We could require. I know, I know, I know it's something it's like it's almost like oh my goodness OK I'll just go for that but um. Good afternoon. There's my name is Priscilla
Rojas and I am the chair of the board. Thank you for joining the march 13th twenty twenty five Economic Development and Industrial Corporation Boston board meeting at this time the Boston Planning and Development Agency is hosting public meetings in a hybrid setting for the Health, Safety and
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Bennet Mr Shepherd President Dr Landsmark Mr O'Malley present and I requested your presence item number one request authorization for the approval of the minutes of the February 13th. Twenty twenty five board
meeting and motion is in order so move second call for a vote Miss Bennet. Hi Mr Shepherd. Dr. Landsmark. Right Mr. O'Malley I am the chair but I motion passes item number two request authorization to enter into a pedestrian bridge easement with twenty two Drydock LLC to allow
for the construction operation and maintenance of a SkyBridge between twenty two Drydock Avenue and Sixth Street in the Raymond Flynn Marine Park. >> Dennis thank you Madam Chair twenty and twenty two Drydock Avenue Parcel consists of approximately eighty thousand square feet in the
Raymond of the Marine Park in April twenty twenty four twenty two Drydock LLC was awarded Final designation for the long long term lease and development of that site. Twenty two drydock LC will be developing a three hundred and thirty seven thousand square foot lifescience facility which
will be leased in its entirety to Vertex Pharmaceuticals for fifteen years initial ten or fifteen years directly across Drydock Avenue is located is Six Tide Street in September twenty fifteen MEAC entered into a seventy year lease with
its partners who subsequently developed a three hundred and sixty thousand square foot lifescience facility though not initially the intent. That facility is now also leased in its entirety to Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Vertex has requested that a
pedestrian bridge be constructed to connect the two buildings. The bridge would allow safe passage of chemicals, personnel, equipment, materials between the buildings without exposure to weather or temperature changes. The bridge would be of sufficient to allow for even
the largest foreseeable truck to pass beneath Vertex Pharmaceuticals would be the sole beneficiary of the bridge and according to is not contributing financially toward the cost. Nor would would be any reduction in the rent PDC as a
result Vertex will remain solely responsible for the structural integrity of the bridge we are requesting today permission to enter into a pedestrian error rates easement if you will across Drydock Avenue to connect the two buildings to allow for the construction operation maintenance of the SkyBridge
connecting the two buildings and for the ongoing maintenance thereof and that is available for any questions. Thank you. All right. Any questions or comments from the board? I do have a question so you said Vertex is going to assume
the responsibility. Do we have a part responsibility that we're going to assume for any of this? >> No. I mean we they will be submitting a construction management plan and we will be monitoring that it's done properly, the traffic flows, et cetera.
But there's no there's no responsibility for us. We're even working with Vertex that in the event that one or both of the buildings is sold and the bridge no longer serves a purpose, they will be responsible to remove it. >> OK, so any further questions
you're hearing saying that a emotion is in order? So second we'll call for a vote. Miss Bennet. Hi, Mr. Shepard. Dr. Landsmark. All right, Mr. O'Malley, I and the chair I motion passes. >> Thanks and I thank you. Item number three request authorization to amend the memorandum of agreement by and
between the city of Boston and economic and industrial Corporation of Boston concerning the transfer of funds by the ICI to the city of Boston to reimburse the city for the costs of staff and services transfer to the city. Devon, our members of the board
I am here for a very simple item when we originally wrote the MOEY add to that establishes the transfer of funds from the PPA to the Planning Department for the operations of the Planning Department. We have the expectation and you improve the way that requires the city to give us a draft budget in February and you
would approve it in March. We have done that this year pulverizing ten days to review the whole budget is not enough time so we'd like to amend the way to move to April and bring it before you in April. I can answer any questions, make sense, any questions or comments, hearing and an
emotion is in order. So second we'll call for a vote has been it I Mr. Shepherd I Dr. Landsmark. All right, Mr. O'Malley I and the chair votes I motion passes. >> See you next month. Item number four Mike Snell.
>> Thank you Madam Chair. Members of the board Madam Secretary and direction we have two items for your consideration on the Edik agenda with the exact details included in the board memos. We have two contracts in the IT division corner to Mashco and
Sakuragi and that's it. OK, questions or comments from the board hearing and seeing an emotion is in order so moved second call for a vote. Miss Bennett, Mr. Shepherd, Dr. Landsmark. All right Mr. O'Malley I and the chair votes I motion passes.
Thank you. Uh and that's the last item so I need a motion to adjourn this meeting so moved second real call for a vote Miss Bennet. Mr. Shepherd. Uh, Dr. Landsmark oh Mr. O'Malley I and the chair as I mentioned passes meeting adjourned.
>> OK, thank you for joining the March 13th. Twenty twenty five Boston Redevelopment Authority board meeting at this time the Boston Planning and Development Agency is hosting public meetings in a hybrid setting for the Health, Safety and Accessibility of Boston residents. Hybrid means that our board
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this meeting is being recorded . Please be aware that an audio and visual recording of this meeting is being made broadcast by Boston City TV which is a part of the City of Boston office Cable Communications at Xfinity Channel twenty six RCN Channel thirteen and Verizon files Channel nine six to six
also being live streamed at Boston Cable. Now if there's anyone in the audience I was recording this meeting please kindly identify yourself now hearing and seeing none will move on to roll call roll call just roll call been
Bennett frozen Mr. Shepard Dr. Landsmark Mr. O'Malley present and the chair Brasileiro is president right item number one request authorization for the approval of the minutes of the February 13th twenty twenty five board meeting a motion is in order so move second roll call for a vote Miss Bennet.
Mr. Shepard. Dr. Landsmark. All right, Mr. O'Malley and the chair votes I motion passes item number two request authorization to schedule a public hearing on April 10th. Twenty twenty five at five thirty pm are at a date and time to be determined by the director to consider the Second Amendment to be amended and
restated. Master Plan for planned development area number eighty seven and the Second Amendment to the Development Plan for the Residential Project at 125 Gas Street within planned development area number eighty seven Boston Landing Gas Street Life Street and Arthur Street in the Brighton area of Boston
a motion is in order to move second roll call for a vote Miss Bennett. Hi Mr. Shepard. Dr. Landsmark. All right, Mr. O'Malley. I am the of I motion passes item number three request authorization to amend the lease with Charlestown Marina
LLC adding property management responsibilities related to the Sea NY Harbor Walk and extending the term expiration to March 31st twenty twenty twenty sixty five and amend them amend the amended and restated Land Disposition
Agreement with Carlyle CQ Boston LP to remove routine maintenance responsibilities for a portion of the Sea NY Harbor Walk from the Paris Landing Condominium Association and amend the agreement with Imel Belaire New England
regarding maintenance responsibilities for the portion for a portion of the Sea NY Harbor Walk which are currently the responsibility of the flagship wharf condominium at a future date Dennis thank you Madam Chair. >> As the introduction would imply there's a lot of words
involved here but I'm going to be as quick as I can. The harbor walk in the Chelsea Navy Yard is an amenity as we all know it's enjoyed by thousands of residents and visitors each month the harbor work begins at Flagship Wharf Procedes North West Shipley
Paris Landing Shipway Place Charlestown Marina past ends at a little misty channel just past park in the Spaulding rehab Center. The harbor consists of about thirty nine hundred linear square feet or about three quarters of a mile.
The overall quality the Physical Harbor Walk differs between the various parcels depending on which abiding tenant is responsible for the harbor maintenance. It's a similar concept to being responsible to shoveling snow in front of our homes on the sidewalks. The city of Boston, however,
can brag of a national award winning marina right in the heart of the Chelsea neighborhood. And I'm speaking of course about the Charleston Marina which was developed in 2015 by Ian and Chuck legacy under their ocean havens is the name of the company but I'll be referring to them as legacy
henceforth it's located between Piers eight and seven. The Chelsea Marina is a beautiful addition to an increasingly active Boston Harbor before 2015. However, that wasn't the case at all the previous it did not maintain the property on any level.
The previous owner was subject to several lawsuits and enforcement actions from municipal and state government authorities for failure to correct multiple safety and code violations. The derelict marina was forced to close in 2014 after the Massachusetts attorney general
mandated that the marina must be brought to compliance with all regulatory codes and make specific capital improvements to the Charleston Harbor. What in the Navy Lagasse's purchased what is now the Charleston Arena with those specific restrictions in force
in opening on what they were purchasing the portion of the Hubbard subject to the attorney general's suit lies between Kirs 678 and the Lagasse's have subsequently replaced 600 feet of hard work between seven Pier
seven period that portion of what is considered extremely high quality construction and professionally maintained by the Lagasse's. We look forward to that same high level improvement and maintenance along three hundred feet in front of a long Pier
six which is right in front of Paris landing condominium development the pier six portion of the harbor as I said immediately about the Terracini there are competing jurisdictions. The reason it hasn't been developed already is redeveloped already. Yes, there are competing
jurisdictions guys in that section of the hub. What the attorney general's mandate which I just discussed and there's an existing law and disposition agreements with the Boston redevelopment Authority and the more blurry in back in the day I refer to as corresponding which also requires them to maintain that
exact same portion as the attorney general mandates that the gases must not only replace the hard work but maintain it in Paris. LDH does not require me to replace it. It doesn't require me to maintain it. It's important especially here.
Yes, the planning department is currently planning to replace the aging three hundred feet of water in front of the flagship of Pier five in 2023 this board approved expenditures for the design in twenty twenty four awarded
authorization for the construction which should begin this year. That portion of our work is also subject to the indisposition agreement between the Boston bombing Authority and for example our flagship for the association is currently considering our
request to amend the LDA to transfer the main responsibility to look at things. Um and obviously we want to amend that way to unless the
LDA that would be amended the responsibility for maintenance of the care of the block in front of flagship will remain with and they do they do a good job. They did something horrible. They don't regardless of how those negotiations new harbor
work will absolutely rectify and we will be very excited at the prospect of twelve contiguously feet of stellar work for everyone to enjoy the specific reason I'm here today is to both resolve those
multiple competing jurisdictional issues and to incentivize the Agassiz to take additional maintenance responsibilities and remove any ambiguity surrounding responsibility to start the six portion of the so we are proposing for one one person he
has agreed to make payments to Boston bombing a story starting have twelve thousand five hundred dollars which will increase in value by two percent. Those will be payments made to their main responsibilities will be amended to reflect no
longer be required to pay the rent to out of that responsibility. Parasailing is also impersonality. They've also created a beautiful idea building between the area between the building
one they created the Dog Walker Park the wishing expense to irrigate to maintain the station. So we're requesting additional be to formalize the
responsibility of Paris ongoing maintenance of the gases currently in place since approximately 75000 square feet of water from the switch immediately. But we control the water
because we don't have access to water state control so we release the water to the gas to expand the so the population of small vessels using the
annual fee paid Agassiz is fifty thousand dollars per year and sufficient sufficiency that was suggested by the internal analysis. But we also agree that it's a fair it's subject to the
negotiation of the negotiations before the proposing a formal proposal existing license to extend your operations license during expires in it's twenty to extend that license to twenty six thousand twenty
seven to flatline before the license will be further specifically requires a replacement for your six in place so responsive operations watch your six seven six in the
event that Lordship decides on the affidavit amended amended license will also tradition five should not be driving in transaction. That transaction was never
actually displayed on nine percent signature of the far more important all channels television channels can benefit from twelve point fifty feet of extremely high quality professional professional.
Thank you. That's why I thank you. Christians are coming through the ports are comments from the board. It seems like a lot of coordination anyway. It was a lot of a lot of cats while we go on cats right there no questions or comments there.
So second second vote this when I was younger was instrumentalise during that time. I think you thank you. Item number four item number request authorization Czechoslovakia's International
L.C and the amount of seven hundred seven thousand seven thousand seven hundred management services at the China Service Building issue Boilesen Straight our contract term of three years with three to one year term extension one year term extension session
options extension options. Madam Chairman members of the Board of Directors also this morning here to present the award to try to trade Saturdays
are trying to locate other people to such a commercial facility management responsible for Operation Enduring Freedom of expression of the Chinese but not limited to ten minutes of unconditional assessment
of the response to the RFP assurance in January 2015 in February 25 Colliers International proposal response
was evaluated service of service qualification qualifications and experience colleagues earned an overall experience after some
experience similar to the China trade with China to transform itself from itself. In recent years colleagues have demonstrated the kind of construction product and improvements to visitors to the building of the polls, including the software to pack cooperation improve operational team including almost any kind of status quo.
And I was here with all the facilities directly affected with substantial expertize it was often contract bid of seven thousand twenty seven dollars. Workers have been going for three.
Thank you once again one year extension of for one year exercise options contract no contract will be funded for this project. We have already operated on
immigration control operation on the China Dream. Happy to I'm happy to answer any questions you can anything since blank and they do have have we worked with colleagues
active company right now what is our process for DDR? These are how do we go out about assessing? I was assured that the process was advertised.
I just just six weeks ago I had a really would not say boy I wish I do not have that answer that is as far as the time as
far as the big question that we try to subscribe to my obligation produced by the Institute of Real Estate which has all the transparency for every citizen compared to other office buildings.
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Thank you. Thank you for bringing that. I'm sorry for your on all right. I don't know why I I I don't want to adopt a minor modification extension of overburdensome plan in the
city of Boston in the city of large thirty four so much thirty seven point thirty seven or 9:00 and assignment's related actions Max thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you and good afternoon.
Secretary Paulson is a rising all rise from year to year 12 just twelve existing Samuelson's seven first twenty twenty seven until Paksas or until passage from the state constitutional petition pertaining to the next I can
proceed to the next slide so I have a short short short presentation here which will inform the measure and that's over 12 percent of all active students in the city of Boston and expire at the end of this year. Urban renewal urban renewal
area is going to manage hundreds of cases of land use in twenty twenty three in twenty twenty four years to to a two year extension to a policy at that time. That's where we've submitted the attrition and modernize and
modernize the seatbelt in the city of Boston formerly the protections written in the petitions petition in the sunset Sternberg's twenty twenty five just requesting
additional extension on this next slide please. >> We come before you today I come before you today for recognition of the forms that are going to be placed in the
West End and penalties we must navigate the complexities of prior knowledge and also legal protections that are used for the city and its residents . These LDH thousands of units of affordable housing, many public schools and open space
spaces, civic institutions and more to allow these for you to allow these guys mostly business and patients unable to recover before we come before the court today we seem to understand that in the words of the Boston City Council for
this extension, this next slide, this postscript has produced having obligation to keep it between the owners of the land in this case the yard and the buyer about which could be a private intellectual property gulper corporation or even another government entity
may be able to ban to place and enforce the land use restrictions on the properties it sells and otherwise disposed to use usually. How do you see here this is a picture on screen is affordable housing, public housing in the
interest of transparency we can move to next slide in the interest of transparency, in the interest of transparency to the original team in coordination with our to show public based on dashboard and a document that will be relevant renewal materials including in
this interactive and accompanying document folder is accessible to the public web links on the screen and I'm working with the public about it as we analyzed these public materials to the next move to the next slide to today we are
tracking 847 majority of which expire at the end of this year. These LDH up to twenty thousand units of housing and nearly 12000 our income has dropped as well as over three million square feet protected open space. In addition, many well-known
experienced concepts such as jlAúpp8hSm roTM$ówa'hok Q3&L(L)@/@0@+@,@ ■RkwD7 Cultural Center and Roxbury's are protected as civic and
community spaces by is the fact that city participants provide some of the most compelling testimonies in support of this extension. We came before the city council last month as the revenue stream is dependent on the LDA covering their space that actually included one person and one young man in his
burgeoning music artist who's actually pretty him up after the hearing and able to support his arts career through this at least protected our base in the South on this next slide please . Since the time since the twenty twenty three extension finished
a few instances of your powers being put to good use as each of these matters has come before this board. What are your powers? We use to enable the construction of new housing, community gardens and public spaces and less slide so so in
conclusion I would like to restate that we are seeking approval for a two year extension to a policy of openness to a new sunset deadline for the March 31st, 2027 for the passage of relevant because we allow for the ongoing protection
of affordable housing and open space and civic community institutions in particular the city council held a hearing on this matter on February 2029 and the following day the full body voted for passage without opposition. Thank you again for your time. I'm here with senior policy
guys. >> Everyone chatter and we look forward to answering any questions you may have questions or comments from the ward. Do you have any sense of what the timing process will be at this stage? So I don't I don't believe so
but I'll defer I have to take that one minute. So currently our proposal our home rule is past the city council. It's passed the House of Representatives of the state.
I did not pass the Senate so it remains active and we'll be good. We work very hard. We still remain very committed to getting it passed and so we're working with our colleagues in the state to work on that. The two year legislative cycle as we know. So I think sometime in the next two years is the answer to your
question additional questions or comments I just like to to commend your team on that interactive map. I've played around with it a little bit and your efforts to
make people aware that it is out there and we're trying to be as transparent as possible with all the information the public is facing while we still have the obligation to to
determine whether or not we continue the urban renewal, which is a difficult thing. I do want to also commend you guys on the your performance as a heroic performance by your representation at the at the city council hearing. I watched that and I did really
well. Thank you very much very much, Atena. Anyway, I don't know what was I think so transparency there's all the information is out there on an interactive map and
it's it's what we have I think the the Elbaz are important to to the city. >> Yeah. Any questions or comments hearing and seeing not emotion
is in order so move second roll call for a vote the Senate I Mr. Shepherd. Dr. Landsmark. All right, Mr. O'Malley. All right. And the chair but I motion passes. >> Thank you. Item number six is an informational briefing on the Boston Design Vision Recommendation implementation
of the Planning Academy program. Diana. Thank you. Madam Chair, members of the board we're really excited to be here with you this afternoon to share some updates on the planning academy. So we were just before you several months ago with the design vision plan which got
adopted by this board as a policy document and we're here to share some of the elements that were identified in the implementation plan. So just as a reminder, if we go to the next slide we started this initiative over a year ago really focused on identifying how we can provide better
design services and planning services to all of our residents throughout the city and we worked really hard meeting people where they were canvasing different events, attending open streets and really getting a sense of how
can we provide great access to good urban design throughout all of our neighborhoods and that led to the next slide which really focuses in on the design principles. These are principles that we as urban design professionals and planning a professional uphold on behalf of our city and their
residents to ensure that we are delivering the best design outcomes. This focuses on designing from understanding really building on an understanding the context of different neighborhoods and what is valuable ensuring that we're always designing for the future right. Thinking about housing growth
and best practices for sustainability as well as ensuring that are not just thinking about the building envelope itself but also thinking about its impacts to our streets, sidewalks and open spaces that are critical infrastructure or to any of those developments as well as designing the details which
I think is my favorite principle here which focuses really in on how do we ground these pieces and details that really resonate with our residents and create a sense of belonging and welcoming throughout our city. >> So building on those principles we have launched
this plan and focused on our implementation roadmap. So the next slide really focuses in on the work that came out of the vision itself focusing in on projects, policies and processes we can advance over a five year timeline.
>> So the goal here is to start to kick those off and we're really excited to present to you one of those first initiatives tonight. So if we go one more slide we also wanted to share with you some additional context in terms of how the design vision
is being implemented in the broader scope of all of the planning initiatives that we're taking on within our department if we go to the next slide you can see that we are implementing these design principles, this planning academy, many of the design
review reform procedures that we are evaluating through the Article EDI modernization as well as implement neighborhood facilitation guides case study research and a database of cultural assets within many of our planning initiatives
including our squares and streets. So we do see that many of the elements that had been highlighted within the design vision becoming an integral part are almost sort of ethos right. That is carrying through both our development review and our planning initiatives.
We go to the next slide. One of the key things here is that we are working very hard on a quick timeline here to ensure that each of these initiatives are advancing these goals and are showing residents
real results so as you can see here, the planning academy is an effort we hope to launch this year with our first cohort and continue to report on our performance with this educational platform into 2030
and we evaluate the program for the next five years. >> You can also see here how many of these other initiatives around the Neighborhood Character Facilitation Guide are design reform work and our guidelines Orefield into this broader platform and within the
five year implementation roadmap. So with that I'm going to hand it over to my colleague Christiana who's going to share a little bit more about the planning academy. Hello, my name is Christiana Laksa. I'm the deputy director of communication at the Planning Department and excited
to talk more about the Planning Academy. >> So onto our next slide. So this is an informational briefing as Diana mentioned, we released an RFP and because it is released by the city of Boston does not require a board vote. However, we want to make sure
that you and members of the public are members the public who tune into these meetings receive information about all the RP's the planning department is releasing and we also want to make sure that you as board members have all the knowledge of what's happening in the planning department as context for the work that you review.
>> So what is the planning academy? So we've heard from committee members during engagement efforts as part of the design vision as well as from our many other planning and development review processes that there is a strong desire for a space to dig into the details about the work of the planning department
to better understand the nuances, history and policy context of design design, planning and development review processes. >> So we're excited to move forward with a planning academy to help meet this need and achieve these following four goals. >> So four goal number one
there are a number of community members who have spent decades learning about planning and development and providing excellent feedback as we work to support the next generation of leaders, we seek to ensure that we are doing our part and allowing those who have historically not been engaged
in our work to learn this information and use their lived experiences to inform our work for goal number two, the big picture vision for the work the planning department has been leading over the past couple of years to update and modernize our zoning code and Development Review review processes while planning for
growth and centering resilience affordability and equity. And this big picture vision is implemented implemented through initiatives like design vision squares and streets article articulated modernization and many more. What the community often hears is that we're doing a lot what
the Planning Academy provides is an opportunity to connect all these initiatives together and help better paint the picture of how our work supports citywide needs for goal number three, we know that many of the people most engaged in our planning and project
processes are predominantly whiter, older homeowners and this planning academy will support the planning department in broadening who we hear from our community members who are more reflective of the demographics of Boston to inform our work and for goal number four it can be tricky to
know what information to provide where and when while we work to improve our engagement processes internally we also want to support community members in knowing how to navigate our initiatives and know that if you care about shaping things like where should we where do we need more
housing, it is best to do so during a planning process versus if you care most about informing the architectural details of a new building to maintain key features in your neighborhood, it is probably best to do so in an Article eighty process so onto the next
slide. >> So to get into a little bit more detail about who we are intending to include as a probably is clear we're hoping to engage those who are have historically not been engaged but we also want to make sure that we're bringing in people that span the breadth of our
neighborhoods. The specifics of how we will be selecting people will be informed by our consultant team on to the next slide. So we are very excited to move forward with the work of piloting our planning academy and are going to be
bring on a consultant team to support our efforts. Their work will focus on a couple of key points. One, they'll bring pedagogy expertize to inform the creation of the curriculum and help ensure that the materials and ways in which you lead these sessions are both engaging and inclusive to to
help engage the reach of our recruitment efforts and ensure we spread a wide net to get new folks to participate in our planning academy will be excited to lean on their expertize and then three they'll provide additional support around facilitation skills, round evaluation and
provide logistical needs to get the pilot itself set up on to the next slide. So this is a outline of the scope of services that we're going to be asking the consultant to complete as you'll see on a slide, there are lots of different materials
they'll be creating but the things that I think are sort of most important to point to the facilitator guide evaluation process and the train the trainer model all of which will help ensure the expertize of the consultant team continues to support this work in the future onto the
next slide. This is an expected timeline for this work throughout the spring and early summer the consultant and staff team will be preparing the curriculum related materials and begin the recruitment process with plan to kick off the pilot in late September the pilot planning
academy sessions will wrap up before the holiday season starts at the end of November and the New Year we will evaluate and the consultant team will share any recommended tweaks to help us make sure the future rounds of planning academy are even more successful. >> And next slide the specifics
of the course are yet to be determined but we are expecting that the Planning Academy will consist of a series of eight sessions over the course of eight weeks and will focus on providing foundational knowledge of planning, zoning, design and development.
We seek to demonstrate the impact and importance of community members of experience on shaping planning processes and these sessions will be co facilitated by city staff and the consultant team to next slide and with that I'll pass it to
Diana to talk about an exciting partnership. >> Thank you so much. We were also really excited to launch this initiative in partnership with the Leventhal Map and Education Center. They are a very visible educational platform within the Central Library of the of our
public library and it's an opportunity for us to use the visibility and resources at the 11th Map Center has to marry that with the resources and curriculum development that will be working on with the consultant team and internally if you go to the next slide we also just want to remind
everybody that there's a lot of work underway and also give a huge thanks to our internal team which included Breese Abdoul from our planning team that's been doing a ton on zoning education Isobella Jon
Stewart Fishback and so many others from our team that contributed to getting us plan out there. >> We're really excited to continue these partnerships to really show what it means to create a planning department that serves the people of Boston and this is one
of the first steps where we're sharing our knowledge and resources in a way that can mobilize and empower community members to engage with our work. >> And just a quick reminder here is that we're we're accepting proposals and they're due by March 21st. Thank you. Does that include the
presentation? >> It does. It does conclude my presentation at proposals for for what for the consultant. Is that correct? questions or comments from the board? >> Yeah, I'll follow up on that. >> Madam Chair, obviously we celebrate this any efforts we can do to bring new voices and
more voices into this these important civic conversations we should be doing so so the bids are due for the consultancy a week from now. >> I'm curious if there have been any submitted thus far we have received we did a sort
of pre proposal conference where we had several different firms reach out and submit questions so we're actively responding to those and getting back to folks. >> So we do see that there is interest. I don't think there has been anything formally submitted just yet because they have to
be delivered in person. But we have you know, through different organizations reaching out and attending that conference we have seen interest and being part of this initiative that's great. >> And in the end it's 150000 dollars would be the correct
price. Okay, great. Thank you. >> This is phenomenal. I think this is a wonderful initiative. I'm just curious how many residents do you think will participate in each cycle? >> So our goal is to have representation from every
single neighborhood in the city as part of our first cohort . So we're imagining probably close to 30 members of this first cohort . Our goal is to actually if you if we go back to some of the earlier slides, we want to hold a super summit a couple
of years into this to be able to gather about a hundred participants and do a reflection and evaluation and understand how a planning academy is working. And we've also reached out to peer cities across a country Philadelphia, Indianapolis. There's so many great cities that hosted programs that are
similar to this to learn best practices there and ensure that we're carrying that forward in this model and yes, through the chair first I want to kind of piggyback off of that. Do you I know you're in your pre work period right now.
Do you see an appetite for this through the communities? >> So last year the mayor's office hosted a civic summit and it was an opportunity to bring together civic leaders across the country, across the city to come together and really talk about educational
resources that the city has available to them to sort of cultivate the next generation of civic leaders. And one of the key things we heard there was how can I engage like what are what other resources does the city have to offer us? >> And we're really excited to
report that we're actually going to be at the civic summit this year in June to do a session actually on the planning academy and focus in on hearing from the civic leaders. >> What are what are some of the things that they want to learn about. And as Christiane mentioned,
we've been hearing a lot from residents through our zoning initiatives, through our development review process that they just want to learn more about this outside of the context of a project or zoning initiative. So this is an opportunity to have a safer space to talk about that outside of a
particular project. >> Yeah, I definitely think any time you can either educate the community it brings better conversations during the public process of different projects. So definitely I think it's a great idea to so thank you.
>> Great. And I just want to echo what everybody said. I really appreciate taking you taking a vision and principles based approach to to this work and being you know, being intentional about responding to
the feedback that we get often when we're doing planning and development work as well. So I think this is just a really great thing to to point to and a great a great
foundation that the city for many, many years over right. Can build on and in building the generation next generation the current generation of future leaders in our community and it's just a great way to get to get people
engaged and yeah, just thank you and you know, the last thing I'll mention too is that it's not an inopportune for us to share knowledge with the public but also for us to hear from community members that may want to share with us right. >> How we can continue to improve our different initiatives or processes.
So we do see this as a sort of two way avenue. Yeah, absolutely cool. >> Well this was just an informational update so I don't know much about it but yeah. Thank you so much you and good luck with everything. >> Menninga before we start the next item, Councilor Durkin is
perfect. >> Yes, that's right. Councilor Durkin, the floor is yours. >> I was here for that that know the exciting thank you so much. And you know I have a amazing track record of coming to all of these meetings myself. So even though this I don't
believe that this project will be controversial at all, I'm here on behalf of me and my office in support of 77 Terrace Street OJs proposed affordable homeownership development at seven Terraced Street in Mission Hill is incredible.
I've championed this project at every stage of the process because I believe in it and I believe it's going to support the broader Mission Hill community. The proposal to create 48 Much-Needed Affordable homeownership opportunities by providing stable housing for
households earning eighty and not an 100. Am I in a city where homeownership is increasingly out of reach for many working families, this development will provide a critical pathway to generational wealth building and neighborhood stability, the inclusion of the new adjacent
park and community gardens further demonstrate OJs commitment to sustainable community centered development. And this is transforming a long underutilized parcel that will benefit residents from years for years to come. For too long this stretch of terraced street has been
subject to hazardous conditions underutilization despite its prime location within a rapidly evolving corridor as development continues in missional it is an imperative that we prioritize project that center affordability, accessibility and long term benefits. This vision aligns with these
priorities and mission health should remain a place where families of all backgrounds can put down roots and thrive. >> So I hope that you'll vote in support of this proposal tonight. Great to see the proponent here and excited for our years of partnership together. >> Thank you. OK, thank you Councilor.
>> OK item number seven request authorization to issue a certificate of completion for the successful completion of the thirty three sixty eight Washington Street Project in Jamaica Plain pursuant to the agreement by and between the Boston Redevelopment Authority doing business with the Boston
Planning and Development Agency Washington Pine L. L.C Pine Street n and the Community Builders dated November 14th twenty nineteen it is a certificate of completion so will a motion is an wuv second will call for a vote has been
met by Mr Shepherd Dr. Landsmark Mr O'Malley and the chair of the I mentioned passes item number eight request authorization to approve the notice of Project Change and issue a certification of approval pursuant to Article eighty Small Project Review
of the Zoning Code for the proposed creation of thirty two home ownership units including five home ownership IDP units, a reduction of car parking spaces and a relocation of bicycle storage, maintenance and elevator facilities located at the 120 Brain Street and to
execute an affordable housing agreement and enter into a community benefit contribution agreement and to take all related actions. >> Titli Thank you Madam Chair members of the Board Secretary Polynice and Director Schenn Tyler Ross Senior Project Manager in the Development
Review Division. The proposal before you this evening is a notice of project change for the previously approved project that one twenty grand Tree Street in Austin. The project was originally board approved in May of twenty twenty one today the project is seeking a change to the ownership as well as a
reduction in parking minor reconfiguring and a minor reconfiguration of the ground floor. The proposed changes entail a change in ownership to Zanzibar LLC a reduction in parking spaces from thirty one to eighteen parking spaces and additionally the NPC proposes
reconfiguring the ground floor to move the bigram from the basement to the ground floor level and relocating the trash room to the former location of the bike storage. There is no presentation for this NPC but I am joined by the proponents of turning Nix's Zula to answer any questions
the board may have last I want to say thank you to the members of the board the public and elected officials and city agencies who help review the proposed one twenty Braintree Street notice project change. >> OK, thank you. >> Any questions or comments from the board right here on
CNN? >> A motion is in order so move second call for a vote Miss Bennet. >> Mr Shepherd. Dr. Landsmark ah Mr O'Malley I and the chair votes I mentioned Hasse's thank you item number
nine nine request authorization to issue a certification of approval pursuant to Article eighty Small Project Review of the zoning code for the proposed construction of forty three fully affordable home ownership units twenty two car parking spaces and approximately fifty two bicycle
parking spaces located at sixty five or seventy nine Seattle Street and to enter into a community benefits agreement and single related actions quick thank you Madam Chair. >> Members of the Board Secretary Polemicists and Director my name is Quinn Vilsack and I'm here before you this evening to present the
article a small project located at sixty five thousand in Seattle Street in Allston, the sixty five Seattle Street LLC and its manager Urbanek Inc after being selected by Harvard University as the developer of the project in January twenty twenty five through request for proposal process proposes to develop a forty
eight thousand square foot development that includes forty three income restricted homeownership units across three buildings in Austin. Twenty two units will be restricted to households earning at or below 80 percent AM and twenty one will be restricted to households earning at or below one hundred percent am I.
The proposed project includes three buildings building with twenty four units building B with nine and building C ten units five units to be made accessible to those with mobility hearing and visual impairments. The proponent filed the Small Project Review application of the proposed project on
October twenty ninth twenty twenty four the project hosted a public meeting on January 22nd twenty twenty five after the comment period was extended. This meeting was very well attended and duly advertised in local newspaper as well as circulated to the planning departments email list the
Austin neighborhood and not to over to my colleague Michelle E to go with the planning context . Consider in their view of this project before the development team begins the presentation. >> Thank you. Thank you and good afternoon you madam Chair Secretary William as members of the board and Director Shan my name is
Michelle and I in the Planning Review Team Plan are assigned to this project. Next slide please. The proposed project at sixty five to Sunny nine Salustri is located in the Allston Brighton neighborhood district within the Austenland the Economic Development Area Subdistrict
this portion of Seattle Street transitions between residential and institutional context and this project also notably sits next to the planned Greenway Development. The proposed project falls within the boundaries of the Austin Brand Needs Assessment, which is approved and adopted
by the BDA board in January. Twenty twenty four was all proposed units will be income restricted. This is consistent with the need for assessment affordable units found in the Austin brand needs assessment. Additionally, other plans that were considered included the ongoing Halvard Enterprise
Research Campus or exceed district in Grigore plan the Begin Park Yards regional framework Plan and the Arlington Brand Community Plan. As these plans will guide the growth in the neighborhood and the area surrounding the proposed project. Next slide please write. >> And zoning relief is
recommended for the proposed project as it is consistent with the goals of the Austin Bryony's assessment as well as local context as a proposed project aligns with the macing in the area. >> This project will also bring many public realm improvements to the area such as upgrading the sidewalks and streetscape
on both Seattle's route and Wyndham Street. To me complete street guidelines. Additionally, the proposed project will include a central courtyard community which is proponent team will go into further detail later on further enhancing the pedestrian and resident experience while minimizing the Hekla presence.
Thank you and I'll turn it over to the proponent team to present the project in more detail in good afternoon. Members of the board to action on behalf of her Banega we are
pleased to present sixty five Seattle Street. I'm going to now turn over to my colleague Stephen Young who is going to present the design . >> You're not going to say anything. All right. My name is Steven Sheung the architect and it's nice to be back in person.
So you just went over this you went over the site. It sort of identified the orange orange there just to the north on that slide is asphalt but that's going to be a park soon. So the renderings that's not our design but that's something with Harvard and the renderings
you'll see a part sort of shown it's not a design but I just wanted to kind of complete the picture. OK, next if I could control so we're just zooming in. I was just told to give some better context but you can sort
of see the context of the Seattle Street neighborhood sort of smaller smaller freestanding houses and then just to the north that you have your science center that's kind of a huge amount of lawn from the science center and then the institutional scale of Harvard next and one last shot just
kind right now there's a plumbing supply warehouse that's just no longer use to be taken down and then right along that edge that is that that fence and then the park that I just explained will be beyond that. And then Harvard Science Center you can sort of see all the way
to the far right and it's really interesting because the Seattle street the context is really it's like this I mean it's there's a certain character here Free-standing two three storey houses, a certain kind of roof profile that it's not all the same but
there is a certain sort of feeling a character in this neighborhood that we sort of try to learn from next. And so this is our floor plan and I could have explained further but but really we
really looked at the houses in Seattle Street that neighborhood and sort of tried to adopt the scale of a single house. But there's somehow that they're linked almost like townhouse style. So you really do get that character but they are linked because the buildings are bigger. They're not freestanding. I mean this is a housing
project. It's not single houses. So you'll see the architectural expression and then the future park that's identified there that's again that's what's there now and then we'll show you renderings with what's intended in the future. And then you had mentioned the project manager had mentioned with working with PPTA closely we sort really tried to carve
out this courtyard space we have three buildings which wrap around this the screen space in the center of our our development next. Why is the highlighted anyway? This is sort of highlighting
the building a we call it it's a sort of bigger building has an elevator. It's kind of your typical kind of apartment building and then the two buildings to the south ,they're sort of connected by this parking this ground floor parking those are building B and C and in the middle of that is that courtyard and the
parking is something that we worked with city and neighborhood to really try to make sure that they're not visible from the street. There's approximately point five per resident. So I think people thought that was a good compromise. It was the neighborhood in the city. We're happy that we were able to accommodate that. But again was really important
just not for the cars not to be so visible from really any anywhere one goes into a garage and then you never see them so next and just kind of give a sense of the character. >> I think you sort of see the space pitched roof structure with a kind of metal roof and
we'll work with the city in terms of the final kind of colors and materials. But we are really trying to find a kind of residential character so we can we'll we'll sort of work on that to try to find the right balance. But on the ground floor we have a kind of some lattice work and
some things which will hopefully work with the some some Greenwall, some I we've done on some more projects so really try to let the park and the greenery around it work with the architecture next aerial view on Seattle Street
so I think to the far right you see a triple decker and I think we're working with that kind of scale like that's the kind of block and then imagine those blocks are sort of stitched together, kind of linked together the gray recesses really helped to sort of that each of those little blocks
Reed next and this is from the park as if the park was completed and the park is sort of bisected by this sort of Central Park that just happens to kind of we tried to coordinate and work with I mean again that's a concept design but really we sort of have this
bridge, this kind of linkage that we then allow people to pass through and into the complex ah let's say from our development into the park and then that really leads directly to that courtyard which is sort of nicely works with this with this plan let's say next and
this is on Wyndham Street. >> Wyndham Street is where the neighborhood really thought a really great opportunity to create a little carve away a little drop off for moving moving in deliveries and so forth and so on. It's a bit of a bigger street. Seattle's streets are very small at that. Everyone thought that this
would be the best place to kind do all of that delivery and drop off and move in and all of us all the sort of business. OK, next and this is on the ground level looking at the building that's that bridge that kind of connector piece
that I had mentioned that's a a two sided kind of lobby glass on either side again from the park looking at the building, I think the scale is pretty much I think you're understanding kind of that scale that we tried to sort of adhere to. There is a line of vegetation
and then also trees as a kind of buffer along the park for residents have some privacy but but I mean they overlook the park that's good for both I think next and there's this is coming sort of walking from
Seattle Street into that courtyard space to the left is the amenity space lobby to the right is that outdoor courtyard space which is sort of lined up central to that that bridge I just showed you in the previous slide. So it's an outdoor area with with firepit and barbecue and
the buildings around sort of were sculpted carefully, you know, working with the sky and the sun to really make sure that the building is is really not in shadow. I mean it's a pretty pretty well lit space throughout the year which we can working with the city to make sure that we can sort of show the shadow studies and so forth to make
sure that that was the kind of bright light space that everyone wants next and that's it that concludes the presentation we have Councilor
someone from Consultors Breeden's office here that would like to speak the floor is yours. Thank you. Good afternoon. Members of the board my name is Repreve and I'm here representing L'Esprit City Council is waiting to apologize
but she is not able to attend the meeting herself to do a prior commitment. The council would like to express her strong support for the for this project proposed at sixty five to seventy nine Seattle Street in Austin as shown in the presentation this
project will result in much needed forty three units of much needed income restricted homeownership opportunities available household incomes ranging from one hundred percent of my council would like to highlight that creation of affordable
ownership opportunities is particularly critical in Austin where only approximately 10 percent of units are owner occupied which is one of the lowest in the city. Additionally, there is only currently a total of thirty existing income restricted homeownership units in the neighborhood so she's
incredibly excited to see this project move forward as it provides opportunity housing. Finally the counselor would like to say that she appreciates the extensive community outreach efforts at our Vertica has done throughout this process. They have been very responsive to any comments received from
the community. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Uh, questions or comments from the board. Madam Chair, I just wanted to echo some of the comments made by Councilor Braden. >> This is a this is a really strong project.
I can't underscore enough how important it is to really prioritize affordable homeownership opportunities. So that's that's really wonderful to see and great job to your team and to the city's team as well. >> This is going to be a great addition to our city.
I've kind of a question mark just curiosity have how how do you how did you finance like forty three fully affordable homeownership units? I mean I want to see more you
know more of that but just you know what's the so the funding is extremely limited and we would not be able to do it without partnership with the city of Austin. So we did apply for the twenty twenty four follow funding round and we were awarded our full funding ask from the mayor's office of Housing.
So half that is from the mayor's office of Housing. The other half will come from mass housing the Commonwealth Builders Program. We work very closely with mass housing A.H. Typically it is about 150000 per unit from the
mayor's office for Housing and one hundred fifty thousand dollars from Nassau and Commonwealth Fund Cantet coming together. >> So that's a typical formula. It's worked really well in the past with our several of our other homeownership affordable projects but we can't stress
enough we could not do this without the funding from the mayor's office of Housing and this program. Awesome. Thank you so much and thank you to all those all those officers who who helped to to bring this
together and be responsive to, you know, the affordable housing crisis that we have. >> So any other questions hearing and seeing that emotion is in order so second roll call for a vote, Miss Bennett. >> Mr Shepherd.
Dr. Landsmark ah Mr O'Malley. I am the chair that I motion has is thank you so much. Congratulations. Goodbye and thank Everett item number ten request authorization to enter into an affordable housing agreement
for the proposed creation of three IDP homeownership units located at nine Fuller Street and to take all related actions andI thank you Madam Chair Direct Action Secretary Polhemus and members of the board. I'm Andy Feldman, housing policy manager with the Mayor's Office of Housing.
Tonight I'm here to request your vote on an affordable housing agreement for the proposed development at nine Fuller Street in Dorchester. This development proposes to build 14 condo units and while didn't trigger Article eighty due to its size, the Inclusionary Development Policy
applies to the project as it is ten or more units. Therefore the vote in front you tonight will allow the agency to enter into an agreement today create three units under the Inclusionary Development Policy which I'll note is a total of twenty one percent of I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> Thank you. OK, any questions or comments
from the board here and seeing not to mention an order so moved so I could call for a vote that's been it Mr. Shepherd. Dr. Landsmark. All right Mr. O'Malley, I am the motion passes. Thanks Andy. Thank you. But stay there. Request authorization to enter into an affordable rental
housing agreement and restriction for the proposed creation of one on site rental unit at three 08 Norwell Street to take all related actions. >> Thank you. I thank you Madam Chair Director and Secretary Powell. He missed the members of the board. I'm Andy Feldman, housing
policy manager with the mayor's Office of Housing. Tonight I'm here to request your vote on an affordable rental housing agreement and restriction for the proposed development at three zero eight Norwell Street in Dorchester. This development proposes to build ten rental units and while it didn't trigger article eighty due to its size,
inclusionary development policy applies to the project as ten or more units. Therefore the vote in front of you tonight while the agency to enter into an agreement to dedicate one unit and accept a partial payment under the Inclusionary Development Policy. Happy to answer any questions you may have and thank you.
OK questions or comments from the board hearing and seeing not a motion is an order so move second call for a vote Miss Bennett. Mr Shepherd. Dr. Landsmark. Mr O'Malley I am the chair but I'm motion passes. Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Item number twelve request
authorization to issue a certification of approval pursuant to Article eighty eight Small Project Review of the zoning code for the proposed construction of eighty residential rental units including fourteen inclusion areas, zoning units and two voucher units located at
fifteen court Square and to enter into a pilot agreement and accept quitclaim deed for a temporary limited interest in the fifteen court square property and to take all related actions. >> Zoe, thank you and good evening. My name is Zoe Shooty.
I'm a project assistant in Development Review or excuse me. Good evening madam Chair. Members of the Board Gyptian and Director Problemas Project Assistant Development Review. I'm here before to present an applicant of Mayor Wu's downtown office to residential conversion program.
The proposed article Eighty Small Project is located at Fifteen Court Square in the downtown neighborhood of Boston and to present the proposed 121 B agreement to effectuate the downtown residential conversion incentive pilot program on June 19th, 2024 Court Square Equity
Partners LLC applied to Mayor WUS and the Planning Department's Downtown Residential Conversion Incentive Pilot Program based on planning department staff review under Article eighty and review under the pilot program the proponent has been selected to receive a pilot agreement.
The proponent Mirrorless Will upon approval by the PPTA board enter into a pilot agreement among the city of Boston and the PPTA if approved today the city and the EPA will provide the proposed project an average tax abatement of up to seventy five percent of the assessed residential value for a term
of twenty nine years in terms of which are consistent with the October board vote in order to comply with the rules and regulations under Massachusetts General General Chapter 121 b Section sixteen the EPA must take an interest in the project
site to effectuate that the EPA and the owner of Fifteen Court Square will enter into a deed agreement which conveys limited rights in the fifteen court square court square property. Additionally, the owner and the BBA will enter into and indemnification agreement to ensure the EPA does not have
liability on the property. >> Next slide please on November twenty six twenty twenty four the planning department received a small project review application from the proponent. The Planning Department hosted a virtual public meeting on December 16th twenty twenty four which was well attended
and well received. The public meeting was advertised in the local newspapers and a notice was posted on the planning department calendar and sent to the downtown neighborhood distribution list. The comment period ended on January 31st. Twenty twenty five and I'll now hand it over to Ted to speak to
the plan and context for their thank you Zoey. Good afternoon. Row House members of the board's Ted Schwartzberg, the assistant deputy director for playing review. As noted on the slide, the planning context for this project is planned downtown and the Office of Residential Conversion Program.
The project is located in the B10 General Business Zoning District and the restricted parking overlay and with that that concludes the staff presentation. The proponent team is available to answer any questions the board may have related to the project questions or comments
from the board. Um I know I just really excited for this to see another another development that is participating in the office to
residential conversion. >> Just super excited for that for that community community to be built there to activate all of the great businesses around there. >> So all right. If there are no other questions or comments, emotion is order
so moved second roll call for a vote. Miss Bennet I Mr Shepherd Dr. Landsmark. All right, Mr. O'Malley I and the Charcot's I mentioned pass this. Thank you. >> Good luck.
All right. Item number thirteen request authorization to approve the notice of project change in issue a certification of approval pursuant to Article eighty small project review of the zoning code for the proposed construction of 36 home ownership units including five IDP units and fourteen car
parking spaces located at 151 Street and to take all related actions quick Quinn Quinn. Thank you Madam Chair. Very efficient. Thank you Madam Chair.
Members of the Board of directors on the proposal before you is a notice of project change for the previously approved Article Eighty Small Project at 151 Liverpool Street East Boston. The proposed Project Change seeks to remove the below grade parking component the previously approved project. This will reduce the parking
count from thirty six to fourteen vehicle parking spaces while the project will remain approximately thirty nine thousand square foot residential building with thirty six condo units. The planning department held a public meeting for this expedited NBC at the request of District City Councilor Colletta on October 22nd twenty
twenty four the meeting was well attended and had been advertised online and in the local newspaper that concludes the presentation for this update out of the president is available if the board has any questions I thank you. >> Any questions or comments from the board or in the course
of the past or present? Oh so no there are no I'll open this is in a public hearing so we don't take any comments by we do receive comments that are submitted through through letters and and comments
through the agency. So unfortunately not for this but really quick totally breaking all the protocol but first I just learned about this meeting yesterday. I apologize. >> So you review all this stuff? Oh gosh yeah.
yeah yeah. We got well not binders full anymore but like PDF sculler so now thank you. >> All right. Uh OK where was I a comments or questions that were read OK um
hearing and seeing not a motion in order so moved second roll call for a vote Miss Bennet. Mr. Shepherd. Dr. Landsmark. Mr. O'Malley I and the chair votes I motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Right item number fourteen request authorization to enter
into an affordable housing agreement for the proposed creation of five IDP homeownership units located at two seventy nine Maverick Street and to take all related actions. >> Zoe, thank you and hello again madam Chair. Members of the board Secretary
Polhemus and Director Shen I am here before you this evening to present the small project alteration four to seventy nine Maverick Street originally approved in May twenty twenty two the article eighty small project is approved to include a new five storey mixed use building with ground floor
retail and 32 residential units five of which will be made affordable additionally twenty two vehicle parking spaces, thirty resident bike parking spaces and ten visitor bikes parking spaces will be provided. The project will also include streetscape improvements, new landscaping, sidewalk
improvements, pedestrian access in public realm upgrades providing a direct ostry connection from the Jeffery's Point neighborhood to the MTA Blue Line Airport station East Boston Memorial Park, Raymond Street Community Park and the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway. The project application has
been filed under expedited review procedures to this change from project from this change from a rental project to a condo ownership. No other changes are being proposed at this time. The notice of small project change was published to the Planning Department Web page and sent to the East Boston
neighborhood distribution list on February 27th under the expedited review procedures, a public meeting may be held a request from elected officials no public meeting was requested or held for the proposed change from rental to ownership. >> Thank you and that concludes the presentation for this project. Thank you.
Questions or comments from the board hearing and seeing not a emotion is an order so moved second real call for a vote. Miss Bennet, Mr. Shepard. Dr. Landsmark. Hi, Mr. O'Malley. I am the chair that I motion passes. >> Thank you and happy to see
additional affordable home ownership units so thank you to to the proponent item number fifteen request authorization to approve the notice of project change in issue of certification of approval pursuant to Article eighty Small Project Review of the zoning code for the proposed
reduction of parking spaces located at thirteen eighteen River Street and to take all related actions Ebonie good evening and thank you Madam Chair members of the board Madam Secretary and Director said My name is Ebony DeRosa and I'm a senior project manager for the Development Review Department.
We are here before you today to discuss a proposed thirteen eighteen River Street notice of Project Change. I thank you for your time today. Originally approved in December of twenty twenty one, the project is approved to include a new four story building with ground floor retail thirty
rental units thirty off street parking spaces and thirty bicycle parking spaces on February 4th twenty twenty five the small project change was filed under expedited review to reduce the number of parking spaces from thirty to twenty. No other changes to the project
will be made at this time. The filing initiated a public comment period that concluded on March sixth a public meeting was to be held upon request by public officials. No public meetings were requested or held for the proposed change from thirty to twenty parking spaces. Thank you and that concludes my
remarks. There will be no presentation this evening, however the proponents attorney is here to answer any questions that you may have. >> Thank you. Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? I do have a question and it kind of is this coupled with the one the gentleman was
asking about for when we have a notice of project change for reductions in parking spaces and things like that, can you talk a little bit about kind of what that evaluation process is like to assess whether or not that is a change that would
be appropriate so for this particular project it is steps away from the commuter rail and bus station. So I think that collectively we felt the reduction of parking spaces was warranted when this project was first under review.
Parking was a concern for the neighborhood mainly because if you're familiar with the area of Hyde Park, traffic is often a concern. But I think that we felt that because the proximity to the commuter rail bus stations that
it was the production was warranted. >> OK, thank you. Questions or comments from the board hearing and seeing that emotion is in order. So move something. We'll call for a vote has been Mr. Shepherd or Dr. Landsmark or Mr. O'Malley I and the chair
votes I motion passes. >> Thank Stephanie item number sixteen request authorization to issue a certification of approval pursuant to Article eighty of small project review of the zoning code for the proposed construction of approximately 5300 square
feet of retail retail market barn building and approximately five thousand three hundred fifty square feet retail market greenhouse and fifty car parking spaces located at two fifty nine Allendale Street and take all related actions still in.
>> Good evening Madam Chair. Members of the Board Chief Shen and Secretary Polhemus. My name is Dylan Norris. I'm a project assistant with the Development Review Division. I'm here to prevent present the proposed Article Eighty Small Project located at two fifty nine Allendale Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
>> The proposed project proposes to upgrade the farm's existing retail facilities and existing retail greenhouse in order to provide service around the project will not only improve the environmental sustainability of the project site and commercial structures but also provide open space with the opportunity for program seasonally appropriate
outdoor retail activities on January 17th twenty twenty five the BPI received a small project review application from the proponent. The BPA then hosted a virtual public meeting on February twenty fourth twenty twenty five which was well attended and well received.
The public meeting was advertised in local newspapers and a notice was posted on the BBC's calendar and sent to the Jamaica Plain distribution list. The comment period on this filing ended on March 3rd. >> Twenty twenty five. >> I will now turn it over to my colleague Alana Haimes to review the plan in context in which we reviewed the project.
>> Thank you. >> Thanks Don. Good evening. Aroha secretary polymaths members of the board and Director Sheyenne my name is on a Haimes and I'm covering for Alawi's as the planner assigned to this project. Next slide please.
The proposed project is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood District's Conservation Protection Sub District is also within the Greenbelt Protection Overlay District or God. The CPS zoning at 259 Allendale aims to promote desirable land
use and siting of development in areas with special special natural or scenic features. Zoning regulations for the subdistricts support these goals by requiring significant setbacks in deference to natural features on the site, the proposed project responds
to these subdistrict regulations the preservation of existing uses and limited lot coverage on site. >> Next slide please. >> Staff review of this project was guided primarily by Article eighty nine and the Comprehensive Farm Review Guidelines ground level farm
projects located in what are subject to comprehensive farm review regardless of project size for the Farm Review guidelines, a ground level farm refers to a farm located on the ground plain including row crops planted in the ground or raised beds.
Farm structures such as greenhouses, hydroponics, aquaponics, agriculture or other farm operations. The goal of Comprehensive Farm Review is to ensure sensitive siting and design of farms that operate amidst residential uses promoting good relations between residents, farmers and
agricultural operations at the appropriate neighborhood scale after broad approval and zoning Board of Appeals approval of the required zoning relief, the proposed project will continue in design review PPTA look at the Boston Planning Department that is an old line in my script.
Thank you and I will turn it over to the team to present the project in more detail thatthe thank you Chair Rojas and Mr. Director Shelton Board members. My name is Barry Fogel. I'm an attorney with Keagan
Worland. I'm here today with Helen Glotzer who is the CEO of Allendale Farm. We're pleased to present this project on Ellendale Street which is the front of the area ,the farm where the retail activities have been going on for many decades.
>> There's an old greenhouse and with a structure if can we change the slide there might be an image of that if we keep going there's probably easier to work off the images so
that's an aerial view that helps right there. Allendale Street the view on the left is looking west and the view on the right is looking from the northwest looking southeast that is a pond a farm pond that's behind the area where the greenhouse
is hoop greenhouse is in the retail activities went on. If you could go to the next slide that's the current view of it from Allendale Street. >> So those structures to the left behind those two cars is really where the retail sort of farm sales activities have
gone on. That stone wall will remain in place. There'll be landscaping added to that parking lot. It's not being increased to fifty eight parking spots. There's pretty much the same number but they're going to refinish that with stormwater improvements that are going to take place. So that'll be better markings
and the parking will be more efficient if you go to the next slide. That's the aerial view. That dark structure that looks like a staple is the building that's going to come down and the hoop greenhouses behind it in front the pond that's where
they're going to be two new buildings on the same footprint if you go to the next slide and that shows you on the left is the market barn on the right is a retail greenhouse and then there's much better improved spacing around the front of that and separation from the
parking so that the the farm's activities for staging mulch or Christmas trees or seasonal products can be away from where the pedestrians and visitors are. >> There are some that's the
Brooklyn municipal boundary on the left you can see that line running north south next slide . >> So that's the architectural design of the market barn and the green house on the right
from different elevations. It's going to sort of obviously capture and keep that same feeling of the farm but be much more attractive on the Allendale Street side know the Greenbelt overlay. It's going to it's going to maintain and enhance the scenic nature of the drive and the
next slide will give you the that's the elevation view of what it's going to look like. The project has proposed a improvement to the public realm through a crosswalk to bring pedestrians from the sidewalk that's on the south side
of Allendale Street across into the property and it's going to be much, much improved in that way. I can if you wanted to go to the original first slide, I think that would probably be the end of our comments. There's the one with the three
bars that the that one there. So we've listed here for you the construction cost estimate . We're really revitalizing in the same footprint about ten thousand six hundred and fifty square feet. It's going to create a significant number of construction jobs but also
makes it possible for the retail operation to be year round which makes more year round jobs for the for the folks working in that part of the farm. I mentioned the pedestrian crossing. Everything about improving this will enhance ADA access and the availability of products as I
say year round from a sustainability standpoint there will be solar on the roof of the market barn. There'll be EV charging stations for vehicles, much improved stormwater management and compliance with astep standards and no impacts to the
farm pond or the vegetated wetland to the east of that parking area. We can answer any questions you may have but we would appreciate your approval. >> Thank you. Thank you. Questions or comments from the board I'll start and this is
probably for Helen one of the things that I know my fellow board members and I take into consideration in evaluating projects are the impact Butters . So there's two very important director Butters who happen to be the two most popular people in Jamaica Plain or two to most
popular living animals in Jamaica Plain. >> Thank goodness of course I'm talking about no I'm kidding. I have to tell you I am so excited about this. >> I think you folks have the first development project in the history of Jamaica Plain that has one hundred percent support.
This is something we have all been waiting for. This will be so exciting and spent a long time I actually was a big fan the old market I'm glad to see something new. >> I know it's been tough but this is really exciting. I have a four year old we visit Curtis and Willard at least twice a week all year round.
So we're very excited to see this progress. >> And I guess my only question is how many TV spots are you planning on bringing in because this is probably the highest proportion of I think it's for for for yes. >> This is probably the only parking lot in Boston where
there's usually a majority VBS as opposed to true. It's true they'll be well utilized. Yeah. And similar Willard's barn is getting slightly relocated. I don't know if you could see it in that image but relocated and improved and therefore we hope they'll be better access to for visitors and one of the chickens coming back because we're probably not until we're
all the way through this but then understood because we were looking for Lilith and everyone else. Yeah, Andromache I know that's I've been going to Philadelphia since I was a kid since I was four years old. So I am so excited. >> Congratulations on it. Thank you so there are no
chickens that means their eggs no from our farm to soon because I want to know if the price eggs were up or down right well I've I've aged out of visiting Curtis and Willard but I also say that Alligator
Farm is a beloved institution and it's great to see this level of investment, you know, kind of commitment to the future of the farm. Many thanks and that's exactly I appreciate you saying that we are really hoping to have another 60 years plus is as good as the last have been.
>> Thank you for saying that. Yeah. You've been doing great work for decades and you're much beloved and I think everyone on the board is just thrilled to have the opportunity to support this work. Thank you very much.
It's wonderful to hear. Very much appreciated. OK, and again just echoing thank you and I'm just really glad that we have something like this as a part of our city's ecosystem and you know, not only for educating but also for just reconnecting to to
nature and farming and all the things that great things that you guys do so so thank you. Thank you and thanks for acknowledging that stewardship . We take it really seriously. So yeah, it's it's really core to everything and we do appreciate that this has been a wonderful process for us interacting with the various
city departments and just to feel that appreciation and support. >> So thank you all for that. Awesome cool. Well there no other further questions or comments. >> Emotion is in order so move oh oh huh representative oh OK sorry sorry.
>> Hold you guys he's got a busy agenda. >> Hi my name is Dawn I work for Enzo Webers is director of Policy and Communications. He apologizes for not being here. >> He's a district councilor. It's want to go on record in support of this proposal. As you've heard it's been loved project by many so it's want to
let you know that we support it and I thank you for taking the time to listen to me again. >> Thank you. OK, so moved second ago for a vote Miss Bennet I Mr Shepherd. Dr Landsmark oh Mr O'Malley I
and the chair votes I motion passes congratulations. Good luck. I just thank you for the staff work on this was extremely helpful Dillon and the other folks have been just great. >> Thank you I appreciate that feedback. Good job. Okey dokey.
Item number seventeen request authorization to approve the updated site plan as an exhibit to the First Amendment of the Olmstead Village. Smart Growth Development Plan presented to and approved by the Deepdale to August 15th twenty twenty four amending the
Smart Growth Development Plan for the Olmstead Village subdistrict pursuant to sections eighty seven dash eleven and revise and correct a Scribner's error in Section two of the First Amendment to the
development plan and to take all related actions quittin. >> Thank you Madam Chair Members of the Board Secretary please Mr. Director John Boehner before you is for an update to the board update for the board to a previously approved article a large project known as the village of Mattapan.
>> The project Associated Smart Growth Development Plan was originally approved by the board in February twenty three and subsequently amended through an approval at the August twenty twenty four board meeting due to a clerical error. The updated site plan as presented to the next I'd please the updated site plan as presented and approved was not
included in the first Amendment to the Dalven Plan Board approved record this update to the board will allow the site plan to be part of that officially approved board record. Additionally, as we are seeking to address this oversight it was found that there was also Scribner's error and what was presented to the board at that
August meeting. The Harvard Street building was incorrectly recorded as containing thirty six units rather than thirty four shown in the documentation. So that's corrected as well. That's really it for this presentation. But I'm here to answer any questions the board may have questions or comments from the board hearing and say none
of motion is an order so move second roll call for a vote. Miss Bennett, Mr Shepherd, Dr. Landsmark, Mr O'Malley and the chair votes I motion passes thanks Quinn. >> Thank you. Item number eighteen request authorization to issue a
certification of approval pursuant to Article Eighty Small Project Review of the Zoning Code for the proposed construction of forty eight fully affordable home ownership units. Thirteen car parking spaces. Forty eight bicycle parking spaces. Twelve square feet of retail space and approximately twenty
eight thousand square feet of public open space including a community garden located at seventy seven Terrace Street and seven seventy eight through seven ninety six Parker Street and to enter into a community benefits agreement and take all related actions.
>> Quinn thank you again madam Chairman of the Board Secretary famous director here before you to present the article eighty small project seventy seven Terrorist Readmission Hill the proposed projects located in the combined property 077 Terrace and seven seven eight three seven nine six Parker Street Odia Development
proposes to redevelop the site in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Housing and the Boston Department of Parks and Recreation by consolidating the eleven parcels within it and subsequently subdividing them into three parcels for three components of the overall project. The first is the construction of a five story building
containing forty eight income restricted home ownership residential units approximately two thousand square feet of ground floor retail and thirteen off street parking spaces upon it approximately twenty nine thousand square foot parcel the second the development of a public open space area for recreation on an approximately fifteen thousand
square foot parcel and a third is the development of a community garden upon an approximately twelve thousand square foot parcel, the proponent filed a small project review application for the proposed project on September 20th. Twenty twenty for the project hosted a public meeting on November 18th. Twenty twenty four after the comment period was extended.
The meeting was very well attended and supportive of the project and the iterations shown today and duly advertised in the local newspaper as well as circulated to the Planning Department's email list for the National neighborhood. This is also the project the councilor Durcan previously spoke in support now turn it
over to the Zoning Compliance Review before Delveccio to go over the planning context. Consider the review of the project before the proponent begins their presentation. >> Thank you. Thank you for that Quinn. Good evening Cheruiyot Secretary Limas members of the board and Director Chen. My name is for Delveccio and
I'm the planner assigned to this project. The proposed project spans combined properties seventy seven Terror Street and 778 to 796 Parker Street in the Mission Whole Neighborhood the component at seventy seven Terrace Street falls within a local industrial zoning subdistrict and will include forty four affordable homeownership homeownership
condominium units and two thousand seven hundred four square feet of ground floor retail space 778 to 796 Park Street located at 3F three thousand zoning subdistrict or will be reserved for open space use specifically 778 and up to seven 86 Parker Street will
become a community garden also in ninety seven ninety six Terror Street will provide an existing well preserved and existing park and urban wild. This layout reflects the fact that this project straddles two zoning districts that share a combined planning context. This will help to bridge the gap between Terrace Street and Park Street. The Park Street context
consists consist primarily of three and four storey residential buildings while territory is evolving mix of multifamily residential, commercial and retail uses proposed project is well served by transit with service provided by the Mehta's Roxbury Crossing Orange Line station as well as the nineteen twenty two
and sixty six bus routes. Next slide please developed in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Housing and the Boston Department of Parks and Recreation on public land. The project aims to set a positive precedent for the evolving residential corridor along territory. Notably all residential units in the new building will be
encumbers in the proposed project will deliver open space and a mixed use development that was carefully scaled and designed to align with Mission Hills neighborhoods needs and shaping the building design. Particular attention was given to the surrounding built environment ensuring the structure complements both both of the street frontages of the site.
>> Thank you and I will now turn over to the development team presenting more detailed good you madam in the board. This is an exciting one to be able to present. My name is Kevin Maguire. I'm one of the members of OJ and Jonathan Garland who is the
founder of J.A.G. is also a development partner on this particular project. This is a collection of eleven city of Boston parcels which have been vacant for about 40 years. It is I believe we are the
fourth team to be designated to try and take this project on. >> It was the terror street. If you go back to the early eighteen hundreds it was the Union Brewery which was collapsed in place. The neighborhood suffered a tremendous amount of disinvestment through the
fifties, sixties and seventies and just now particularly the terror street corridor is about to come roaring back. I think there's about 300 units of already permitted market residential units. So part of our objective here
is to working with a lot different city agencies. This is one 100 percent public project so large department it's the planning staff. It certainly mayor's office of Housing and part of our objective is to bring ownership's housing but it's also to try and plant a seed
for the infrastructure in converting an industrial street or industrial neighborhood into a residential neighborhood. >> So if you will quickly quickly run through the slides so maybe next slide these are
the existing conditions again, bottom right is Parker Street. >> I'm sorry Terrace Street. It's about a 20 foot wide to two way street. The sidewalks are about five feet wide, you know, which is which is industrial scale not
necessarily ready for pedestrians or families to be traversing the bottom left slide shows again that same sidewalk condition also what a new five storey condominium building that was recently built to the left. The upper slide is actually
Parker Street which is the old workforce neighborhood, very much of a student neighborhood but also an ownership neighborhood at the top of the hill. >> Next slide. >> So Jonathan, I'm going to let you I'm let you come and take us through here.
So there's a there's a tremendous grade range and we can go through this quickly. You're probably unless you want to stop me on the details of it. You know, there's about a 40 foot grade change between Terrace Street and Parker Street. So mitigating the grades dealing with some of the
retaining walls are some of the challenges that are inherent in the project. Next slide here you see the the different uses. So again, combining eleven parcels, creating you know, building the different infrastructure, the open space, the community garden and then
ultimately the residential housing and then subdividing it all out when all is said and done we will have no interest in the property. The open space parcel will be will be transferred over to the Parks Department.
The community garden will be transferred to the trustees of the reservation trustees for administering the community garden and ultimately the development will 48 homeowners who we will work with to formally formulate their association but they ultimately
will be the owners in the property next slide interested in going through all the specifics of the building? Yep. OK, Jonathan go ahead.
I'll let you go. >> I'll make it quick. Good afternoon everyone. Madam Chairman Members of the board Secretary Polhemus and directors and so this is the ground floor plan. One of the things you may have seen on the previous site section is that the project negotiates about thirty 35 foot
grade change from terrorists at the low end Parker at the high end. So you're sort of seeing Earth natural earth at the northern end of this map down at the south working up there's about a 2000 square foot block of commercial space along terraced street and then we
also have the residential lobby . We have some other service spaces, trash rooms, bike rooms ,things like that at this floor. Next slide is sort of seeing two plans on the on this spread
but to the left is thirteen parking spaces that are effectively at the second floor . It's kind of a mid level within that terracing grade change and then we're also creating opportunities for some home ownership units that would look out along terraced street. So it's a partial parking
partial living floor and then we have more of a typical floor plate on the right hand side. Next slide elevations as as was mentioned, we are trying to work within the character of the neighborhood so we have
a building that modulates scale between the Mississippi building on the left and sort of the above brick color as well as some three and four building you know, story building stock in Mission Hill on the right within our elevation you can see the ground level commercial space which will have vibrant active
transparency and glazing and then a series of punch windows for the building, the residential building next slide . This is sort of a vignette from Terrace Street. You're seeing the existing building context to the right
inside and then our building how it sort of weaves in to the neighboring context and we're looking at a fiber cement material in the gray in the gray as well as some accent warm wood tones that sort of emulate residential bay windows. Excellent.
This is an opposite angle view still a long terraced street looking northbound toward the city. The Mississippi building on the left and then you're seeing our building in the in the context there aside from the building we're also proposing to enhance the public realm with new
street trees both along Terrace and within the site like excellent. >> This is more of a straight shot where hopefully you get more of the character of the building. It will be pacified certified which is something we're really excited about.
So a nice tight envelope, great daylight and views that bring light into the into the units and you're seeing the balance between living rooms and bedrooms with the window arrangement and then right there in the foreground is more of a residential open space that helps to negotiate between
the public realm and a space for residents where they can feel private and outdoor enjoy some outdoor space next slide as far as some of the landscape concepts, this is up at the higher end of the site along
Parker you can see the open space concepts. It really is meant to be very passive in nature and something that really embraces the natural setting. We're looking to retain a number of the existing mature trees on the site and really work within the topography but
also capture unique moments like an overlook to Fort Hill given our elevation and great views out out to Fort Hill next . And then this is a view of the upper level along Parker Street where we're able to change from
a five story building on Terrace to more of a three storey building on Parker and that's part of that 35 foot great change between high to low. We're taking this shot within the context of the community garden. This is something that was really applauded by the Mission
Hill neighborhood to sort of extend this idea of urban farming and fresh produce in the neighborhood. So this is really like a housing plus project for us in terms of the open space component. Next slide and then finally I won't read through these but
we're really excited to bring this a number of benefits to the project not just housing but also jobs, community benefits and sustainability as we mentioned. Thank you. >> OK, great. Thank you. Questions or comments from the board?
>> Yes, through the chair. I definitely like the design know that Street was always very dark tight industrial street and just to see like the offset of the building a little bit so you don't feel the
encroachment too much on the sidewalk because it was a very our sidewalks both sides it's a two way street that could have been a one way in the sense you know and then I'm glad that I remember from the last developer that was developing this project they implemented
the garden as well and I'm glad to see that that was kept. Yeah. So I definitely like the project. I think it'd be a nice addition to the Mission Hill Street area so thanks. I do I do commend you guys on your efforts so thank you.
Thank you. It's great to see all affordable home ownership. This is our second project tonight that's one hundred percent affordable home ownership and it's really heartening to see. >> Thank you. Thank you. What kind of commercial
activity you envision there on terror street still in conversation we're looking at various nonprofit mission driven organizations. I think in many respects we likely have ruled out food and beverage or retail.
We just don't think the visibility along Terrace Street would be suitable. But we are working hard to work within folks that are in the neighborhood and have sort of a mission driven component and understanding that terrace is a street that doesn't have much on street parking.
So we just want to make sure that the use is conducive to making sure their successful over the long term through the chair it is and you know in the in the area a lot of artsy you know, people joining some type of thing down there.
But to your discretion, thank you for the additional questions or comments again, connection to community, connection to the earth reconnection. You know Kanta more important now than more than ever. >> Right.
OK, so there are no other further questions or comments motion is in order. So moved second roll call for a vote. Miss Bennett, Mr. Shepherd, Dr. Landsmark, Mr. O'Malley and the triplets I motion passes. Thanks so much.
>> Good luck. So much to care three to one. Yeah. >> Item number nineteen request authorization issue is scoping determination awaiting further review pursuant to article eighty B of the zoning code for
the proposed construction of a mixed use Lifesciences building ground floor commercial commercial space and one hundred and twenty two car parking spaces located at seventeen Bradstone Street and to execute a cooperation agreement and take all related actions.
Ebonie thank you again Madam Chair members of the Board Madam Secretary and Director Shen we are here before you today to discuss the proposed seventeen Bradstone Shourie project. I thank you for your time today. The proposed project consists
of the construction of a zoning compliant eight storey mixed use commercial life sciences and light industrial building which will be topped with a mechanical Pintos. The building will contain approximately two hundred and seventy thousand square feet of gross floor area and will
include approximately one hundred and twenty two off street accessory parking spaces . The project notification form was filed on November 2nd. Twenty twenty one IJI meetings were held on December 14th twenty twenty one and January 5th twenty twenty two and
public meeting was held on January 11th twenty twenty two on January twenty fourth twenty twenty five the proponent submitted a project update detailing final design changes to the proposed project in additional details on the proposed projects strategies for transportation and
mitigation a joint IAG and Public meeting was held on March 5th regarding the updated materials at this time I am happy to turn it over to Ted Schwartzberg from the planning team to discuss the plan context for the project
followed by a presentation from the development team. >> Thank you. Thank you of any next slide please. Good afternoon Chair House members of the board I presented Plan Newmarket to you in August twenty twenty three you adopted the plan at the
time and then subsequently zoning was adopted by the board and the zoning commission in early twenty twenty four as you may recall the plan identifies new market as a vital industrial area of Boston that should have its key industrial uses preserved and enhanced in the zoning map on the right
starting at the east on the right side closest to the regional highway network is the core industrial zone where zoning, zoning regulation are tailored to traditional industrial uses including distribution and food related businesses to the south on the edge of Roxbury in Dorchester
is the nascent creative industrial or arts industrial zone and finally zooming to the edge of New market that is closest to the south and is the gateway industrial zone at the top of this map. >> And we'll zoom in on the next slide please. >> In this area zoning
dimensions and uses our most permissive seeking to code for the industrial neighborhood tomorrow. That's a place where cutting edge research takes place under the same roof as industrial uses that planners can't even conceive of today. And this is the subdistrict where Seventeen Bradstone is
located. Staff are pleased to report to the board that seventeen Bradstone Street exemplify all of these attributes and its adherence to the new zoning regulations that were implemented last year as part of the recent planning process on that note, I'll turn it over to the proponents to present their proposal in more detail.
>> Thank you. Thank you very much Ebonie and Ted. I'm Don Wheezed with the Boston firm of Dave Torpey here on behalf of the project proponent City Realty good afternoon, Madam Chair.
Members of the board Secretary Polhemus Director Shen before. >> Well first let me start up Socity Realty is represented by Josh Faderman here today. In a moment I'll turn the presentation over to our design lead Jim rootstock from Umbach
before doing so I'd like to direct the board to the fact that this project is almost uniquely location sensitive and to highlight three ways in which the project successfully responded to that location.
The first issue is one of use. This is a predominantly Lifesciences project and we all know that this is a use that very strongly cluster's famously was a cluster of Lifesciences uses a Kendall Square in Cambridge embossed with the LMA where the seaport there's also a cluster around
Boston Medical Center surrounding health care research uses etc. That's an enormous strength of the project. That proximity at the same time the project site is across the highway connector within the Newmarket region and this is the heart of the city's
distribution construction related industries. And so this project unusually combines Lifesciences office use upstairs with High Bay industrial space on the ground floor the second way in which the project has responded to this unique site is in design.
We made a representation early on to the neighborhood we we knew we at a very visually prominent site that jumps out on the cover as you mature and we pledge to respond to that with a really striking building with very high quality architecture. We can't take all the credit for that.
We work closely with the planning staff Ted and his colleagues and also with urban design staff and Maqdisi. But the end result is a very handsome building we feel really meets the moment here at this prominent corner and then finally location wise, this is a part of town that has had a
tough go in recent years. It can use a shot in the arm with some new investment and we've been gratified to have a very successful partnership with the Newmarket Business Association. Sue Sullivan in particular our lead partner there. We've also been gratified
there's been a lot of outreach by even kind of more far flung residential neighbors in the area have been very supportive of the project. We've had good attempts at meetings and so the partnership around the project's been very successful. Finally we would be remiss if we did not thank our
exceedingly professional project manager Ebony DeRosa. Ebony, thank you so much for all your work the project. With that I'll turn over the presentation to Jim rootstock of Mark. Thank you. Evening Madam Chair Secretary
Chen and members of the board as represented here the project is at the corner of Branston and Southhampton at the entrance to the Newmarket Gateway Industrial District. The project consists of an eight storey building with six
stories of lab office space over two High Bay industrial spaces with two underground garage levels below that next slide please. As we said, the this just shows the context of the site itself located at the Gateway
Industrial District and it gives a glimpse at some of the existing buildings and contacts around the site. Next slide this shows the context of the building itself not only is a member of the new
market industrial district with the off to the right and above the sheet but also its proximity to Boston Medical Center in the yellow towards the left of the slide gives you an idea of the height and scale of the building and how the building will act as a gateway to the district itself in the future.
Next slide just a brief glimpse at the circulation studies have been done throughout the site showing not only the pedestrian access to and from the site up and down Masab for instance from the medical center but also some of the vehicular and
loading access to the building to the underground garage spaces and a dedicated loading dock area to the rear of the site. >> Exide next few slides are really the landscape the public realm aspects of the project
where we work together closely with the new market guidelines to produce and incorporate a landscape design that takes advantage of not only the regulations to help mitigate the heat island effect in the building which is in the site which is predominantly just paved areas and industrial
complexes. But by utilizing tree canopies vegetated vegetated areas, plazas, sidewalk trees, et cetera to really incorporate the building into the site. As you can see here next slide
a little more detailed site plan that shows the integration of components to help with the heat will effect cool cool paintings by retention areas stormwater drainage, stormwater planters that are in and around
the site along with the 15 percent tree. Can it be aspect of the site itself which currently really only has one or two trees? >> Next slide please. >> More detailed view of the landscape and the entry plaza
off of Southhampton Street. The building has been oriented so that the main entrance to the building faces not only Southhampton but the main intersection that Masab Connector and Southhampton the building is also located in a flood resiliency district so
the first floor of the building is approximately two feet higher than the sidewalk which allowed us to create a an entry plaza that not only faces the intersection and welcomes people to the site but creates an interesting element where we
can incorporate and integrate the trees, accessible entrances and outdoor plaza that can be used for in and out of the building itself but also as a welcoming aspect to the building and it also allows us to create a few sculptural
elements in and around the ramps and so forth that you're seeing at the top of the slide predominantly like a concrete or precast element that creates a sculpture element and creates a nice welcoming aspect to the building itself next slide please.
This slide just very quickly shows that the floor elevation change from the sidewalk to the first floor being approximately two foot higher gives you an idea of the scale of the building the opportunity to set the building a little bit back on the sidewalk and allow for
sidewalk trees all up and down not only Southhampton but where showing here on Bradstone Street as well and incorporation of a blue bike station as well. Next slide please. The next few slides are some visuals of the building itself.
This is similar to the slide you saw earlier showing the building and how it sits at the gateway to the industrial district. Again, it's an eight storey building with the penthouse up above and it sits at the corner of Southampton and Bratt's and so it's kind of a welcoming gatepost to the community to
that district itself. And as you can see to the left of the slide, the Boston Medical Center and some future developments that have already been approved along Albany Street etc.. Next slide, please. This gives you an idea from
essentially Melnik looking back towards the entrance of the building gives you a good idea of how the building is oriented and how it is oriented towards that intersection in a welcoming manner so that the lobby entrance is directly off of that. So it takes advantage of the circulation passing around the
neighborhood and faces on to and welcomes to the neighborhood in the district. It also shows the integration of the materials as well. The District itself is predominantly brick low slung buildings so the industrial
nature of the building the first two floors of the High Bay Industrial Base are represented. You'll see this in the coming slides is represented a brick interpretation of the building while the rest of the building kind of speaks to a modern industrial take of the building
itself by its nature of metal panels, glass etc. and extending all the way up to the the penthouse level as well. Next slide please. This gives you a good depiction of the entrance in the plaza
itself so you can see to the left the brick announcing the industrial spaces, the first two floors and then the metal and glass elements of the building extending up from there and kind of technology driven design of the building.
So to welching the aspect to the plaza itself when the number of trees plant the areas in outdoor seating areas and sculptural elements as well. Welcome into the the main lobby serving the building. But you can also see on the
second floor some indication of the industrial spaces that can be located on those levels. So it's very open and very inviting to the the public. Next slide please. >> This is a view across the
massive connector and bradstone street looking towards the building and again you will see the industrial base of the building, the parking garage entrance and you can just see the alley leading back towards the private loading dock area. The dock area I should mention has been designed so that its
front end only trucks so whether it be a box truck or trailer truck, they will drive in the front, unload on the loading and come out to the front so there's no disruption or minimal disruption to the street traffic itself. >> Next slide a view across
Southampton Street looking at the building and the car wash next door again. Most of the slides depict the the brick base of the building representing the the neighborhood district itself and how the building tends to step down a little bit toward
towards the neighborhood in the second slide I'll speak faster. Another view this is a close in view of the plaza along Southhampton Street and leading to the plaza the element and the industrial component of the building. >> Next slide please.
A view from further down on Southampton Street looking back towards the medical center and the building itself and you'll see how the building steps down a little bit at the top you'll see an opening an open terrace area for the tenants within the building to take advantage of next slide please. A brief indication of the
facade materials, the height of the building again as Don said, it's a as of right building eight storeys one hundred and forty feet tall brick at the bottom metal and glass at top for the lab and office spaces. Next slide just gives you an
idea of the overall scale and section through the building. Next slide please. The building will design with a green building approach with any energy efficient design treat working towards achieving
LEED gold sort of viability as well as meeting all the climate resiliency requirements from the city and the planning department next. Again, just further information on the climate resiliency
design aspects of the building . Next slide please and just a brief summary of some of the community benefits that have been worked together with the city and if there's any questions I'm sure we can would be happy to answer. >> Thank you very much. I made it all right.
Thank you. >> Questions or comments from the board what your completion date. Hello. Josh Futterman with Citi Realty, thank you for having us tonight. Right now we're tracking a
start of about eighteen months eighteen to twenty more twenty four months from now and expect a kind of ramp up preconstruction and build time just over two years. So that's putting us out about four to five years from now.
>> Yes, through the chair we are fortunate to live in Boston the greater Boston where lifescience has been booming for ten to fifteen years but at the present moment I myself and correct me if I'm mistaken sea life science buildings have
been a little saturated. We have a lot of corn shell buildings with no tenants. Do you have an anchor tenant proposed maybe for this project ? No, not yet. It's been a lengthy process working with the planning department and the neighborhood
and community groups so now at this stage we'll move towards both marketing and our construction document but luckily in this area and the adjacency to the medical center we see not it may not be your traditional lab tenant where
there's a great opportunity for medical support research and just having the flexibility of being in the commercial district where we're hopeful to find good anchor tenants here and yes, we have the best colleges, the best hospitals in Greater Boston definitely.
And I think also on a very positive note, I think it would be a great gateway to the area and it could be the the more in the beginning to much needed change for the area. So I hope all goes well. >> Thank you.
I do have a couple of questions so as it's a life sciences building, can you speak a little bit to kind of the types of accommodations and things that you have to make because it is a life sciences building and go into a little bit
of what level of lab and all of that stuff that you're planning? >> OK, if I understand the question correctly, the the building is designed so it's no more than a bio safety level lab and the building itself as
far as accommodations for the laboratory, those of you who are aware of laboratories, the hospitals, they have a great deal of equipment on the roof typically and a great deal equipment on the first floor. So the equipment is spread throughout the building to serve the tenants themselves.
So at the roof level is a small penthouse enclosure up there as well as rooftop exposed equipment as well that would be screened by the screen wall. So it's incorporated throughout the building at every level quite complicated I guess. >> Yes, absolutely.
Yeah, I think I'm not sure how how the community process went but I do know that a lot of a lot of neighborhoods are kind of wary of life sciences buildings. You know, next to them. So just encourage you to keep
in contact with the community should this be approved and you know and it's just education, right? Give people assurances and to understand like who their new neighbors are going to be and what are what are the risks. But that's been really important.
We've been asking a lot of the developers to do so. >> Great point one last question which I'll probably embarrass myself in and from my colleague here. >> But what iron spot brick oh
it's actually a black brick with a little fleck in it. OK, so it's almost like metallic ok I was it but it's still brick. >> Oh yeah it's still brick and it's used quite quite a bit in Boston OK and the iron is just the color that's the iron the iron part it's like iron
particles it gives a little fleck to it that's all. >> I'm just curious it's really nice looking. Yeah. All right. Any further questions or comments hearing and seeing not emotion as in order so move second floor for a vote. >> Miss Bennett.
Mr Shepard. Dr. Landsmark. All right, Mr O'Malley, I and the chair I motion passes. Thank you. All right. We're going to take a five minute break before we start our public hearing so we'll see
you all at the forty five mark
Dash five of the Boston zoning code to consider the proposed twenty twenty five through twenty thirty five Harvard University Austin Campus Institutional Master Plan. This hearing was duly advertised on February 25th. Twenty twenty five in the Boston Herald.
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allowed a period of five to ten minutes for rebuttal if they so desire and will now begin the presentation. >> Thank you Madam Chair. Members of the board secretary Mr. Director post before use the post ten years through to Master Plan for Harvard University's Allston campus
propose I include six proposed institutional projects are pips totaling approximately seven hundred twenty thousand square feet of new construction and approximate hundred forty thousand square feet of renovation. Three of the pips are being carried over from the previous IP while three are new to this AM.
The Harvard team can tell you more about those as they begin the presentation but one as a kitten facility. The other two are both athletics facilities. The IMP is a company by significant mitigation package. The committee benefits package highlighted by ongoing operations of the Harvard Med portal Ice Time opportunities
for local youth hockey teams. A study to evaluate future opportunities for Harvard to provide land for affordable housing as they did with the sixty five Seattle street project that we heard earlier tonight support for parks and open space in the neighborhood and funding for ongoing operations of the Harvard Partnership Fund which provides
ten thousand dollars per year grants to community groups that the support will be reviewing later on tonight as well. >> Six joint Task Force and public meetings were held by the Boston Planning Department between January twenty twenty four and March of twenty twenty five were all advertised online
in local newspapers and well attended. I want to thank our team here at the Planning Department members of the Harvard Alston Task Force, some of whom are here tonight and note that accounts Braden's office is also in support has been involved in review of this project and thank them all for
their time and efforts. I'll now turn it over to my colleague Michelle Yee to review the plan in context. Consider in the review of this project and we'll head up the Harvard team. >> Thank you. Thank you, Quinn. Good evening, Tara. Secretary William S. members of the board and director my
name Michali and I in the Planning Review Team Plan are assigned to this project and next slide please the proposed twenty twenty five the twenty thirty five institutional master Plan or Empy for short where the Harvard University Alston campus sits near several
ongoing planning initiatives that will shape the surrounding area different scales for example as part of the replacement the Ninety Interchange the Beacon Parkade Regional Framework Plan will have a regional impact while the ongoing all Siembra and community plan will influence the neighborhood level. Additionally, the projects
under article Eighty review will bring changes on a local scale alongside the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus or Ursy District in Greenway Plan Selectees planning initiatives will guide growth in the neighborhood and the surrounding area working with the community to establish a shared vision and key
priorities. Next slide please. As mentioned earlier, this area has seen numerous planning initiatives over time to help visualize this map highlights of various planning efforts with the imperia marked in red as a campus person a twenty
twenty five the twenty thirty five Impey is important to continue to consider these planning initiatives to ensure alignment and coordination. Thank you and I'll turn it over to the university's team to present the project in more detail. Thank you both and good evening
Madam Chair Board Members Secretary Polymaths and Director said my name is Mark Handly. I'm delighted to be here tonight on behalf of Harvard University to overview very briefly our ten year IAP proposal and also hand in hand
with our ten year AP proposal our proposal for community benefits attached to that ten year period we will get now straight into the planning. I will be back to talk about benefits after this part of the presentation and then we'll look forward to your questions and thank you so much and thank
you to my two task force members who also are present here not to mention the staff who has gotten us this far. We really appreciate it. Alexander Aveion is the director planning services at Harvard. >> Thanks and good evening,
Madam Chair. Members of the board, Madam Secretary and Director Shen Alexandra Appian from Harvard University Planning and Design and I'm delighted to be here to present the Allston campus AM for Harvard University. >> So this is a campus with a very long history.
>> It began with a land gift from Henry was worth Longfellow in 1870 and the construction of the Harvard Stadium back in 1933. Since that time the campus has been evolving and is today a dynamic, multifaceted campus
that hosts a range of uses. First and foremost it's a hub of teaching and learning. It's home to Harvard Business School and the science and engineering complex. It's a place of innovation with the eLab and the life lab. It's athletic facilities support more than 40 Division
One intercollegiate sports teams. >> It's also a place of arts and culture with the art lab as well as the future home of the American Repertory Theater and finally it's a place to live. >> It's a residential campus with more than seventeen hundred units of housing for
affiliates with more in the pipeline. >> So to orient you briefly geographically you can see the ice, the imperia outlined in the black hat line and this is a campus that is bounded roughly on three sides by the
Charles River and the Soldiers and Soldiers Field Road. >> It's bisected by two main streets North Harvard Street and Western Avenue and you can see all of the range of uses that I just alluded to are in the color coding. So it's a it's a very dynamic campus.
>> Next slide, please. >> So the EMP has been guided by campus planning principles that Harvard has established in order to ensure that all of our planning and design decisions align not only with the university's larger goals but
also the neighborhood planning context and the city's regulatory context. >> So these principles include things such as respecting community context, fostering a welcoming campus, respecting
campus character, strengthening the connectivity within the campus, preserving open space, strengthening sustainability and being a good steward to our campus. >> Next please.
>> So the AP reports on a number of key planning issues to ensure that we are taking a comprehensive and an integrated approach to our campus planning . >> I'll give you just a few highlights. Open space for example is a we have an extensive open space
network on campus and in the Empy we did an analysis and an inventory of that network. We looked at campus accessibility and we reported on how we are managing responsibly our our tree inventory of more than 2500
campus trees in terms of mobility we reported on a lot of our transportation and programs, infrastructure and overall approach including many recent investments in sustainable transportation for
pedestrians, bikes and shuttles. >> We reported on our robust commuter choice program that that incentivizes sustained while commuting to campus as well as all the coordination we are doing with the all of the
ongoing transportation planning in the area in terms of sustainability. >> Halvard University is guided by the sustainability action Plan which has laid out the priorities and vision and goals that the university is taking
to address climate equity and health. >> So the overarching goal at Harvard is pursuing is to be fossil fuel neutral by 2020 and fossil fuel free by 2050. And we've we talked a lot about
the many, many efforts that are going into meeting those goals everything from the electrification of the shuttle fleet to the sustainable building standards to our onsite renewable energy Exline
So this is a view that shows the longer term vision of the Harvard Austin campus which we thought was important to create to ensure that the 10 year pips align with the future patterns of development and the framework for our campus
systems. So there is a lot of analysis that goes behind this. But I think just to explain this slide you can see the existing buildings are shown in white whereas the pips are shown in the red or the dark pink and the lighter pink
expresses the vision of a fully built out campus. It's very pale on the screen but that is that is the future the vision for future development. Next slide. But getting back to the ten
year plan, you can see the six pips that are highlighted in this plan. >> The first three of them were previously approved in the twenty thirteen Empy but were not built number one on the map is a Harvard Business School new building.
It's a new faculty and administration office building that's proposed as a three story building about one hundred and ten thousand square feet and it would be designed to fit within the scale and character of the campus area number two is the Gateway
Project. >> This is located right where the campus and buries corner meet. >> It's a 300000 square foot building, a mixed use with an active ground floor and with institutional uses above intended to be a nine storey building that steps down to six
stories and the final carry over project is number three Harvard Stadium renovation and additions. >> This is a project that would restore and respect the historic structure and it would bring the building up to code in terms of current athletic standards as well as visitors
standards. So we also we also have three newly proposed Pep's two of which are in the Harvard athletics campus area number four on the map is a tennis and squash racket center. This is envisioned as a two
hundred thousand square foot building that provides year round courts and would replace an existing tennis pavilion. >> Number five on the map a just adjacent that is a new athletic support building for women's rugby at Mignone Field.
This is envisioned as a twenty to thirty thousand square foot building and would also would provide athletic and spectator support uses in the final project is number six. It is a project to support the
Crimson Catering operation. It's a about a ninety five hundred square foot change of use and interior renovation within the rear portion of the building at one sixty eight Western Avenue. This is a building that has the Swiss Speakers Cafe at the front which would remain in
place and not be affected by the project at the rear Exline . So this is the same perspective that we saw before but looking at just the ten year pips in
the context of the existing the existing neighborhood and you can see that the Gateway project is the most public facing of of the projects given its location right in various corner and the the three other buildings, new buildings that
are proposed the two and athletics the one at HBS they are all they are the three of them are located a bit interior to the campus farther away from the public realm through our discussions and meetings with the planning department and with the DC, we
are looking forward to exploring in more detail the urban design and public realm and connections to the campus systems as we as part of the future article eighty being
eighty processes slide so because the Gateway project is so public facing we did respond to requests to undertake some additional analysis for this project in particular and really to study the urban
design relationship to its context in particular the adjacent grove open space as well as the future home of the American Repertory Theater in the Gold Center which is right across North Harvard Street. And the vision is that the
ground floor uses are publicly activated publicly accessible and really support a vibrant public realm. >> The Empy also proposes three minor MUP amendments No one on
the on the map is the addition of the site at one sixty eight Western Avenue and that accommodates the Crimson Catering Project. The second one is some technical adjustments surrounding the district energy facility and the third one is the redesignation of the Green
Way to remove it from the Impey area. >> So that concludes the highlights of the Empy and I will turn it back to markedly so board members hand in glove
with Harvard's AMPE has also been a ten year commitment related to our previous S&P for community benefits. >> And as we started this process back in February with our NPF filing we sought to make the very clear point that
we are now riding the coattails of 10 very successful years and even longer related to delivering high quality cutting edge community benefits to the Allston Brighton community. So as we started this process now just over a year ago we tried to express as clearly as
we could our goal to maintain that impact in those high quality benefits directly to Allston Brighton residents and in the same way that RCMP establishes a really high degree of planning continuity with the previous S&P, we
wanted to do the same with our community benefits. We need to maintain flexibility as we deliver programs through program areas especially at the Harvard edX portal and we've also really benefited from our annual reporting on all of our cooperation agreements once a
year in a public filing that's posted on the public website where we track all of our cooperation agreements in report year by year on the progress. Next slide please. >> So is that as it relates to
this? I am happy that we're headed into now our goal was to maintain a lot of our impact and our goal was also to make sure that the benefits that Harvard delivers are not for the most part tied into the
projects that might come out of planning and into proposal at some point over the ten years. Instead we want to make sure that many of our benefits including at the ED Portal are fixed to the ten year term of the S&P to reduce the amount
of tension in the waiting for projects to come out to support benefits. So our benefits generally speaking with some exceptions like linkage are attached to the term of the S&P and not to projects which may or may not come out of planning and into proposal. >> I've mentioned a number
of times the Harvard edX portal so it was over over fifteen years ago Harvard covid along with our elected officials and our community members including our task force, many of those elected officials who are still
with us representing us. We had this big idea for an ed portal to connect Harvard College students with local kids and by the time our previous ISP was approved we were all in agreement at that edX portal would be blown out into multiple multiple program
areas for lifelong learners from eight years old to eight. And in fact we're serving people outside of those age ranges as well at this point Harvard has agreed to fund in a continued way the Allston Brighton Home Ownership Program
where we work with our local CDC to purchase houses market rate did restrict them and sell them as permanent owner occupancy units. >> Harvard has agreed to fund a feasibility analysis of Harvard owned parcels in Allston,
Brighton for consideration into assess our ability to create new home ownership in those places. Quinn mentioned the Harvard Olsten Partnership Fund which you'll hear next on the agenda. We are now almost into year one of ten for that exciting
benefit ice time an incredible upgrade for the Reader's Digest community room at the home in Austin Library. We're supporting athletics and fitness and civic affairs at public schools. We're going to continue our access across our campus to the
community and the amazing maintenance that's done. Ramallo Park, especially a park that Harvard donated paid for the donation design and construction of and we continue to maintain immediately behind the public library on north our North Halvard Street in
significant funding for known capital projects in north Austin most especially Robert's Playground which is in the Wyndham Hopedale Seattle Street neighborhood and potentially also at other parks as the city Parks Department identifies
capital needs. Those are the highlights of our benefits. We also look forward to continuing comprehensive reporting on benefits to keep track of all the things that are going on and obviously our continued partnership with our local elected officials, our Harvard Alston task Force and
again great thanks to all of those stakeholders and all of the BPP staff for their support so far in this process. >> Thank you. Thank you. OK, so this is a public hearing so we're going to go to public testimony first.
So if you would like to say something for two minutes you can come to the podium right now. I'm Cindy Machado, chair of the Harvard Alstrom Task Force. We collaborated over year 14
months with Harvard PPD community members, elected representatives on the state and city level all while our mayor will work behind the scenes to foster a collaborative spirit among all stakeholders. So as we move forward I want to
reaffirm that our vision for this community has not changed . We remain committed to fostering collaboration, innovation and growth. We all are welcome. We've recognized the challenges that lie ahead and we understand the impact that these uncertain times are
having on our organization's neighborhood and families. >> We will I will continue to work hand in hand embrace and opportunities that lie ahead while sensitive to everyone needs paving the way for a brighter, more inclusive
tomorrow. I'm proud to say to have adults and task force all the members and I support the Havertown. >> Thank you again. Good evening Madam Chair.
Members of the Board Secretary please. Mr Chen my name is this evening . I speak to you not as a member of the Harvard Ostende Task Force but as president of the Austin Civic Association. I want to take this opportunity to thank covid the city
of Boston elected officials, my colleagues on the task force and most importantly those who live and work in Austin for a very constructive dialog over the past 14 months focused on the responsibilities and expectations of an institution
who owns one third of the land in our community. I would be remiss in not acknowledging my task force colleagues who negotiated a ten year I Impey approved in 2013 with benefits totaling forty three million dollars and included support for public
rowman improvements. The Harvard Portal Housing Stabilization Grants to neighborhood nonprofits the cost of housing is tearing away at the very fabric of our community. It produces winners and losers.
The losers predominantly low and moderate income families face profound life altering decisions when it comes to where they will live and the quality of life they expect. For many, the dream of becoming homeowners seems distant and
unattainable. Multiple households packed into single units residence allocating more than 30 percent their gross income on housing multiple motor vehicles per unit choking on neighborhood streets low on occupancy rates and absentee landlords putting
profit ahead of community creates an unsustainable opportunity at community building and civic engagement. As a member of the article AEF Committee, I want to thank you for her commitment to reform the development review process
and for planning and zoning initiatives to help facilitate the development and restoration of affordable housing. Madam Chair members of the Board The storm clouds are gathering at the national level and they will pass quickly. Hopefully they will pass
quickly and when the sunshine reappears and it will I hope partnering with this board we can recommend our resolve to have an institution uniquely positioned to address the aspirator actions of low and moderate income residents as well as small businesses to
address the inequities that exist today in housing, education, workforce development, transportation, health care, arts and culture and the environment John F. Kennedy once said to those whom much is given much as expected
that should be our guiding light over the next 10 years future generations will judge us not by what we did by but by what we feel to do reciprocal considerations that are creative and bold will define
our stewardship of this remarkable, diverse and inclusive community. We are all being held to a higher standard and yet successive attainable if the focus is not only on what we can do as individuals instead of what we can do together as
community. Thank you again Madam Chair. We have a couple of people on Zoome Great John Cusack you can amuse yourself. Good afternoon and thank you to
the chair the board and chief. My name is John Cusack and like Tony I'm not speaking on behalf of the task force. I'm speaking this afternoon on behalf of the North Atlantic State's Regional Council of Carpenters. The men women of the Carpenters Union are fully in support of the Harvard University
campus. Twenty twenty five twenty thirty five institutional master plan. Thank you. Thank you, John Tim McKale, you can meet yourself. Hello. Good good afternoon to the to
the board and the directors to Mikail here resident of Austin Brighton for the last 50 or so years longtime member of the Harvard Arson Task Force and leader of a couple of non-profits the musical and artistic nonprofits in the
neighborhood. And for the last year or so a group of us have been talking about an arts arts district concept. I should predicate my my quick talk here with that I do support the S&P. I'm glad that we've had this
time to work together with Mark and his team over the last year we worked very well together and the there is a sense of a robust community benefits package. We're grateful for and all the work that Harvard has done. However we feel that some work
has been left on the table and we want to address that and just go on the record with it that our public realm, especially in arts and culture is suffering. There is not we have a we have star market and we have Trader
Joe's that's our that's our public realm and there's no retail to speak of . There's some dashes and dots of restaurants in the neighborhood and the promise that Barry's corner was going to be the new Harvard Square is
not it's not even close. And what we've done is we've cobbled together a bunch of sites around Harvard Square that are too small for two or three hundred thousand square foot labs to go on and we've cobbled together a really cool
concept of arts district and public realm with boutiques, galleries, studios, venues, theaters and I'm just hopeful that the board could see the and the director said Please
thank you Director Chiros, I'd love to chat with you about it that we get we get energized with that over the next few years and maybe we can put something together. So again I support the IP and all the work that is done and
I'm grateful for that. But just that the arts and culture in the public realm where we can go for a sandwich and walk around and just hang and meet our neighbors, it's not existent and we with all the development that has happened, it's the one thing
that's lacking. So I hope the board takes that into consideration for the future and we move we move gracefully into the future with that. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. Tim, is there anybody else who would like to testify about this project?
Please? >> Your virtual Hanigan Zom Madam Chair, this concludes the public hearing portion of this item. OK, Secretary Powell Hemas questions comments from board
through the chair just because no one made a comment then this is a ten year I MP I've noticed that out of the six projects that are in the same mold none of them really impact the community.
That kind of situation inside the campus area. So that's a great thing and once I was out for the wood spilled inside the I.R.S. building the multiple buildings but I was at an event for it
and I remember someone speaking about, you know, projects that come through Harvard and they were like they basically said they don't build for a moment. They build buildings that are there forever that last forever and then hearing like from the
1870 something where you know things the beginning of it then ception of it. I just love to hear that the quality of work and a thought process that's put into this to create buildings that lasts generations and I do appreciate
your time and your thoughts when you guys do these. >> So thank you. Thank you. Vice Chair Shapard, appreciate it. >> Harvard has a historic campus already in Allston. The comparison of Boston to
Cambridge is going to be something we're talking about for a long, long time. But to introduce new cutting edge buildings both to the campus through our Empy buildings that will be for teaching, learning and research. But also the prospect of commercial development right
next door in the synergies that that creates. It is a very exciting time at Harvard and we aspire through these planning processes in this community engagement that we can do all that we can do all that work together and we
can support that work also with world class benefits and world class partnerships with our neighbors. >> Thank you. I do have a couple of questions so I think one of the buildings the catering building does it but some of the neighborhood
can you tell me a little bit about kind of how that how that community process has has gone or how you've worked with the Buttars and to address their concerns? >> Yes.
So one of the six projects that we presented is that street address one sixty eight Western Avenue Alexandra Overview that project it is one of the new projects that is introduced in the Impey it's about 85 square feet of commissary kitchen that
when the building came online as a retail and commissary about fifteen years ago we introduced Swiss bakers to the community. Swiss bakers is still there making great food in their retail is staying in the front but they are no longer using
the 8500 square feet or so of commissary kitchen in the back in alignment with Harvard's needs we needed a commissary kitchen to locate our internal catering operation which is called Crimson Catering.
There is a residential feeling street it directly abutting. There's already a big fence but there are houses on Trevis Street and our houses of course on Rina Street we have an
incredible amount of engagement with those folks because we have introduced other uses including some of Harvard's shuttle busses and recycling to that area. So we have a very tight relationship with our neighbors back there. We also have a passive park right next door Ramallo and
Park and then the Harvard owned component which is a pathway that goes all the way to the EOC that you mentioned earlier. >> So it is usually quiet and we fully expect that the existing space in the existing circulation is going to make it
quite harmonious at Crimson Catering for our neighbors. >> OK, great. Can you consider more questions maybe a few comments I do
appreciate and like the home ownership program portion of the of the benefits I do think that's incredibly valuable also I also really, really like that the the community benefits have been
detached from the actual projects. As you know we've had some disappointment in the past. >> Right when when those community benefits are not realized. So I do like those are detached
now and also that you are you're tracking the cooperation agreements in a public manner to again continue to, you know, repair relations, let's build
trust with the community and assure them that that the commitments and the community benefits are going to go to materialize. >> So I guess I do have one question. So what website is that on?
It's on the city planning website, the city planning website. We also posted on our Halvard Community website under the reports tab but every year on September 1st we file with the EPA and now the Planning Department. That annual report on
cooperation agreements which covers not just our ADP's but also other amendments and projects that Harvard has been involved in the permitting. >> Great. Yeah, I just also want to just just commend the task force,
the civic associations, all the participate and and all those who submitted submitted comments. >> There were some very lengthy ,very thoughtful comments on
how they of things are still interested in talking about. >> So I just hope that you continue that that collaboration with the task force and civic associations within Austin and just want to do a shout out to Harvard Undergraduates for
Environmental Justice. I really enjoyed reading your comments but there are just again I was blown away with the kind of the level of depth in these comments and just showing like how much you know, not only Harvard students care but also how much the community
cares about that environment and it being, you know, collaborative and and cohesive. So so yeah. So thank you everybody for participating and with that emotion is an honor. >> Sorry madam. Just just briefly to two points.
One thank you. I'll echo what has been said and Mark knowing you as long as I have it's no surprise that you've worked with such a collaborative approach with the community and to hear members actually show up these can often be very contentious meetings and this is far from it. So it's a testament to that approach that I know you bring
in. Alexandra, you mentioned one of the slides, some of the sort of longer tail things. I don't really I don't think it's included in us IAP but just very curious give the reader's Digest version on onsite renewable energy sources that are sort of the larger plan. >> Right.
So in our Empy we report specifically we included a map on all of the on site renewable solar PV which is I think about nineteen buildings on the Austin campus have have it now and there are two one in planning at 175 North Harvard
and one will be solar already at one seventy five North Harvard Street so that is a very I think it's one point eight megawatts of solar PV on the campus and in the context of all of Harvard's campus we have about three megawatts
of solar heavey. That's great. That's I'm sure that's probably the nation's standard not it's not close to it. >> So well done. Thank you. Any additional questions or comments hearing and seeing that emotion is in order so moved second roll call for a
vote. Miss Bennett. I saw I don't know Mr. Sheppard Dr. Landsmark I and Madam O'Malley Mr you can always call me Madam Madam Chair I am the chair votes I motion passes
thank you. >> Thank you very much. Thank you madam.
Have we got to go back and go back to twenty. Thanks.
All right item no sorry I'm just going to give you a second all right. OK item number twenty request authorization issue a determination waiving further review pursuant to section eighty a six of the zoning code in connection with the notice
of Project Change filed by twenty two Drydock LLC regarding the proposed is three project at twenty and twenty two Drydock Avenue also known as three thirty one three thirty nine in Northern Avenue and issue one are more
certifications or partial certifications of compliance for the revised project under Section eighty six upon successful completion the article eighty be large project review process and to execute an amendment to the cooperation agreement dated April 17th
twenty twenty four to take all related actions Tyler thank you madam Chair. Members of the Board Secretary Paulina's and Director Schenn. I'm Tyler Ross, Senior Project Manager in the Development Review Division. The Posable for you is twenty two drydock I notice Project
Change located in the Raymond L Marine Park and South Boston waterfront neighborhood on September 4th. Twenty twenty four the developer filed a notice of Project Change. The proposed project change consists of the addition of a pedestrian bridge connecting the Scutari and the SKU to
building over Northern Avenue. The construction of the proposed pedestrian bridge total is approximately just over fifteen hundred square feet of gross floor area. The proposed pedestrian bridge bridge will have a minimum height clearance of approximately thirty two feet six inches over all
portions of Northern Avenue. Additionally, the planning department hosted a public meeting on October 1st twenty twenty four which was well advertised in the local newspaper. The Project Change is also also contributing three point three
dollars million for transportation improvements identified in the Raymond Flynn Marine Park Master Plan update along with an increase payment for the additional square footage. The pedestrian bridge is adding to the project but that I will now turn it over to Joseph by Mike to begin the presentation.
Lastly, I want to say thank you to the members of the public elected officials and city agencies who helped review a twenty two dried out proposed notice of project change. Thank you. Thanks Tyler Jomon at the
design principle of the SCA and it's not too often do you get to do a bridge and when it happens you take it quite seriously. You have some fun with it. What you're seeing here is the site I want to give you a little background here. It's in the Marine Industrial Park. On the left hand side is the
aerial view. You can see the the red line with the arrows as the proposed location connection between the two buildings on the right hand side is the plan so light in the center one is existing is the home of Vertex
Pharmaceutical Light Center two. But the address is 22 drydock is the building that's currently under construction is the life science Project the red line here is the connection of of the two buildings by way
of this bridge and as we heard before, it is for moving science in a connectivity area and synergies between the two buildings. Next please a little bit about the existing conditions so you
can see on the left hand side the sort of a planned view area view of light in the center, one in light in the center two there's a couple perspectives or photographs in the right hand side of conditions of the site and prior to the demolition of those buildings
that were on that you know, lower three and four story buildings out of brick and concrete defined by open space in parking lots over there you can get a little bit of a sense of the public realm right near the contouring the street improvements that were in place
at that time explains site plan just showing again light in center one the existing building there down below the lighting center to the and the location of the bridge is done
in such a way the respect urban framework the existing entry to lighting center one you can see sort of in the middle of that building mass and down below lighting center two which is under construction with a new civic space really celebratory
is going to be a really lively space being there. So that bridge is located in such a way to respect that also pulled away from the outer edges or near the intersection which causes some confusions at that point and in addition to that location has great
synergies with their program of both buildings. >> Next please. The section or the elevation on the left and so you can get a really good sense of proportions and scale's as this bridge spans ninety eight
and a half feet across it's connected at the third level of both buildings in this view light in center one is on the right hand side. That's the existing building. On the left hand side is the lighting center too which is under construction down below
you can see the dimensional clearances. There's ample clearance under there to respect's obviously the traffic that will be there also the existing infrastructure in terms of street poles, the street
street trees and there's a silver line bus line stations you can see on either side of the street and then the from the street itself that's northern half in the center as it steps up gracefully and that has to do with Chilean sea and sea level rise through the main
entrances which are obviously accessible as well on the right hand side is a section through that bridge you get a really good sense of how that is can be experienced in terms of structure. A lot of it is it below the
floor line and above strategic move within the design itself was to move away from the corners and make a very strong center beam right there that takes a lot of forces to make a more elegant structure. And then by another really important thing working with
the you know, PPTA in the staff is really looking at how to create more glazing. So we added a transparent roof on there. So you have three sides of glazing along with a nice straightforward structural element that really celebrates
the span of this bridge finally to the bottom you can see a little bit of the contouring of this bridge. It brings a little bit more interest to the overall envelope and give something back to the experience in the public realm on both sides of the street.
Next please. In terms of perspective views on the left hand side you can see on either side a northern tab as you approach this bridge and here you can really see the
elegance of the material expression. You can see the transparency of the glass being used and the dynamic of structural forces that span. We took a lot of time to look at the sensitive not only of the bridge but also how it
connects to both of these bridges in the language that it has to sort of negotiate between that to do a nice seamless transition with that on the right hand side and upper you can see the experience of going through that space nice light and airy
very transparent and clean and its expression and certainly, you know, a lot of studies have been done at night as it transitions from daytime to nighttime how lighting can sort of reinforce the dynamic
expression, the structure in the space itself. So with that I think that's the last slide. So we're very happy with that and look forward to your thoughts. >> Thank you. Questions or comments from the
board through the chair? I think that's a great idea. >> I'm not too sure how far how far along vertex to building is structurally it's actually pretty early.
>> The steel is going up on a right and center too. So we're very happy about the progress of that construction. >> This will will this coincide with the construction of that building? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. We've also you know, the bridge obviously wasn't planned at the
time of the of the building itself. So we had to do some interventions with the steel to take into account that connection in that portal connection with that building. So we've done all that planning, you know, ahead of time to solve steel structures going all the way
across and you'll probably use the the crane already available on site. So I guess I say that I'm asking that but I say that to say not a lot of interruption with traffic. >> We've done a construction
plan and we've done two studies actually how to do the the bridge and in two pieces and stall. We've also looked at a one piece that is put together on at grade and then brought into
place by Crane to minimize the disruption, you know of traffic on that street. Thank you. Oh additional questions or comments on I do agree that it is a very elegant looking
bridge kind of took me back to to the bridge project days and like physics class and like 8th grade. >> So yeah. I'll ask you later about that steel bar at the top trying to get by but yeah no I think it's
it's beautiful and thank you for taking into consideration the impact to the city and the surrounding area as you're constructing and figuring out how to put that there. So yeah. Thank you. I'm glad you have a plan for that. All right. Any additional questions or
comments here? >> You can see not emotion is an order so move second call or a vote. Miss Bennett. Hi, Mr. Shepard. All right, Dr. Lansberg. Oh, Mr. O'Malley I and the chair votes I motion passes. >> Thank you very much. Thank.
>> All right. We can move on to item number twenty two request authorization did to disperse two hundred thousand dollars from the Harvard Austin Partnership then to twenty five nonprofit community organizations in the Austin Brighton neighborhood Aaron. >> Thank you, madam Chairman.
Members of the Board Secretaries Secretary Polhemus and Director Chen following up on the board agenda item a couple go with the S&P for Harvard here to ask we can give away Harvard's money so it's two hundred thousand dollars
this round. This is year seventeen for the Harvard Partnership Fund. Originally they used to give one hundred year this is two hundred thousand. This is going to be the first year of this new I am term basically if you just look at the board member you see twenty five organizations receiving
various sums from Harvard directly. So as soon as we have this taken care of I know in consultation with Harvard we're going to start getting these checks out ASAP. >> Please if you have any questions I'm here for you ask questions or comments from the board. Great organizations.
These are going to there are no other questions or comments. Motion is in order so move second roll call for a vote. Miss Bennett. Mr. Shepherd. Dr. Landsmark oh Mr. O'Malley I and the Charcot's I mentioned Hasse's to give away that money. >> Thank you.
>> All right. I don't remember twenty three requests authorization to amend the memorandum of agreement signed between the city of Boston and the Boston Redevelopment Authority concerning the transfer of funds by the borough to the city of Boston to reimburse the city for the costs staff and services transferred to the
city. Devon, thank you, Madam Chair. This is the same item from the fund about moving date of the presentation which and I'm happy to answer questions. Yes. Any questions or comments from the board hearing and seeing an emotion is in order to move
moved second call for a vote misspend it is a shepherd Dr. Landsmark, Mr. O'Malley and the chair that I motion passes item number twenty four. I need a motion to pay the bills I move that we pay our bills. Second roll call for a vote as
Bennet I Mr. Shepherd Dr. Landsmark, Mr. O'Malley I and the chair votes I motion passes please pay the bills and finally directors update direct action the floor is yours the members of the board. I want to start by summarizing
some of the highlights of today's board meeting and approval's five new projects that were approved totaling one hundred and seventy one residential units of which one hundred and seven of them will
be income restricted. That's over sixty three percent and you should you know as you hear some of the report card on how this administration has been producing more affordable housing than any other previous
administration, these five new projects will total an investment of three hundred and seven million dollars and they will collectively build four hundred and eighty five thousand square foot of which one hundred and seventy
thousand of them will be residential devoted to residential development when constructed these projects will put approximately eighty four trade people to work and create one thousand fifty two direct jobs and three hundred and nine
indirect jobs now for the income restricted housing many of the board members already highlighted the that a large number of affordable home ownership units are beginning
with the sixty five Seattle Street Project that was built on land designated by Harvard for the development of income restricted to housing as part of the community benefits package for the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus plan that was approved approximately
eighteen months ago. So we're seeing the fruit of the university essentially subsidizing these new home ownership income restricted homeownership homeownership units that that project will provide forty three new income restricted homeownership units
in Austin exactly the type of housing that was identified in the Austin Brighton needs assessment. So this is a great example of what can happen when planning is in the lead. This development is delivering on priorities identified through our planning work and
you could hear echoed by the the Harvard Austin Task Force who worked very closely with our staff to develop these priorities. In addition of course there were at seventy seven Harris Street project that will deliver 48 income restricted
homeownership units in the Mission Hill Hill Community. Both of these developments will add positive impact to their communities and I want to thank the residents for their input and being part of these development review processes. Another highlight of course I
think many of you see every board it seems like we have an office to residential conversion project. We've we've approved the latest residential conversion at Fifteen Court Street which is just across the street from where we are.
The project will convert a former office building into eighty new homes in downtown and as a fourth largest of the offers to residential conversion projects that we've had now if you if you've been keeping count, there's fifteen
projects that are in our program of which this is the seventh one to be approved. Very exciting to see these projects. I think this is one of those programs that are truly universally liked and we're very excited about that.
We're also delighted that the state will provide some funding to actually help make these projects feasible. So in addition to the tax abatement as provided by the program from the city, the
state is also providing some grant funding for for this particular project. I want to end by highlighting the Harvard I MP which is providing significant public benefits through this institution masterplan.
The university has committed to a number of key community benefits over the next ten years. Some of them include the continuing funding for the Harvard edX portal two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to support the Hohnen Austin Library the continued contribution of the two hundred
thousand per year for the Harvard Austin Partnership Fund which you authorized direct funding and spending of the money already tonight there's the improvement to Roberts Park continued funding to the Allbright Home Ownership
Program to support Austin and also support for the Austin Brayton Youth Sports. They also of course agreed to undertake a study identify additional Pasos in their landholding in Austin that might be most appropriate for
affordable housing creation in the future not unlike the parcel that was designated tonight in Seattle Street. So I think that was a very fruitful conclusion to a you heard a 14 month process where
Harvard engaged community and I want to thank all of the community members involved, the staff involved in making that a success. So that ends my report for tonight. Thank you again. Board members for your continued support of our city and our agency.
>> Thank you. >> All right. With that I need a motion to adjourn this meeting so moved second call for a vote Miss Bennet Shepherd Dr. Landsmark. All right. Matt O'Malley here I meeting
adjourned. It's all kind be like back out
before know