Great. I call order the May 8th, 2025 uh hearing of the public improvement commission. Um Todd, would we take a roll call? Would the representative from the Boston Transportation Department please state their name for the record? Amy Gordon,
property management department. Please do the same. Joseph Callahan, inspectional services department. Brian Ro, water and sewer commission. Denise Davelin. Uh, we do not have anyone from public
works or the disabilities commission today, but we do have a quorum. Great. Um, at the request of the public improvement commission staff, um, the acceptance of the minutes of the PICE hearing held on April 24th, 2025. Um, we
have a motion to accept the minutes. I I move to uh accept the minutes of the public improvement commission hearing held on April 24th, 2025. Second. All in favor? I I
great uh public hearings on a petition by the city of Boston public works department for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways in Dorchester consisting of curb realignment, roadway and sidewalk reconstruction as well as a new and relocated pedestrian ramps, street lighting infrastructure, storm d infrastructure, green storm water
infrastructure and driveway curb cuts. Willowwood Street generally between Dumis and Martin uh Dumis Street east of Willowwood Street, Martinab west of Willowwood Street. New business 42425 is shown in a set of plans entitled city of Boston public works department engineering division specific repair
plans will award Dumis Street Dorchester nine sheets dated March 2025. Yes. Uh Thomas J. I'm Thomas Jay with public works engineering division. Um and we're proceeding for specific repairs at will at Dumont Street. Um also design joined um by our design
consultant uh Greg uh from WSP. Um but again I'll provide some background on the project. This is a state of good repair um throughout the neighborhood here um along the streets of Jones AB a Jacob Street, Mascop Street, Duma Street, Willwood Street. Um and this
project became you know came about uh because we removed a pedestrian bridge over the MBTA tracks across from Jones A to Northfor Street. Um so um as part of that discontinuence that we did we we looked to provide mitigation to the community um and do the state of good
repair and kind of uh fix up the streets and sidewalks etc in the neighborhood. Um this specific location we at Dumas u we look to do a little bit more but I can hand it off to Greg to kind of go over the design details we look to implement at this location. Great. Thank you Thomas and thank you
chair and commission members. Happy to be here again and walk through this project. as Thomas mentioned is part of an overall neighborhood uh safety improvement project. The existing intersection of Willowwood Street uh you can see here running north and south and Dumas Street curving off to the to the
east here um had a large uh vastness of pavement. You can see the existing curve lines. Uh the main goal was to improve the accessibility and safety of this intersection uh by tightening the in intersection and reconfiguring it into more of a T uh intersection. You can see
a number of bumpouts which include uh compliant pedestrian ramps, new crosswalks at every leg uh and also new landscaping and green infrastructure areas within these bumpouts as well. Uh we plan to relocate uh necessary
drainage, lighting, other improvements as needed. Um, we did get uh a couple comments since the last hearing uh just to retain the existing uh driveway widths here on the north side. So, we made that those updates. Um, other than that, up at
Martin Street, we are installing uh a raised crossing to improve the accessibility and safety there. Um but that generally covers the the major improvements of this project and just want to note that it it does work with um the necessary autoturn movements for
um passenger vehicles, single unit trucks and emergency services. Thomas, was there anything else you wanted to add here? Um yeah, the um at the previous hearing um right new business, excuse me. Um the public
works represent Josh Yasha chief um brought up questions about um potentially engaging with the public. Um we are looking to do that potentially next week um at their neighborhood association to talk about the larger project including this location. Um so uh again to kind of address that comment
here for the record. Thank you. Questions or comments by commission members? Yes, staff republic. All set on this. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number one. I move to approve a petition by the city
of Austin public works department for the making of specific repairs uh in the area of Willowwood Street, Duma Street, and Martin Avenue as further read for the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I I I
opposed. All right. Uh, public hearing item number two on a petition by the city of Boston public works department for the making of specific repairs within Medfield Street, Boston proper located between Park Drive and the town of Brooklyn boundary south Mary St. Mary Street consisting of curb realignment roadway and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian
ramps, specialty pavement, street lighting infrastructure at raised crosswalks, grad curb cuts and median islands. New business 424 20225 is shown on a set of plans entitled city of Boston public works department engineering division specific repair plans Medfield street Fenway Kenmore safe area street park drive Boston free
sheets dated April 2025 good morning madam chair um and members of the commissioner my name is Jeffrey Alexis with public works department um here to petition for the improvements on Medfield Street I'm joined here by um our design consultant um from Nich um
Matthew Um, you mean and then I'll give you quick background in regards to the project. Matt, you can throw the the plans on the screen, please. Yeah, of course. Uh, Matt Solus with Mitch Engineering, project manager helping out the work sense. So, we'll plans right
here and Jeff, I'll let you kind of kick it off and Yes, thank you. Um yeah, so as part of our state of good repair program, um we are looking at um improving accessibility, reconstructing the roadways and the sidewalks along um Bfield Street from Park Drive to St.
Mary Street. Uh ultimately to address the mean the poor condition of the the sidewalks and the roadway. Um we are looking at proposing a number of improvements with with a ramp um caching ramp improvements street line along the corridor um which includes race
crossings um to slow down vehicle traffic along this corridor. Uh with that I would turn it over to uh Matt to kind of go over um specific details um in regards to the design. Sure. So, uh, primarily middle and overlay projects and putting in new
cement concrete sidewalks with some miscellaneous lighting updates. Um, on Medfield Street specifically, um, there is a raised crossing just to the land left of Kzwick Street. Um, and then Contrafold bike length as well on
this street. Um, and then just a small curb extension closest to the corner of St. Mary's. And then also adjacent to the crosswalk and along the border, we have the Cassid Place concrete um, daylighting medians. Um, at the new business hearing, there was a question about this one specifically on kind of
page right center of the page about just making sure uh truck movements and trash trucks can get around these medians. So, we did make some minor geometric modifications to those since the last new business hearing um just to accommodate those vehicles. Um, and one other comment that got brought up was about tree clearances and making sure
pedestrians um have 4 foot minimum clearance. So, we added a typical dimension and you know based on our notes and field checked that um that's kind of the bulk of this one here. Yeah. Yep. And I and I'll just jump in to follow up um in in regards to the questions that were asked about the um
the daylighting at the the the um driveway access. Um um they were provided um access to the back of um these buildings on this this property. Um there were conversations about um removing those um concrete median um
casting place uh median islands um not only to uh just maintain um access but also just not to uh create a precedent where we are proposing daylighting um at driveways as opposed to just at um uh
crossings um and at corners of intersections. So um in regards to the final marlars um although this is not um within the purview of um PIC we will be removing um those concrete uh casting place medians um at that location.
That's all I got. Great. Uh questions or comments by commission members staff or public? No. I will take this opportunity to remind the public if you wish to ask questions or um add testimony, please use the raised hand function at the bottom of your screen. Apologies for
forgetting to mention that with the last action. Um I do not see any raised hands currently and PIC staff is all set. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number two. I move to approve a petition by the city of Austin public works department for
the making of specific repairs within Medfield Street as further read into the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I I opposed. Uh public hearing item number three on the petition by the city of Boston public works department for making of
specific repairs within the following public ways in Brighton consisting of curb realignment, roadway and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, specialty pavement, traffic signal infrastructure, street lighting infrastructure, storm drain infrastructure, driveway curb cuts and median islands. Arlington Street
between Emry Road and Islington Street. Dela Place Emry Road at Arlington Street. Barrow Street north of Arlington Street. Weatherly Street south of Arlington Street. Islington Street Journal north of Armington Street. Del Place new business 424 2025 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston
Public Works Department Engineering Division. Specific repair plans, Arlington Street, Brighton Road to Islington Street, Boston. Three sheets dated April 2025. Morning, Madam Chair. Um once again, Jeff Alexis, public works engineering. um IND team um uh petitioning for the uh
specific pairs along Armitton Street um from Emery Road um to um Holland Street. Joined here by Matt um from NICH. Um I'll quickly give a quick background in regards to these improvements. Um this is part of our state of good repair program um where we are addressing the
sidewalk and roadway conditions um of this corridor uh proposing pedestrian ramps um or new pedestrian ramps as well um street lighting on the corridor. Um one thing that I'll add um is that uh our construction management division is
is looking at um repaving um the other streets that are not being addressed as part of this this project which is Barrow Street, Webly Street um and Allenton Street. Um, in regards to this project and new business, we did receive a request for
us to reach out to um the uh BCYF um in regards to these improvements and the the pocket um parking that we are removing as part of these um improvements which is the the curb extension as you can see here that's adjacent to Webly Street. Um we have spoken to
um their um director in regards to these improvements. they are um in full um support um of these improvements and um as well as uh the the accessibility improvements that we're making in regards to the the crossing that will provide um underneath the the sky bridge
between the Jackson Man um and the B the new BCIF building. Um with that, I will turn it over to uh Matt to kind of go over the specific improvements along the corridor. Great. Good morning everyone. Uh Matt Sus with Mitch Engineering. Um, similar to the other project, this is a
um, road reconstruction primarily um, gave a mill overlay, resetting existing curb, um, sidewalk improvements, new concrete sidewalks, um, the midblock crossing at first main underneath the sky bridge proposing rectangular wrap flash and beacon as Jeff mentioned. This
is kind of that parking bay that we're moving that's been coordinated with um, with them. And then also um minor or pedestrian improvements, new curb ramps everywhere, uh miter lighting improvements as well. And then um we're
actually removing the curb extension here at uh Baro Street just because of the way the daylighting is in our geometric proposals there. Um in terms of new business, I think one of the comments we had besides reaching out about the parking was just tree clearances again. So, would you go
through and note um 4 foot minimum tree clearances around um existing proposed trees? Thank you. Questions or comments by commission members? PIC staff or public? I'll set on this one. I'll entertain a
motion on public hearing item number three. I move to approve a petition by the city of Boston public works department for the making of specific repairs in the area of Arlington Street, Emery Road, Barrow Street, Wembley Street, and
Islington Street as further read into the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I I Great. Public hearing item number four on a petition by the city of Boston public works department for the making of specific repairs within the following public roadways in Dorchester consisting
of per realignment roadway and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps specialty pavement street lighting infrastructure driveway curb cuts median islands and one speed hump Uclid street generally between street and Washington street at Uclid street new business 424 2025 has
shown them a set of plans entitled city of Boston public works department engineering division specific repair plans you could see Dorchester Wington Washington Street Boston three sheets dated April 2025. Morning madam chair once again Jeff Alexis public works engineering IND team
joined here um with our consultant from engineer Matt um I'll let him introduce myself shortly uh petitioning for the um roadway specific repairs um on Uclid Street in Dorchester between Wington Street and Washington Street. Um this fairly straightforward um roadway
reconstruction. It's part of our state of repair reconstructing the sidewalks. Um as well as proposing additional um new pedestrian rims along the corridor and some limited street lighting improvements. Uh proposing a number of trees along the corridor with um um
present bound stone um um along u the path of the tree over within the tree pits. Um, with that, I'll I'll turn it over to to kind of Matt to Matt to kind of get over any more specific details. Great. Good morning. I'm Matt with Nish Engineering. Um, primarily uh road
reconstruction as Jeff alluded to, pavement mill and overlay with replacing the existing cement concrete sidewalks in place with um resin uh existing trees and also proposed trees. U minor lighting upgrades on this um section of the roadway and then new pedestrian
curve ramps as well. Um I will say that we're adding a speed hump um kind of in the center of the roadway um near about number 11. Um and then Cass plays concrete daylighting as you get closer to Bington Street as well. Um at new
business we primarily just heard a comment about tree clearances around existing proposed trees. um circle 4 foot minimum typical for um pathways across step. Thank you. Questions or comments by commission
members? PIC staff or public? I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number four. I move to approve a petition by the city of Boston public works department for the making of specific repairs in the area of Uklid
Street and Wington Street as further read to the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I I opposed. Great. Public hearing item number five on a petition by the city of Boston public works department for the making of specific repairs within the following
public ways and high park consisting of curb realignment roadway and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps specialty pavement street lighting infrastructure storm drain infrastructure street trees driveway curb cuts median mileins and speed humps the avenue from river street to its northerly terminus at Wesley G
Ross playground river street at ready avenue Frasier street at ready avenue new business 424 2025 is shown in a set of plans entitled city of Boston public parks department engineering division specific repair plans ready avenue high park river street dated to dead end
Boston three streets dated April 2025 morning madam chair uh m members of the commission Jeffrey Alexis public works engineering um as well as the infrastructure design team joined here um Matt Solstice from nation engineering
so shortly u petitioning for uh the specific repairs on ready avenue from river street to the end um which is the entrance to the ros Ross um playground uh Ross Field um uh standard um um um uh standard of good
repair improvements along this quarter. Um proposing um new cement concrete sidewalks along the corridor. Um repaving the roadway um the speed hump and some daylighting um and um as well as some cover stations that we're proposing. Um new street lighting along the corridor. Um, one thing that I'll
mention in regards to uh, new business, um, we we were uh, requested to take a look or reach out to Omus in regards to some parking um, impacts that this project will have um, for the daylighting. Um, failed to mention that for the other um, other locations as
well where there are um, daylighting has been proposed. We are we have reached out to uh, Office Services um, to address those additional spaces that um, would be um, technically removed. Um I mean at since parking is not technically
allowed um 20 ft of an intersection um we're ultimately just formalizing um those spaces um those street our street parking spaces that are um that essentially illegal. Um so we've reached out and and informed them and they will
be co coordinating with the community doesn't know that these of these improvements. Um, additional question that we were asked um was in regards to uh maintaining um pedestrian access by providing a wraparound at the end of uh Freddy Avenue at the the park entrance.
Um that is something that we did look at as part of um the design for this project. Um ultimately um was decided against because of the drainage impacts that were going to be required. Um the drainage um along the corridor um
actually ends um uh maybe probably a little bit um either beyond um or before Frasier Street um which require us to propose um additional um drainage um main along the corridor. So like that
was kind of decided against um so we will be maintaining a um the ramp pedestrian access crossings at that location with access being provided um along the sidewalks. Um with that I'll turn over to Matt um to get specific
details. Great. Uh Matt Sult Engineering um just to build on what Jeff mentioned um over at the Ross Playground entrance just um that's kind of the roadway low pointer all the water sheet flowing towards that way. So that's why we didn't do the additional drainage. Um in addition to everything Jeff mentioned,
um new street lighting along this corridor and also just verified the 4ft minimum clear passage around existing proposed trees. Um and then we're just replacing the existing hot mix asphalt sidewalks with cement concrete out here and then just the two speed humps
as well. Think that I think Jeff hit it all though. Thank you, Matt. Questions are gone with commission members. KC staff Republic. All set. I will entertain a motion on public
hearing item number five. I move to approve a petition by the city of Austin public works department for the making of specific repairs in the area of Ready Avenue, River Street, and Fraser Street. Uh as further read into the record by
the chair. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Public hearing item number six, a petition by the city of Boston public works department for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways and high park consisting of curb realignment, roadway and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramp specialty pavement, street lighting
infrastructure, storm drain infrastructure, street trees and driveway cirks. Thatcher street generally between Metropolitan Avenue and Bradley Street. Metropolitan Avenue at Thatcher Street. Huntington Avenue at Thatcher Street. Bradley Street at Thatcher Street. New business 424 2025 is shown on a set of plans entitled city of Boston public works department
engineering division specific repair plan that street hide park metropolitan app to Bradley Street Boston free sheet stated April 2025 morning madam chair um other members of the commission uh my name is Jeffrey Alex public works engineering infrastructure and design team joined
here from with our design consultant Matt Los from Nich um petitioning for the specific repairs adapt street from uh metropolitan Avenue to Bradley Street. Um, ideally, this is state of good repair. Um, we're proposing cement concrete sidewalks in, um, the areas
where there are asphalt sidewalks, um, street lighting improvements, raise um, I'm sorry, um, curb extensions, perpendicular ramps, um, as well as, um, repaving the the corridor. Um, with that, I I don't believe that we had any additional requests in regards to new
business. I would turn it over to Matt u to get over to um, to go over more of the details. Thank you. Great. Thanks, Jeeoff. Uh Matt Silus, finished engineering. Um reconstruction of Thatcher from Metrs or Bradley. Um we'll note um replacing the existing hot mix
asphalt sidewalks with cement concrete. Um new trees along the corridor as well with the 4ft minimum clearance. Um curb extensions primarily at Metropolitan Avenue. Um all curb extensions and geometric changes have been checked for single unit truck and emergency
vehicles. Um, I will just note additional curb extensions at the intersection with Bradley, specifically this kind of page northeast corner and bringing out um with new pedestrian crossings here with ramps for each direction of the crossing. Um, the only new business was about the
tree dimensions and and just making sure we're carrying that. So, um, that's it. Thank you, Matt. questions or comments by commission members.
PIC Stack Republic. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number six. I move to approve a petition by the city of Austin public works department for the making of specific repairs uh in the area of Thatcher Street, Metropolitan Avenue,
Huntington Avenue, and Bradley Street. as further read to the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Public hearing item number six on a petition by the city of Boston public works department for the making of
specific repairs within the following public ways in West Roxberry considering consisting of curb alignment, roadway and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, specialty pavement, street lighting infrastructure, storm drain infrastructure, street trees, driveway curve cuts, median island, speed humps and raised crosswalks. McBride Street generally between South Street and Call
Street. Lee Street north of McBride Street. Boon Street south of McBride Street. Call Street north of McBride Street. New business 224 2025 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plans McBride Street Jamaica Plan South Street to Buen Street Boston 5 sheets
dated April 2025. Morning madam chair. Um, members of this commission, Jeffrey Alexis, public pool works engineering, um, infrastructure design team joined here with our design consultant from um, niche engineering. Um, Matt Solstice um, going over u
repair plans for McBride Street. Um, we're proposing to make improvements along this corridor from South Street. Um, I look down to a little bit past Call Street um to the southwest quarter park. Um ideally city could repair uh reconstructing the sidewalks uh from
asphalt uh to cement concrete. I'm proposing u a contra bike lane on this corridor. Um this since a new business, I think the only um at least on my end, the only uh request that I got was for me to to ensure that we have additional
or um provide enough signage in terms of um restricting um vehicles um from from driving down the one way. Um I believe I if um if Matt if you can kind of shift over to the next uh next sheet. I
believe at um yes it's Lee Street. Yes. So adding substantial signage um do not enter oneway signs to kind of prevent um error driver behaviors of driving down the oneway. Um with that I would turn it
over to uh Matt to kind of go over any additional details regardless in regard to design. Great. Thank you everyone. Um, similar to the other projects, a proposed pavement mill and overlay with construction of new concrete sidewalks replacing the existing comics asphalt
sidewalks. Um, along this corridor, we have three proposed speed humps as well as well as the contraflow bike lanes. Um, street trees being coordinating with parks. Um, and the only other thing that I think came up was just we've been working with the gas company on just no
trees within 3 ft of their um, gas lot. I think it's been the only other item of brought up. And then the only other big um design item is um besides minor curve changes is the raised crossing at the southwest corridor park as well um just to enhance the pedestrian crossing
there. Questions or comments by commission members? Yes. Staff or public? All set. All right. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number seven. I move to approve a petition by the city
of Boston public works department the making of specific repairs in the area of McBride Street, Lee Street, Boon Street, and Carl Street as further read into the record by the chair.
Second. All in favor? I I Great pleasure as always, Jeff. Thank you. So that's the last one. I d I hope that's the last one. Yeah, I think that's it. All right, thank you. Public hearing item number eight on a
petition by NR Electric Company, DBA Evers Source Energy for a grand location to install an electric transformer vault and associated infrastructure within the following public ways in Boston proper. North Margin Street generally North Thatcher Street. That street generally between North Margin Street and Prince Street. New business 4242025 is shown on
a plan entitled city of Boston public works department engineering division relic application plan of a transformer manhole for PIC Thatcher Street and North Margin Street Boston dated April 2025. Okay. Hello. Can you hear me? Yes. Okay.
This is Chanel Glenn from Eversource and yes um we're starting on North Margin Street going northerly from manhole 358. You have a plan that you can present. Okay, one second. Uh, let me
share this one. Share. No, not that one. One second. Can you see it? Yes. Okay. My mouse here. Okay. Yes. We're
starting over here at North Margin Street Northerly from Manhole 358 at Thatcher Street to Manhole 5334. Installing approximately 72 ft of
conduit and one new sidewalk vault SNV 725 including a network transformer inside. Then going across that street northeasterly from manhole 358 at North
Margin Street to manhole 359 at print to Prince Street via existing manhole going through those manholes. um manhole 6113 and manhole 10204 and installing
approximately 15 49 ft of conduit. Questions or comments by commission members? The IC staff Republic. Um, I know that there was a discussion at the last hearing uh in regards to impacts to uh
any pedestrian ramps in the area. It doesn't look like there are any that are directly impacted, but uh I I believe the disabilities commission in their absence today um would still like to um have a very brief discussion on which ramps here might be reconstructed by Eversource. Um but I think that can be
that can happen offline. Okay. Okay, I will entertain a motion on public hearing item number eight. I move to approve a petition by Instar Electric
uh for grant a vocation to install an electric prince for vault and associated infrastructure in the area of North March Street and Thatcher Street. Uh as further added to the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I I I
opposed. Great. Public hearing number nine. Okay. Thank you very much. Oh, thank you. Public hearing item number nine on a set of joint petitions by Northeastern University and ACCOP 840 Columbus LLC for the
acceptance of two pedestrian easements adjacent to the following public roadways in Roxbury. Mleing a cast on its southerntherly side between Columbus Avenue and Tremont Street. Traumat street on historic side south of Malia Cass Boulevard. New business 424 2025 is shown in a set of plans inside city of Boston public works department
engineering division pedestrian easement Malia Cask Boulevard Tmont Street two sheets dated January 2025. So good morning. Uh my name is Chris, project manager with Niche Engineering. I'm joined here by uh Justin car with
Northstar um representing our client um American campus communities as well as Mike Hagerty with Oakus Man Freddy Architects and I believe Natalyia is also here from Nor Eastern. Um so these two pedestrian ements um one on Melania Cast Boulevard and one on Kmont Street.
Um they coincide with the section of public sidewalk cement concrete public sidewalk that will extend onto the project uh property. Uh, no changes since the new business here. Great. Questions or comments by commission members?
PIC staff or public? All set with easements. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number nine. I move to approve a set of joint petitions by Northeastern University and ACCOP LLC for the acceptance of two
pedestrian easements in the area of Melia Cass Boulevard and Trimmont Street as further read into the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I I I opposed. Right. Public hearing item
number 10 on a joint petition by Northeastern University ACCOP840 Columbus LLC and the Boston Redevelopment Authority DBA, the Boston Planning and Development Agency for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways in Roxberry consisting of curb realignment, roadway and sidewalk reconstruction with
structural soil as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, specialty pavement, traffic signal infrastructure, street lighting infrastructure, storm drain infrastructure, street trees, landscaping, seat walls, bike racks, protected bike facilities, median islands, and granite stairway. Columbus AB at address number 840 generally
southwest of Millennium Cast Boulevard. Millia Cast Boulevard generally between Columbus A and Tremont Street. Tremont Street generally southwest of Molia Cast Boulevard. New business 424 2025 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division specific repair plans. Tremont Street Malia Cast
Boulevard Columbus Avenue public way 7 sheets dated January 2025. Thank you again. Good morning. Chris Ani, project manager engineering. Um joined by Ian McKinnon with Howard San Hudson, Justin Karen with Nordstar, Mike Hagerty with Alus Man Freddy Architects.
Um and Matali as well with Northeastern. Um so the specific repairs uh are in support of the project shown on the screen which is a new student housing uh building at the corner of Belcast Tmont Street and Kav
um across from the station. rendering of the building. Um then rendering of the the streetscape which we're proposing. Uh this will be at the corner of Tremont Street and Mel Cass. Um so the proposed improvements um working our way out from
the building include cement concrete sidewalks, permeable pavers, seating um with backs and uh locations for um accessible access for wheelchairs to sit. Um bike racks, street lights um and new pedestrian ramps. uh as well as uh
race cycle track along term sorry along milcast boulevard um in so we had received a few comments at the previous hearing um which I'll walk through here um the first one being um a question about access from this
island um essentially we are doing the reciprocal ramp but the question was how does someone then where does someone then go from there um so we had discussed this with um the project that is just getting started over on this corner over here and that that is a part of their
project. So we have not made any changes to show additional ramps at that island. Um we have also been working with and we met with uh team with this with uh planning and BTD yesterday to discuss the cycle infrastructure. There
was a concern about the proposed cycle track which is coming down from the top of the page here. um just sending cyclists across Fremont and downcast where there is not currently a cycle facility. Um so we totally understand that comment and we are proposing to put
a small temporary island. This would be it's the same detail as the um the concrete island that protects the cycle track on Columbus A. Um put that at the end of the cycle track with a sign to direct cyclists to cross over to where
we have the two-way cycle track um on the other side of Mel Cass and then that can be taken out in the future if and when there's a cycle facility built on the other side of Milcast Boulevard. Um and just in support of that we widened this pedestrian ramp so that we can
simultaneously have the the cycles used that and this is a very similar condition um to what exists um at this existing at this opposite corner from our project uh adjacent to EXP which was in front of PS a few years ago. Um, we also received
some comments from the Boston Planning Department regarding uh plantings, which we've addressed. Uh, we received those since the previous hearing. Um, and with that, I think I'll open up to questions unless anyone else on the team has
anything questions or comments by commission members. Um, I will say right from the BTD place, I think that we have some things that we want to discuss regarding the signals and their timings, but that does not need to be a part of this. Um, just that
we would like to discuss it. I think Ian's lurking. Um, so yeah, um, we want to, uh, I think talk about some timing stuff here and the equipment on the corners, but um, that can happen after this. Understood. Yeah. Thank you, Amy.
We'll we'll get back to you and and Don right after this hearing. We just wanted to make sure that curbs and everything stops moving. So, yep. Perfect. Thank you again. All right. Questions or comments from PIC staff or public?
Allison Pinez, I see you have your hand raised. Please unmute yourself and go ahead. Yes. Hi, good morning. uh Allison Ptonis and I'm speaking on behalf of the friends of Milia Cass Boulevard and um just echoing the concerns uh that were
brought up two weeks ago by the chief of streets about that um oneb block long uh bike uh raised um cycle track on Melnia Cass and how it directs uh cyclists to
that dangerous corner. Um, and I I uh I see that you're aware of that concern, but um it does duplicate the two-way um bike facility that's on across the
street. So, directing uh riders to cross earlier makes a lot more sense. Um it you do not want to put uh bike riders in danger at that corner with all the left turning traffic that moves from uh the
boulevard towards um Rugles. So it it it still doesn't seem like a good solution and uh getting people stranded on the island is also not good. Um, so I I would urge uh BTD to keep uh talking to
Northeastern about this design and rethink it. You do not need uh multiple lanes, bike lanes on one block when you have a two-way facility on the other side. Thank you. additional comments or
questions and well first to answer that one we are looking at this I think for us right like we have some questions about uh what's happening right now what's happening after this uh the order of operations um and right kind of interim steps to get us to the future so
we are we will continue to look at that um and coordinate with northeastern Thank you. Additional comments or questions? All right. I will entertain a motion on public hearing item number 10.
I move to approve a joint petition by Northeastern University ACCOP and the Boston Planning and Development Agency for the making of specific repairs in the area of Columbus Avenue, Malia Cass Boulevard and
Trimmont Street as further read into the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I I opposed. Great. Public hearing item number 11 on a direct petition by Vert.Ex Pharmaceuticals and Economic Development
and Industrial Corp of Boston for the vertical discontinuence of a portion of Northern Avenue, South Boston, located at address number 316, 318, and 331 to 339 generally northwest of Tide Street, vertically above the grade of the roadway. New business 424 2025 is shown
on a set of plans entitled city of Boston public works department engineering division vertical discontinuence 316 to 318 Northern Avenue 331 to 339 Northern Avenue Boston Seapport Boston street date one sheet dated
December 2024. Thank you again. Chris, project manager, Nisha Engineering. U joined by Alex Maguiar and Carles Papardo from Vert.Ex as well as Boss Anderson from Andreas from uh SG Architects. Um so this is a
vertical discontinuence for bridge over Northern A between one existing building and one currently under construction building. Um we haven't made any changes to this since the previous hearing. There are two things I want to note which is that we have discussed um we've gotten in in touch with the fire
department and they had no no objections as well as we've um coordinated this with massport as well. Great questions or comments by commission members PIC staff or public
all set on this. I'll entertain any motion on public hearing on number nine. I move to approve a joint petition by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston for a vertical discontinuence
of a portion of Northern A as further read into the record by the chair. Second. All in favor? I I opposed. Great. Thanks. Thank you. Concludes public hearing on new
business. New business item number one, La Martinine Street, United Street, Heath Street, Roxbury Highway discontinuences, light and grade approval specific repairs on a set of joint petitions by Urban Edge Housing Corp, DBA, Mildred Haley 3 Limited Partnership, and the Boston Housing
Authority. Uh, can you state your name and tell us about your project? Thank you, chair and commissioners. My name is Russell Pandress, senior project manager at Urban Edge Housing Corporation. Um I'm joined by Steve Fentrusa at Mitch Engineering. Um as
along with my colleague Laura Martin from Community Builders. Um I can share screen for just a little bit of background about this uh new business. Um um Steve will get into the more
technical details. Um but you're looking at um a rendering of Milton C. Haley master plan of the redevelopment. Um so this petition is related to the
construction of United Street um located here. Um along with a um so what is currently ongoing at the Mildred C. Haley redevelopment. Um Martin Street
has been constructed um with um uh 1A 1B buildings um that were developed by the community builders and um the master plan has changed since um
the original master plan in 2022. Um there was originally a L Martin Street would connect to center. that has changed due to request from the Boston Transit Department. So now we have um an elbow connection of the roadway connecting to the um parallel street of
Parker Street. Um and we went through a naming process for this new roadway. Um and we are proposing to call it United Street. This was based off of a um period of community engagement in
October and November 2024 uh where we conducted outreach to the Mildred Cy Haley tenant organization and residents at Mil Haley to obtain community input on the name of this roadway. Uh we proposed four different names and conducted polling and
in-person outreach at the um at the at the Boston Housing Authorities Management Office along with the Mildred C. Haley food pantry over a 3-week period in October and November. Um so we identified four options for the name of this new roadway and United Street won
handily with 75% of the vote. Um, I will, um, turn it over to Steve to walk through the more technical details of the petitions. Hi, good morning, Madam Chair, members of the commission. Um, Steven Ventresco
with NIT Engineering. Um, first I'd like to start with the discontinuence that we're proposing. Um what's shown in front of you is uh the approved PIC plan for Lamarine Street which shows the play or the hammerhead connection at the end which shown in blue. Um we're looking to
discontinue this so that we can then create that elbow and United Street. This is showing the discontinuence plan that was prepared and provided to the commission for review. Um that allows us to extend Lamar Lam Martin Street which is basically from this point which is
shown in this green line all the way to the elbow and down to the new United Street. The blue shading indicates the discontinued areas and then we're reestablishing the rightway line which is 54 ft on both uh L Martin continuing that right ofway and then on to United
which is also 54. Uh we're providing u new street lighting uh permeable pavers cement concrete. We're um we're also providing additional uh soil structural soil for the trees which is shown as this hatch that's below the proposed um
cement concrete sidewalks. Um and for L Martin we're providing raised crosswalks with the steel or cast iron tactile panels um which is a new requirement or newer requirement. Um at the elbow we're providing green infrastructure. So we
have a curb break to allow storm water to go through um into that little buyer retention area. And then we have the requisite um street utilities that's gone through BWSC review and approval. Um as we go around the corner I should
say for the drop off we do have two areas for um for cars to pull in. We do provide a pedestrian ramp here without a tactile surface. Um so that people can get access into future building two which would be over here and potentially building four which would be here. Um
after we turn the elbow we come down to United Street and just showing you the plan of of United Street the line and grade of that. When we get into United Street um we're flipped over here now. So here's the elbow Martin extension elbow and then United Street again providing the requisite permeable pavers
um trees cement concrete um sidewalks um raised crossings along United at either end um we are providing uh curb cut access for potential future for um building um underground garage access. So, we're leaving that open here. We are
improving the Parker Street intersection by providing um two accessible ramps here and here that go to street grade um but are providing bumpouts um with our discussion with BTD. The last
piece, so we have the streets here. The last piece that we want to discuss is an old um part of the the project. Um I'm going back to New Le Martine and and Heath Street. Um originally the commission had approved a median which
is shown here on the right. We had an extra extended long median as Russell mentioned when Lamarine Street was extending to Center Street. Um the city had concerns of um cut through traffic and making left turns from Lamarine onto Heath Street. But after the change um to
the elbow and now new United Street without the cutth through uh we came back and discussed this median to um cut it back and provide a um a path so that if cars did want to come out and take a left on Heath Street that we would um revise the median accordingly which is
excuse me which is what is shown here. That is so a lot of information. Um that concludes our presentation. So happy to um listen to comments or answer questions that you may have questions or comments by commission members staff or public.
I think we're all set on this one for now. Um there are some plan updates that the project I know is working on but uh we expect to have those before the public hearing. Correct. That's correct. All right. So, you're ready to come back on May 22nd. May 22nd. Yes. All right.
See you then. See you then. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, new business item number two, 95 average street, Brainree Street, Blaine Street, Brighton, widening, relocation, pedestrian easement, specific repairs on a set of petitions by Penrose LLC.
Uh, hi, good morning. Uh, this is Ryan Kirkoff uh, with Penrose. Uh, we are the developer and proponent of 95 Ever Street. Uh I'm trying to share my screen. All right. Are folks able to see that? Yes. Excellent. Thank you. So uh
95 Ever Street is a proposed uh new construction affordable housing development in Austin, Brighton. It's immediately adjacent to the Boston Landing MBTA station uh and the uh under under construction Austin Yards development. This is an 88 unit 100%
incomerestricted uh proposal mix of studios, one beds, two beds, and three beds. The site today is a surface parking lot with a small one-story garage structure that dates to the 1950s. Um the site includes a ground
floor amenity, uh a local retail or community space, a uh fitness center, bike parking. There is no vehicular parking provided uh here due to its to location and a full on-site management suite. Um with me today are uh Paula
Thompson from Beles and Thomas the civil engineer and Jessica Welsh Cordis from Dlan Schaefer the project architect. And with that I will hand over to Paula Thompson. Good good or good morning actually. um Paula Thompson from Beals and Thomas. We
are the civil engineers on the project and I'm hoping you can see my screen. Yes, I think you can. So, to start off, as Ryan mentioned, the it's a halfacre site. It's surrounded by Everett Street, Brain Tree Street, and
Blaine Street in the Alustin neighborhood. And on the screen now, I have just a couple of photos of existing conditions. This um on the left side is Everett Street. The existing sidewalk is pretty narrow. It's about 5 1/2 to 6 ft.
There are no street trees. Um no permeable pavers on that. The next photo is looking west. So this is um Brainree Street and the corner of Blaine. Uh again, no street trees. The sidewalk is
about six feet wide. And the last photo down here shows the Blaine Street. This is a existing fence line that is right on the the back of sidewalk and the sidewalk is only about 4 and 1/2 ft wide with no street
trees. The project is as Ryan you saw in the photos, the project is improving the site. We will be demolishing the existing building and constructing the residential and with small retail space. This is just a rendering of what um the
final condition would look like. This is the corner of Blaine and Brainree Street. Um and then specifically, we are asking for specific repairs on Everett Street where we will widen the concrete sidewalks to a
minimum of 5.3 ft with about 4t of permeable pavers, new street trees. We're upgrading the lighting wiring system. We are um upgrading the existing um accessible ramps and reciprocal ramps
and we've worked with disabilities commission on the alignment and construction of those also with Boston Public Works um ADA compliance department. That's Everick Street on Brainree Street.
We would be upgrading the sidewalks considerably, removing the the building back about 20 ft from its existing face. So, widening the sidewalks to a minimum of 5 1/2 ft of concrete, but up to about
10t wide of concrete sidewalk. Permeable pavers are about 4 feet wide with new street trees, one new street light on Brainree. And then we have worked with disabilities commission and public works to incorporate a raised crossing across
Brainree Street. Um the grading was really challenging. All of the the ramps existing ramps were apex ramps. So we are realigning those um to make the accessibility a lot better than existing conditions. We are also upgrading the
um street lighting and wiring. We're working with lighting department on those. And the other thing that we're doing on Brainree Street is we're making a drop off area. It's pretty narrow Brainree Street, so we're going to do a drop off area. Um, and that will tie into our widening and relocation
easement, which I will get into in a couple minutes. Um, and lastly, oops, did I miss Blaine Street here? So, Blaine Street, we are considerably widening the sidewalk on Blaine Street.
um at least five feet wide and wider in some locations. The building is moved back um at its narrowest point, two feet from that existing green fence line that you saw up to 17 ft back from that. So, it's going to feel a lot more open on
Blaine Street. We have permeable pavers, minimum of 18 in but 3 feet where we have a section of street trees and um new accessible ramp and reciprocal ramp across Blaine Street. We did look at this as a raised crossing
also, but we had a lot of drainage implications because Blaine Street does drain to the north. Um but we worked with accessibility on on the layout and grading of those. Um, in addition, we are asking
for a widening and relocation along Brainree Street to incorporate that um, drop off area that I mentioned. It's only about 3 ft wide for the length of our frontage on Brainree Street. And then we have incorporated
pedestrian easements on all three streets to allow for a minimum of 5 foot wide publicly accessible concrete sidewalk. and then it's wider in some locations. So, um on Everett Street, you can see it's a minimum of four feet wide
to make the sidewalk 5T wide and then it widens. And we're going to the limit of our proposed um improvements on site which includes some planters or the building face or specialty paving. So, we're not putting the specialty paving in the pedestrian easement. Um just the
concrete. So, that's Everett and Brainree. Again, we're going up to the limit of the specialty pavers. And then on Blaine, um it just needed to be a little bit wider and we're going up to the building face or
um site improvements. So, we have a trans raised transformer pad and a switch gear pad um in a little landscaped area on site. So, the easement will go up to those limits. And that is the end of our presentation and happy to open it up to
questions. questions or comments by commission. I I don't know if I missed it, but is is there underground parking or um if there is is is where's the driveway? Yes. So, no no parking on the project site.
Thank you. Uh additional questions or comments from commission members? Um, I'll note that uh the disability commission is not here today and they might have small tweaks on the um Blaine
piece of it. Um, so if you could follow up with them um that'd be great. Uh, PS staff republic. Uh, I think we're all set. Uh, will you be ready on May 22nd? Yes. All right.
We'll see you then. Great. Thanks so much. All right. Thank you very much. Uh, new business item number three. Uh, 1266 to 1270 Commonwealth Avenue, Borum Street, Brainer Road, Brighton, pedestrian easement, specific repairs on a set of petitions by 1266 Commonwealth
Avenue uh, LLC. The project team state their name and present your projects. Good morning. My name is Mafal with Hines representing the development team of Hines and Benson. This is 1270 Commonwealth Aly situated on
Com and abuting Gorm Street and Brandon Road. Uh current site is an existing vacant CVS and surface parking. Um anticipated project is six stories
with one level of parking at grade uh 205 units including 35 units of affordable housing. I'm joined here by Ryan Gordon from NIH, Liz Perth from HSH, and Andrew Harbaugh from Copley
Wolf. Very much appreciate you including us on the agenda for this muchneeded housing project. Thank you. I'll turn it over to Ryan. Good morning everyone. Uh Ryan Gordon, project manager with Niche Engineering. I'll walk through the specific repairs
plans with you to show you um our improvements. As Matt said, we have Commonwealth Avenue to the north. We're in the carriage road, frontage road of Commonwealth A. We have Gorum Street to the west and Brainer Road to the south.
I have some images here of the existing sidewalks that surround the site. We have Commonwealth Avenue facing west, Gorm Street facing north, and Brainer Road facing east. Mostly uh you know, concrete sidewalks um without much else.
So on Commonwealth Avenue, we have proposed concrete sidewalks, uh granite curb, we have new street lights with pull boxes and conduit, uh shadow conduit and pull boxes. Uh we have trees and planters with guards and structural
soil, a blue bike station, uh accessible ramps at a midblock crossing. uh new crosswalk, permeable pavers uh about four feet wide uh in the furnishing zone and that's pretty standard across all three streets. Uh and we have a raised
crossing at the intersection with Gorum and uh Comm which you see down here. Moving on to Gorm Street, we have more concrete sidewalk, 4ft furnishing zone of permeable pavers. We have bike
racks all along the length of Gorum Street with street trees. And we also have a pedestrian easement um to provide we have a minimum 6 1/2 ft wide sidewalk along Corm Street. We also have a curve
cut that's 18 ft wide and that's for access for loading and uh trash. So that's uh down on this end closer to Briner Road. And then once we move on to Briner Road, we have another raised crossing at
this end. We have more street trees, uh permeable pavers. We have a minimum 7 foot wide sidewalk on Brainard Road. And we also have a 22 foot wide uh curb cut that is access for the alley which is
for parking on the ground level of this building and also access for the neighboring buildings uh which are next to the project site. And then we have our pedestrian easement plan. This shows um the area of about
1,923 square ft uh to provide uh a minimum of 5 ft clear path sidewalk on Gorum Street and Briner Road. But as I said, we're providing 6 1/2 ft clear on Gorum and 7 ft clear on Brainer Brook. So with that, I'm happy to answer any
questions, questions or comments by commission members. Um, I'll say that uh we BTD and public works were discussing the addition of a crosswalk across Brainard Street um that we'd like to discuss, but you can follow
up with Todd um about the general uh location of that um 10. Yes. Yeah, we received a comment uh and we'll we will um review options and explore. Great. Uh, PSC staff Republic,
I think we're all set on this one for now. All right. Will you be ready on May 22nd? Yeah, we should be. Um, and we'll follow up on the the crossing on Brandy. Yes, Dolores. Hi. I just wanted to flag to remind you
to submit any plan set for the curb cuts that are within the scope of this project to myself um to determine whether they are um PROWAG compliant and signed off by the disability commission.
Okay, thank you. Um yes, I sent plans over to you yesterday and um we did coordinate with Sarah Disabilities Commission for the design of the um curb cut curb cuts uh driveway entrances and
the ramps. Okay. And did you um design the ramps that were submitted in accordance with her advice? Yes. Yeah. One of her comments was specifically related to uh the midblock crossing on Commonwealth
Avenue. Um the request was for a race crossing at this location and we couldn't make it work due to utilities and drainage uh effects to drainage but we did work to lessen the slopes um so
that they were u more minimal um and a better condition than than we had proposed originally. And was she satisfied? Yes. Okay. All right. Um, we generally have a two to three week turnaround time for our
engineering team to get to plan sets from the date that they come in. So, you should expect a response from us soon. Okay. Thank you. All right. I guess we'll see you on May 22nd. Thank you.
Uh, new business item number four, 10 Chandler Street, Trammont Street, Boston College, Pacific Repairs on a position by the Animal Rescue League of Boston. Uh, good morning. Uh, my name is Bob Baldwin. I'm a project manager uh, working for Animal Rescue League of
Boston. Give you a quick intro and then I'll turn it over to Coleman Horsley of uh, Niche Engineering. Uh, Animal Rescue League of Boston has been around for about 125 years. Uh it is a nonprofit uh providing a a shelter, adoption, animal
care, and really a a number of other uh animal related services uh to the citizens of Boston as well as the whole Commonwealth. Uh they've been located in this location at 10 Chandler Street since the 1950s,
uh providing again adoption center, shelter, uh and veterary care. Uh the building that they're currently in is outdated. Uh and this project uh includes the construction of a new groundup approximately 30,000 square
foot threetory structure uh with uh animal shelter adoption uh surrender and veterary clinic use. Uh it will be a phase project. They have to maintain full operations while this is being built and it'll take about two years before the whole project is completed.
Uh we have the same amount of parking uh 25 on-site and 25 on-site in the new project. Uh there will be less parking uh coming in off of Tremont Street, significantly less, and uh relocating
most of it uh off of Chandler Street. Uh and uh last we've uh been working with the uh South End Landmark Districts Commission and of course Boston Planning under Ardi uh to uh make sure everybody's comfortable with the design which I
believe they are uh to date. And with that I'll turn it over to uh Coleman to walk you through the details. Thank you Bob. Uh good morning members of the commission, members of the public and madam commissioner. Um my name is Coleman Horsey. I'm a civil engineer at Ninja Engineering. Um, and I'm here to
present on the project as previously described by Bob. Uh, I'll go over Chandler Street specific repairs first and then go to Traymont after. On Chandler Street, uh, we have wire cut brick pavers for the walking surface um, as coordinated with the Disabilities Commission and, um, landmarks. Uh, and
then in the furnishing zone, we have pvious pavers uh, that are overlaid on top of a structural soil section um to promote tree health for the existing trees along Chandler Street. Uh we are maintaining the existing streets within the limit of this project except for one um that is going to be removed uh to
accommodate the new driveway entrance. Um this has gone through the public street tree hearing process and been uh approved by the tree warden and uh that uh jurisdictional authority. Um we are adding bike racks and have uh also uh
expanded the tree pits of the existing trees um a bit by removing the uh curb and then replacing with edging um just to give the trees a healthier uh healthier growing uh medium. Um and then also we've uh coordinated with
Boston Street Lighting to uh replace the street lights with uh LED acorn fixtures. Uh you can also see that there is some additional area that we are replacing with the wire cut brick pavers um adjacent to the park um owned by the MBTA uh next door to the property. And
then on Traymond Street um this is a smaller section but uh the existing larger parking lot entrance is on Traymont Street. We are reducing the width of this driveway entrance as you can see here down from this uh to a much smaller 12ft section um as the major
parking area has been moved to Chandler Street. Uh we are maintaining the existing street tree um along Traymont and using uh non-pervious brick pavers uh for that furnishing zone just so we don't uh interrupt the street tree uh roots in the process. And then for uh
Tmont Street, we have an 8 foot wide uh cement concrete sidewalk um as coordinated with the disabilities commission. Uh and with that, I will turn it over to questions. Uh yeah, question. So this driveway that you're showing right here, it looks like
it's getting narrower. Correct. Um, so I think that uh if you're out there today, we have uh right a variety of pavement markings into the right side of the driveway here. There's a section
of that is gored out because it wasn't quite big enough for a parking spot. I believe by making your driveway smaller that can become a parking spot. Uh, but either way, I think that the markings, the flex posts, and the cement concrete curb that you find in front will need to
be somewhat relocated to make your driveway as functional as possible and to not having people pull over uh in front of it if you leave a big empty space that gets people to the curve. Understood. We'll coordinate that with BTD. Yep. Perfect. Yeah. So, take your
driveway, throw the pavement markings and flex post on it. Um, and then see what Right. what you think makes sense uh and let us know. Okay. Uh additional questions or comments from commission members. PIC staff or public?
Uh I think we're all set on this one. Uh will you be ready on May 22nd? Yes. All right. We'll see you then. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh, new business item number five, 247 Hancock Street, Thorchester, specific
repairs on a petition by 247 Hancock LLC. Uh, good morning, Madam Chair and members of the commission. My name is Steve Morano with Bowler. I'm here uh joined today with uh the applicant Danny Mole of 247 Hancock LLC. Um we're
presenting uh the pro the project at 247 Hancock Street which is a sixstory um 47 unit affordable housing project. Obviously much needed as we've heard from some of the other projects. Um so excited to get this one moving. Uh it
has 18 parking spaces on site uh and also has a uh or approved as a 57 unit uh bike room uh in inside the facility as well. So, um I'll share my screen and walk you through our um our specific repairs
plan. We're sharing this. Are we seeing that? Yes. Okay, good. It switched screens on me, so I apologize for that. Uh so here's the site and and the building and then um the specific repairs in the
street. It's really a full full reconstruction of the sidewalk along uh the entire uh frontage of the property as well as a little bit beyond to to improve the the side uh or the driveways adjacent on the left side of the site and the right side. Uh and I'll walk
right to left along here. Um, so we're reconstructing this driveway apron, which really is the neighbor's uh driveway, but uh needs some repairs. So, we're starting there. We just redo that to city standards with the 5ft cement concrete along the whole frontage. We
have a minimum of five uh and gets it gets significantly wider. Uh where we're moving the curb line out uh we're moving the curb line out for two purposes. One um to improve this crossing. This is an existing crossing today. So, we're taking the curb line, which is back
here, uh, and we're moving it out, um, which allows a shorter crossing here. We'll redo the crossing, re, uh, build a reciprocal ramp on the other side. And the reason we're showing the dash lines is this. This is a phase of the dock
block project. So, we're coordinating where that location is and then where it will be because the dock block is proposing some realignment on the other side. So that that will move in the future, but we're setting it up in in the right place today. So it's an easy
move uh when they do their sidewalk reconstruction. Uh the other benefit of the bumpout, so we've extended the bump out further, which allows us to introduce a new 15 uh station blue bike um which is which
is needed in the area. So we think that's really nice improvement. And then we also on the bump out creates opportunity uh for Boston lighting wanted two new light poles. So we have blanking either side of that bump out with two new city of Boston street lights uh and and their um equipment and
accommodations and then uh two bicycle racks just for public bike racks uh in in the in the sidewalk area. Two new street trees come in with new tree pits in between. we're able to introduce some curbous paver strip between those uh
trees which will help the trees. Uh and then we narrow our our curb cut which is a shared curb cut. It actually accesses the neighbors existing garage and then we'll access our new uh garage as well and that is being narrowed down to a
20ft uh share driveway. So uh that is that is our project and presentation. Um, I'm happy to answer questions as well as as Danny from 247 Hancock LLC. Uh, so you're pulling your curb out and
the other side is pulling their curve back. Um, and so like I presume that you have designed this based on the resulting dimension between their future and your future. Are we okay and have enough space if you pull out before they
pull back? You're talking about the recept. Yes. So that the the curve line I can just draw a line. So this is the current curve. Oh, sorry. That is not the current curve line. This is the current curve line
today and it correct goes beyond. Um so the to to to build this is is very easy. Um when it comes in here, it it they'll just have to review their curb layout here. But um based on their their
preliminary plans and preliminary approval uh it does look like it it should be a simple straight back uh push. Yeah. So can I guess the easiest way to get at this is can we see it with pavement markings. My point is is that like you are pulling the curve out. They
should be moving the other side. You've designed based on their future condition. What does it look like if you're both still out in the right like what is the resulting dimension? What are the lane widths etc. um through here and then what will they be in the future right kind of like what's the interim
striping plan I guess um for this and then how do we get from there to uh the future I don't know if we've prepared an interimm striping plan we're happy to to yeah just something very basic that shows right like what this will be if
you arrive before they do um and then the other thing is is that the curved line on uh this side the the curb radiuses will need work to become conformant with our standards for right just how we do the um standard neck
downs and and curve radi but that's um we're we're happy to provide those dimensions and we can I I I don't yeah I think right like uh right Jeff and public works could probably get you what are standard um right compound curves and stuff like that for the bump outs
etc. Yep. Additional questions or comments by Commissioner Ivers Republic. Um the one other thing I will mention is I'm noticing the interior
curve curve I should say um at your curve bump out. Yeah, right there. That looks like it comes in at a point. Um, that should be uh we should have a radius there. Um, I don't know off the top of my head what the appropriate radius is, but um you can send them to
Joe. Yeah. Yeah, let's Yep, we'll take care of that. Good. Good catch. All right. Uh, you going to be ready on the 22nd? We will be. All right. See you then. Great. Thank you. Uh, new business number six, Hitchborn Street, Arthur Street, Brighton Highway
discontinuing specific repairs on a set of joint petitions by Hitchborn Beacon LLC and WJG Realy Company LLC. Good morning. This is Kevin Wright from VHB. I'm here with Peter Main uh
representing the Hornfor Street Project. Um, just bear with me one second. Let me share my screen for you. And uh as you may know, we're uh presenting on behalf of the Hitchfor Street project. We're proposing to
discontinue a small portion of Hitchfor Street. Uh right now, which extends into the uh Boston Volvo Village parking lot about 100 ft from the intersection of Arthur and Hitchfor Street. Um uh the
plan is to have a discontinuence and then um also do some specific repairs for uh sidewalk work. Uh so we'll move into the discontinuence. Uh this is the area for
the discontinuence of uh Hitchborn. Uh, as I said, it's the it's about 100 ft from the intersection, but it closes off this uh part of the roadway uh that extends into the parking lot and discontinued along the uh
Hitchborn Beacon LLC property and the uh WJ Realy Company's property line. Uh with that we also have the specific repair uh that go along with this. We've sent out
all the necessary uh notifications and coordination items uh related to these two petitions and uh we've worked extensively with the Boston water and sewer commission to um
uh get secure approvals for a site plan approval for this work. Uh as you saw on the discontinuous plan, there are some existing utilities. Uh so as we go into uh Hitchborn Street, the two existing cash basins will be will remain
in place and become privately owned and maintained by the owner. Uh the hydrant that was uh on Horn Street in this location, the existing one that's here is relocated per an approved site plan with the Boston Water Sewer Commission.
We also plan to provide uh a 6 foot wide uh sidewalk that connects um the Arthur Street portion of this side of Hitchborn um and makes a continuous run. Uh we
plan to include in that um lighting conduit and uh fiber optic conduit to continue so that they don't have to uh rip up the sidewalk if they have to come in and do any future improvements along Arthur Street or if
the lighting uh department has anything that they need to do or repair out here. Uh the one thing that's uh going to change as a result of our coordination with the PIC staff and the disabilities commission is we have proposed this area
along um the sidewalk to be bat 2 minutes. Uh and when we come back next week to or excuse me two weeks for the public hearing, we'll have that shown as uh concrete at the request of uh both of those two
agencies. Um these are standard sidewalk materials, city of Boston, um concrete, um and again all all done per city standards and uh per the approved site
plan uh with the Boston Fire Commission. Great. Um, I'll note that uh for the discontinuous piece, you'll need a current appraisal um and you know agreement to pay whatever that um states. Yes, we we have uh we're working on
securing that. We have one that was done from a previous uh time frame, but we're getting a more current one. Perfect. Dolores. Nope. Change your mind. Hey. Yes. I just wanted to flag that um
the city updated standard specifications for curbance effective the 2025 construction season. So I just want to make sure that you are looking at the most upto-date information um which is now available on our website. We are
following PROWAG. Um so if you were to go into ProRag's rules and regulations, you will see um the updated standards for ramp design and also all curb ramps to be reconstructed must be reviewed by
our engineering team to ensure that the design is compliant. Uh no, thank you very much for that Dolores. Just for your uh knowledge, uh these two existing curb ramps that are out there will go away.
Um they're going to be removed. We're going to have a continuous sidewalk that comes along Arthur Street um and down and continue along uh to connect to the other portion of Arthur Street along here. Um this is all uh paved and will
become a part of the um LLC property. Great. Uh you going to be ready on the 22nd? Yes. See you then. Thank you very much. Thank you. And with that, I'll entertain a motion
to adjurnn. I move to adjurnn. Second. All there. I I All right, guys. That was a great one. See you doing. Thank you.