Or is your sir thank you very much. Good morning everybody. Joshua Franklin judge and the chair of the Public commission and I will call to order the hearing of the 13th twenty twenty five. Mr. Lamb, would you please take
the roll call the with the representative from the Public Works Department so you say their name for the record Yosri Franklin Church property management are not pleased with the same Joseph Callahan Transportation Department in
recording warrants or permission in Denise Stolen Commission for Persons with Disabilities and we do not have anyone from Iasi today but we do have a quorum.
All right. Thank you very much, Doug. On two very first agenda item today here minutes at the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff, the acceptance of the minutes of the PSC hearing held on January 30th twenty twenty five to agree motion to approve a minutes make a motion to
approve the minutes of January 30th 28 by second all in favor by I and oppose or abstain so moved on to the public cheering
section of the agenda starting with public hearing number one on a petition by eating Harvard LLC Joseph R. Sullivan 2010 Trust and thirty one Harvard Realty Trust the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Harvard Avenue Public Way right located on its
Westerby side address number is twenty five to thirty nine generally between Cambridge Street and Fairrington Avenue. This was a new business on January 30th as shown on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Pedestrian Easement Plan.
Twenty five to 20 seven thirty one and thirty nine Harford Avenue and four ten hour Cambridge Street Boston Austin in the member fifth twenty twenty four with the audience please introduce themselves their affiliations and give us
a very brief introduction to the project and changes as it relates to the for gasoline diesel since your new business here and this is now two separate agenda items for the easement and the specific repairs. So we will start with the
easement and then move on to the comparison. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members of the commission my name is Brian Judge, an attorney with Boston stores. I'm joined today by Nonathletic Edan Properties Brian McCarthy of R.J. O'Connell and
Associates Natalie Adams American Landscape Architecture and Rob Salvio and Katie Feebler Architects. Just as a brief reminder Edan Harvard LLC is proposing a new mixed use primarily residential project located adjacent to
Harvard Avenue in Allston with properties having the addresses of twenty five to ten Harvard Avenue thirty one Harvard Avenue, thirty nine Harvard Avenue and 410 our Cambridge Street. Just by way of reminder the project obtains are too large
project review approval from the EPA in December twenty twenty three and zone relief from the Boston Water Appeal in January twenty twenty four and as was mentioned we were before the Commission for New Business two weeks ago on January 30th requesting approvals for
pedestrianism and specific prepare. So we'll take each of those in turn by way of update on the pedestrian easement. We just wanted to know we did have a call on February 5th with Todd Ashley and Sarah to discuss the boundaries of the pedestrianism. That was part of the discussion
of new business but ultimately we agreed that these men had shown that new business would remain the same. So there have not been any changes to that plan new business. But I'll turn it over to Brian McCarthy in case there's any questions about that plan and and I'll just that we we did
finalize the form of pedestrianism with John. Good morning, Brian McKnight Rajagopalan Associates. Yes, Brian mentioned the pedestrian even in those
prepared remains the same and that is called you can see the plan. Yep. Okay.
So yeah, the little plan remains the same and basically what it is is an easement for an additional forefoot with over the over the sidewalk area that will be constructed on a private property for the full frontage of the property.
So that FOREFOOT was shown on this plan remains the same as before and then on the pedestrian easements I mean on the specific repair plan well
here this is what we should hold off on the specific repairs for now that's going to be agenda items. So for just this that is all we see that's from user stuff there and see if there's any
questions from Commissioners' or it hearing none from the commission staff or members of the public. >> I will take some time to determine the public if you wish to ask questions or add
testimony to any particular action item we ask that use the raised hand function at the bottom of your screen. I do not have any comments or questions on this at this time and I don't see anybody else wanting to weigh in either. So I think we're also on the easement. All right.
So anything else is do I hear a motion to approve public hearing? >> No, I make a motion to approve a joint position by Department LLC Joseph R. Sullivan 2010 Trust Thirty one Harvard Realty Trust for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement in Harvard at has been
interrupted by the chair. Oh I by any a poster of same so moved. All right on to the second part this recurring revenue remember
to petition by Harvard LLC Joseph R. Sullivan 2010 Trust in Park thirty one Harvard Realty Trust the making of specific repairs have been argued out in your public way brighten printed on its westerley so that address numbers twenty five to thirty nine generally between Cambridge Street and the Avenue
consisting of Kurban Sidewalk Reconstruction with structural soil as well as new and relocated specialty pavement street lighting infrastructure parking meter space irrigation infrastructure driveway crewcuts bike racks and bike repair stations. This new business on January 30th was shown a set of plans
and titled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repairs Plan twenty five to twenty seven thirty one and thirty nine Hartford Avenue and 410 R Cambridge Street Boston Austin two sheets dated February 11th twenty twenty five with the proponents please reintroduce themselves and
their affiliations and then give us an update on the specific repairs and specifically any changes or comments since your new business hearing. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Members of the commission again my name is Brian Judge from the
Boston stores. I'm joined today by no announcement of properties Brian McCarthy of RJ O'Connell and Associates Natalie Adams American Landscape Architecture and Robert L. Sabio and Katie Architects. So same same project is just discussed in connection with
the pedestrianism in terms of updates with respect to the specific repairs. There have been a handful or service business which I just described briefly now and then turn it over to Brian McCarthy to show you in more detail on the plans.
So as requested new business we will replace the multiple existing parking meters along Harford Avenue with one multi spaced parking kiosk. Second, in response to comments we received from the Boston Parks and Recreation Department since the new business the
opening surrounding the proposed street trees have been increased and we can also confirm based on a question they had raised that the proposed trees here are included on the city's approved tree species list. Theurer that we added a by
thickset station to the sidewalk along Harvard Avenue and then finally I'll just mention similar to the pedestrian and we've also finalized the withdrawal of the LMI for this particular action . So with that I'll turn things
over to Brian McCarthy again just to walk you through the changes in more detail. Brian McCarthy again Bellagio calling associates civil engineers. So the first item was the replacing the existing four meters with a multi spaced
parking kiosk. We showed the location on the plan here right in this location and we put a note and we have a note on here that that this will be coordinated with Boston Transportation Department during construction. So final location will be we'll get coordinated what we show it
here for the other item here is a bike thickset station and that's going to be right in this location here in the varnishing zone along with the bike rack center all along the Pershing. The increase in the size of the
openings in the pavers at the new street trees that went from two feet square to a three foot by four foot opening as requested by Park Recreation Department. So those are indicated by the white rectangles here in the
areas of the trees so that now is three feet by four feet of wood opening. And as Brian mentioned, we added at the request of Parks Recreation we added the tree species to the plan here we've got Ginko and almost American
Valley Forge are the trees that are proposed and they are on approved list cities list. So that's pretty much the changes made since the last the last. Thank you very much
Commissioners questions covid right here. None of his staff or members of the public. I'm all set on this. I appreciate the project team taking time to meet with us
last week to finalize some of these details this I want to go ahead now. I see nothing else also all right. Excellent. Thank you very much.
Do I hear a motion to improve public hearing number to make a motion to approve a transition even have an LLC Joseph R. Sullivan 2010 ten thirty one Harvard Realty Trust for the making of specific repairs and then I would add is read into the record by all in favor I by
any oppose or abstain so moved we are also thank you very much . Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to our next item Public Enemy number three on a petition by the Massachusetts
Bay Transportation Authority for the making of specific repairs in the following public days in Boston proper and Roxbury consisting of realignment roadway and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, street lighting infrastructure traffic signal infrastructure, storm drain
infrastructure, street trees, bike racks, trash receptacles. Baldor wayfinding signage and grid separated by facilities Massachusetts Avenue generally between Steven St. Vincent Batoff Street, Arlington generally between public alley number four or five and Public Alley number eight to twenty.
This was new business on June 30th as shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering and specific repair plan must be put in place and that leaves MTA Symphony Station and Public Way Boston. It's dated February twenty
twenty five with petitioners please introduce themselves their affiliations give us a very brief introduction to the project and then we can and then any updates on the specific repairs component of this there are believe three actions related to this project on the agenda will kind of take
them one at a time but we can start with those specific repairs. Good morning, Commissioner. My name is are senior on the Municipal. I'm putting construction projects through. Joining me is Jeff Galloway. I'm going to say as we told you
a couple of weeks ago, phase one which consists of the employee relocation work is scheduled to be completed this spring and phase two which consists of station improvements and service improvements is anticipated to start this summer.
There were a couple of questions at the area I believe they were from Sharra Commission on Disability and the couple of responses the project team has verified the ADA compliance of the sidewalks
you touch on that you could have a new overpass and project based to will replace the port detectable running cars on the avenue overpass. I also want Worldchanging on
some actions that need to be getting past the approvals and coordinating with Todd and his office. So with that I want to ask you not to Judge Galloway or any specific information he has on the first item which is
specific with yes. Thank you. Good morning Commissioners. This didn't mention my name is Joe Galloway. I'm a third time city. I'm the project manager project prime for the design team on this MBT Station Improvement Project. I'll share my screen to show
the specific repairs cameraman see my screen. >> Yes, yes. OK so this is a specific
project for Sympathy Stations Improvement Project that is the commissioner noted will include surface improvements for new elevators, improved stair access, emergency stairs.
Other specific repairs include new street lights, new new traffic light signage, new utility relocations etc. The specific repair plan remained the same except for the minor
changes that the Dino just mentioned. We have indicated now that we will be replacing four detectable warning strips on the overpass at Huntington Avenue. Other than that, the plans did not change from from our
meeting on January 30th. >> All right, thank you very much. Commissioner's questions. >> Let's I sat down with the city of Athens this commission I appreciate the project.
I'm looking into our comments and proposing those changes until the detectible warnings. I just asked the team to call me with our public works at coordinator and manager of the compliance officer after
hearing just to ensure that our record is match your fuzzball
not a problem all right. So I wanted to just like the wayfinding signage piece of this so I think we will at a
minimum need an LMI to cover the wayfinding since it's a nonstandard thing for the city to be responsible for maintaining and we probably want to talk about the other infrastructure here that is
possibly something the city can commit to maintaining like bike racks and trash receptacles. But depending on the precise details of what's being installed and where we may need to come to some understanding about what the city's responsibility is and what the
responsibility will be going forward. So if can I get a commitment from the city to agree to work with us on LMI for at a minimum the wayfinding signage and to this entertain discussion as
part of that about the other street furniture? >> It's absolutely, absolutely compact and I'm meeting with child we meet on channel next week anyway I can start the ball rolling with the child and
on the way finding the LMI in that I'll keep you updated from anything is is oh that that's great. Much appreciated. Yeah. It's also I think some more closely range apologizers
street trees so we just need to make sure we're aligned and all of those elements and these there's a lot happening in a very small area I agree. Very true. Very true. Oh great. Any other questions from the commission?
All right. Yeah I see stuff or members of the public know also the the signage the ballers those I think are definitely going to need to be in the alibi. The tree will be up to the
Parks Department I think. But and I'm happy to work with you and after trying to figure out all that stuff thank you. Hi, this is Christian Simonelli, executive director of the Groundwater Trust. Good to see you Christian.
Always a pleasure Christian. Always a pleasure my friend. It looks like some of the area that you're doing the work in contains some observation ones that we have I think so just keep us in mind when you're out there recent those roadway boxes some of these boxes are
pretty old coming up on 20 years. So there may be a case where when you go to place them back ,you know they may just be too far gone and we can certainly replace those and get those replacements out to you. So I would just encourage just keep an open dialog with us as you go through the work and if
you do need it, we'll get right out to you. >> We're sure. How about you and I meet up next week you go along with the plans and the project sounds good to me. All right. Thank you. Thanks very much. Thank you, Chief. It's good.
See it all right here. Nothing else too. I hear a motion to improve public hearing number three I make a motion to approve a petition by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for the making of specific repairs in Massachusetts Avenue in Huntington Avenue is read into the recommendation Jack.
All in favor. I any oppose or abstain so moved on to public hearing number four on a petition by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for grant application to relocate existing utility infrastructure
within the following public waits in Boston proper in Roxbury, Massachusetts Avenue generally at Arlington Avenue and east of the Avenue generally at Massachusetts Avenue new business on January 30th has shown on a set of plants entitled City Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Grids
Location Plan Massachusetts and Huntington Avenue Station Improvements Public Way Boston forty sheets dated February twenty twenty five for the proponents please introduce themselves and their affiliations and let us know about any changes to the grant
application portion of this project since your new business here. >> Good morning Commissioner. My name on the front Senior I am the municipal agent the NBPA Chevron Station Project Page two with me is Jeff Galloway,
project manager for from Shape. I don't believe there has been any changes. I will pass it over to you so I can give you that answer the phone. >> Good morning again Commissioners'. This is again related to this
station project by the MTA and as Dino mentioned there have been no additional changes to the on location plans from our new business hearing on January 30th. >> All right. Well given that any questions
or comments? Yes. Staff or members of the public I will just mention I had previously asked for some additional information to be added to this LANSAT that
resulted in a forty sheet set which is maybe a little much but so we can pare down the sheets in this class and only get the Aufiero which we actually need to to record.
So I don't think we're gonna need forty. So sorry about that. We'll get you just what you need. >> Yeah no no no need to apologize. We asked for it so I got what I asked for you. I'm going to blame Jack for
that right right. We're going to flow through our signing and budget at all right. >> Do here motion to number four make a motion to a good decision by the Massachusetts Transportation Authority for a grant of location in Massachusetts Avenue in
Huntington Avenue and talk about the track circuit all in favor by any oppose or abstain so moved all on to number five and a petition by the Massachusetts Transportation
Authority for the vertical discontinuance of portions of the following public waits in Boston proper and Roxbury vertically above the grades of the sidewalks Massachusetts Avenue and both sides generally northwest Huntington Avenue Huntington Avenue on its northwest Kruglik side generally northeast of Massachusetts Avenue.
This is what's new business on January 30th as shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Discontinuance playing Massachusetts in Huntington Avenues Symphony Station Improvements Public Radio Boston to stated February twenty five the proponents for
reintroduce themselves their affiliations and give us an update on anything that has changed since your new business hearing. Good morning Commissioners. My name is Dean of the Chignon National Union for the invitation each nation to and
with me is Joe Galloway Project manager Tomasetti. I don't believe there have been any changes from the business hearing concerning discontinuance but a partial so
we can definitively agree disagree with me. >> Thank you again Commissioners. Good morning. My name is Joe Galloway. I'm with Commissario Project Manager from the design team for the Station Improvement Project. I confirm what Dino said before
I discontinue which is that we have proposed in our January meeting for new business have not changed and are shown on the screen here. Thank you very much. A question about so too is the
houses are currently being abandoned that are being shown on this plan. Can you speak to sort of what is happening below grade at those locations and how that is being handled from a kind of what the understanding
of the proponents is in terms of any existing discontinuance that maybe by explicit grant or just by the existence of a structure there how that is being kind of handled that going forward with the Bampton
locations actually. So as you noted, we are abandoning the existing stair henhouses that are that occur at the corners of of Masab and Huntington have to be so in
control of these stairs will be completely demolished in order to make room for the station's expansion required for the new elevators just to the north. So we are asking for that. This can continue of the property to the north of the
existing henhouses and these locations where the abandoned stations will be restored to to sidewalk to the city. Other than that, the low grade there should be no there there
will be station expansion that is probably eight feet below the sidewalk at this location for these houses but above grade it will be restored to cyclonic got so we're not we're
not being asked to grant the further vertical discontinuance related to this on the sort of basis that it has already been somehow discontinued since there is a Bethia facility there today, is that correct? Correct statement.
So there is sort of a larger issue here that I want to raise and maybe ask a specific question in the context of these particular locations. You know, as I think you know, folks know obviously MBT has quite a bit of underground
infrastructure in Boston and some of it runs underneath sidewalks and streets that the city is to be responsible for maintaining given the age of this infrastructure, much of this infrastructure predating the process we don't have well kept records of where
and where that structure was located or any sort of in my understanding we don't your sort of discontinuance know reports or other you know, other other examples of , you
know, having sort of track the history of that space over time. But this creates potentially a challenge for us because we are then charged with maintaining sidewalks and streets above these underground pieces of underground infrastructure
and absolutely road maps and documents absent sort of clarity and responsibility of maintaining those sub grid structures. It can be very difficult for us to do even simple things like repairing sidewalks because we do not always know that it's
directly underneath outside the Wellington and so you are what we are trying to do in the city and elsewhere. It's to ensure that when there are structures below grade area waves or other things that as new projects come through that
establish, you know, either that touch on the the top side or that add new discontinuance that we're formalizing maintenance responsibilities for the and structures in an LMI to ensure that the city is
able to do necessary top maintenance work and that there's clarity on who is responsible for ensuring that the below grade structures are capable of supporting whatever maintenance work is needed on the top side. So that is a big problem. There's a citywide problem and
it's not just the MBT but it is a thing that we are trying to move forward with in general across the city. So my task here is kind of twofold. One is the city would like to in the we'd would like to engage the T in a discussion
about this broader issue and in particular locations where he has underground infrastructure that impacts, you know, sidewalks and streets and curb ramps. But the more specific ask in this location is if we can
discuss with P C in the areas where there is an abandoned structure or any discontinuance happening that implicates sidewalk that the city would subsequently be responsible for maintaining.
Can we create an elamine that sort of spells out the responsibilities of the T as it relates to maintaining the separate structures so that the city can perform necessary maintenance above ground? So that was a long spiel but I
wanted to put that on the record and confirm that the T is willing to work with on those issues going forward. >> I I'll get back to the appropriate NBPA official department and I don't see why
work with the city on this so I'm going to say yes. OK, excellent. I appreciate that. I think this is something of a bigger and broader ask and so I feel comfortable with us moving
ahead with this particular action at the ICC. I would ask that we do take a focused look here and particularly we're abandoning existing infrastructure while maintaining below presence that we try to formalize the maintenance responsibilities that in our mind.
But I think I'm comfortable given the existing precedent to move ahead with this action today. We're work on that separately. And Chief, before we got a follow up meeting because like I said, I'm not sure it's it's the capital delivery department that would be responsible for
the engagement with the job. But I will definitely be making the real estate there. I'm not sure I will let you drive down the appreciate commissioners other questions comments vertical
discontinuance. >> Oh, one more question related to your um your comment about the Alami in maintaining a low grade structure of well the LMI coverage donees clearing and removal of the once this project is complete
who is responsible for the snow and ice removal in this area? I jiah where we meet will be taking that we'll be taking ownership of the of the area around the discontinued area.
I think the enormity of the discontinued areas. Yes absolutely yes. Well we're the only team on the Long Beach that you can do in the area so I would imagine you would be responsible for that and I enjoy I was anticipating that question for you after the
chief atomization top of government center station. So I knew you were going to ask us. Well, thank you for the answer to high traffic area. A lot of pedestrians and we want to make sure it's safe.
Thank injustice just to see for the record, my assumption is that any area that it's not discontinued and that is not under the direct control of the FTA would remain the responsibility of the
properties as is typical in any public sidewalk elsewhere in the city of Boston. Is that the Ts understanding as well? Yes, All right. All right, commissioners, any
other questions comments PSC staff or members of the public all sat on us. All right. Thank you very much. Do you hear a motion to improve public hearing number five, I make a motion to approve a petition by the Massachusetts
Bay Transportation Authority for vertical discontinuance in Massachusetts Avenue in Huntington Avenue with Bend to the record by the begging bowl in favor of by any oppose same so moved. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much extra. All right. Moving on to our final public hearing on a petition by a public number six on a petition by Verizon even Inc for grant application lead company status and nonparticipants to install new telecommunication
infrastructure with city shadow conduit within Arminda Street Public Way Dorchester located between address number forty in Washington Street new business on January 30th as shown on a plane entitled City Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division great Location Plan Forty one Armande
Street proposed Qaderi installation one sheet dated December twenty twenty four please introduce themselves their affiliation give us a very brief introduction to the project and any changes since you're a new business hero.
Yes good morning Ross Villeneuve representing Verizon New England. I'm going to go ahead and share our screen here OK? Just make sure everybody can see that it's become very good
. Just a quick overview again. Verizon is proposing two places three hundred and eighteen feet of new content from our existing manhole forty nine a located at the intersection of Washington Street in Aberdeen Street. Three hundred and eighteen feet to an existing Crown Castle
shared Hannibal to again provide five services along with the industry. There have been no changes this plan since the last hearing on January 30th and we do acknowledge the fact that we will need to work with the commission for a person with disabilities if there are any
handicapped spots affected by this work. Thank you us sue new issue that's sort of cropped up related to this. So there is Arminda in Street
has some traffic coming infrastructure associated with it are installed on it. That was put in place a couple of years ago and we heard from some constituents on this street. In fact there is a story in the Dorchester reporter specifically about the street
that some of that infrastructure has already been disturbed by other utilities not not Verizon with some work that they have done here. There are speed limit pavement markings at the head of the street at Washington that have
been obliterated and there is at least one speed hump that would be traversed by this conduit run that again has already received some damage as a result of past utility work,
possibly two homes along the conduit run method. Exactly. So we ask here is is two things. So first to that Verizon work with the city to receive a copy
of all of the pavement marketing plans associated with the traffic coming that was installed here and ensure that everything is restored fully to its intended configuration. Anything that's disturbed by this the city is already
planning to repaint those speed limit markings and I'm not exactly sure where they land in the roadway relative to your conduit run but it's likely that they may be disturbed again depending upon the timing of when you do this to make sure that everything is all
those markets are fully restored and then for the speed hump the city or hump's the city is is in the process of developing formal restoration standards for speed humps. But we would like to ask that in this case that Verizon commit to fully rebuilding the
speed hump or speed humps that are impacted by this project to ensure that they are built in a consistent way and continue to function in their intended manner. I'm sure I wasn't privy to any
of that information. So I am appreciate you bringing it bring it to my attention I suppose if that's what we need to do to get this project approved then I need to commit to that so I can bring those
items to my contacts running this project and make sure they abide by that. But again, I I wasn't aware of any of that information prior to you telling me so. Yeah, fair enough.
So I mean I think from my perspective I'm happy to kind of advance this with the conditional approval on the restoration piece of this. I would also ask that we update the plans that are being
submitted to the PSC to show speedups. This is again a place where the city has a responsibility to update our standards and this will become a thing that we ask you and other utilities to do as a matter of course on your future plans but in the same
way that we ask you to show colourblind and other constructive elements on the public right of way speed humps because they are physically constructed items do need to be shown going forward on the plans. Obviously knew we had not previously asked you for that but we were just asking in
addition to that commitment that you give us updated drawing's which no pumps are affected by this and notation about their restoration on their before we file everything just makes sense to me. Our link so that they start adding those.
Thank you. All right. Much appreciate it. Commissioners other questions comments by our engineering staff or members of the public non-porous.
Thank you right. I hear a motion to approve public hearing number six make a motion to approve a petition by the rise of New England in current location Nourredine Street as represented by the chair Zach, I'll just note this
condition the on the elements that we just discussed about restoration and updating plans to appear all in favor by I and Imposer extend.
So thank you very much Ross and thank you for working with us on that last minute. Capones becomes much appreciated John thanks freetime take care. All right. And with that we've reached the end of the public hearing section of our agenda and so we
are moving on to new business starting with business number one four ninety five Dorchester Avenue, Algier Street, Eleri Street Beelined Drive South Boston widening relocation extensions and great approval specific repairs private utility license protection
license, Earth retention license and a set of petitions by Otey to Title LLC with the proponents please introduce themselves their affiliations and walk us through the project and the various actions that you are proposing to take.
Morning sir. Thank you. My name is Mark China Trade. My partner honors project manager representing core investments. I'm joined by Kevin Wright from BHP and a number of members of our team will walk you through this. I'll clear my screen very high level of introduction on the
dot is a master P.D.A approved by the planning department covering approximately twenty one acres on the western side of Dorchester Avenue immediately north of Andrew Square Station. The project when it was proposed was proposed in four phases.
The first phase which is the one we're going to be talking about today encompasses nine acres again on the western side of Dorchester Avenue and four buildings. The first building is four nine five Dorchester Avenue which is a residential building. Then there are three commercial buildings five or five Dorchester Avenue seventy five
and sixty five Eleri within that nine acres those four buildings have gone through the development planning process and also been approved through the planning department for Article eight and Article thirty seven. Our commitment to the planning department was to build an receive a certificate of occupancy for a residential
building first before we proceeded with any of the commercial buildings. And so our first project is four nine five Rochester Avenue residential building encompassing approximately three hundred and twenty residential units including ninety four senior affordable housing units within that
project. And so the specifics of that involve working Dorchester Avenue Algier Street, the creation of a new Eleri Street and some adjustments to the surrounding public space. That's a very quick and big picture and I'm going to just
turn it over to Kevin right at the speech and then walk you through the details of our proposal. Thank you very much, Mark. I'll share my screen.
Well, all right. So yes, we have no doubt our necessary I'm sorry come right
for BHP as Mark said, we know that the necessary engineering products utility notification orders and plans necessary for the utility agencies to review. We've got all of our comments back and several agencies we've had meetings with commissioning
of persons with disabilities PPTA and we've met extensively with the Street department to talk about layout of street lights. We've also addressed comments that have come in and responded
to to those items and we've developed these engineering plans which I'll walk you through one at a time. We'll will start with the specific repair plans which you see right now in front of you
use the specific repair plan for Dorchester Avenue this this is existing sidewalks out there, eight foot wide sidewalks. The specific repair plan lays out an extension for twenty
feet from beyond the existing property line to provide a six foot bike lane. Twelve flat furnishings on in approximately nine foot Wildside walk to give it 80 foot right of way on Dorchester
Avenue Street lights, sidewalks ,crosswalk all of those will be City Standard Materials. There are a number of trees, bike racks and seating elements planned for this portion
of Dorchester Avenue Avenue as well at this time do you want me to continue to walk through the specifics for repairs for each street or yeah, that would be great if you can just walk us through and then we can jump back if there is any questions.
OK, so that's Dorchester Avenue there there are crossings planned across Dorchester to tie into what is known as East Park which would be a adjacent to the 495 building which you
see shown here in this portion of of Doshisha Avenue. Next will walk through to houses which is perpendicular to Short-Staffed.
I'll just street is the is also has an eighty eight foot wide sidewalk adjacent to the property existing with the with the new right of way that we're
representing given a it back seventeen feet to provide a five foot wide bike lane five foot wide furnishings on in the nine foot wide sidewalk to give sixty seven foot total right
of way and again there's also the bike rack elements three trees as well as this stretch of Algis Street hubway bike
station bike rack will also be incorporated prior conversations with the Commission on Disabilities we've added this crosswalk unlimited alja Elmeri we reposition this since the
initial plans went out in October to better align the cross the line of pedestrian past continuous on just have frontage.
The next is LRB Street Street is a new street which would total right of way of eighty three feet. We've got a number of elements going on here.
We have APHA parking lanes on each side of the lanes the lane south side of our U Street has street trees, bike racks,
elements that are all going in with the four ninety five building per meeting with Commission on Disabilities and the BPA which changes this crosswalk alignment and straighten it out even a little
bit more than what was initially presented on plans that went out in October . And we also provided a turnaround for our street on this plan so that it does not
terminate this. The city has a turnaround element or it doesn't terminate on a on a specific get out and get back to Algiers Street. You'll notice that we have Bituminous called out our
conversation with the staff. This is due to the fact that as Mark showed in the master plan slides of the sixty five Eleri building would be going in. It would be constructed and
therefore that portion of the street and trees and elements related to specific repairs would come back at a future date when that building design is finalized at and our last
December repair is tied to Beelined Drive which is just north of Larry Street opposite of Alja adjacent to the MBA tracks and property line and
this one out of our bituminous pavement curb street lighting allow for travel lanes a ten foot wide multiuse path. We've got a safety buffer zone
along this stretch of beelined drive to separate out to use pass and we have a configuration that allows pedestrians and and bikes to
get across and to the Maltese cross we also present this turn around the same as what was on our streets provide our link to getting out and around beelined and back on to the street in
the larger scale when these streets eleri and beelined drive extend further to the well planned West and we'll come back at a later date when those developments are ready to
come forward to the PSC start with that that is the specific road for your actions. Are there any questions and thank you very much Kevin .
I think we can I know there's quite a few actions beyond the specific reference associated with this maybe given the scope and scale of the project we can finish we can start with any discussion on specific repairs and then get have you come back
and walk through all of the other actions associated with this? Quite a lot of detail in here so I will open it up to the commission for comments and questions on the specific
repairs or well I have a couple so all the builders speak your showing sort of fully constructed.
You new Southern with sidewalks, the bike lanes and all of this other infrastructure the northern side of the street is showing just just sort of what appears to be like a paint and maybe flex post separated bike lane
but no significant changes in the sidewalk. Can you just sort of explain the kind of intention there and what should be anticipated as this in future developments on the northern side of your
street or so the sorry you're hearing is a little echo on my machine. So the development as a whole as I mentioned is four phases across a significant area and as we're building out each piece we try and manage the side of the street so as not to
build new things new sidewalk, new trees we would then have to tear out when we build on the other side of the street, which is why as you saw we're doing bituminous and things like that on Eleri between four and five and sixty five so that when we build the next building we're not spending more to throw away something that's finished in
this case there is an existing industrial user on the other side Carrison cross-class the city working with PPTA actually be planning department and Transportation have talked about the complete street that is Alja but that should not and cannot actually be installed because we don't own the property in the ranks on the
far side. So we're leaving the existing sidewalk condition which they use today. They load across it right. Carrison Terrace needs to continue to operate and fully function until such time as that industrial building is removed, redeveloped into a new building and then the other side of Algiers Street would be brought to the equivalent level
of finish that we're showing on 495 side. So there is an expectation of a mirror image level finish detail and street trees. It's just that we're phasing it and really only able to control the southern half of Algiers Street because there's a different property and a different use on the other side
in the temporary condition. It's the same answer why there's this slightly odd crossing at Algiers Street like the existing public street and it sort of dies off today. So we want to clean that up in the interim but ultimately the goal would be that that sidewalk would have continue plan last year and same for the
answer about the diagonal crossing on the left side of the sheet at Baylie. But eventually the other side of the street gets done and that gets straightened out and cleaned. We were working with staff and planning department to just clean up the edges to make it safe and functional while recognizing there will be significant additional development on the other side
of the street as we go into different phases. Great. Thank you very much for clarifying. That certainly makes total sense given the nature of the project and obviously we you know, we always want to kind of make sure that no matter
what happens with future phases of development, you know, we're sort of not left with something that doesn't make sense. But this feels like a, you know, reasonable interim condition and one that can sustain us next phases are moving ahead and the second
question relates to doing something related. I just I should have just now we recognize and we had assumed that the northern half the Mother Earth page will be a
temporary cross however we have to do provided on the other side and that has to compliant giving them the long term the
this side of the street has a complete wrap and this is this is an existing level condition . So that means there's activity running and in fact be documented and as a complainant
ramp or by providing compliant with a detective or wanting to ensure that that safety standard is just to piggyback it you know, appreciating the
desire to build anything but then has to get ripped out the city does have an obligation make interim conditions to maintain accessibility. So if there is not a fully compliant reciprocal ramp on the north side, it will need to
be constructed as part of this, you know, understanding that it may be removed and replaced with something more involved in a future phase. But that is a baseline standard even for an interim condition for us. OK, we we can talk a little bit
more in detail I think, Sara, because I think one thing that that's concerning about this is right now that you've got there this is a driveway right here and this is all bituminous and
level out at that grade. So maybe a detectable warning here would just be sitting on a level bituminous pass that gets people across, you know, and down and wide open.
Oh, there's no real sidewalk on this side or this part the street here. So it's really to get people from here to to this production of the new street so that that makes sense out of a detectable here. But again it's currently in its
current condition. There's a level bituminous area so it won't please you won't be
needing Smalley's permission in the interim to come up with the plan here. But again, the expectation is that we have a compliant accessible crosswalk wherever we have a crosswalk, even an entrance. So we'll leave it to you to sort through what the details of that can look like here.
>> Second question just relates to expectations around maintenance of the both capital and operating maintenance of the sidewalk the street trees, the street furniture, the bike lanes where are we
with developing and LMI and can you sort of give a sense of how you're expecting what will be maintained? What if this new infrastructure will be maintained by the project versus by the city
there has on my development we're working on the team turning power Deborah center information to and they're in the process of reviewing and redlining and I know she's on
to give any details as to what they plan to maintain. But I know that there's an understanding of standard materials not just it standard materials would be maintained
by the development at this time . So yeah, My name is Paul Adepero, an attorney at Peirsol . I have done a series of agreements easements and other documentation for all
of this all the approvals for this project and have them to trial for review. It is my understanding that the project is going to be responsible for the sidewalks maintaining the sidewalks going forward and now the city will
be responsible for maintaining streets. Where does the sidewalk level bike lane into that? I don't think we'll discuss that specifically. I think I need to talk to my
client about that. Mark, do you have any comments on that? This is John. I think Marchetta for a moment but I think we could look at
this together in light of the drafts that have gone out and make sure that that's understood the responsibility. We obviously don't want to leave something undefined relative to where the start and stop sidewalks and or other complete street elements and
who's responsible for it. So I think that could be detailed. I have a question in prior development where you've done the layouts of streets to be public ways who's usually responsible for bike lanes it
can vary and depends a bit on the details of the design in many cases where there is sort of sidewalk level bike lanes that are integrated into the streetscape that is being developed by and for the project that those have maintenance responsibilities that fall on the the project
for things like sweeping and plowing and as well as longer term capital maintenance. But there is some variation to that. I think if this was to be a you know, our preference I think would be that all of the
sidewalk level elements be the responsibility of the project proponents and you know that likely would be the the sort of you know, our interprete version of the existing responsibilities of all related to maintenance of sidewalks
adjacent to a parcel. But it would be good to clarify and clarify that, you know, is the proponent we'd like to propose that the city have accepted and in sweeping the responsibilities of the sidewalk reference we need to evaluate the design more
carefully through the lens of our own operational constraints which are often quite different from that of the proposal and unfortunately and part of why many projects end up maintaining these kinds of facilities that you know our
requirements for example for your width to be maintained to allow a cloud to come through are wider than what the project is able to do on their own and often that has a bunch of repercussions downstream of the design of the public right. So it typically tends to be
cleaner if a project can take responsibility for sort of all the sidewalk edge forward kind of stuff right now I'll discuss because I'm not I would say one hundred percent familiar with
the actual design of the bike lanes and I know that they can vary by street so I will bring it back to my client will discuss the excellent thank you very much and and campaign political conversation with
public works operations if there's a need for a discussion there. But hopefully this is something we can just clarify the LMI and be set with. >> Thank you. Thank you very much,
Commissioners. Other questions comments on specific repairs, staff for members of the public and then we'll move on to the other actions that are all part
of this new business now keep going. All right. All jump into the next set of pieces here is the task as well as for the specific
repairs Max. We have the Weininger relocation for Dorchester Avenue as I alluded to in the specific repair portion of their property line back twenty feet to provide the
extensive street furniture and furnishings on and pedestrian walkway along the avenue. And this plan reflects that widening and relocation area
next. We also have or should have been in order but I wanted to present we also widening our
relocation of the yes they are outlining Great Belisle baylie and drives want to drive is a
new public way. Fifty seven feet and is adjacent to Algis Street and as
we noted it's to provide for a public wage turn around and access back to Alja and Dorchester Avenue which gets folks in and around the site until such a time when the
beelined drive in its entirety gets built out then we have made a great plan for Ellery Street as well to build a new
public way and provide layout for every street to connect to the street and provide folks with the driveway and turn around to get back to Algún devotion to our new. This is the interim condition
Ellery Street until the full master plan gets built all the way out as well.
So that is Ellery Alja and excuse me Baylie at the end of the street excuse me I was
just rewinding and relocation as well pushes us for to provide the same elements of area for pedestrian travel way along allergist's now the
street as well as providing bike lane street furniture furnishings all along alja adjacent to the four ninety five building which was part of the phase one and what will be the future building of sixty
five will be street. So those are the winding relocation and lighting great plans for Alja Dorchester Avenue, Eleri and Baylie Drive . >> Are there any questions at
this time if you want to you the gallery in beelined turn around again symbolize if you analyze whether a large Boston fire Department truck could accommodate that they could
accommodate a large part of the truck running with those those streets we ran an aerial tower truck to to folks will turn around and get out along those
two roads. OK, good. Thank you. There any other questions
commissioners on keep going Kevin . >> All right. All right. So next after Vinograd and why
did we location we have a utility license plan this utility license plan is to provide what we have in our street as ambient loop along
our street which is to unchaste pipes that will be installed for the DMV condition along our street and future design as well as the maintenance and
install of private train lines that are coming across to where it will be tied to an infiltration system in the East
Park which was shown on a previous and also stub for future connection to sixty five our street. Those are the two private utilities that will be in Eleri
. Any questions on the utility license plate? Can you just give me a little bit of clarity of what these
utilities are that are being shown here and how this is is this sort of is specific utilities for this project? Are these different storage space that will be sort of filled in in the future by
other utilities? What is being placed here? >> Yeah, so in context Gradishar from the public hearing this is these are standard electrical telephone
utility infrastructure that's shown here that's plan for providing telecommunication and cable services. So those would be pretty standard.
They should be great out in this planet provided the context the ambient loop is is the line that's going to be privately maintained and functioning to serve as a
collection connected service for the building and future roads that are that are tied to this project. I'm sorry.
Can I can I can jump in on that one. I agree with BHP. I'm the project manager for the work that we're doing with our investments on Dorchester so that the NBN loop is supposed to be installed. The project is studying heat
capture which is a way of extracting heat from the public sanitary lines, running it through heat pumps and converting it into a source of power for the building. So it's something that's in its
early stages. We know that you know, that's something that John talking about some water has looked at and the in this case is trying to put in the infrastructure that would allow us to use those systems in the future
should we move forward with a salkey capture process without having to go in and rip up the streets and roadways in order to put in the infrastructure? That's helpful and very interesting.
I think I have I guess my question given that this is a sort of speculative future or to you know, preliminary infrastructure or is how confident are you in the sort of placement of these facilities, the potential
connection points be any, you know, access points that might be needed in part because these facilities are shown underneath the sidewalks and therefore will be in a much more constructed location.
They'll be adjacent to tree pits and there's a question about impacts on tree roots tree returns if these are being used for heat transfer, it just it feels like this what's being proposed this is sort of , you
know, emerging technology in a location that depending upon how that technology ends up being utilized in the future might have downstream impacts. So I'm a little nervous about just the speculative nature of this as we approve of specific location.
>> It's a technology and it's one that's being used and different places. You know, this team went to Denmark to observe system that they have in place. We've been on the phone with folks in Vancouver that have a similar system the middle of the NBA.
It's running water temperature that is not harmful to other utilities or trees are quite right. You're there? Sure. I think heat from the waste water but the ambient temperatures aren't at a degree that are going to cause any any harm or issues with the landscaping or adjacent
utilities. And the goal here would be for this piping to run through or be able to be extended through the entire master plan and that each building yes, you would need to do a little bit of work to make the connection from the loop to the building systems themselves.
But we're putting the loop in a place where we're minimizing the impacts of those connections to the buildings as opposed to moving forward with development and then basically needing to rip up the entire right of way of Eleri in order to come back again in the
future and install that infrastructure. And so you know, the chances of it moving forward I'm not sure it's really hard to put percentage on your utility or
facility opportunity to use renewable energy in order to create some opportunities for your your development. But it is forward thinking and something that the client has and will continue to explore as an opportunity to provide power
to these films. Thank you for that. And you know, not intending to suggest that this technology sort of is it's yeah, it's fully speculative. It's appreciate that it does exist elsewhere. I think what's being shown here is a reservation of space in a
placement of future of infrastructure security until future investment of something that is not yet so as I and that gives me some tiles Cuvier that the locations and collection points to the
buildings are not defined at this point given that there is a you know, appreciating a point that these are lower temperatures than other kinds of like district level heating again without sort of having
access to a sort of fully designed system, it's it's hard to evaluate the you know, the impacts of this might have on trees. I would also just note that the location of these this puts it
in the true zone for any future work that might be done or whether that's an interconnection to a building a repair or other kinds of maintenance and again with a system that hasn't fully design, you sort of always hope that the infrastructure in
place today will support the eventual system. But you know, a discovery that the width of the diameter of the pipes is insufficient or that additional insulation is needed or that an interconnection is needed could
potentially require this to be checked out of it is such that any digging here would be even more impactful than if this was placed in the center line or near a centerline of the runway or along the northern excuse me the western curve edge
of history. So like if we were looking at this and it was sitting up along that Western curve, I don't think it would be causing me much heartburn just recognizing that it may get used may not get used. It would it would be its use would be sort of similar to any
traditional utility of the structure. The issue is that it's placed in the sidewalks and it's placed near street trees and we don't know how it will be used in the future if it will be used in the future and if and how much digging or other disturbance might be required.
>> And so I guess my question is can this be placed in the street where we at least know the shape of what the impacts will be if and when it is dug up or interconnections are made? >> Yes, I'm glad you asked that question but you don't see here is a complete picture street
intelligence. We are in a sewer and water and and all the other utilities that need to be installed in order to complete the project. And so you're meeting Boston Water and Sewer Standards and and other utility Standridge with respect to where they want
placement of their utilities. Right. Sanitorium below minimum 10 foot offset for water. Our drainage infrastructure, et cetera. You can see the congestion that is is within this very narrow street around the way we did something one lane each
direction. And so in order to find a place for the ambient loop we needed to go external from from the road surface in order to put that infrastructure even with the three dimensions that you
have to operate in the street. >> Yeah, I mean you don't want to run utilities here for a couple of reasons. It requires you to either shut off or eliminate any utility if you need to get to the one that
sits below. And also this site is is highly contaminated and so as part of the project core this is going through a significant remediation effort in order to remove completely contaminants or to contaminants and in a
well situation. So limiting depth is important for us for all of the utility systems that we're running through the project both in whatsits or anything that will be in the future. Belmond Parcel and so my my sensitivity is really to a stacked utility condition where
if you needed to get to the underlying condition it's a real challenge in that you need to basically remove or find to support the utility that sits above in any repair condition and OK, I think this is a
little bit further discussion or you can perhaps work in this in between now and your public hearing. You know, certainly you know any infrastructure be located here. Right. We would of course need to take
full responsibility for all future capital maintenance related to the space around it. You know, there's there's we would not want to have capital responsibilities for you know, even just basic sidewalk repair is underneath the sidewalk is a
sort of bespoke piece of getting infrastructure's that that is an absolute baseline but I mean sort of particularly concerned about potential impacts of this in the future given the uncertainties around what the
system will be and how it won't be modified and its location sort of directly adjacent to multiple parts. You know, it's one thing to say rip up a piece of sidewalk to make sure there is some paper or whatever and put it back the
way it was. You can't do that with street trees, right? It's street trees are, you know, ten years go by, the trees have grown. They're you know, damaged as a result of the need to do a linear excavation on the side of this location. You're going to end up losing
ten years of tree growth that comes with that. So it just it feels like a police a high stakes place from that perspective to put the infrastructure like this that doesn't have a clearly fully designed purpose with, you
know, a well established sort of maintenance history as we would have with more traditional utility infrastructure. So I'd like to explore how we can if we're going to do this how we can structure it in such a way that impacts for any
future work related to this are minimized particularly on the trees but also on the more complex and expensive stuff that sits on the sidewalks. Questionmark Street. So that's something that our team can continue to discuss
every step of the way some the directions OK yeah. >> Thank you all all great points and I think on our end we'll bring in the landscape architect is reviewing our layout with respect to the trees and the planting zones
would be impacted and also the engineer yeah. Was a little bit more familiar with you know, the piping systems and the temperatures and whatnot that would be required to run this loop and extract the heat for that
future building use. So I think that's that's a great suggestion. >> Thank you very Commissioners . Any other questions comments in this thread can keep up with its excellent legat. >> It was just just the context
as well. This is our current site plan and review with Boston Water and Sewer. So you can see these the two primary train lines that connect to an air filtration system underneath the east part I was referring to these are the two ambient loop lines
which would run not under any of the concrete or brick elements but underneath of bituminous bike path along Cholerae Street just to give
context ups and next is our license plan for a canopy
projection on Ellery Street. It's tied to the doorway that comes out of the four ninety five building at this location on on Elm Street in its current
location it's about eleven and a half feet above the sidewalk. We've got a zone that was shown on our plans two feet by by
about five to six feet for the entire length here as you can see it in plain view I assume an excuse me we've got a three foot zone by two foot two and
two foot and high by a three foot depth down into the sidewalk with a forty two foot zone along along the building edge for this canopy it will be
retraced and entirely drained and I think yeah that's it. I must ask questions. >> All right. You keep going through the major remaining ones and we'll jump back any questions on the
next are the support slides which Amy I want talk about in she's part of the team. Hi. Good morning everyone. Amy Applebaum with Dale Associates. The project geotechnical engineer.
These plans represent our conceptual our support systems will run around the property line if we look on the left hand side of the plan, we'll talk about the steel sheeting first there's steel sheeting that showing wrapped around the proposed development of sixty
five Eleri and this property here this is meant to facilitate is mentioned there's some significant contamination associated with his property. So this our support is intended to be able to perform the
remedial excavation as well as a below grade construction for the property and so the sheeting here will remain in place but will be cut down five feet below the finish grades to permit any future development that needs to happen as we look
to the north across Elgort Street excuse me there is some silver pylon lighting that's shown here as well as a little bit further right on the plan further down along the street here this is not part of the building construction. This is really to facilitate
more of the remedial excavation. There's areas the remedial excavation that roughly need to extend about seven feet or so below grade. And so this is just to provide some protection during those excavations. Similarly the wood cladding will be removed at the end of the remediation and the site
work and the soldier files will also get cut down eleven Ellery Street and I think you can see that's a little better on the next planned. This area is of the sheetings meant to also show thanks
Kevin . Yeah this is a better picture so there's also really a lot of the limits of the remedial excavation that require some support because of the depth of the cut. You'll see this there's kind of a unique shape to this though which isn't typical for
below grade building construction but it's stood up because it outlines the limits of the remedial excavation. They thing it will be cut down at the end of the project and the reason that there looks to be some separate cofferdams is
because there are different phases of this work that the remediation will happen so we're looking on the south side of this page across Ellery Street. This work gets done as part of the four ninety five more building excavation and remediation and there's a few
different phases that connect these different cofferdams together that another shot of the same work on Algier Street. And I think Kevin , if you want to slip back to the sheet that's very old line drive. Yeah. And the bulk of this sheet is
really presenting the limits of the sheeting that's going to outline sixty five and then a future of seventy five Ellery Street to allow not only thing the remedial excavation in the future below grade building excavations to happen.
So that outlines what we have planned for the Earth support. Does anyone have any questions that I can answer. Not a question just a comment that we cut down leading to a greater deficit roadways than we do in sidewalks so that they like the the death that these
all these things come down to should be identified and separated based on sidewalk versus road you are able to identify that? Well, I think what many sensible outline where we're in sidewalks versus the streets will show it in a different demarcation about those
different levels six feet of sidewalks and ten feet below roadways. >> Yes, Yeah, well we'll have that addressed. Our plans for the public hearing is staff is provided some additional notes to these
plans that we have printed out at at the hearing today. We at the end of the actions are there more that's it.
All right. Quite a project. I appreciate you walking us through that Commissioners. Any questions comments about any of it we haven't already
covered . >> All right. I see staff members in the public all said there are a whole bunch of comments that the project team will need to address in the next two weeks but they have those should be good. All right. Or will you be ready for your
public hearing two weeks on February twenty seven? >> Yes. Excellent. >> All right. Well, thank you very much. We'll see you back here in two weeks. Appreciate you walking us through in such great detail. Thank you very much. Have a good day everybody to all right.
>> On to the next three to seven Drina Avenue Hyde Park pedestrian easements, Pacific Affairs and celebrations by HHC one Arnold L.L.C. the opponents please introduce themselves their affiliations walk us through the project and its actions. Good morning.
My name no one could tell I'm with HTC One on the developer. Let me show you my screen and you'll see that we can OK I'm
going to go with the specific repair plan first we're going to give you context Hyde Park ad is running Plan E and the NBPA commuter rail station for
Hyde Park runs planned w this is a date and is a one way we're running from west to east part of this project and includes repairing of what we're proposing here. We've been improved by PPTA in a twenty seven unit residential
building that was approved by BBVA June two thousand twenty two and subsequent ZIBA approval November twenty twenty two. The development was twenty seven units multi residential
as part of that development we are coming in front of the board to request the approval on repairs that would be removed and placed in granite curve about 80 feet with that installed to curb cuts one
allowing access to the low grade parking bugs me ten feet in with and also a second curb gun allowing access for a zoning compliant loading bay property twelve by twenty five.
It also inclusive that is to treatments and three bike racks as part of that process the existing utility poles on both side will remain along with the hybrid that will no changes to
that. What I will want to talk to you about later on why we have the easement request is because of these bike racks. The project a little bit further into the public realm and the public realm I believe we need to have three feet
of those bike racks that allow that five feet of a pedestrian zone that encroaches into the private property. And so we have to provide and easement of about three and a half feet and that's pretty much it. >> I'll take some questions.
The Ford missioners questions you so much for the presentation. I just ask the to add dimensions at the pinch points for clarity to show that on
of chapel or similar questions or comments or I'll just note
that you know the double driveway condition the double Pirko condition is something we typically like to see for a smaller scale project. But understanding that in this case it serves very specific set of distinct needs and uses
on the property that was part of the zoning and articulated process was to, you know, kind of come to agreement on site uses and that necessitates to curb I'd say it's certainly a thing we can allow generally
the thing we would like to avoid at the scale. All right. Hearing nothing else from the commissioners staff members and the one thing I will flag one
of the comments that I give to the project team four days ago we need a dimension from the new Kirche to the utility pole on the east side or the east end of the project depending on what that dimension is, if it's less than five feet we'll need written approval from the utility pole owner just to
ensure that they're OK with your driveway being that close . So that may be a little bit of extra homework they have the next two weeks we'll do I believe the pole is on the horizon but we'll close at great thanks.
That's all I have read. We got you ready for a public hearing in two weeks February 27. I hope so. I hope so. Excellent. Thank you very much. We will see you back here then . >> Thank you. All right.
On to our next item new business three Southhampton Street Theodorus Glenway Rock Street great location on a petition by National Field Police themselves their affiliations explain the project and the actions you are
proposing. I think you jumped to Mulberry Terrace and before you went to MFH sorry this is three and Agenda Southampton Street.
There may have been an updated version of the circulated OK good morning Mr Chairman. Members of the commission Peter Nagle from National Grid joined
by Jim Wallis Paul are presenting engineer and I believe Nathan Aruda project manager is joining us as well. >> So what you have before you
today is a long road that we've worked with the timeline pink staff. They've been quite helpful in direction feedback and participation with us and so
that would be remiss if we didn't thank the staff for that . This proposal is looking to replace an existing station presently at Bradstone Street
at the corner of Southampton and Theo Theodore Glenway that our facility serves about eleven thousand customers and it has been aided by our
project team as a the existing facility is aged and we'd like to get that out of the ground to get the updated station with the double faults that you see
in the description of the sheet below relative to the location that we've chosen in working with PIC staff we are eastern folks reached out to numerous
sites which would have removed the facility from the public right of way but those is when explorations with see the Roundhouse Hotel MacDonalds the
car wash at Southampton all of those were Unsuccess. So we came back and working again with Pich staff came up with this sidewalk location on
Southampton, go to work with propose to do the new install the station in the sidewalk and then work to install both in
and outlet piping the inlet piping roughly one hundred feet of both coated steel and plastic going to theophylline and then the other the piping
would be about forty feet of cold steel going to our existing main in the first or the cold the parking lane Southampton Street we'd
anticipate about a with requisite resta and such working any of the operational activity I'd think we'd probably need about twelve weeks for a project in its
entirety prior to this would be a drug that we couldn't really look at doing until at the earliest April timeframe obviously coming out of the moratorium but also because
of the station implications with the colder weather that obviously give plenty of time to reintroduce the project to our Buttars specifically the
fire department and any time to work in the area we work pretty closely with Sullivan who's the executive director of the Newmarket Business Association as well. >> With that I'd be happy to turn it over to anyone else for
questions and comments and such . Thank you Peter and appreciate you doing that. Advance coordination some of the key neighborhood support groups in the Buttars. I guess one question somewhat
related to that recently the lot that abuts the sidewalk area that I previously spoke to rentals has had privately installed fencing that kind of comes into the sidewalks in
that area. And I'm wondering if you've coordinated with I'm not sure the current condition but I'm wondering if she's coordinating with that particular buttar around any fencing that they have installed temporary fencing the be managed during
construction. We can take a look at that. I believe this sidewalk will allow for the installation of the vault without infringing upon any existing facilities.
Yeah, I mean I think that is correct as it pertains to the four lines of the sidewalk due to some of challenges in this area. There's been some additional temporary measures installed on
the sidewalk to address some of the security concerns here. So I just ask that you work directly with that of others so that there is a clear plan for what will happen during construction and how to manage any concerns that they have if
fencing needs to be removed even temporarily, they're going to want to have close coordination with you on that. >> Absolutely not to step out of bounds but our next proposal will address something quite similar.
>> OK, and then I guess my other question just relates I guess it's the inward side of this I'm seeing what looks like some new yeah. Right there I'm seeing looks like some kind of new structure underground and the kind
of thing you just want to flag here is this area of Southhampton and Cleanaway as part of a triangle of intersections that have extraordinary safety challenges
from a vehicular pedestrian perspective we are you know, the city is looking at how we can potentially redesign these infrastructure this infrastructure here too. There's a there's a missing
crosswalk desire live on multiple missing crosswalk design lines at this intersection as well as elsewhere in the surrounding area and the traffic island that currently sits in the middle of the intersection is well perhaps appropriate for managing traffic is not a will
likely need to change address pedestrian needs and other safety considerations. So understanding there's already a lot of infrastructure here that island and around that island mean it's always a little bit of a red flag if I see something new that looks
like it's coming in at a place where we might need to be doing some more constructed improvements in the not too distant future. And so I'm just sort of wonder what that is and that that kind of thing runs parallel to the Southampton Street roadway just
just next to the water line. The yeah. Right there. And whether you foresee if that traffic island was to be removed or rebuilt that created any conflicts with whatever is being put underground as part of this
project. I'd like to have my design engineer Sam to answer that question for you. As you know, I have to be an engineering expert to speak.
I'm a quick question for you so are you planning to remove this building or remove or permanently? >> We don't currently have a design so this is a future project. But the expectation would be that the Kirwin geometry here
would have we'd likely change in order to accommodate pedestrian crossings to make for slower and safer crossing points. I would expect some constructed elements we would probably end up remaining at this intersection but we don't have
any specific geometry or dimensions at this point. So this is an existing gas main and it will not impact any proposed infrastructure work that you want to do in that area. The only thing that will happen was is that junior construction
work closely with the city to make sure that if deepening of depth the gas mains are normally about thirty six feet deep thirty six thirty six inches deep so we wouldn't have any direct impact your construction also. >> OK, excellent. I wasn't for what this I see
the existing member wasn't true at this structure or this being shown in black here it is and it sounds like yeah exactly that and it's just in total which mean there's a Williamson fitting to stop them to put a full time to run the main inlet into the station.
Then we just put a valve here just in case the future we want to extend down Southampton Street in the future we just keep dustups available as an opportunity in the future. I I got it. So that's good. That's what's being added there is that another for you
missioners the project to come by the convention that's created by the bedposts and the third dimension between the bedpost and the back of her back to the side.
>> Well right nice nice is nine feet four inches so from the from the front of the traffic box to the front of the sidewalk is seven feet four inches then the van pulls out of the back of the vaults is a
balance here and it's six feet seven inches from the the the sidewalk that signage on the curb line that my with that dimension smaller not to my
knowledge no. It was confirmed that to ensure that we have an accessible proper cover all around the the box as all as I mentioned on at
the about the bedposts and our above grade level, I think that could be helpful. No problem. I'm sorry. >> And then Sarah as well those doors will go doors will be
obviously part of I'm going to call it the pilot program but as we both know it's kind of the I think your department has now comfortable with calling that the permanent structure, if you will, with
the inspectors and covering correct? That's correct. Yeah, Any other questions,
comments and here I know you'll be ready for your public hearing in two weeks on February 27, the House we plan to be excellent. We will see you then. Thank you.
Add on to your next item and I believe the last item on our new business for Marberry Terris Amory's Street Roxbury Grant Application a petition by National Group of the proponents please introduce themselves, their affiliations and office through what is
being proposed here still. Good morning Mr Chairman. Members of the Commission Peter Nagle National Grid Community and Customer Management and I'm joined today by Samarai who is our presenting and sponsor
engineer for the proposal you have before you Marguerite Terrace and Amory Street in Jamaica Plain. >> The this location unlike the
previous didn't lend itself to a lot of exploration on easements. So what we are what you have before you working with pikestaff is a replacement
of an existing low pressure gas regulator station in the sidewalk on Marberry Terrace with a new facility. The work would entail
decommissioning the existing station first station serves about fifty one hundred customers in the immediate area and it's again a low pressure
station that would be looking to replace providing better service for customers as well as better and safer access for our workers who regulate those
stations again a facility that we have determined that has reached its current shelf-life if you will. This facility would remain in
as I said this Boltwood to station Brault would be in the sidewalk Mulberry Street and both the tying and element piping would be concealed within Marberry Street.
As I said we'd need to decommission the existing site first and then we would work to install the vault in the sidewalk and to a question of a fence line here that the
existing property at the O called the corner of Marberry and Amory has a fence along its property line and investigating this site are easement. Folks have determined that we will replace that abutments
fence during restoration because while it is it's right on the sidewalk line there a couple of notes here.
The facility would be in terms of each adjacent to a existing North-Eastern property which would need at the left side sidewalk if you will and hearing from your cabinet chief
we will be including this in a detailed discussion when we go to neighborhood services prior to our construction season because this would require the decommissioning of the existing system.
This is something if we receive permits and such we wouldn't be able to start until likely may or there thereabouts again because of the decommissioning of the existing facility prior
to installing Ovalle, we do anticipate with the restoration on both the sidewalk and the abutted fence roughly ten weeks
and again the bill co does it need to agreed upon slip resistant and because of the tightening nature of this sidewalk we would have a whole mountain scale bikes instead
of the traffic bikes for facility on this on this site. With that I'll turn it over to commissioner staff members for
their comments and questions. Thanks, Peter. I guess my first question relates to 175 Amory's Street this residential property seem to be on the corner how well
engagement has been done with Saboteur given the subspace access will have to there with their property. I'm also interested in the tree that you're showing here which is in their yard. It does seem very like an
exclamation mark here and the substantial excavation work here is going to impact the root zone of that tree. And so I'm interested just how that potential suite of impacts is being managed with that property owner and how you intend to work with them to
make sure that the impacts the damages can be fully restored. As indicated, we've had a real estate inciting team has had discussion with the property owner relative to the
replacement of the fence any sidewalk work excluding shouldn't work relative to the tree probably would need to hand dig around that to see
what route system that would be salvageable and then anything around that you know, we'd have a discussion with the owner relative to that we would have
a professional arborist on site as well during the construction trying to monitor the tree and ensure that everything is being done to protect it. But appreciate that and obviously we're personally mostly concerned with street
trees given the price we want to make sure that this neighbor is well communicated with that their interests on their land are protected and that you guys are being good good neighbors
as you do this work. So I appreciate the attention relate so related to the conversation we had with Verizon on in the recently installed lead homes in this
area of the city and on my street I am not sure if any of those I don't have the map in front of me so I'm not if any of those are impacted by this. But is that something you have knowledge of now and if not,
can you can you please open that to me now you're public hearing and we would expect to hear a commitment to fully replace any speed humps that are and associated pavement are things that are impacted by this work?
Absolutely. I have eyes on this yesterday and of course I walked into so I I can't say definitively that there was speed bumps in that area but none stood out to me. Chief.
But I will make sure that that is both cataloged and replace in kind if necessary. >> Thank you very much Peter. Those are my things commissioners other questions comments I was wondering of the
team expand on any impacts to the web at the corner and whether or not the infrastructure impact accessibility of these
crossings no traffic. >> Go ahead. Yeah no you have no impacts on pedestrian crossing and movement in this area and I was wondering if you could also
point on the sidewalk and yes. So we've done our review on its own is fully compliant with CMA five twenty one. That's why we were using the the poor mountain shadowbox. So the distance between the
back end of the of the front end of the of the mental to the front of the site occurred is six point four inches then this is going to be the telescope over here from the front of it to the front it's five point six inches.
>> What about the bollards that you're putting in front of the glass? This one here? Yeah. And your on the plane I'm looking at you also show bollards in front of them.
This is a Buxley balance which is called multiple invitation. So any ours it's little from the ground so just is going to be like a four inch pole with a box attached to it.
There's two sheets in the plans that I'm looking at. One, it shows something different than the other. So I think one shows a box with two bollards in front of it and one does not show bollards. >> So this so this is a this is
this is this so if there's an error and they have that updated to send to you what's going to be a pull mounted is pull mounted with a box on it from the front up to the top of the box of boxes five feet from the ground you know there
need to be some time that hole no, no, no. Yeah. The plans that were submitted shovelers they're OK. I'll have it removed also on the other side of the regulator closer to Amerie Street it looks like there are two
existing lampposts the stick up above grade kind of in the middle of the sidewalk. Do those to say can those be know those are going away great. Yeah. Just put that on the plastic waste, OK and maybe to the earlier question but like right beyond this is just like a big
old blank wall of a building int it not possible to not put this ball in front of the white wall so that we don't impact the fence, the tree, et cetera of the one almoner like it seems like just a few feet down
the road you've got a building here. Yeah, well right there's a door and then after the door it's just nothing but a cinder block wall. So like it seems like if it just made it past that one doorway you wouldn't deal with
fences or tree roots because I think to the point of you can excavate you to see about the tree roots but you're going to find them. And so I think it becomes a question of what happens then because if you cut through them
to install something quite large surface, it's likely to have an impact on we'll do the
same thing that we did that's what's the location of Corinth where we had the same issue? The trees have an overhang over the sidewalk. What we did was we got an arborist out there. He looked at it, did an assessment. He was on site throughout the
process if we do feel there will be some significant impact to the trees, then we have to replace that kind. Is that easier than sliding it down the street to my concert? We're going to have the
foundation of the building. We're going to have to the back to foundation. We can look at it. I can take a look at it and get back on that even before the next hearing and I'll get one of our contractors out there to look at it and give me an assessment and I can get that
back to you on top. Oh, it sounds like some dialog to happen on this between now and the next hearing but
appreciate everybody being willing to work with us on this missioners stuff. >> Any other questions? Oh right. You'd be ready for a public
hearing in two weeks on February 27. >> Yes. All right. >> Thank you both very much and we will see you then. Thank you very much. Thanks. And with that we have reached the end of our agenda too. I didn't hear a motion to
adjourn. I make a motion to adjourn on favor. OK, I thank all very much. >> A couple of weeks.
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