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Floor is yours, Madam Chair. >> All right. I will call to order the Public Improvement Commission hearing of June 4th, 2026. Uh Mr. Lyman, will you take our roll call? >> The representative from the Transportation Department, excuse me,

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please state your name for the record. >> Amy Gooding. >> Property Management Department. >> Joseph Callahan. >> Uh do we have somebody from Inspectional Services today? >> Brian Rowland. >> Perfect. Thank you, Brian. Uh Water and

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Sewer Commission? >> Denise Devlin. >> And Commission for Persons with Disabilities. >> Sarah Leon. >> Great. Nobody from Public Works today, but we do have a quorum. >> Great. Uh first we have the hearing minutes at the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff. Uh I want

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to entertain a motion for the acceptance of the minutes of the PIC hearing which was held on May 21st, 2026. >> I move to accept the minutes of the Public Improvement Commission hearing on May 21st, 2026. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Aye.

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>> Aye. >> Great. Uh public hearing continued. Uh public hearing continued number one on a petition by Washington 3458 LLC for the acceptance of pedestrian easements adjacent to the following public ways in West Roxbury, Washington Street on its southeast easterly side at address

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number 3458 southwest of Kenton Road, Kenton Road on its southwest side southeast of Washington Street. New business 572026 public hearing 5212026 as shown on the plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department, Engineering Division Pedestrian Easement

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Plan 3458 Washington Street at Kenton Road, Jamaica Plain one sheet dated May 19th, 2026. Will the proponent please state their name. >> Uh good morning. James Donahue from Howard Stein Hudson. I'm also joined this morning by Sarah

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Kazanovich from Howard Stein Hudson and Dylan Dasco, who's the applicant representing 34-58 Washington Street LLC. Uh good morning. We have prepared a quick presentation, after which we'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Um tell her actually if it's possible to allow Sarah access to

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present the presentation, please. Uh while that is happening, um as mentioned, the project is located at 34-58 Washington Street. It is bounded by Fayette Street to north and Canton Street to the south. Um

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the existing site today consists of a one-story automotive body shop. Um I'm going to try and issue it to Sarah presenting. >> Uh should be able to. Hold on, let me see. So

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>> Yeah, it's not coming up for me. >> Hm. Interesting. >> I do have settings. It's weird. >> Yeah, it says you don't have authorization or you just >> Yeah. >> not finding the

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>> Saying I don't have authorization. >> Hm. >> Oh, there we are. All right, sorry about that. >> Okay, great. >> Okay. All right, can everyone see my screen? >> Yep. >> Awesome. All right, continue. Sorry about that. >> All right, thanks Sarah. Yeah, so as

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previously mentioned, Canton Street is located to the north and Garden Street is um to the south of the the property. Next slide, Sarah, please. Um As mentioned, it's a one-story commercial automotive body shop currently on site today. Applicant, next slide please Sarah.

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Applicant is seeking to construct a five-story 36 unit residential building with ground floor commercial space with seven surface parking spaces in rear. This view is from Washington Street with Fenton Street to the north.

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Next slide please Sarah. And one more slide please. As a result of improvements to the public realm, the applicant is seeking to grant the city law some additional additional easement along Washington Street and also on Fenton Street.

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The additional easement along Washington Street is approximately 19 ft long and 3 ft wide and on Fenton Street is approximately 106 ft long and 5 ft wide. With that I'd be happy to answer any questions the commission may have. >> Questions or comments by the commission

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members? PIC staff or public? >> I will remind the public if you wish to ask questions or add testimony, please use the raise hand function which can be found at the bottom of your screen under the reactions tab. My staff is all set at this point and I

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do not see any raise hands. >> Great. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing continued item number one. >> I move to approve a petition by Washington 3458 LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement at Washington

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Street and Canton Road as further read into the record by the chair. >> I second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> I. >> Great. Public hearing item number two on a petition by Washington 3458 LLC for the making of specific repairs within

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the following public ways in West Roxbury consisting of curb and sidewalk reconstruction with structural soil as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, special pavement, street lighting infrastructure, street trees, street furniture, bike racks, driveway curb cuts, and utility access hatch. Washington Street on its southeasterly side at address number 3458 south of

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Kent Street, Kent Road southeast of Washington Street and business 572026 public hearing 5212026 as shown in a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan Washington Street Kent Road Public Way 3458 Washington Street Jamaica Plain

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four sheets dated April 2nd, 2026. >> Hi, good morning. James Owning Howard Stein Hudson Project Engineers joined by Dylan D'Ascoli applicant for the project. Um, as previously described, the project is seeking to improve some of the conditions of the

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public right-of-way. These include public shade trees, bike racks, permeable pavers, full sidewalk reconstruction, and ramp reconstruction both on Washington Street and Fenton Street. This item was previously to be continued to work out some of the finer details

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associated with the pedestrian ramp crossing on Fenton Street. We're happy to say as of yesterday evening all of those comments have been addressed and the applicant is fully on board to reconstruct the reciprocal ramp on the other side of Fenton Street. So, with that happy to answer any additional questions that the commission

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may have. >> Questions or comments by commission members? >> I just wanted to thank the project team for working our department as well as Commissioner Rex's team on the coordination of that reciprocal.

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>> Thanks. PIC staff or public? >> All set on this. >> All right, I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item continued number two. >> I move to approve a petition by Washington 3458

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LLC for the making of specific repairs at Washington Street and Kent Road as further read to the record by the chair. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> I. >> Opposed? >> Hearing none, motion passes. Public

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hearing item number one on a petition by Franciscan Hospital of Children Inc. for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Warren Street public way, Brighton, located on its northerly side at address numbers 30 to 80 generally between Cambridge and uh Camelot Court. New business 521-2026

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as shown on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Pedestrian Easement Plan 30 Warren Street, Brighton, one sheet dated May 11th, 2026. The proponents state their name. >> members of the commission. My name is Howard Mosher from VHB, 99 High Street

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in Boston. Thanks for hearing us today. Um we're here on behalf of Franciscan Children's Hospital. I am joined today by a number of members of the project team that are available should there be any any questions. Um a few weeks ago uh we gave you a

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brief presentation. Uh I'm joined today by Jennifer Atlas who's going to just for those who didn't hear about Franciscan Children's uh refresh that presentation. I'll turn over to Jennifer very briefly. >> Um thank you to the members of the commission. I'm Jennifer Atlas, the vice president for strategy and government

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relations at Franciscan Children's. I want to just give a brief overview about who we are. Um Franciscan was founded in 1949. Our mission is really to help each kid um live their best life and fulfill their potential, whatever that is for them. We

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are a pediatric specialty hospital located in Brighton. Today we're organized into four service lines that you can see on the left. Um behavioral health where we have a large continuum of services, inpatient, C-BAT, outpatient, and school-based services

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that we are looking to expand through our new building. Um we are the only pediatric rehab hospital in Massachusetts. We serve a lot of kids on ventilators who come to us um from all over the city and the state. We also have dental and surgical services. We

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are the largest provider of dental surgery for kids with complex needs, and we also have a special education school that serves kids in grades pre-K through 12, where we have at least 65 kids at any given time. You can see many of our

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patients on the right. We serve over 8,000 patients across all of our programs, many of whom are vulnerable, 70% Medicaid, many of whom have mobility constraints. Next slide. And we're really excited to modernize

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our campus. Many of our buildings, half of them date back to our founding in 1949, and many of the others are from the '60s and '70s. They are not fit for purpose for the high acuity of the patients that we serve today. So, we are very excited to be building a new building and modernizing our campus to

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add new programs, to expand our existing programs and behavioral health and rehab, to collocate services more closely together for improved care coordination. We're going to have more family spaces. We're going to have more spaces for staff. We're going to expand

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research. This project is really on behalf of our patients, family, community, and staff, and we are so excited for it. And we are also affiliated with Boston Children's, as Howard said. It is a partnership across many stakeholders, and and again, we are

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just so excited, and I'll turn it back to Howard to tell you more about the project. >> Thank you, Jennifer. Over the past several years, the proponents have worked with city agencies and members of the public to form the project. Just to reorient everyone that's watching today. Um, here is the campus in Brighton with

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Cambridge Street to the north and west and Warren Street to the south. Just zooming in, you can see the The campus composed of a number of connected structures of various ages and various states of disrepair as Jennifer mentioned needing modernization.

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And the the proponents are seeking to transform the campus into a cohesive clinical building joined here on the top right of the image and preserving the day school functions on the left side. Um and and we're here today for public realm improvements along Warren Street

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and uh Cambridge Street. Um and just uh as a and goal to to represent here is a a rendering of the photo. So, we're here on this action for a pedestrian easement. And as a result of the proposed streetscape improvements which we'll get to in a subsequent public

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hearing, well, we are proposing to grant to the city a pedestrian easement of over 7,700 square feet. Um the geometry reflects the proposed improvements to enhance the public realm along Warren Street and create a calm tree uh tree kind of centered uh pedestrian

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experience to provide shade to the sidewalk and the streets as well as provide enhanced furnishings. Uh 2 weeks ago we presented the same plan. No comments or questions were received. So, today we look forward to your vote. >> Great. Questions or comments by

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commission members? Do I see staff for public? >> I'll stand on the easement. >> I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number one. >> I move to approve a petition by Franciscan Hospital for Children for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Warren Street as further

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read into the record by the chair. >> Second. >> On favor? >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed? Hearing none, motion passes. Public hearing item number two on a petition by Franciscan Hospital for Children Inc. for the making of specific repairs

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within the following public ways in Brighton consisting of curb and sidewalk reconstruction with structural soil as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, street lighting infrastructure, storm drain infrastructure, street trees, landscaping, irrigation infrastructure, street furniture, trash receptacles, wayfinding signs, driveway curb cuts, and raised crosswalks.

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Warren Street at address numbers 30 to 80, generally between Cambridge Street and Camelot Court. Cambridge Street on its southeasterly side, generally between Rodney Street and Dustin Street. New business 521-2026 as shown on the set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department, Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan, Warren

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Street, Cambridge Street, 30 Warren, Brighton 6 streets straight line dated May 18th, 2026. Opponent, please state their name. >> Hi. Good morning, members of the commission. Again, my name is Howard Mosher of VHB, 9 and High Street in Boston, on behalf of opponents

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um under this proposed action, uh there are a number of uh specific repairs that are being proposed to enhance the streetscape. It includes curb cut modifications along Cambridge Street and Warren Street. It includes the provision of two raised pedestrian crossings in

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Warren Street, improved cement concrete sidewalks, uh the provision of street trees and irrigation, and uh enhanced landscaping, as well as a number of street furnishings. Um we're very excited for this, and 2 weeks ago we presented we received no

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comments or questions. Thank you. >> I see there are no comments from commission members. Yes, he's now for public. >> All set. >> All right, I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number two. >> I move to approve a petition by

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Franciscan Hospital for Children Incorporated for the making of specific repairs on Warren Street and Cambridge Street as further read into the record by the chair. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> Aye.

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>> Thank you, everyone. >> Great. Public hearing item number three on a petition by the city of Boston public parks and recreation department for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways in Roxbury consisting of sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated specialty pavement street trees, landscaping,

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wayfinding signage, handrails, and chain structure foundation footings. Columbus Avenue on its westerly side at address number 1957 north of Washington Street, Washington Street on its northeasterly side between Columbus Ave and Atherton Street. New business 521-2026 as shown on a set of plans entitled City of

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Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division specific repairs, Columbus Ave at Robert G. Lawson Park, Roxbury, three sheets dated April 29th, 2026. Opponents can state their name. >> Uh good morning, Jacob Murray from Waterford Design Group. We are the civil

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engineer on the Robert Lawson Park renovation plan specific repairs. Is with us our Priyanka from Boston Parks and Recreation Department and Tracy from Kyle Zick landscape architect for the park. Uh the project is the renovation of an existing Robert Lawson Park at the

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intersection of Columbus Ave, Athina Street, and Washington Street. The existing park is owned and maintained by Boston Parks and Recreation. A small park is currently within the right-of-way for Columbus Ave and is being man- currently being managed by Parks and Parks and Recreation. The edge of the sidewalks sidewalk of the limits

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of the park are not changing. Boston Parks and Recreation is also asking to maintain is asking to maintain the existing limit of the park, which is about 715 square feet within the right-of-way. Uh the existing area is being re-landscaped with a sign being added. All of the trees are being protected and

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maintained. Uh no sidewalk is being disturbed I'll bring up the the wedge that is mostly in question. No sidewalk is being disturbed other than an electrical connection that is being made where it will be replaced in kind. There's a traffic signal up here but in

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this area near Washington and Athina but that is not being disturbed as part of the project. So, the applicant is looking for specific repairs to continue to to renovate and to continue to maintain the park in this location. >> Great. Questions or comments by

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commission members? P&Z staff or public? >> Uh I'll stand on this one. >> Great. All right. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number three. >> I move to approve a petition by the city of Boston Parks and Recreation Department for the making of specific

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repairs uh in the area of Columbus Avenue and Washington Street as further read into the record by the chair. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed? All right.

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>> All right. Thank you. >> Under new business, new business item number one, 1905 to 1911 Center Street, Park Street, West Roxbury pedestrian easement specific repairs on a set of petitions by CAD Builders LLC. >> Uh hello uh chair members of the members

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of the commission. My name is Michael Joyce with Joyce Consulting Group, civil engineers for this project. We actually presented this last uh hearing as well. Unfortunately, there was an issue with the public notification, so uh we're back here to present it again today.

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Um so I'll just run through it real quick. It's a proposed four-story um multi-use building. Uh we're proposing sidewalk improvements to complement the proposed redevelopment of the site. Uh we're going to be closing two curb

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cuts along Center Street at or reducing this one 60-16 ft reduction in the curb cut. And we're moving a 28-ft curb cut along Center Street. We're also going to be reducing uh curb cut on Park Street from approximately 25

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ft to 12 ft in width. Um in addition to that work, we're proposing three bike racks, uh two new two new benches. We're also proposing to expand an existing tree pit and install two new street trees with

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associated tree pits as well. We're also performing some lighting upgrades as requested by street lighting. And we will be reconstructing four pedestrian ramps. The pedestrian ramps on the side of the

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street and the reciprocal ramps as well. I think that's about the extent of the proposed improvements. I'll just hop to the next sheet real quick to show you the pedestrian easement that's proposed. It's a 14 square foot pedestrian easement at the intersection

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of Summer Street and Park Street. It's just a to provide access over the proposed sidewalk at that corner. So, with that, I'd like to open it to questions.

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>> Thanks. Questions or comments by commission members? PIC staff or public? >> All set on this. >> All right. I believe our next hearing is until the 25th. Is that correct? >> Correct. >> All right.

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Will you be ready on the 25th? >> We will. >> All right. See you then. >> All right. Thank you. >> Uh new business item number two, 308 to 316 Congress Street, Sleeper Street, South Boston, vertical discontinuances on a set of petitions by the Children's Museum.

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>> Good morning. My name is Calvin Wright with VHB. I'm here with Annie Glerum of VHB as well. And members of the project team, Michael Forche from Sasaki and Amy Arbach from Children's Museum. Uh this is a new business hearing presentation for

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discontinuance on Congress and Sleeper Street. I'll have Michael the discontinuance. >> Thank you Kevin and good morning members of the commission. Let me just pull up my screen here. I can already see my screen.

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>> Yes. >> Okay, thank you. Okay, so the as Kevin mentioned the nature of the improvements the the origin of the work that we're proposing to do is related to the museum's

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risk of flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge given their location right on Fort Point Channel. This image is from winter storm Riley in 2018 where waves crested onto the plaza and flooded Sleeper Street.

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Current modeling by our team and and generally in industry is projecting that much of Fort Point and the Seaport are similarly at increased risk in the future of flooding. Consistent with the requirements of Article 25A our project's design flood elevation

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was set at 22.5 ft BCB which equates to about 4 and 1/2 ft above the museum's first floor. This is aligned with projected 100-year flood event in the year 2050 which is modeled to have a 1%

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probability of occurring. And given the building existing building's load-bearing masonry structure it was determined after several rounds of study beginning in 2023 that the necessary approach for flood proofing the building would be to apply waterproofing to the existing

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facade up to the design flood elevation and build out a new layer of brick to cover and protect that waterproofing. This does require that the facade projects outward from the current face of the building above and below grade, which at certain

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locations would put new work within the public way. This plan shows the extent of the applied flood proofing on the building's existing brick walls. Congress Street is to the right and Sleeper Street is at the top of the plan. This is a conceptual detail showing the

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general waterproofing approach where there's a concrete shelf down at the bottom below grade, which supports brick and granite cladding, which extends up to the design flood elevation and all of this is covering the waterproofing that's on the existing

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brick. And here are the final details of the typical conditions showing new construction over the existing brick wall. So the existing brick wall is shown in the shaded light gray hatch. You can see the the waterproofing

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on that in the magenta line with an air space and the depth of the brick projecting outwards. And with that I'll hand it back to Kevin from BHB. Thank you. >> Thank you, Michael.

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Um Before you should see >> [clears throat] >> the discontinuance plan for um Sleeper Street and Congress Street and as Michael alluded to, I'll zoom in for you.

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>> [clears throat] >> There's a concrete shelf and >> [clears throat] >> waterproofing and brick which will be in the public way on on Sleeper and Congress Street. We're discontinuing a distance of 1 ft off of

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the building from elevation 11.1 BCB up to 21 0.1 BCB. Simultaneously we understand that through coordination with the PIC staff and even discussions

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with the Children's Museum that there is work on Sleeper Street. So, what you see in blue here, the dashed blue is line work for that proposed work is shared with us by the PIC staff. And [clears throat]

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the plan that was provided to us, that sidewalk is extended out from its existing condition which is shown here in in the gray. With the discontinued area

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we'll have from the back of curb 5 and 1/2 ft to the discontinuing line. >> [clears throat] >> To the building face, it it can be 6 to 6 and 1/2 because of the elements that are at the

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at the doorways and along the building. I know that the Sleeper Street plan that was shared with us showed from the face of curb to the existing building a 7 ft clear. So, I know that that was a question for disabilities and we just want to make that clear for everybody today.

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That's it. Right now, I'll open it up to questions for for anyone. >> [clears throat] >> Questions or comments from commission members? PIC staff or public? >> Kevin, will you just mention the route

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you're going to take to acquire fee interests in these discontinuance areas? >> Yes. So, we will be pursuing the city council route of this. So, once we go through the PIC process and the public hearing

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and get the vote the the Children's Museum staff will get the information over to Chong and he will determine the order and set up the process to go through the city council.

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We are in the process of obtaining an appraisal to share with the um public staff so that they can review prior to our public hearing date potentially on the 25th or the 23rd. I'm sorry, whatever that next hearing date

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is. And we'll we'll be able to share that with you when that comes in. >> I I do I do have one more question. If you have any discussions with the abutting neighbors that if if you if this project is successful that it

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might push water into places where it's not going now. >> Um Amy, Mike, I don't know if you've had any conversations. >> Uh Looks like Amy has her hand raised. >> Yeah. >> Uh you're muted.

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>> off mute. >> Thank you. Um so, what's what sort of happening co- coterminous with this project is that the city is redoing the whole street. The street right now is undulated and has you know had many

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levels of asphalt and things built on it. So, um, paying attention to the, um, drainage and the way in which the water will flow is, um, certainly a part of what everybody is trying to maximize.

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>> And and just are the neighbors part of these meetings and discussions? >> We've had so many meetings with the neighbors to make sure that they know what's what's going on with, um, both Sleeper Street and the work that we're doing. Yes.

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>> Okay. Thank you. >> And I'll I'll note to Joseph just for your, uh, hearing that the office of neighborhood services has has, uh, uh, said that there's an extensive coordination that has gone on, um, and that's one of the things that they had commented on,

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um, when they allowed us to come to to new business that they they they we continue working with, uh, the Children's Museum. >> Thank you. >> All right. You guys good to go here on the 25th? >> Yes. >> See you then. >> All right. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Thank you all. >> Uh, new business item number three, Washington Street, Cambridge Street, Brighton Street sidewalk repairs on a petition by Brighton Main Streets. >> Hi, my name is Kelly McGrath and I am the executive director of Brighton Main Streets. I'm just going to attempt to share my

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plans, I think. Um, sorry. Um, Oh. Okay. Sorry, I'm new to this, um, sharing.

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I'm learning. I don't know it's showing blank. Okay, well, as I figure that out, I will give you a description of the Todd, could you pull up the plan? Oh, that would be great. Thank you. >> I got you. >> I'll stop my share.

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Thank you, Todd. I appreciate that. So, Brighton Main Streets is looking for permission to um implement um some signage at the corner of Washington Street and Cambridge Street um and also at the intersection of Washington and Tremont

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in Oak Square. Uh Main Streets district is divided by Brighton Center and Oak Square, so these this it we were calling it gateway signage. It's more sort of like decorative signage. Just is like a welcome to Brighton Center and a welcome to Oak Square um signage. And as you can see, the signage

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on the um the plans are right there. They're small. They're not very big. They're about 3 ft across. Um I think once they're in the ground, they're probably like 3 ft to 5 ft, but I think they're 6 ft um

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the way they make them. 6.75 is what it says in them, but they'll just be implemented into the um the traffic islands um which are now just garden garden beds. So, we've been trying to put this

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project together for about 27 years, different implementations. I took it on about 4 years ago, and now we're here today to ask for permission. >> Great. Uh questions or comments from commission members? PIC staff or public?

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>> All set on this. I really appreciate Kelly's diligence with this. I know it's kind of a tough process for a for a like this, uh but she stuck with it. So, kudos to her. >> Thank you. All right. I assume if we're decades in the making that you'll be ready on the 25th? >> Yes. Yes. >> All right. See you then.

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>> Thank you. >> All right. You did this item number four, Aberdeen Street Boston Proper Mr. Repair is on a petition by A R E N A Region 112 owner LLC. Opponent, please state your name. >> Uh

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good morning, members of the commission. I am uh John Moser. I'm with VHB, uh the civil engineer for the project. I am joined by Brian Meyer from ARE, Chris Kane from Samuel and Associates, and Rebecca Lee from Mintz.

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Um so, to Oh, let me just share my screen. Um so, the proponent's background project, the Aberdeen Street improvements reflect on a specific repair plan, are part of the offsite mitigation commitments of the Landmark

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Center project phase three or 421 Park Drive. Um during the Article 80 process, the proponent committed a fixed number of funds in the cooperation agreement for neighborhood beautification. The proponent has coordinated with the neighborhood association over the last

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couple of years to determine the scope of this project, which has been agreed upon by both parties. Um multiple meetings and site walks were held with this um neighborhood and the neighborhood association. Um so, sharing on my screen is is the locus plan showing um in red the project

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site uh Aberdeen Street, and then in blue you can see the Landmark Center phase three um 421 Park Drive. Um just to the north of Aberdeen Street is

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Beacon Street, and then the MBTA Green Line separates the project and 421 Park Drive. Um so, switching over to the Aberdeen Street specific repairs plan, um

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Uh so, the plan shows the replacement of all of the street lights on Aberdeen Street. Um supporting that is new conduit and new shadow conduit. Um this street lighting replacement has been coordinated with the street lighting division. Sorry, the street lighting

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department very closely um and have reflected all of their comments to date. Um and then at the um end of Aberdeen Street on the right side of your screen, it is um dead ended and that's where the MBTA Green Line is.

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Um so, in the existing condition right now, there's a um damaged guardrail. There is overgrown greenery and a chain-link fence. So, in this project, we are proposing to uh replace

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the damaged guardrail, the greenery um with a uh privacy fence, a new guardrail, and planter boxes. Um So, that's a you know, an improved improvement we coordinated with the uh

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neighborhood. That will be a a a much better um situation for them out there. Um so, that's about the over the project. Um let me know if you have any questions.

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>> Questions or comments by commission members? >> Hi, thank you for the presentation. Um Sarah Young from the City of Boston Disability Commission. Um there are a few sidewalk panels next to um the driveway on the far end of

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Aberdeen Street that are in poor condition. Uh we were wondering if the team was open to uh either providing um patches for those sidewalks um while um the panels for the street lights are

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being um poured or just repouring that section of sidewalk to ensure uh accessibility to um across the street or down the street, rather. >> Yeah, so I can comment on that. Um you know, during the Article 80 process,

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um there was a specific commitment of funds um for this project. And um you know, those specific allocation of funds have been coordinated and allocated to these repairs that you see on screen. Um so any additional scope of work uh

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including the concrete sidewalk replacements, um you know, we'd have to um go back to the neighborhood and and remove some of the scope to, you know, make sure that we are um within that allocation of funds.

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All right, Andrew or Chris, if you have anything to add to that, feel free. >> Sorry, I was just uh struggling to get unmuted here. Um you know, as as John said, this is a component of uh our our Article 80 allocations. We have

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other uh work in the neighborhood, too, that we worked closely with the neighborhood to maximize the uh the effect of these funds through through the beautification process. So we would have to go back to the

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neighborhood and figure out how to be develop scope here. >> I did I just want to mention that it is a little bit of a missed opportunity since it sounds like you'll be in the ground already. But understanding the financial

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constraints of this specific project. Thank you. Yeah, I mean just to add to what Sarah's saying I think that like right we're we're definitely not trying to add scope or money. I think that that right like we understand that this is the 11th hour we're not trying.

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It's right just how many panels you go. And also I right just for the the level of getting all of your work approved and inspected and accepted will be a lot easier if you actually take that extra panel instead of have to

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work your last panel to right make it work. So all that to to be said we're looking for to leave here with like a decent accessible sidewalk. I think that you want the same thing and so right I think this is more to kind of spot treat

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anything that that is it is really egregiously broken. But we won't formally request additional work. >> Understood. We're sort of happy to expand the you know adjacent sidewalk to where we're doing the work already.

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>> Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Does really ready on the 25th? >> Yes, we will. >> See you then. >> Thank you. >> New business New business item number five 354 E Street Bolton Street West 3rd

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Street South Boston pedestrian needs specific repairs on a set of petitions by 363 E Street LLC. >> Good morning. This is Brian Tim with R.J. O'Connell Associates. I am a civil engineer and with Land Survey on this project. With us today is

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Dave Winnick and Shane Locey from Cedarwood Development, also known as 363E LLC. Um, what I want to do is just bring up really quick and I'll share my screen um as well. I don't know if everybody has

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sharing the just some street views here instead of the boring plan views. I always like to see what looks like out there today. Project involves the renovation of the existing church building that's located at the corners between along East Street between Bolton

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Street and West 3rd in South Boston. Uh, we're looking at the building here. It's going to be renovated into 35 residential units and it's going to be underground parking on the lowest level accessed off of Bolton Street down in this location here which is a one-way

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street. Um, and it's going to have 35 parking spaces there. I'll just take you a quick little drive down this road where you can see what it looks like. Very narrow street here. Um, and we're we're going down the street. This is where the new entrance

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into the parking garage will be kind of where that trash truck is. And as you can see on the left side of the screen there is no sidewalk whatsoever or curbing. So, we will be reconstructing a curb over there providing ADA safe pedestrian access

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extending that existing curb in that locate up near the intersection. Um this ADA ramp crossing Bolton Street will be modified as well and it bring it to substantial or into compliance with ADA

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requirements. Um, as you can see along the frontage there are several existing tree pits that exist there. We will be putting a third in the middle. Um and then as we the more substantial work is at the intersection of E Street and

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West Third. We will be extending the curb out in this location here. Uh create and that'll have to shift the signal uh for both the vehicular and pedestrian head signals.

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We'll come around West Third. And along this street there will be a new um Bluebike station since the curbing will be will be extended here. And I'll show that on the plans really quick, but I always think visuals are much easier to

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see. Um and we will be adding and expanding this walkway uh and adding a couple tree pits along this property. Uh which does continue and there is I believe it's a public owned a city owned park in the back here. May not be

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exactly right about that, but um Hopefully that gives a quick overview. We're here for a specific repairs on the three streets, which is E Street, West Third Street, and uh Bolton Street. So

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I'll quickly switch my screen share if possible to not my emails. But um There it is. Does everybody see the plans now?

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>> Still seeing street view. >> Oh, okay. I got to go back to my Zoom. Uh where's the stop share? Stop share. Share. One day I'll get used to this Zoom

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this new Zoom platform. Um So here's the street Here's the plans. Um these have been modified slightly since the initial plans were submitted over the past 24 hours. Uh but as you're looking at here in the big gray area, that's the the existing

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church that's being renovated. Um and I can actually flip back to to sheet one here. As you can see, there's going to be a new curbing along Bolton Street. Uh we're going to widen the sidewalk there. Um

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maintain a 12 little slightly wider than 12 ft vehicular movement uh width in the roadway. Create new vertical granite curb. Create, as you can see, there's an existing light pole to be relocated way on the left side of the the property

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here. We're maintaining that there's at least 5 ft between the building and that new light pole. Uh provide ADA access coming along Bolton Street and continuing down. It is going to be cement concrete sidewalk the entire length.

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Uh which actually extends onto our property, so we will be proposing a pedestrian easement under a separate petition. Um we will come towards the front. There's an ADA uh ramp here. We're wrapping it around. Um

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this edging This pedestrian easement line will have to be modified slightly to to make sure that all the curb edging is outside of that curb uh pedestrian easement. Um up in front, we're going to maintain that existing tree well and light pole.

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From the center of that tree to the property line, it's going to be at least 5.9 ft, so um It's going to be cement concrete far away from the the roadway. Then between the cement concrete and the new vertical granite curb, we're going to

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put in um resin-bound aggregate, which is somewhat porous. Um my understanding is that's also ADA compliant surface, so you have more than a a 5-ft width continuing along the entire frontage. We will be providing post and bike ring

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bike racks. Uh, here's a new tree pit in the front uh, as well. And then we get into the substantial intersection reconstruction where we're moving curbing. We're going to bring the curbing out, create a a new

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extended intersection here of sidewalk. Two ADA ramps, relocated signal heads, 15 dark blue station blue bike station. Um,

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and then all along West Third in the furnishing zones we're putting numerous post and bike post and ring bike racks, a new tree well way down in the the location here, and then when we tie back into the public sidewalk or past our

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property past that last tree well where we're making it all cement concrete sidewalk to continue down the the west side of West Third Street. So, that's a quick quick quick overview of everything. If you want happy to answer any questions.

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>> Are there any citizen comments by commission members? PDC staff or public? >> All set. >> All right, will you be ready on the 25th? >> Be ready on the 25th for sure. >> See you then.

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Uh, new business item number six, 75 to 77 Dorchester Street, Athens Street, South Boston pedestrian easement vertical discontinuances, specific repairs, production license on a set of petitions by Stat 77 LLC. >> All right, good morning. Um, James Selling with Howard Stein Hudson. Um,

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joined strong by uh, Sarah Comeau who's also from Howard Stein Hudson. Also Jim and Andrew um, Saterios who are the applicants. Um, We have prepared a quick presentation for the project, after which we will be happy to answer any questions folks may have.

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Please Sarah, just going to pull up a quick presentation. While she's doing that, I can give a quick intro. Yeah, we can see it. Thanks, Sarah. So, the project is located in South Boston on Dorchester Street. It is bounded by

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Athens Street to the north, and the intersection of East and West Broadway to the southwest. Next slide, please, Sarah. The existing site today consists of a storefront group and also two-story mixed-use building that has ground floor commercial

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residential units above. Next slide, please. Here's an image from that same viewpoint with the proposed development, which includes a five-story building with 15 residential units above. And with the ground floor of a restaurant.

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Next slide, please, Sarah. So, one of the acquisition items that the applicant will be seeking is a specific plan for improvements in the public realm. These include curbing favors, bike racks, sidewalk reconstruction, and also ramp

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reconstruction. The [clears throat] board approved letter for the project did state that the applicant study a raised crosswalk on Athens Street and also a crossing on Dorchester Street. On Athens Street, we are able to get a raised crosswalk designed for that. The

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crossing on Dorchester Street with some of the grading constraints on the opposite side, basically south side of Dorchester Street. We feel this is the best style of crossing here. We have vetted this with all city agencies. However, BTD did give us some

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comments late last week that we still need to resolve, which we will before we come back on the 25th. That time being there's no parking on the south side of Dorchester Street today. They're going to act as a a lane so to speak. So the additional

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bump out might compromise that. But again, we'll start to work with BTD staff to get that get that resolved. So next slide, please. The applicant is also seeking a projection license or canopy license for the project. There will be one attached to the

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building that basically wraps the entire building shown here in blue both on Athens Street and on Dorchester Street. It will extend into the public realm on Athens Street by approximately 9 in. Just over 3 ft into public realm on

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Dorchester Street. Next slide, please. The improvements within the public realm will require the granting of a professional easement from the applicant to the city. This uh the easement is there over there on the on the plan.

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This professional easement will wrap from Athens Street around onto Dorchester Street. It is approximately 78 ft long on Athens Street and 29 ft wide. On Dorchester Street it's approximately 50 ft long and just over 6 in wide.

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Next slide, please. The applicant is also seeking a vertical discontinuance. Zoom in a little bit closer for me on that, Sarah, please. For a structure that will project into the into the public realm. It will project approximately 2 ft into the public realm from the second story

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through the fourth story. There will be two projections. Each projection has approximately a square footage of 24 sq ft. With that we're happy to answer any questions the commission might have. >> I turn it over to the balance of the

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commission members. Yes, Eastern Avenue Public. >> No, we'll just expect the Dorchester Street crossing to be finalized by the public hearing. Okay. I think that's on us, but sure. All right.

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Uh so, you'll be ready on the 25th? >> We'll see you then. Thank you. >> All right. All right. That concludes our new business. I will entertain a motion to adjourn. >> I move to adjourn. >> I second. >> Second. >> All in favor?

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>> Aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> All right. That was great. See you in 20 weeks.