the floor is yours, Madam Chair. Great. Uh, all right. Um, welcome to the October 9th, 2025, uh, Public Improvement Commission hearing. Uh, Todd, will you take a roll call? Certainly. Would the representative from
the transportation department please state their name for the record? Amy Gordon, Property Management Department, please do the same. Joseph Callahan, Water and Sewer Commission. Denise Develin,
Commission for Persons with Disabilities. Leon, uh, ISD, we do not have anyone in attendance. and public works. We do not have anyone in attendance. Um but we do have a quorum.
Great. Uh at the request of the public improvement commission staff, I'll entertain a motion on the acceptance of the minutes of the PIC hearing from September 25th, 2025. I I move to accept the minutes of the
PIC hearing on September 25th, 2025. All in favor? Uh second. We need a second. I'm sorry. Second. Second. All in favor? I I Great. Uh, public hearing continued. Uh,
on a petition by NStar Electric DBA, Eversource Energy for a grant of location to install an electric transformer vault and associated infrastructure within Whippy Street Public Way, East Boston, located at address number 16 dreadedly, northwest of Ford Street, new business 814, 2022.
Public hearing 828 2025. Public hearing continued 9 112025 92525 as shown on a plan titled the city of Boston public works department engineering division grant of location plan of transformer manhole for PIC 16 Whitney Street East Boston one sheet
dated August 2025. Hi, good morning. It's Katie Flity from Eversource Electric. Um we're going to request again to extend this to the November 6th hearing. Um the agreements are still with our attorney and they are being actively worked on but they're not
completed yet. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to continue public hearing continued number one to November 6th. I move to continue public hearing uh continued uh agenda item one to the next
pick hearing on November 6th. Second. All in favor? I I thank you. Uh public hearing item number one on a petition by Beth Israel Deaconist Medical Center, Inc. for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to
Pilgrim Road public way, Roxberry, located on its northwesterly side at the rear of 334 Riverway, generally between Joslyn Place and Deaconist Road. New business 9252025 is shown on a plan entitled city of Boston public works department engineering division pedestrian easement plan 334 Riverway
Pilgrim Road public road longwood medical area one sheet dated September 2nd 2025. Good morning members of the commission. My name is Howard Moer. I'm a principal at VHB on 99 High Street in Boston. I'm joined this morning by Jared Door, vice
president capital facilities and engineering at Beth Israel Ley Health as well as Michael Hinchcliffe, principal in charge of pay. At the new business hearing, we presented the project and I'm going to briefly go back through it to reorient folks, but we're excited
here for the new future cancer hospital at one jaws place. You can see a rendering of the building in the center of the screen here. When we presented at new business, Mr. Door uh outlined the vision for the future and why this future cancer
hospital is necessary. It'll be um an important because we need the beds, got to reduce the emergency department wait times, specialty care, and those those cares are becoming more complex and innovative.
To orient folks in the city of Boston, we're looking at the Longwood Medical and Academic Area. Beth Israel enjoys two campus, a west campus and an east campus. Dana Farber's campus is to the east of Brooklyn Avenue as shown and the purple represents the footprint of the future cancer hospital which will
contain approximately 450,000 square ft, 14 stories above grade, four below grade. It'll have 300 inpatient beds. Existing site context, the project's bound by Brooklyn Avenue, Josen Place, and Pilgrim Road. You can see an image
of the existing building when viewed from the Jimmy Fund Wayway Deaconist Proclin intersection. To support some of the early actions on this project, we are proposing um to seek permission with vertical discontinuences for architectural
elements which you can see in the building as well as pedestrian connectors above Brookline Avenue and Pilgrim Road. You can see in this image bottom right the proposed connector across Brooklyn Avenue. And in this image on the bottom left, you can see the proposed connector that
crosses Pilgrim Road and runs parallel to Pilgrim Road to accomplish the uh effectation of these connectors. Um we do have to do some specific repairs along Pilgrim Avenue and Pilgrim
Road by bumping out the curb to facilitate that the bridge is uh structure where it runs parallel to Pilgrim is contained beyond the curb line. Associated with that, we're making some streetscape improvements which resulted in the need for a small pedestrian easement. So, under this
action, we're seeking the permission and approval for a pedestrian easement, very small in quantity. And at new business, no questions were asked concerning the pedestrian easement. Thank you. Uh questions or comments by commission members,
PIC staff or public? I will take this opportunity to remind the public if you wish to ask questions or add testimony, please use the raised hand function which can be found at the reactions tab at the bottom of your screen. I do not see any public
testimony at this time. And PIC staff is all set with this action. Great. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number one. I move to approve a petition by Beth Israel Deaconist Medical Center for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Pilgrim Road as further read
into the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I motion passes. Public hearing item number two on a petition by Beth Israel Deaconist Medical Center, Inc. for the making of specific repairs within Pilgrim Road public way, Roxbury, located at the rear of 334 railway,
generally between Jaws Place and Deaconist Road, consisting of curb alignment, roadway and sidewalk reconstruction with structural soil, as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, specialty pavement, street infrastructure, storm drain infrastructure, street trees, planters, landscaping, utility covers, and driveway curb cuts. New business 92525
is shown in a set of plans entitled city of Boston public works department engineering division specific repair plan 334 Riverway Pilgrim Road public road medical area two sheets dated September 19 2025 good morning members of the commission
again my name is Howard Moer of VHB in reference to the same future cancer hospital project this action speaks to the specific repairs being proposed along Pilgrim Road generally between Josen Place and Deaconist Road such that
the proposed pedestrian connector will be contained behind the curb line. Uh two weeks ago at new business, I don't believe any uh follow-up was required and um so today we seek permission. Questions or comments by commission
members? PIC staff or public? All set. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number two. I move to approve a petition by Beth Israel Deaconist Medical Center for the making of specific repairs within Pilgrim Road as further read to the record by the
chair. Second. All in favor? I I public hearing item number three on a joint petition by Beth Israel Deaconist Medical Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. and Joselyn Diabetes Center, Inc. for the vertical discontinuence of portions of the
following public ways in Roxberry vertically above the grades of the roadways and sidewalks. Pilgrim Road at the rear of 334 Riverway generally between Josson Place and Deaconist Road. Brookline A at addresses number 415, 435, and 440. Generally northeast of Jos Place, Johnson Place on its
northeasterly side between Pilgrim Road and Brookline A. Business 92525 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Vertical Discontinuence Plan, 334 Riverway, 415 to 435 Brooklyn Avenue, 440 Brookline
Avenue, Brookline Avenue, Joselyn Place and Pilgrim Road, Public Road, Longwood Medical Area. Three sheets dated September 19th, 2025. Apologies for interrupting. I just want to recognize that Brian Ronin, uh, commission member representing ISD, has
um, joined the meeting. Welcome, Brian. Thank you members of the commission. Again, my name is Howard Moer of VHB. Under this action, we're proposing a series of vertical discontinuences shown on the plan view you see before you. These discontinuences are meant to
encapsulate the pro proposed pedestrian connectors above Brookline Avenue as well on Pilgrim Road and the canopy and minor architectural features uh along Joslin Place with very modest architectural features also being
proposed on Pilgrim Road and Brooklyn Avenue. Um two weeks ago we presented these discontinuities. No questions were uh asked about the plans. Thank you. Uh great. Can you just give us a summary
of what the heights are of all these the clearance um underneath these structures? Absolutely. Thank you. So I'm going to actually go back to the plan view and I will point it out. So we'll we'll toggle on Pilgrim Road. The minimum clearance of the pedestrian
connector where the clearance is the minimum and it's over the sidewalk is 6 ft. Otherwise, it grows to approximately 19 ft as it crosses Pilgrim Road. The on the Brookline connector, we're substantially higher above the roadway.
20 and I'm going to zoom in on that one. Um 20 something feet of clearance. Let me just drag this over. 29 ft clear above Brookline Avenue, 18 above Pilgrim Road, and the canopy
has a minimum clearance of approximately 18 ft. So, this is 16. This is the minimum clearance above the sidewalk along Pilgrim where it runs parallel to the existing buildings. I thought you said six before. Is it six or 16?
16. 16 clear minimum over the sidewalk where the bridge is the proposed connector is running above the sidewalk along Pilgrim Road. So the 16 minimum I'll go back to the plan view Mr. Callahan and zoom back out. That is
approximately in this location where the minimum otherwise the grade falls away and clearances increase. Thank you. Great. Uh any other comments, questions by commission members? The IC staff or public
I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number three. Uh I move to approve a joint petition by Beth Israel Deaconis Medical Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Josland Diabetes Center for a vertical discontinuence in the area of Pilgrim
Road, Brooklyn Avenue and Joselyn Place as further read into the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I I thank you. Thanks. Uh public hearing item number four on a petition by uh 4200 Washington
LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to the following public ways in West Foxbury Washington Street on its southeasterly side. It addresses number 4200 southwest of Bil Street. Bile Street on southwesterly side generally southeast of Washington Street. New business 92525 is shown on a
plan entitled city of Boston public works engineering division plan pedestrian easement plan 4200 Washington Street Rosenale one sheet dated October 8th 2025. Thank you. Uh Tim Hayes from Bowler Engineering uh a civil engineer for the
project. Uh joined today by Marie Morset who is uh representing the owner applicant. Um on the pedestrian easement plan on both Washington Street and Basil Street. Um we have we believe we have not made any changes um or there were
comments on this from last hearing. Uh questions or comments by commission members? PSC staff or public. We're all set with the easement. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number four.
I move to approve a petition by 4200 Washington LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement on Washington and Basil Street uh streets as further read into the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? All right.
Uh, great. On a set of petitions by 4200 Washington LLC for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways in West Roxbury consisting of curb, roadway, sidewalk, and pedestrian ramp reconstruction, as well as new and relocated specialty pavement, street lighting, infrastructure, street trees, landscaping, bike racks, and
driveway curb cuts. Washington Street at address number 4200 southwest of Basil Street. Basil Street, southwest of Washington Street. South Street generally across Basil Street. New business 92545 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division.
Specific repair plans 4200 Washington Street, Basil Street, Rosenale. Three sheets dated October 8, 2025. Thank you again. Uh Tim Hayes from Bowler Engineering Civil Engineer for the project. Uh joined by Marie Morset U who represents the owner applicant for
the project. Um in last hearing we did receive a few comments from the commissioners as well as the staff um for which we've we've made some edits to uh the staff comments. Um and um the remaining items uh the reciprocal ramps
we we are committed to reconstructing those. We have some additional survey work to do in order to make sure that those um are designed and ADA compliance. Um and then separately um I know the question of u clear width along
Basil Street came up um in two places. We have a bit of a pinch point between the new proposed requested light pole here and the uh property line edge of building as well as an existing utility pole um for which they're both around a
little bit less than 5 ft. See 4.8 4.9 ft. Um given the site constraints and the the the size the um the tight building constraints here, we would you know um ask that the commission you know consider allowing us
um a kind of a variance for the 5ft clear here um from the four to have 4.8 and 4.9 respectively. Um and uh would look to um see if you guys
were favorable to allowing that. And and can you hear me, Tim? I can hear you, Marie. Hi, good morning. This is Marie Morris, principal with Boston Communities and one of the owners for this property. Um, as Tim mentioned, we are fully committed, but we we have looked at this
um current uh request and as Tim mentioned, we're about shy of like 2 in around the pinch point for the poll. Um, based on what we're seeing right now, I think this would result in a significant hardship for the project uh which is uh
both publicly funded through state and um you know local municipalities. Uh so we wanted to just put that out if we could request um a small waiver here because we are so close uh and respectfully requested a commission to
consider our request. Cheryl, um thank you so much for um the presentation. Um and we understand the um building constraints and the site constraints here. Um however um with
this I'm assuming being new construction um there is um there is a high expectation that um new construction buildings do um meet our city standards for sidewalk width. Um so we're happy to
have um a discussion about that. However, um at this time we're unable to provide you with um alternative direction other than to provide the 5 foot path travel. Um we're happy again we're happy to have a conversation about
creative ways in which we can achieve those 2 in. um if it um if there's any flexibility in the location of the new um I believe the new street light um or adjustments to the building. Um however,
we um barring any other circumstances um we strongly encourage the group to explore ways to provide this 5 foot path travel. So with that, um I think we uh request a continuence on that matter um so that we
have an opportunity to just go through the plans a bit further with um Sarah team um on that one. Okay. Uh Dolores, do you have something you wanted to add here? Nope. Um, I was just going to um echo
what Sarah said and to send us a set of plans and um we can come to something agreeable for everybody. Okay. I any other comments or questions by commission members? Yes. staff or public
staff is all set on this. Um I do not see any members of the public with hands raised, so I think we're good. All right. I will entertain a motion to continue public hearing item number five until November 6th. I move to continue.
Sorry. Apologies. Uh Mr. Callahan. Um the next hearing is October 23rd. Uh, Marie, are you looking to go forward? So, yes, I I I think we would I'm looking at the schedule now and let me
see, October 23rd. I think two weeks is too tight for us. Um, so if you can allow the November 6, I would greatly appreciate that to make sure that we have time to meet with the staff as well as um engage our uh engineers uh in the matter.
Perfect. And I will entertain a motion to continue uh public hearing item number five until November 6th. Okay. I I uh I move to continue public hearing agenda item five to the uh PIC hearing on November 6, 2025.
Thank you everyone. All in favor? Hi. Hi. All right. See you. Uh, public hearing item number six on a petition by 363 East Street LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to the following public ways in
South Boston East Street on its southeasterly side at address numbers 363 southwest of Bolton Street. Bolton Street on southwesterly sidetheast of East Street. New business 92525 is shown on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Pedestrian Easement Plan. Eastern
intersection of Bolton and East Streets Boston South one sheet dated September uh 22nd 2025. Good morning uh members of the public improvement commission. My name is Brian Tim. I'm with RJ McConnell and Associates. I am the site civil
engineering uh firm working on this project. I believe the applicant Shane Lozi and Dave Wk are also on the uh the meeting today as well. Um Amy, you did a great job uh explaining the the project. So I I won't bore everybody with
duplicative presentation. Um we were in front of the commission two weeks ago in front of new business. Uh two comments did come up uh were raised. One of them was being the uh extent of the resinbound aggregate on the sidewalk
along the frontage on East Street. We've had a meeting with Todd Lying planning department um and resolve that. We're we're we've decided to actually make the the to the total frontage of the sidewalk uh resin bound aggregate. Um so
we don't have a choppy look to it being resin bound aggregate then cement concrete resin bound etc. Um we also had a meeting just yesterday with Dolores Mike Sinclair and Yasmine Logan about the reciprocal curb cut on Bolton
Street. Uh we're going to propose to repair that and and bring it up to code um to make the blended transition ramp instead of two separate uh warning detectable warning panels uh is going to be one continuous warning panel um from
PC to PT on that curve. Um think we addressed everybody's concerns and you know I'll open it up to any other comments or questions. Questions or comments by commission members? PS staff are public.
Uh just want to point out that we are um acting on the pedestrian easement action uh right now and the specific affairs action will come um under the next uh hearing item. Thank you. Uh all right. I will entertain a motion
on public hearing item number six. I move to approve a petition by 363 East Street LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement uh adjacent to E and Bolton Streets as further read to the record by the chair. Second.
All in favor? I I Thank you. Uh public hearing item number seven on a petition by 363 East Street LLC for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways in South Boston consisting of curb, sidewalk and pedestrian ramp
reconstruction as well as new and relocated specialty pavement street lighting infrastructure store and grain infrastructure street trees and driveway curb cuts east street generally at address number 363 southwest of Bolton Street. Bolton Street southeast of East Street. New business 92525 is shown on a set of plans entitled city of Boston
public works department engineering division specific repair plans eastern intersection of Bolton and East Streets Boston South Boston four sheets dated October 8th 2025 again for the record Brian Tim with RJ O' Connell we are the civil engineer on
the project um and I'll just refer back to my previous presentation um for this part for the specific repairs portion of this questions or comments by commission members. Uh we'll note that if you're making your entire sidewalk resin bound that you
will have to maintain the sidewalk that I I was of the understanding it was the other way around that if if we didn't make it res if we made it resin bound that the the
city would maintain it. So the city maintains that material in landscaping and furnishing zones but not in as a pedestrian path of travel. Okay. Uh any other com questions or comments
by commission members? PIC staff or public? Nope. um the project can work with Chungloo on the um required um LOI or agreement for this project. Uh good. I will entertain a motion on
public hearing item number seven. I move to approve a petition by 363 East Street LLC for the making of specific repairs on E and Bolton Streets subject to a um uh acceptance of a LMI with the city and
as further read to the re by the chair. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you. Thanks. Public hearing item number eight on a petition by Lombich of Cambridge, Inc. for the making of specific repairs
within the following public ways and Roxberry consisting of curb, sidewalk, and pedestrian ramp reconstruction with structural soil as well as new and relocated specialty pavement, street lighting, infrastructure, street trees, and driveway curb cuts. Tremont Street at address numbers 1615 to 1617 southeast of Wigglesworth Street,
Wigglesworth Street, northeast of Tremont Street. New business 92525 is shown in a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division specific repair plans 1615 to 1617 Tremont Street, Wigglesworth Street, Public Way, Boston, four sheets dated September 2025.
Uh thank you Amy and thank you uh members of the commission. I am Jesse Aguilar of High Point Engineering, the uh the site civil engineer for this project. Uh joining me today also of High Point Engineering is uh Joe Pesha
um as well as Brian Apido of Bruner Cop the the project's building architect uh Doladano of Sydney Project Management the uh the owner's representation uh Curtis Puncher of Ground Inc. the landscape architect and uh finally Todd
Butler of Alien Aldrich the geotechnical engineer. So since um since two weeks ago uh we've been coordinating with um PIC staff including um including Dolores
of the uh the public works ADA team and Sarah Le Young of um the CPD um regarding uh comments received uh during the hearing as well as uh subsequent uh coordination um
plan edits uh that we've made since then include uh removal of the Ballard from the public way and from the project entirely at the northwest corner of the project where we are shifting the curb cut to the uh the shared alley along the
north side of the building. So that ballard uh since it is no longer part of the project will not need to be coordinated uh with the LMI. Uh we've also added um about a 1 ft uh 1T 10 in
wide uh permeable PA strips uh along the back of curb line along Wigglesworth Street between the uh the tree pits uh for the replacement street trees uh that we're proposing. And we've provided some
additional detail for the reconstruction of the ramp at the the corner of Tremont and Wigglesworth on the project side of that existing crosswalk. Uh we've confirmed that that is ADA compliant that the that the curb that the
reciprocal ramp on the other side of the crossing is ADA compliant. We are not um we are not proposing any modifications to the existing uh the existing um ramp
on the the west side of the crossing. Um we're also uh proposing uh resin bond aggregate at the uh the street uh tree pit locations and have indicated on the
plans uh 4 foot 9 in width uh between the building face uh which is proposed as zero setback construction uh and the edge of the tree pit opening. Uh we would respectfully request uh that the
that the commission um as well as the as well as uh CPD and the and the ADA division of public works um consider um a variance uh to allow us to provide
that reduced clear width at those uh at those three pinch points where we're proposing the street trees. The the tree pits are, you know, they're they're dimensions uh based on city of Boston requirements and um respectfully um
hopefully can find some find some common ground uh such that you know we'll be enable uh to proceed um while providing that. That's all questions or comments by commission members.
Yes. Um I want to thank the team um for providing these updates as well as um the updated tree street tree detail. Um I think for our conversations um this week um we would like to emphasize that
given this is new construction the expectation is that the project do provide a clear 5-ft path of travel um at pinch points. Um so we're happy to continue working with the team to look
at options to achieve this um five foot path of travel um um as the design continues. Um but we do have an expectation that new construction projects do provide the
five travel per our city's um reconstruction policies. Okay. So yeah, barring any barring any consensus during this uh during this current public hearing, we would we would need to ask for a continuence to
coordinate with our project team as well as your office to uh to come to an agreement here. Did you say you were using um uh resin bound aggregate in the tree pit? Uh yes,
that is a walkable surface. So you are able to capture a portion of the clear area um in the tree pit. Uh will you be able to capture that full clear area of
5 ft using um the resid portion of the tree pit? Uh no we will not. We'll achieve uh 4 foot 4 foot 9 in. Oh gotcha. So that's including the tree pit. Yes.
Okay. Thank you for clarifying. Uh PIC staff or public. Um I will note that there are a handful of other relatively minor comments that the project team is working on um that they just received from PSC staff yesterday. Um but other than that, we
are willing to defer to disabilities and others on this project. All right. So, we're going to continue for two weeks. Is that going to work? Uh, I think two weeks will work for us
unless anybody on the project team on the call uh feels otherwise. All right, I will entertain. Do we have an opinion? No. Oh, no. I was just saying there you have it. Okay. Uh, I'll entertain a motion to
continue public hearing number 8 to October 22nd. Is that what it is? Todd 23rd. October 23rd. Uh, I move to continue public hearing agenda item 8 to the next PIC hearing on
October 23rd, 2025. Second. All in favor? I I uh on a petition by Lubovich of Cambridge, Inc. for the granting of Earth retention license for the installation of a temporary earth support system within the following
public ways in Roxberry. Tremont Street on its northeasterly side at address numbers 615 to 617 southeast of Wigglesworth Street. Wigglesworth Street on its southeasterly side northeast of Tremont Street. New business 92525 is shown on a plan entitled city of Boston public works department engineering division temporary earth retention plan
1615 to 1617 Tremont Street Boston one sheet dated October 8th 2025. All right. Uh thank you again Amy and to the commission uh Jesse Aguar High Point Engineering project civil engineer. Uh Joe Pesha also of High Point with me
here in the room. Um, also on the project team, Brian Apito of Bruner Cot, the building architect, Aditoano of city project management, the owner's representation, Curtis Puncher of Ground, Inc., the landscape architect, and uh Todd Butler of Haley and Aldrich,
the uh geotechnical engineer. So since um since the the meeting two weeks ago, uh we have um advanced and resubmitted a uh temporary earth retention plan um
depicting uh in more detail the uh excavation support uh that'll be along the southwest, north, and northeast portions of the the proposed building. uh plan has been uh stamped by stamped
by Haley and Aldridge uh coordinated with uh High Points site plans and uh we would respectfully uh request an extension license for the project. Uh barring any um questions or comments from the commission or the public.
Questions or comments from commission members? PIC staff are public. All set. Um I'll say that we're going to ask that this be continued as well just in case uh any changes from the previous action impact this one. Um and then you can get
both of your approvals of the same public hearing. Absolutely understood. Okay. I will entertain a motion to continue public hearing item number nine um until October 23rd. I move to continue public hearing agenda item nine
to the next PIC hearing on October 23rd, 2025. Second. All in favor? I I see you in two weeks. Uh, city roadway acceptances on a joint petition by Austin Yards Apartments LLC
and WJG Realy Company LLC for the acceptance of a as a city roadway of Arthur Street Public Way Brighton located between Hitchborn Street and Guest Street as shown on a plan entitled public roadway acceptance plan Arthur Street Public Road Alston one sheet dated January 23rd 2025.
Morning commissioners. My name is Kevin Wright. I'm with BHB. We're the civil engineers on the project and I'm here on behalf of Austin Yards LLC WJG Realy. Um we're here to present
Arthur Street for acceptance as a city of Boston public roadway. This project was first brought to the PIC at a new business hearing on August 26, 2021 and approved as a public at a public hearing on September 23rd, 2021. The project has
been under design and construction since that time. And um this uh this approximate 300 foot portion of Arthur Street between Hitchborn and Guest Street was completed in the winter
of 2025. Since that time we've provided the as built show for you today. Well, let me share that. Sorry. So, we're sharing this uh plan with you today. Um and so we've secured the necessary signatures from the respective
parties for the roadway acceptance certificate provided by the PAC that acknowledges receipt of the as bill and acceptance. Uh this included the following public public agencies DTD, IST, DWC, street lighting, streets, cabinets and infrastructure and design,
uh commission on disabilities and the parks and recreation as well as the following utility companies, Eversource Electric and Gas, National Grid, Verizon, Comcast RCN and Vicinity. Uh these signatures and plans were sent to
the PIC on September 12th, 2025. questions or comments by commission members. Um I didn't I didn't hear fire department. Did Did the um approvals and review include the fire department? Uh the fire department was not on the
checklist. The fire department would weigh in on the first action creating the street. This is just saying that they've built it as we've expected and that we believe it is constructed to city standards.
Thank you. Uh PS staff or public, we are all set on Arthur Street. All right. I'll entertain a motion to accept Arthur Street as a city roadway.
I move to approve a joint petition by Austin Yard Apartments LLC and WJG Realy Company LLC uh for the acceptance of Arthur Street as a city roadway as further read to the record by the chair.
Second. All in favor? I All right. Uh on a joint petition by Alston Yards Apartments LLC and WJG Realy Company LLC and Alustin Yards Parcel B Developer for the acceptance of a city roadway of Guest Street Public
Way Brighton located between Arthur Street and Ever Street as shown in a set of plans entitled public roadway acceptance plan. Guest Street Public Road Alustin two sheets dated January 23rd 2025. Morning again uh commissioners. My name is Kevin Wright from BHP. We were the
civil engineers on the project on behalf of the Boston Yards LLC, the WJG Realy Company LLC. Uh we're here to present Guest Street for acceptance as a city of Boston public roadway. Uh this project was first brought before PIC at a new
business hearing on August 26th, 2021 and approved at a public hearing on September 23rd, 2021. The project has been under design and construction since that time in this approximate 900 ft portion of Guest Street between Arthur and Everett Street was completed in the
winter of 2025. Since that time, we have provided the Yazu shown before you today um and secured the necessary signatures from the respective parties for the roadway acceptance certificate pro provided by the PIC acknowledging receipt of the ASB build and acceptance.
Uh this included the following public agencies BTD, ISD, BWSC, street lighting, uh streets and cabinet, infrastructure and design, disabilities and parks and recreation as well as the following utility companies, Eversource
Electric and Gas, National Grid, Verizon, Comcast, astound RCN vicinity. These signatures and plans were sent to PIC on September 12th, 2025. Um, up till recently there was an asphalt sidewalk up there. Is that still
out there or is it now reconstructed in cement concrete? Uh, which sidewalk? Uh, the the northerly sidewalk. At one point there was a discussion about leaving one of the northerly sidewalks in asphalt and having a sidewalk deposit
on file for that. Um, is that still the case or did you decide to just construct that in concrete? I believe that is still the case due to the fact that there is uh the demolition of the stop and shop on the north side and the future construction for um those roadways to that would impact the
sidewalk. Okay. But we do have a sidewalk deposit on file for that so that those sidewalks will be eventually constructed in concrete once the building construction is complete. That is correct. Great. Thank you. Can you provide Todd with your sidewalk deposit information?
Yeah, that'd be great. Offline is fine. Okay. Thank you. Uh any other questions or comments? I'll entertain a motion on the acceptance of Guest Street as a city roadway.
I move to approve a joint petition by Austin Yards Apartments LLC WJ Realy Company LLC and Alustin Yards Parcel B Developer to accept Guest Street as a city roadway and as further read into
the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I All right. New business. Uh, West Main Street, Dearing Road, Harvard Street, Wool Way, West Roxbury, widening relocation extensions, pedestrian easements, specific repairs on a set of
petitions by New Boston Fund, DBA, Olmstead Village, Master Developer LLC. Good morning. This is John Schmid with Nich Engineering, uh, civil engineering for the project. Uh, everyone can hear me fine. And with me is Anna Scholer, who is with
Two Life Communities. Uh there's a lot of pieces to this puzzle. So I'm going to proceed slowly and hopefully we can all follow along. Mstead village in uh the final phase of the homestead redevelopment in Madakan is consists of uh 287 units, 193
affordable units, 94 mixed income units and this is being constructed over uh six different buildings. The project brings many benefits to the city. In addition to the affordable housing, there'll be about 600 jobs, $6
million community benefits as well as a lot of sustain uh multiple sustainable components including passive houses within this development. The applications or the prop uh petitions before you today address multiple improvements within the
proposed uh say village plus improvements that above that. Um we have Harvard Street here which we will be uh pedestrian easement widening uh pedestrian easement and a sidewalk widening road which will have a widening
relocation for a shared pathway. Main street extension a public way will be extended from its current layout which terminates approximately here to the edge of the um DAM property. Worbler Way, which was previously laid
out and approved by the commission as a private way. We'll have a widening relocation to allow for construction for the sidewalk on the southernly side. And Worbler Way, this is a new component of Worb Way, which is a about a 550 ft private way, which provides the same
benefits as the Worler Way on the westerly side here. Um, we can dig in a little bit more into the details on Harvard Street. Again, this is Harvard Street. We're in this area here. The e pedestrian easement is about 2.7
ft by 494 ft. And what it does is extends the easement that was prepared in the earlier phase to allow for a 8ft wide concrete sidewalk. Uh the 8 foot wide concrete sidewalk will also have new pendant street lighting. Uh Boston Street Lighting has
reviewed and signed off on all the proposed improvements within this multiple petition application. We move along to Jaring Road. During road, we have a widening relocation from the intersection of Harvard Street to this driveway here. And the purpose for
that widening relocation is to provide a shared pathway from Harvard Street all the way to the Mass Autobound Boston Nature Center property. So, as uh as bikes, cyclists, and pedestrians exit Harvard Street, they'll have an 11 foot wide concrete sidewalk that will bring
them along here, this point, at which then there'll be an easement that will go through the private parcel to the Warway extension. Uh the improvements here in addition to widening the sidewalks is we are protecting the existing public trees
that were planted several years ago. We are reconstructing the sidewalk and we intend to replant any trees that may be impacted on the private property to ensure that they continue to thrive. We're also reconstructing the intersection here to provide safe and
accessible compliant access through all the intersections. Now, we'll enter into the development itself, West Main Street. West Main Street was laid out as a public way um several years ago before this commission, and now we're extending that
to the ECAM property. Uh it's a little unusual as it ends here. So working closely with the fire department, we determined that we can fire department has adequate access for a turnaround by utilizing this driveway here. So the the rightway actually
extends into the driveway that allows the vehicle to do the fire department access in and out of here without having to enter this parcel. But they also, you know, if needed, they can enter the parcel as well. There are multiple improvements and this is a very busy plan. So, I'll just hit
them, describe them to you. Uh, on the north side of the of the side of the roadway, we have a concrete sidewalk. We have street trees. We have planters, and we have new street lighting. We also have a raised crosswalk here about 100
ft short of its terminus termination. And on the southernly side, we have a 6' wide planting bed and a 5ft wide concrete sidewalk. at the intersection itself. Uh I'm sorry, the the component of Main Street that was laid out and approved by the
city several years ago. We are reconstructing this side of the sidewalk here where we're providing uh three new street trees, a 6ft planting bed, I'm sorry, uh three new street trees, perial plank paving, and a 7 and 1/2t
sidewalk, 7 and 1/2t wide sidewalk that connects into the sidewalk that's there. Presently at the West Main Street and Warbler intersection, we have new accessible ramps. We have dedicated bike lanes that come through here. Um,
so that's that's uh that's what's happening there. As we move on to the Worbler Way, private way, this is a widening relocation of the Worbler way. We're looking right here now. Widening relocation of Worbler Way that was laid out by and approved by the commission several years ago. And this
is allowing us to construct a uh excuse me it's allowing us to construct a 10 foot wide at the paved bike lane a 5 foot wide concrete sidewalk perial planking along the edge road's edge
including bike rack street trees and street lighting also like to note that this section of warway private way is constructed of pvious perial paving this is the world away extension which is about 550 ft long.
It also provides uh the 10t wide bike lane along the side here. Uh down here there's also the dedicated sidewalk, concrete wet sidewalk, street trees, firmwheel plank paving, bike
rack, sweet trees, and street lighting. Uh that's that's the that's the list of proposed improvements to this area and petitions. Any questions? Questions or comments by commission members? PIC staff or public?
Uh John, will you just touch on the um turnaround at this end of the extended world away? Um has BFD looked at that? Yes, there was a lot of communication with BFD on back during the BPDA process. This is a smaller culde-sac. It doesn't uh work, doesn't allow the
larger fire trucks to turn around there. But through uh discussions with them, they've accepted and uh a truck should come here back into this driveway and exit out. So, the fire department has reviewed and accepted the proposed access for warway as well as the West
Main Street extension. And who who would remove snow from the bike lanes? Well, this the bike lanes. So, this is going to be a private way. So, all the maintenance on this would be uh the developers expense. And on West Main Street Extension, which will be a public
way, there is an LMI that is in process for street sidewalk maintenance. Thank you. PIC staff or public. Oh. Uh the only other thing I'll mention is that there are a handful more of plan comments that I know John you're working
on and and um we'll expect to have those in the next couple weeks, but um nothing groundbreaking, mostly formatting stuff. Um so we're all set with these actions for now. I also want to thank city staff um for helping us through this process. There's a lot going on here, a lot of unusual components um but everyone was willing
to come together and we had some very successful meetings where we came to uh this this this presentation before you today. Great. See you in two weeks. Sounds good. Thank you very much. Perfect. Uh, new business item number two, 259
Allen Hill Street, West Roxbury, specific repairs on my petition by Allenale Farming. Morning, members of the commission. My name is Annie Glyoff from BHB. I'm here on behalf of Allenale Farm. Uh, with me today are Helen Gladzer, CEO of Allale
Farm, and Barry Fogle, the project attorney. Um, we're here today for New Business to Sorry, jump to my rendering, which is a little prettier. Um, everybody can see that. Uh, we're here today for new business to present a
specific repair plan for a proposed crosswalk at Allenale Street. Um the project that the farm is constructing is a new market barn and retail greenhouse that went through small project review earlier this year. As part of that um small project review, the the project
did agree to put in a pedestrian crosswalk across Allenale Street in vicinity of the new parking lot that will be constructed um and formalized as part of the project. So I will jump to that plan and just walk you through what we're proposing.
Um, so shown on here is the work in the public right of way. In terms of scope, we are proposing to keep the two existing curb cuts on site and we are just proposing new asphalt to replace the old broken down asphalt within those curb cuts. So all the curbing will
remain as as it exists today for those. Um for the crosswalk itself, there's an existing sidewalk on the south side of Allenale Street and on the north side of the street is all um landscaped area and an existing stone wall as part of the Green Belt. Um this project is in Green
Belt um overlay district. Um, we are proposing to cut uh new cross uh new ADA ramps and a level landing on the south side of Allenale Street using city standard concrete. Um, two curb ramps
coming down to this level landing and a BTD uh striped 10-ft wide crosswalk. On the project side of the street, there will be a 6' 7 ft level landing with accessible um detectable warning domes
that lead to a batuminous uh sidewalk within the site that leads to the market barn and the retail greenhouse. Um we'll be cutting approximately a 15t wide opening within the historic wall that will have the 6T wide sidewalk and 4 and
1/2 ft of landscaped area on either side. and we're proposing to leave the existing landscape area uh north side and just recede wherever it's disturbed. Um in terms of signage, we are proposing
at the crosswalk to have pedestrian crossing signage as well as MUTCD standard signage 150 ft um to on either side of the crosswalk uh on both sides of Allenale Street. And I believe that covers the scope that
we're proposing for this project. So I would open up to any questions, questions or comments by commission members. The staff or public set on this. All right. Uh see you in two weeks.
That's great. Thank you. All right. And with that, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. I move to adjourn. Second. All in favor? Great.