and
access
and
create
and
support
the
growth
of
the
creative
economy
by
affirming
New
Market
as
Boston's
industrial
center.
The
wild
cities
to
unlock
the
potential
of
other
parts
of
the
city
that
hosts
much
needed,
Transit
oriented,
mixed-use
development
I
want
to
thank
staff,
worked
so
hard
over
the
last
few
years
and
all
our
partners
in
the
city
who
collaborated
with
us
to
make
this
plan.
AX
What
at
the
most
holistic
plan
and
the
best
it
could
be
lifting
up
a
new
market
and
it's
Unique
interested
role
in
the
city.
This
furthers
our
goal
of
finishing
neighborhood
plans
and
bringing
them
into
zoning.
The
Zoning
for
this
for
this
plant
was
posted
on
our
website
earlier
today.
So
we
plan
to
take
items
like
this
forward
as
soon
as
possible.
Another
great
board
meeting
the
800
units
are
are
welcome
from
an
approval
standpoint.
I
want
to
thank
the
sport
for
its
continued
hard
work
and
helping
us
Advance.
The
growth
of
the
city.
AX
I
am
with
that
I'd
like
to
pass
it
back
to
you,
Mike,
as
you
close
out
the
meeting.
Thank.