The floor is yours, Mr. Chair, thank you very much. Good morning everybody. I am sure Franklin Hodge, chair of Public Improvement Commission and a call to order in the hearing of April twenty first twenty twenty five Mr. Liming, please take the roll
call. >> Certainly when the representative from the Public Works Department please state their name for the record Yashar Franklin Huch property Management Department please do the same. He also Calahan Transportation Department that goes Water and
Sewer Commission one commission for Persons with Disabilities or thank you. We do not have someone from Iasi today but we do have a quorum. But thank you very much. A packed agenda today so we will get right into it starting
with the hearing minutes at the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff the acceptance of the minutes of the PC hearings held on April 10th. Twenty twenty five do I hear a motion to approve the minutes I make a motion to approve that or accept the minutes of the public improvement Commission hearing held on April ten
twenty twenty five all in favor i i I any oppose or abstained they so moved on to our next item utility pole hearing continued No one on a petition by Verizon New England Inc. for
utility pole installation to install one new private utility pole had been public enemy number four for two Boston proper. We located the rear of to sixty two to two sixty four Newbury speech and between Fairfield Street and Gloucester Street this was at its first hearing
on March twenty seventh with the proponents. Please introduce themselves their affiliations and let us know how you would like to proceed with this motion. Yes good evening. Our first name Alexander last name Monroe or your employer
Pike Mandeville's oh see where an authorized contractor from the Russian Union Incorporated and we will be representing Verizon in front of you this morning. Verizon is hereby request
formally requesting to withdraw this petition as we will no longer be pursuing it in front of the Public Improvement Commission and that's basically it for this petition at this
time all right. Thank you very much. You love your motion to accept the withdrawal of utility pole and continued No. One, I make a motion to accept the withdrawal of UPC agenda
number one petition from Verizon for utility installation second oh in favor I I oppose or abstain so moved on to utility pole here I'm
number one on a direct petition by Verizon New England and every source energy for a utility pole install installation to install one new utility home then go street is Boston to be located on a southwesterly side the side of one twenty two cottage
street generally between Lubic Street and Cottage Street the provided please introduce themselves affiliations and walk us through what you are intending to do again. Alexander last seen around Telecom Verizon contractor Verizon this year petitioning
the commission to place one near forty five foot class one for you locate us on the side of Gulf Street take place approximately forty five feet from existing power sixteen approximately fifty five feet or sixteen feet.
Verizon is hereby making this petition in response to a request by every source who has requested a day new poll we install at this location in order to support facilities to be installed to provide service to two five five maverick
street overrates. Thank you very much Commissioners questions here
and I'll just ask one which is can you just articulate this? These are going to have three three polls quite close based together. Can you just explain why that's necessary so I can respond to
our source but my best guess is that their existing three face cabling is going to conflict with the new cabling in terms of spacing between the two two sets of cabling that will be
installed. So they are requesting a new power in order to provide the necessary separation between the two. OK, so there's congestion on the vertical congestion on the existing hole and no need to have something that is that
would not otherwise be attachable because of that the spacing is right but it already appreciate that commissioner is going once going twice questions Casey staff or
members of the public. I will take this opportunity to remind the public if you wish to ask questions or add testimony, please use the raised hand function is found under the reactions tab at the bottom of your screen. I do not have any comments or
questions at this time and I do not see anyone from the public. So I think we're also all right to your motion to approve utility pole here. No one, I make a motion to approve a joint petition by Verizon Winglet and I was forced to install the utility pole in the area of both
streetcars. Boston is rather read into the record by the chair second or favorite I I I oppose Herbsaint so moved. Thanks very much. Thank you. All right.
Out to the public section of our agenda starting with public hearing No one on a petition by the city of Boston Public Works Department for the making of specific repairs. Then the following public waits in Dorchester consisting of curb realignment and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian
ramps, specialty pavement blending infrastructure, stormwater infrastructure, street trees and driveway Kirkcudbright Ballu Avenue generally at Jones Avenue Jones Avenue west of Babloo Avenue. This was new business on April 10th as shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Parks Department Engineering
Division Specific Repairs Plans Balou Avenue Jones Avenue Pedestrian Ramp Design Dorchester four sheets dated April 16th twenty twenty five for the proponents please introduce themselves their affiliations and give us an update on any changes since
your last hearing and he responses to issues that were raised at that time. >> Good morning to members of the question. My name is Thomas J for the Public Works Department meeting a project that's doing the construction or design for the year on the public side I have
today with me the consultant from Isaac Bosworth I'll let him injuries himself shortly but again just a little bit about project background in case he wasn't here at the previous hearing or excuse me New business. This is part of the state of good repair project to
repair the streets of John's Biolab Street Mesko Street to Main Street, Wellwood Street and this project began began because there was a pedestrian bridge you can see as a discontinues labeled as a discontinuance that was removed
several years ago over the MBK tracks and as part of the mitigation for that project we're looking to add improvements to this neighborhood so this is part of a larger project for state of the repair or sidewalk repairs, et cetera, et cetera. So I'll pass it over to Zach
who can go over specific details and kind of what we've addressed at from the new business. Everyone that was from I have a designer helping out public works for this project. A few things a few comments that came in since last time
were related. We're from national grid related to gasline over here that runs at this Bumbo. They they had some concerns about where some of the infrastructure was located in proximity to the gas line. So the adjustments that we made was where we've located the
street light a little bit. We located this this drop in the drainage and in drainage inlet here a little bit and we removed the tree which was located in close proximity to the gas line over here at this location. Other than that, the geometry of this corner is the same
which is some minor minor adjustments there. But overall the design is the same Bumbo and the pedestrian ramp locations other comments that we got were related to the tree plantings and we worked with Parks Department to update
the details to make sure that they were consistent with what but the Parks Department was looking for with respect to how the trees were planted. So we added some notes on air and coordinated with them. But in general these locations the these are just the notes
that were added there. We are working actively with the Parks Department to just determine what exactly what tree species are out there that will be settled prior to installation and construction there. And we're also working out with a comment that came in from the
the planning department related to the the tree planting as well and in the soil underneath I think that about sums it up. Thomas, is there anything else we wanted to add? Um, no. I think that sums up for from
new business in the comments we received commissioners questions. Yes. His staff members of the public all set here.
We appreciate plan updates all our business do I hear a motion to improve public hearing number one, I make a motion to approve petitions by the city of Boston Public Works Department with the making
of specific preparation area. The challenge is for the return of the record by the chairman all in favor I I don't by any of those are in all right.
So moved. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. On two public hearing number two on a petition by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for making of specific repairs in the following public ways in Brighton consisting of realignment and sidewalk reconstruction as well as
relocating pedestrian ramps, traffic signal infrastructure and storm drain infrastructure Commonwealth Avenue generally at Lake Street and that street Lake Street north of Commonwealth Avenue South Street north of Commonwealth Avenue. This was new business on April 10th as shown on a set of plans titled City of Boston Public
Works Department Engineering Division Pacific Repair Plan Lake Street Commonwealth Avenue South Street at Commonwealth Avenue. Brighton. Fourteen sheets dated February twenty twenty for the proponents please introduce themselves their affiliations and give us an update on your proposal since the new business
hearing. Good morning come from the front of the municipal property MBK Green Line program with me today is that the MTA project manager specific repairs requested involves accessibility improvements on
the Green Line, the branch at Lake Street and South Street and we are we are ready to go. Please note we have a change in NPM at Jacobs and because of that we realized we did not
give me any signals the plans in cash format but I spoke with Avalon yesterday and will be getting the plans to him very, very quickly hopefully tomorrow so there's no issue there but I just wanted to bring that up
front before Rob you get a little technical rundown so arabe you can take it from here. >> How did you do? Good morning everyone and my name is the regional manager. The purpose of this project is to improve pedestrian crossing
along the Bronx to these improvements are designed with safety, accessibility and compliance in mind. The project focuses on the demolition and reconstruction of cities, pedestrian ramps and
common at Lake Street and South Street. The main elements being addressed are present registration programs and public settings and so there are seven percent equivalent
car brands that will be installing part of the supposedly extranet one, two, three four, five, six and seven and we have three car brands that will be installing at
South Street one to three right . So that's are the scope of the project. Alright thank you very much
Commissioners questions comments right now. Yes. Staff or members of the public all sat on this.
All right. Do I hear a motion public hearing. No. To make a motion to approve a petition by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority the making of specific repairs in the area of Commonwealth Avenue and Lake and South
Street as for the red of the record by the chair all in favor I I oppose or abstain so moved. Thank you very much. Thank you Commissioner. Have a good day.
Thank you to dinner. All right. On to Public Enemy number three petition by Support Square Development Company LLC for the Acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Seaport Boulevard Public South Boston located on its northeasterly side and address number eighty
eight southeast of Fan Pier Boulevard new business on April as shown on a plan entitled City Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Pedestrian Easement Plan eight Seaport Boulevard Parcel the Seaport District of Boston one sheet dated March twenty twenty five the proponents please introduce themselves
circulation's and give us an update on this proposal since you're in a business here. >> Good morning members of the commission. My name is Johnny Sanchez and Stories I'm here on behalf of the petition I support square development Company LLC, the master developer of the Sea
Park Square Project. I'm joined today by Coleman Horsely from Niche Engineering work for you today to respectfully request approval of pedestrian easements over a separate parcel relating to the block date project harpsichords Square which project site is located along the border
between then KAPOSVAR and block out the Seaport Square project as a reminder the pedestrian is meant over the slipper parcel will complete a set of adjacent pedestrian easements approved by the commission in twenty twenty two. At the time the silver parcel was owned by the MTA.
The silver parcels has been conveyed to the commission to the petitioner excuse me an importantly we are now seeking the completion of the easement area since we were here two weeks ago we have finalized the pedestrian easement with the commission legal counsel turned over to Coleman and walk to plan.
Thank you as much and my calling Horsely I work for niche engineering and I'm here on behalf of petitioner through the special needs met you can see here and read this is the portion of the former MBT parcel now owned by the petitioner that is going to be
added pedestrian easement you can see for these context plants these are the twenty twenty two specific repairs that were approved by the commission in twenty twenty two the existing district easement follows a sidewalk and we are looking to add this Rashtriya
is meant to complete the sidewalk access for the public as part of this project for him back to the pedestrianism that you can see in red that area that will be added as part of the context and with that alternative to questions,
commissioners questions, comments, all rights hearing none his staff or members of the public all sat on this right to agree motion to
approve public hearing number three and make a motion to approve a petition by sequence player development company alone state for the acceptance of a pedestrian each medication qualified as the read into the record by the chairman all in
favor now I oppose or abstain so moot. Thank you very much. Thank onto your public hearing number four on a petition by Northeastern University and the Boston Redevelopment Authority in the Boston Planning and
Development Agency for the widening relocation and extension of the existing right of way lines of Columbus Avenue Public Way Roxbury as well as for the acceptance of highway easements from its current terminus at Melnik Boulevard to a point Krannert Street located generally across from Wall Street.
This was new business in April 10th as shown on a plan entitled City Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Widening Relocation and Extension Planned Columbus Avenue Public Roxbury one she dated February twenty six twenty twenty five minutes please introduce themselves affiliations and give us an
update on any changes since your new business hearing. Uh good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the commission uh my name is John Connolly, project engineer from outside Hudson. I am presenting today on behalf of the proponents Northeastern
University and Boston Planning Department. I am joined by Victoria Avelina North-Eastern and Jim Fitzgerald from Planet as well as Ian McKinnon from our office . We presented a new business two weeks ago for the widening
relocation and extension of existing right away lines of Columbus Avenue and minor updates to the plan based on feedback from pitching staff to the business. We provided those updates yesterday but just to summarize
we've matched with a specialty railway services and added a legend to both plans to provide clarity and connect these items to the language and the licensing agreements.
There are no other changes made or requested. So with that I will open up to any questions missioners I will
ask where are you in terms of the legal documents associated with this and are there any outstanding issues associated with those? Um, Victoria are you able to comment on that?
Sure and also good morning everybody. Victoria maybe if I could be kind of Northeastern and I'm joined by Mitali Despise who is in the office of General Counsel. So we're very close. I'm going to let Mitali chime in but we've been working very
closely with the city lawyers and Boston planning lawyers and lawyers. So I think we've pretty much been agreed on finalizing the language but metalic if you can weigh in just where we are.
>> Sure. So over the past two weeks we have continued our negotiations on pedestrian easement, the two highway easement and license maintenance agreement or the specific repairs the first three for the pedestrian
easement, the highway easement with North-Eastern in the highway easement with the DPD. Those are final and we have a couple of outstanding questions going back and forth between orand and chuong of the cities
the cities attorney to finalize the Alami but I think we're very close and hopefully we should be able to represent the OK so we will if we we're presuming we approve this action today kind
of finalization of all of this is still contingent on completion of that agreement, correct? Yes, understood. But just noting that we're very, very close hopefully that should not be an issue. Yeah. And also to confirm I know this
is something that came up in the new business hearing about will the university be accepting maintenance responsibilities for the entirety of this area and any specialty materials and designs
the many specialty materials the design is located here. Yeah, and Victoria, feel free to chime in if you want to add anything so the improvements are defined in the Alami and it includes the specialty pavers
et cetera and the brick in the street ways as well as the nonstandard light fixtures that are in in the licensed premises area to the extent that North-Eastern down the woman
with approval the scene changes any of those specialty pavers brake or light fixtures to city standard material at that which are then approved by PWP then the Northeastern responsibility for maintenance of those newly
city standard materials when Mrs understood that makes sense and bottega that the existing nonstandard materials will be maintained by those were my
only questions Commissioners' anything else PSC staff or members of the public now also that we really appreciate North-Eastern and BTD efforts
on business. It's a long time how I did all right but that I hear motion to improve public remember for I make a motion to approve a joint petition by North-Eastern University in Boston Planning
and Development Agency for the widening relocation and extension of the right line to Columbus as well as the acceptance of Hi want easements and this is contingent upon completion of agreements as
referenced by the Chair on paper I. I oppose or abstained so moved to public carrying over five petition by Northeastern University for the acceptance
of Destiny's an adjacent to Columbus Avenue Public Roxbury looking in NSW Felicidad the site of eleven fifty five Tremont Street NW Tremont Street. This was new business on April 10th as shown on a plane titled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division of the Desk Enhancement Plan
Columbus Avenue eleven fifty five Tremont Street Roxbury one sheet dated February 26 twenty and the proponents of reintroduce themselves and their affiliations give us an update on this action in any changes since your new business hearing?
Good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the commission again my name is Joe Connolly, project engineer for how it starts presenting to them to assess the performance of University and Boston Planning Department I joined in Victoria.
I believe that North-Eastern Jim Fitzgerald from planning Ian McKinnon to Hudson smiling dismasted of all of you student representative new business two weeks from the acceptance of pedestrianism and adjacent
to Columbus Avenue we made the same minor updates to this plan and based on feedback systems which was also provided yesterday a new other than that there were no further changes.
Thank you very much, Commissioner. This question Scarlet's pikelets staff or members of the public also on this. All right. To hear a motion to approve
public enemy number five, I make a motion to approve a petition by Northeastern University for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Columbus Ave. As for the read into the record by the chair all in favor. All right.
I ended up staying at so moved. Thank you very much. We'll see you I think in our new business section a little bit but thank you very much for this and it's all right. And on to that concludes the public hearing portion of the agenda.
So we can move on to new business starting with new business number one on Wall Street Dumar St. Martin Avenue, Dorchester specific parents in a petition by the city of Boston Public Parks Department with the public schools themselves their affiliations and walk us through what is being proposed
. Hello and good morning Chairman is the commission my name is Thomas Share with the Public Works Department petitioning for the specific repairs at William Street to Main Street. I'm also joined by our design consulting firm WSP. I'll let Greg introduce himself shortly but before giving off
I'll give again a little bit of background information on this specific location as well as the wider project. It is part Jones Avenue Neighborhood Project is part of a reconstruction project that is looking to rebuild the streets of Jones Avenue Bollo Avenue Jacobs Street, Mascotte
Street, Domar Street without street and bring into a state of good repair again. This project began as a response to the removal pedestrian bridge over the MTA tracks that connected by the additional street and is kind of design is a mitigation for that that the loss of that bridge the project is looking
to provide accessibility improvements, safety improvements, additional street you can it be throughout the neighborhood by repaving the roadway or constructing sidewalks, rebuilding pedestrian, installing new street lighting and planting new street trees as well as well as green infrastructure? I handed over to Greg who can talk with the specific repairs
at this specific location of Wall Street at Domar Street . So Greg, please take it away. Great. Thank you. Thomas Gordon, Chairman commission members aren't everyone. My name is Greg Skiba on the
design lead for WSP for working for Boston Public Works for this project I'm joined here by another project engineer Jordan Friedman. And as Thomas mentioned, I'll walk you through the design of this intersection. The overall goal is to improve
the intersection of geometry to provide a more accessible and safe intersection where both vehicles and pedestrians you can see here the existing curved lines at the existing intersection is a vast sea of pavement and it's really
uncontrolled. So what we're proposing here is to extend the curb lines at each approach, square up the intersection and create a controlled intersection geometry. By doing this we are also reducing crossing distances for
pedestrians installing on a number of programs and new crosswalks and in those bump out areas as Thomas mentioned, installing green infrastructure practices. We've been working closely with the Office of Green Infrastructure and other city departments on creating this
design at the intersection. It's also worth noting on Martin as will be improving the safety and accessibility for pedestrians by installing arrays crossing. It's also worth noting that we've read all train movements and this is an intersection
that accommodates necessary movements for all vehicles passenger screening, a single unit tracks and emergency vehicles. Happy to go into more details. The other sheets of this package is kind of talks through the pavement.
Design will be followed through construction for the majority of the intersection with the infrastructure practices on the streetscape and an overlay on the expense of the project. The other details are pretty standard city of Boston details
and as I mentioned, we've been working closely also with Boston Water Sewer and other utility companies and making sure that their infrastructure the catch basins, manholes and any other utilities are properly adjusted or relocated in the new intersection configuration.
We're also implementing the most recent set of offers of green infrastructure standard details and its design . So with that I'll open the floor to any questions. Thomas, do you have anything else that I missed that you'd like that?
Um, I think you've got real thank you. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you all very much. Commissioners questions comments.
Right. I have a couple of the maintenance of the bio retention areas and the green infrastructure features. What is the expectation for that expectation at this time is that will be done mainly by
Ochiai still to be finalized but that is the understanding at this time. OK, I'm going to confirm that all of the plans of all green and areas of this sort of qualify for maintenance under their available resources as I see you know, growing
basin for example and yeah unclipped that is that a green infrastructure feature or just a planted area that maybe wouldn't require maintenance under a different arrangement? There are a couple of different scenarios here. One is more formal larger by our attention space they've
just recently given us planting specific species of plants they want installed in that you were Greg is highlighting to the right there that's kind of a larger area where we can provide some drainage catchments. Some of these are just more of like native grasses which don't really require as much
maintenance and those won't be servicing because they're over the gas lines, utility, et cetera. So there's a mixture here of two different locations. But the intent yes. And we've been closely coordinating with them and so far we've been able to this is
intended to be maintained by the excellent will appreciate the interest if there are any elements would be great before your public hearing if you can confirm it that all elements, plants and elements will be maintained by the green infrastructure and if there are
elements that would require public works maintenance beyond what is typically done for green infrastructure features things like mowing or trimming or whatnot, you just coordinate with the public works operations team to make sure that they're aware and comfortable with the design.
I want to thank you very much. Second question are there impacts here related to on-street parking that may be relevant to folks in the neighborhood so the because
we're pushing it towards the intersection generally know the one side where he may be somewhat restricting parking and it's because the signage is a little confusing that we're putting a bump out between the
two ramps on the north northerly northeastern side of the page. I can get you an exact number if we double check but there may be a loss of a couple spaces technically there but it's kind of within the intersection between a couple of driveways. Other than that technically no other legal spaces because the
code lines are getting pushed so far into the middle of an intersection. So got OK and has there been any communication with the folks in the neighborhood, coordination with the Office of Neighborhood Services about parking specifically or about the design in general? So we are recently coordinating
with them for this overall project. This is kind of a new step for a state of good repair project and doing that coordination I have reached out to the adjacent Buttars for there's a condo association on the left
for a meeting. You can see there is a couple of extra they'd have to shovel more snow basically that condo association was acceptable to doing that extra snow removal for their sidewalks but we are currently engaging with owners
to come to some kind of more formal public engagement here. Excellent. Thank you. I appreciate the outreach that's already done. And still to come, if you wouldn't mind at your public hearing to just provide an
update on the engagement plan, it doesn't all have to have been concluded by the time you are here again. But just want to make sure we have a plan we will move ahead with as this project progresses. Understood. I will look to provide more details then. Thank you very much.
Was there on my questions is he staff or members of the I don't know. I think we're on this for now. >> Excellent will you be ready for your public hearing in two weeks on me eight? Yes we should be ready.
Greg. I think we've kind of basically addressed all the comments as far as I'm aware. So yes, I would agree with. All right, excellent. We'll see you back here for this then. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. On to your business over to
midfielder Keswick Street Boston proper specific appearance on a petition by the city of Boston Public works by the proponents. Please introduce reintroduce himself circulation's walk us through what you're proposing to do here at all members of the commission my name is Jeffrey Alexis for the Public Works Division.
I'm joined here by my consulting firm this engineering who developed a number of these plans that are will be coming up next as part of our roadway reconstruction program, my state of good repair in terms of providing we
make improvements along these streets as well as some additional safety improvements including sidewalks, ramp reconstruction. Meet the proposal of street trees, street lighting, race
crossing's and additional accommodations for bicycles as needed. I will turn it over to Jeff Sawtell to share the plans, introduce himself and Jeff,
this is a a niche also in Jeff Sertco work on this project and I can kind of take over and but Jeff chime in as needed about these plans so as Jeff noted, this is a repair project
maintenance project primarily using city standards everywhere new concrete sidewalks with primarily overlay on medical street specifically reconstruction from St. Mary's the Park Drive might occur extension over here closest to
St. Mary's with Rays crossing just east just west of St. and the new contraflow bike lanes and replacing the existing concrete sidewalks turning Bhubaneswar lane changes have been checked for a again truck
and Boston Fire Department and primarily outside of that keep an existing lines and making ADA improvements as needed. Yes and I'll also jump in that we are proposing to relocate
the parking along that street to the I guess north side but no side of the street as the contraflow pipeline will be on the on the south side of the roadway.
Lastly we are as I mentioned we are proposing lighting along this quarter. We are coordinating with the Parks Department as well as planning I plan on asking how many turn me to discuss how we
will need to move forward in terms of the details and specifications for the existing trees. As you can see located across from Keswick Street there is a run of St. Gary Condit again opposing building a roadway to protect existing tree at that location.
It was a request from the Parks Department. We are also proposing concrete medians Castella's place concrete medians as daylighting and protection for the bicycle facility along this quarter.
Thank you very much. Michener's questions for
another couple so starting with the street trees. So we are can you just speak a little more detail? It sounds like there is street lighting conduit that is being relocated into the street in
order to avoid excavation around the roots of that tree is that correct? Yes, that is correct. So we for this tree in particular I'm sorry I don't recall the tree species are the Parks Department requested that
we proposed the conduit right around this tree tree because of the specific species and kind of noting that if we do excavate along the root system of this tree it would ultimately kill the tree.
So survivability in the tree was an issue here. So specifically we looked at rerouting it into the street. We are going to be working with the parks Department to protect the other trees along this quarter as well in terms of the excavation because of Gazidis
and some current issues as of recent so we will be looking at incorporating additional details as well as our specifications to protect those obviously trees along that southern side got excellent.
Thank you and moving on to just a question about the intended bike facility here. So this would be a contraflow in going in the direction of Park Drive that would run
along the southern curb of Matfield Street, correct? Yes. Charlotte OK. >> And the is it correct to surmise that the switch inside of parking is to facilitate a kind of transition for that
contraflow lane and to avoid conflicts between bites and vehicles? Yes, that's correct. OK, and related to that bike lane I see that there is calcium's these daylighting
proposed in a few spots along the corridor or Kessman place barriers of some kind you know ,certainly appreciate the intention of you know at the cross at the new crosswalk that's being added that will that will serve to also delay the crosswalk to prevent illegal vehicle stops in an
area that would impinge pedestrian safety. Can you just speak to the kind of reasoning behind the cost in place barriers at the driveway sort of towards the the eastern end of the street on the south
side as well as in place that's being placed at the far eastern terminus of Matfield intersection of Park Drive? Yes, absolutely. Ideally it was more to serve as
protection for not only the cyclists that are traveling down this roadway up the driveway on the eastern side actually serves as a driveway for a I want to say housing
that's a housing development. But but the intention is for a lot of vehicles to be traveling in and out of this driveway because of the number of residences in this area down the street. The intent is to provide more visibility and protection for
cyclists on this route. This bike lane is kind of a bike lane was at the request from the planning department who identified Mayfield Street as a vital connection in this area to to provide access to to
put the Park Drive. My philosophy does ultimately connected to Brookline which I believe is a route that that is taking that is art that is parallel with our culture of the avenue. So this is a low stress safe
route for cyclists to travel down along the street. But yeah, ideally in lieu of opposing flex posts along this corridor we are proposing these Cassopolis Reality A
thank you. I appreciate that and that makes sense and I assume you've done it mentioned that movement analysis has been done, vehicles exiting from that driveway that is now has these custom placed elements on
either side must still be able to make those turns. It has also been confirmed for any larger scale vehicles that may be using that. I see for example, that it looks as though people keep
their trash down there and they may I don't know if they bring it to the curb or not, but there's quite a few trash cans visible down that driveway. I want to make sure that our trash trucks are able to get down easily as well and moving vans are the things that people may be trying to put into that
driveway beyond passenger vehicles that's understood will review and confirm that confirm that we are not impeding access for trash trucks along this into this driveway. So we will confirm if we need
to make changes we can shift the design of these place public. OK, yeah yeah. I would very much appreciate that. I know sometimes our we sometimes work for vehicles that are not our designed vehicle. You know we sometimes make it
possible but not easy to get in and knowing that trash trucks may be going down here every week we would like to make it at least you not a not a specially complex maneuver for those folks to to put in here. So just another look would be
appreciated. So last question sort of related to the shift inside for the parking, have we done any analysis on the difference in parking spaces between the two sides and as there I guess
it related thing but also in general point is has there been any outreach or discussion to people in the neighborhood or through on s to discuss that shift in parking side and any impacts that that may have?
Yes. So in terms of the parking we did reach out to the community to inform them of the change. There is a slight reduction in the number of spaces along the corridor that did that was not a concern from the community in regards to those couple
of spaces. I think that the importance the importance in terms of this project was as being able to provide the contraflow bike in these other city improvements and in terms of the parking usage utilization along the corridor, it was going to be impacted. So that is something that we
did confirm prior to making this change. All right. Excellent. I don't think I have any other questions as his staff or members of the public are also
we'd be ready for your public hearing in two weeks time. Yes. All right. We'll see you then for that. Thank you very much. On your new business three Arlington Street every road Barrow Street, Webley Street, Islington Street, Brighton
specific repairs a petition by the city of Boston Public Works Department petitions please reintroduce themselves and their affiliations and give an overview of what is being proposed. Yes, good morning. How what to get out Jeremy. That was the commission Jeffrey Alexis with Public Works Department.
I'd joined here by Nature Engineering Petitioning for the reconstruction of the roadway and sidewalks on pilotage street calling attention to the improvements that we propose
along this corridor. I will kick it over to Matt to kind go into all the details but I just wanted to note that we have coordinated with the BP in regards to the Horace Mann School of the Deaf Blind and
of course these improvements we are looking removing existing parking pocket that was provided for this school. However, what they've expressed is that it was it needed because there are primary
egress into the school was on Cambridge Street. We wanted to propose a geometric symmetrical alignment in regards to the curves along this corridor. We are looking at shifting the curve lies to provide our standard or somewhat
substandard sidewalk is here as we're able to provide along this this corridor which generally has a substandard substandard walkway with we have a posi cast in place
concrete medians as regards to daylighting along the corridor as well as additional an additional crossing that connects to the Jackson barrier to the Horsman which is underneath a I want to say a skybridge for the two schools.
The last thing I want to mention is that the horse med school was actually relocated to to Charlestown this past summer and the building is currently being used by the B C
Y DC Y apartments that are youth center and we will be coordinating and reaching out to them to ensure that these changes are impacting their their operations. I did connect and reach out to
BAPS facilities management in regards to the improvements they are aware of these changes and have approved the changes. But as the PCAOB is now using this building, I will inform
them of the change that they are just aware of that I will turn over to to Matt to kind of go into a little bit more of the details. Jeff, and a lot of the big topics already. But I'm going to give you a general overview so construction of Arlington from Emery Road to Islington here on
the corner as Jeff mentioned, new concrete sidewalks, pedestrian improvements once again seeing those Cassopolis concrete daylighting return to the new crosswalk right here HORSMAN That one also is proposing a rectangular rapid
flashing beacon to terms of at Barrow Street a little minor geometric improvement here. The straight line those curves once again turns checked for a single unit impossible fire truck but we can double check those with a concern about that field with trash trucks and is
making sure those caspase items are replaced because that's pretty much I think Jeff, you hit on the main topic so I'm not going to that. Yes. And I'll just simply add there is a tree existing Armitage
Street that we are maintaining along the corridor to the right of Webley. So we are maintaining that that tree we are proposing Brezhnev
,Barnstone or I would kind of allow it. Yes. Yes. Allow to allow the clearance that is required for pedestrians on the sidewalk and street lighting is being proposed on the North Page
North which is not going to be impacted with that existing tree. We are not close any of the trees along the corridor as there are space of constraints for the sidewalk. Excellent. Thank you very much.
Missioners questions your who back the line for an apple tree are in fact documents that are occupying just for
clarification. Oh yes. We'll take it back to you. Do you have I don't have it handy but we can definitely look into that and provide it. Just how do you even have that handy? If not we can follow up on that. There should be four feet from
the back of the curb. The proposed curb to the edge of the existing treatment based on this new Weideman process. The feedback around the bend area but also water members
forget about the battery in this back. I think that special in regards to you since facts around thank you, sir. Yeah. I just want to add that the additional crossing that we're
proposing with the RFP was a request from the Horsman in regards to this being a passage that the community uses to to gain access to a park I believe is on the other side of the street. So this was something that they
did request for us to do and we were able to provide given that they no longer there, I think it would ultimately be a treatment that will serve this community here in the future.
I think you the other questions I'll just say thank you for the outreach to be great if I was to spend it in a city council hearing last week in which I believe the facilities
department had expressed intention to start a planning study about the reuse of both the taxman and the apartment buildings for this purposes. So and just confirmation with both CYF and whoever is leading
that effort on public facilities that these changes all seem fairly straightforward and compatible with the you know, our goals around safety and accessibility. So you know, I don't imagine there are major issues but just want to make sure they're aware and comfortable with this
moving forward relative to the planning that they are intending to do would be great to confirm that. Absolutely. All right. Clancy staff are members of the public. We are all set on this one
project. Will you be ready for your public hearing in two weeks on May eight? Desiree? All right. We'll see you then. On to new business for Euclid Street, Rivington Street, Dorchester specific appearance by the city of Boston Public Works Department with the petitioners please reintroduce
themselves affiliations and walk us through what is being proposed. Yes. Good morning to members of the commission once again the name is Jeffrey Alexei's, the Public Works Engineering Division and the structural design here petitioning for the reconstruction of Euclid Street
between Wellington and Washington Street. Ideally I mean these are just I mean for the most part maintenance improvements. We are providing some daylighting on the quarter. We are proposing some new trees with tree tree planting
treatment that will provide resident Brownstown within the pit area. As I mentioned, we'll be coordinating with the parks departments to determine the detailed specification and the detail about whether the new
planting should be in addition to which specific trees that we are going to be proposing along the corridor out there are a number of them are but I mean ultimately it's we're proposing just new sidewalks as well as
new ramps at the Withington intersection and minor street lighting improvements along the corridor. But there are already existing Srilanka along the street so it's made of minimal
improvements mainly to address the maintenance and repair of the roadway as well as our slowing down of the quarter with respeto with that general with Matt. And good morning again Matt Smith is finishing the dairy just to build on what Jeff
presented. He mentioned we have two cars in place the lighting closest to Wellington Street and then also just note that there's a proposed speed on kind of in the middle of the street near number eleven as well and primarily recent news the current overlay the concrete sidewalks and retaining and
proposing a trees. Excellent. Thank you commissioners. I would like to give you a number of amendments I remember
from here on in the May only comment relates to the daylighting that's proposed on the West Side where you could
meet Wittington so well it appears that the daylighting is an area that would not be considered legal parking today it does appear that it is signed as a legal parking space just east of the street like
that. The existing street made its way into correctly here and so I just because this will functionally eliminate a space that is currently working as a parking space, just please make
sure there's some outreach to oh and s and some communication with the neighborhood again this is not this is a we have created a legal parking space and contrary to our own rules about spacing from crosswalks and the daylighting here it's
important but I just want to make sure that it doesn't come as a shock to people in the community. Yes, absolutely. Reach out to our guests to connect with our community and I know that this will impact at least one parking space. I think I have no other
questions is there for members of the public also are you ready for your new business or your public hearing in two weeks on May eight? Yes, All right. We'll see you then. On to new business five Reddy Avenue, River Street, Fraizer
Street, Hyde Park, the parents and a petition by the city Boston Public Works Department with petitions please introduce themselves, their affiliations and the talk us through what you're proposing here Esquenet members the commission once again Jeffrey Alexian Public Works Department of Infrastructure and Design proposing some improvements on
Ready Avenue petitioning for Reconstruction for reconstruction which will include new lighting, new pedestrian ramps, curb extensions, speed as well as
of improving access both access to the park that is at the end of the street. I believe it's field bus playground. Yes. Thank you. Thank you Matt.
And I guess this was just a project out that was a neighborhood request to improve visibility to the park. There is actually a school along the street that's probably a block or two away.
So this is a roadway that needed attention in terms of pedestrian access and sidewalks. With that I would turn it over to Matt to go a bit more details. Right. Thank you. Matt Santos again. When did engineering so yeah we are proposing reconstruction
revenue from River Street to Ross Playground. Ross Playground is on page right to the north project includes replacing the existing Aechmea sidewalk with new concrete sidewalk just a river street extension with the pedestrian crossing
improvements there. We are also proposing new Lincolnwood as Jeff noted on the north side and then to new speed humps on either side the side street and then crossing over to Ross playground and
then propose concrete cassopolis concrete daylighting over the bridge or street intersection once again their street trees out here as well. And we're happy to note that the many pinch point crossing distance as we talked about the
other projects and yeah it's primarily yeah. And I'll note that we'll work with Park in regards to the pothole species along the corridor as well.
Excellent commissioners questions. Yeah I yeah I was I'm sorry sorry chief I one thing I mentioned we did receive a
request to take a look at the entrance to the park. We are currently proposing to pedestrian ramps to provide access. The request was to take a look at extending the sidewalk along here and providing a standard
driveway for the entrance to the park. So that's something that will take a look at in terms of the greater the drainage as well as the access here to to make it accessible for pedestrians. Thanks to both. One of my questions so I should
be working with folks on that. The second thing I have is just similar to the last one we are forcibly eliminating to informal parking spaces at the corner of Fraizer Street. You're so just wanting to make
sure that there is a good communication in the neighborhood about that in advance of this we move towards construction. Yes, to commissioners. Any other questions comments or
agency staff members of the public also? >> All right. We'll be ready your public hearing in two weeks on May 8th. Yes. Excellent. I'll see you for that.
On to business Mrs Thatcher Street, Metropolitan Avenue, Huntington Avenue, Bradley Street, Hyde Park specific repairs and a petition by the city Boston Public Works Department to please introduce themselves, their affiliations and give us an overview of what is proposed here. Yes, come on Jamie.
Members of the commission are generally the largest public works engineering division infrastructure design team joined here by Matt from petitioning for improvements on Dadua Street. Ideally once again this is our project that is will be included in the contract with
the other locations that we've talked about this morning is our state of good repair program to provide maintenance improvements as well as additional safety improvements along these corridors along datastream we are proposing a
number of stations along the corridor specifically at Metropolitan Avenue to shorten across this is at at that intersection we are proposing concrete sidewalks replacing bituminous concrete that is currently out here asphalt
sidewalks and replacing them with cement concrete and then also providing standard pedestrian ramps. Splitting the ramps is needed to improve access. With that I will turn over to
back to introduce myself and also provide more details about these improvements. Good morning everyone again. So for the engineering work for Boston Public Works on this project. So this is a roadway were
proposed improvements to Thatcher Street from Metropolitan Avenue to Bradley Street reconstructing the existing roadway, pedestrian improvements at crossings, replacing the existing concrete sidewalks with I mean the existing HMRC sidewalks with concrete sidewalks as Jeff mentioned curb extension
improvement, Metropolitan Avenue and all the communications were checked for a single unit in the Boston Fire Department new street lighting on to it primarily along the south side of the street been to the intersection
Huntington minor extension improvements they're not as significant as Metropolitan Avenue and then and being on Bradley Street primarily in this northeast corner curvy section here is bringing out that radius to shorten the pressure and crossing distance
as well with new she conduit there for the street lighting project also includes working with parks on the street trees and think that was about it primary just road improvements
with the curve etc. It's been kind of interchange here. Yes. And we'll follow up with parks in regards to specific tree species that we want to propose along the corridor. Thank you very much Commissioners bushlands, can
you speak to the intention of the meeting under the currently the tree lighting here is on utility poles on the north side of the street. It looks like we're adding your conduit to other basis being installed there. What are we doing with that?
Oh yes. So as shown here, I think they are tree lighting department actually requested that we propose underground conduit for this quarter and I think they're proposing alternative alternate alternate lighting
services at this location. So we're ultimately just proposing the underground as part of our improvements and streamlining will come in and install the Poles as as well as the lighting fixtures as part of their standard operation.
So Conduit will go on the other side. So I believe if toolboxes as well as the bases and then to provide those laterals across the street would provide the basis on either side.
OK, appreciate that. And yeah, lighting upgrades for the neighborhood. The spacing on those is not ideal. So today in its current iterations appreciate that business for me.
PSC staff members of the public all set on this or it will be ready for your public hearing in two weeks. Some may ask. All right. See you back here then to that and on to our last public works
item for yes US public works say a new business seven McBryde Street, Louis Street Street Call Street transcripts of seven prepared an application by the city Boston Public Works Department. We provided space we introduce themselves their relations and markets to what is being proposed. Yes, thank you Chairman.
Members of the commission Geoffrey Alexis public works out Engineering Division for design joined here by Matt from Nitsch petitioning for the price for the improvements. This is also a committee request in terms of repairing
the sidewalk for concrete sidewalks, lines, order. In addition, there was a request for us to propose a caution for a bike lane along this corridor coordinating with DCR and their improvements to
the Southwest Corner Park. We are also proposing a race crossing at that location that will ultimately provide access is a wider crosswalk than our standard to improve the
accommodations for this year path for cyclists, pedestrians . With that I will turn it over to Matt to kind of get into the details. I think it's great. Thank you once again and
scientist niche engineering. I'm here to talk about the improvements I'd make right straight from South Street to Main Street. Those improvements primarily include an overlay replacing the existing sidewalks with cement concrete sidewalks closest to South Street proposing cars place concrete
daylighting. As Jeff mentioned, we are doing a contraflow bike lane along this roadway as well along the stretch reconstruction there is a total of three speed humps. There's two shot on this page one here, one here and then go in closer to the street there
is a race crossing there on the page each side of the intersection with cement concrete daylighting as well as curved entrance like curving sections there the intersection with Point Street as well just
to increase the pedestrian crossing distance and get those two separate ramps to work out a little bit better creating rise and a new proposed race crossing at DSN Square Park Crossing as well as fifty four crossing with just a better flow from the existing path
north and south and Shihri improvements similar to the other projects according to Clarkson that that's primarily the bulk of it. The prominent or missioners
questions comments just to confirm on the currently on the east side of the Washington
Street intersection here there is a crosswalk that that does not have a receiving ramp on the crosswalk over MCBRYDE. It does not have a receiving ramp. It appears that that crosswalk is being eliminated in favor
of one over McBryde on the west side of the street. Is that correct? Yes. OK, so we will eliminate the non accessible crossing there. Yep. Yeah, yeah. We were unable to provide or maintain that crossing of the
driveway. McBryde Street does turn two one way at this location. So for the most parked vehicles are going to be turning left here onto the street who are traveling I want to say
westbound along McBryde and we ultimately received request to make sure that we provide additional sufficient inadequate signage stating that this this section is a one way vehicle should not be entering
the street from this location to travel westbound superbikes expect. Got it. OK, excellent propitiated no questions for me or anyone else. Michener's or its staff or
members of the public also on us. >> All right. We'll be ready for your public hearing in two weeks on May eight. Yes. sir. All right. We'll do this marathon again. Thank you Jeff and team very much. Appreciate it and keep on a great improvements in the
neighborhood. So it's good to see bag check picture. All right. With that we are on to new business eight n margin St. Patrick Street different Thatcher Boston proper grant application on a petition by and start electric company DEBA
ever source energy with the proponents please introduce themselves, their affiliations and walk us through what you are proposing to do still Scalloway anybody wagenen
source filling in for Katie clarity as stated Eversole suspect requests to install Conduit in North Module Street and that to street to install one new sidewalk will soon be seven to five including a network transformer in North Margin Street.
This work is necessary to improve and ensure electric service reliability in the area and resource will be retiring station thirty in the near future we need to build a new infrastructure to we feed the customers that are currently fed from the station. There's a reason why I'm
requesting to install the SMB in the sidewalk. Are able to put plants up if not be able to do it. Can you do that for we? I'm pulling up Acadia. Well I didn't realize you can
have plans so guys this is Kelly if I can share on here it's Kelly Correia and every source I do have plans for I'm just going to figure out how to share my screen here. >> I can't thank you, Kelly.
That's all right. I'm going to find the share option here we go share and then pick my screen and share. So let me know if we can see those. Yeah, we have it's going to be
so basically again we're at the corner of Thatcher and North Margin we're coming from this is Prince Street over here and we're coming down which ones were coming down Thatcher Street and we're going through
existing manholes just along where the electric conduit goes now and we come down at the intersection that's right north margin from Manhours three five I know it's kind of hard to see here but from this manhole here
up to our end point of manhole five three three four we actually do have existing electric conduit but the sidewalk fault is going to go right in here. You know, in between the manholes here it is parked in the sidewalk parked in the street.
We've had discussions with people from the city, various agencies. It's going to be like a molded cover so you won't see the street end of it. The entrance of the wall is actually like within the sidewalk area. It'll be flooded, complain etc. If you want Google Maps up
here, this is just super congested up here. So trying to find space for a was tough but I am trying to get to my Internet here.
Bear with me. I can show you exactly where this is going. I had it up but it's not I get all these bars from the meeting covering my search bar so I can't move anything. All right.
So if I go to Google Maps OK, so Thatcher comes into north margin here into an area of you and where's my street?
You got what am I not sharing now? Did I know you in this debate? OK, so wait a minute I gotta get back to my screens. All right. Here's my screen Google Maps.
Here we go. Right. So my guy is down in this intersection. Let me get my bearings here. OK, so this is Peter Idjit Pizzeria Regina on the corner right here. So I'm going back here to this
area here. It's so there's like this red door. This is kind of odd brown panels or doorway. I don't know what they are. They're on the sidewalk. We're actually going in the sidewalk right in that area here you can see it better. So it'll be right here where my
arrow is if if that helps. Yeah, that's very helpful. Appreciate the visual orientation and we tried we tried a few different places trying to keep more out of the way. It's just everything under the roadways are so congested there that there really was not
another option. So you want the clean something anything uh, that's that's great. And so it looks like you'll be
doing frenching in the roadway kind of going back to essentially the front door of Pizzeria Agena and then down along the side of the building and then again down Thatcher Street. Is that correct? for the economy?
Yes. I understand you have some existing manholes. I'm seeing installation of additional BVC in the plants so yeah, just the PCB our pipe but no no manholes. That's the only underground like vault structure going in
and out of all the rest of it we're going to go through existing manholes. It's just we need place new conduit. OK, All right thank you commissioners questions by by
the amount of construction when you install this ball and whether or not the programs is being at the end of three witnesses go back to the emergency and Bethesda will be
impacted as part of the ball installation or installation. So I believe the vault is only going to be in this area. It shouldn't impact the pedestrian ramp at the corner here and this is the only area
where we're going to be impacting sidewalk. All the rest of it will be in the roadways. Oh yeah. Metzger's other pushpins will
there be any issues related to vehicles parking on the street at this location once construction is complete now once it's complete, everything will be back as is OK, OK, so there's structural concerns
with the vault underneath. >> Correct and the and the location of the vault entry is not going to be in front of the red door. Correct. It will be along these brown whatever these brown panels are cracked right in this area here
. OK got it. Got it. Given that this structure you know I don't I don't envy anyone trying to do utility work in the north end beginning of this structure is appears in the plan speed right up against the foundation the building.
Is there been any better coordination that's happened and you know any kind of work done to ensure that the butter is comfortable with, you know, potential construction impacts
and just any potential for you know, if there's an issue related to the foundation of the building during excavation that there's a line of communication there between the Butler and whoever starts. So my apologies. I can't speak to like any conversations or what's
happened at this point so far I can certainly guarantee we will make that coordination before we start construction. OK, I can go back to, you know, our public affairs liaison and aurochs team and see if they've spoken with anybody. We can certainly have answers for you. A public hearing time that
would be great. Yeah, we did we did ensure one of the questions notifying the city agencies was access to that red door during construction because we know we're close in there but we are going to have police details and people will be able to pass
in and out of that door as needed. >> OK, that's great to hear and yeah, we just appreciate it if that conversation hasn't taken place that happened before your public hearing on that you just report back to us kind of the status of that. You know, obviously nobody likes construction literally at their front door but we just
want to make sure there's good lines of communication open and especially if there are any structural impacts or concerns that those get addressed from understood all no for me to the
staff members of the public also on this one. All right. We'd be ready for a public hearing in two weeks. Maybe we will. We'll see you back here then. Thank you so much.
Thank you. All right. On to new business nine eight forty eight Columbus Avenue Monika's Boulevard, Tremont Street, Roxbury pedestrian easements, specific repairs and a set of joint petitions by Northeastern University S.O.P
Forty Columbus LLC in the Boston Redevelopment Authority DEBA Boston Planning and Development Agency would be proponent's. Please introduce or reintroduce themselves and walk through what you are proposing to do here. So good morning Mr. Chairman. Subquestion my name is Chris.
I'm project manager within the engineering so our project I'm joined by quite a few things this morning. We've got the brand of ours with if for call itself Justin Karen Kirsten Brown with North Star representing s.E.C. We've also got Maureen Hickey,
Victoria Mitali as well as from Northeastern and then and again from Howard Havenstein Hudson all working on this project all are here. So I'm going to walk through the proposed work at 840 Columbus have as you mentioned this was an earlier item on there. This is related to an earlier item that was on the agenda for
the turning over of more than half or sorry that I've seen or that I've Columbus' up to the city getting ahead of myself there. So the proposed project is it's a new student housing building on the site of an existing parking lot because a rendering of it here this is standing on
Columbus I was looking for it's building and we're here for specific barriers which will be associated with that on street level during rendering just of what we envision this will look like in the future. To give you an idea as we're walking through the plans.
So I'm going to start treatment. Sure. You've got three streets here Treneman Street Monegasque Alvar and then Columbus and the walk around starting on Fremont Street. So on Tremont Street we zoom in here starting from the building and working our way out
building is the start line here on the private property portion. Linda is going to be a small strip of paper which will then transition to cement concrete city standard sidewalk. You can see the below the hatch
here which indicates a pedestrian easement for the where the city sidewalk is going to extend onto the private land from there that sidewalk is the very same length from the west side where we're talking to existing at about nine and a half feet up to twelve one six feet.
That is why this point and so from there we're going to transition into have some seating along the edge of the sidewalk that seatbacks and some cutouts for wheelchairs. We've worked with Sarah and the
disabilities folks unless we also include a horse porous pavement strip along the edge pavers which will include bike racks and street lights.
We also have three trees which will be going in on this section of roadway as well and we'll be reconstructing the existing pedestrian ramps to make them compliant and which includes the reciprocal ramps ramp across the other side of the street and you we've
also got a ramp here which I'll get to on the next page. So slipping around now Ramona McCaskill our we've got Tremont Street which we just talked about on the left side here on the set is on the right and our new building on the top of the plan walking through this again starting in the building will
have a similar pedestrian which will then transition out to the city center and concrete sidewalk. One thing to note here is that the building first floor elevation is at twenty point thirty three which is about one point eight feet higher than the topic of elevation is
today. So the way that we are publishing that great change is you can see there's a wall here just kind of checkmark shaped. We've also got this wall here with stairs in the middle. We also have the sidewalks
looking down at less than five percent to this access point here which will give access to this drop off some in front of the building and likewise it'll down at less than five percent towards Tremont Street as well. So it's all done in an accessible manner. Doesn't require handrails, is
not but a ramp also around here. So similarly we're going to have some more bike racks along here. We'll have additional trees along the stretch streetlights and then there's a cycle track
which will be at sidewalk. You can see it from the intersection here and in suburb be a sidewalk level through this area and then slow back down to roadway level at the Terminal Street intersection and then upward of that there are more plantings and
permeable pavers working with Sarah and the disability's team. We have added in access to this drop off area so we have a cement concrete sidewalk which
crosses over the single track as well as we've created in this level access at the back side of the drop off area as well which gives access through where the pedestrians would be crossing in this little access to the back side.
And then also when we get over to the intersection here we were in front of you I see a couple of years ago with North-Eastern to reconstruct this corner of this intersection which included some raised islands to separate the cycle track and pedestrian crossing area to give a little
more protection. This project will finish that work so you can see the new curbs here as well as on the other two corners. And this is really just to finish up that plan for the intersection.
So moving around the corner, Zev, so this is the right way which was approved this morning. So we have the proposed building environmental plan now the cement concrete sidewalk is going to be essentially right up against the building in most places there is a small area
of favors in front of the building. That sidewalk goes out into the street. We're going to have some bike racks, tres and seating. We're reconstructing the pedestrian ramps as they cross Columbia South anymore and also
proposing a street level cycle track to a cycle track which will be protected by the raised concrete islands which I know we're on a few other items this morning in lieu of the flex post. So those will be both of these oval shaped items in the street
to provide room for that and to me to allow vehicular access through here. We're making some adjustments to the curb line on the opposite side and from the North-Eastern Renaissance Park Garage and you can see the proposed curved line here straightening it out in this area.
This will also allow us to give us more space for the blue bikes which are in this location and then on the plain left side here the curb is pulled back in just a bit to narrow down this point which is being created by the cycle track.
So I mentioned we have a couple of pediments those are shown on these two plans that's just so that we can cover the entire section of concrete sidewalk that is acting as the public sidewalk but it's on private property. So that's on Tremont Street and
I'm on the gas and we do not have one on one of us so with that I'll turn over you for any questions very much
commissioners right. I have a couple if we could go to the intersection TRENORDEN Milenio cars I see the look at
the ramps going across to the left here. That's Columbus. I'm sorry. And on that gas. Yeah, So I see that we are
doing that. You're kind of creating a new ramp across Tremont Street here. Well replacing an existing crossing and Tremont Street and fixing the ramp on the island
sort of slip lane pedestrian island there. I guess my question is not that I am excessively access this island. How do I get anywhere else and is that crossing accessible as well? >> So we only looked at the
reciprocal crossing here. There's an existing ramp today . There is a crossing. You can see it over here that's not a part of this project. So we we haven't looked to see if that is compliant in which so I'm not aware but there is access this would be the way
this is the slip lane for to get onto Monegasque from Tremont. And as we cross you around to the far side, the side will come on their cars so I mean I will defer to the Sarah Disability's commission on this. But you know, my general
feeling in a situation like this is that we do the public a disservice if we create a half accessible crosswalk. We're inviting people to make journey across to a slow lane and then they are literally
stranded on an island if the remainder of the crossing opportunities are not accessible. So it seems to me that in the well the letter of a reciprocal traffic may simply specify the receiving ramp on the other side of this crosswalk the spirit of it is to create a fully accessible crossing
opportunity to somewhere useful which it does not do if the other crosswalks off of this island are not also accessible . So again with full deference to Sarah I would be interested in seeing the proponents evaluating the accessibility
of the other crossings and look at whether this project if they are not up to could address that at the same time that we are addressing this one specific crosswalk we can
certainly look and in coordinating with you and Sarah OK, I would appreciate that and we can get an update on that for our for the public hearing. Just for the record, Victoria and AVP for example, planning
and design at Northeastern as we coordinate I just I think it is there anyone from planning or PDA because Crescent Parcel is a project that was approved by BP as well and I just wanted to know what their status is. We actually have not talked to
we've talked a proponent before progressing Passell and they were moving at a similar pace. So I guess we should check in with them because I believe the reason we didn't look at we weren't expanding it further was because Crescent Castle had
visi action as well associated with so we'll just need to coordinate with that developer to make sure we're not designing for them or we're not duplicating work but we're definitely happy to address
that because we definitely don't want anyone stranded on that especially island. >> Yeah, that's not a concern of coconut trees or anything else like that. No, we're happy to happy to see
this if this is going to get taken care of by another project then you know some coordination there is sufficient but we'd love to see us have a plan. So I would appreciate the proponents working with the planning department and that other developer to look at
options for that. Yeah, it would be happy too much appreciated. Second question here. So the everyone we're on the sheet and relates to this cycle track going sort of showing a
connection across Tremont onto Melnik I'm appreciating that the typically does not get into the weeds of signal fencing and whatnot. I'm a little perplexed by the
purpose of this crossing here over Tremont Street and also the the more fundamental safety question just relates to the signal facing the movement off of Melana on towards Tramon is
like we've won through land and one right turn lane and at least if I'm recalling the current phasing of that intersection you would have cars turning right across the mouth of a bike lane.
It is unclear what that bike lane is connecting to on the opposite side it would appear that just put bikes onto the main barrel Melania cars alongside that pedestrian island which is not necessarily a place we would want to
encourage anyone to ride a bike towards and then also if you do have brakes making that move, you know, is the plan to signal separate the right turns coming off of Melania onto Tremont Street in order to protect
cyclists there? So I'm just a little perplexed by that whole setup and the reasoning behind it and typically what we're trying to do, Melania, is to get people on to the off street separate two way bike facility that is
on the PBS here on the other side of the street rather than to dump them onto the main arterial so this just seems like it doesn't align with that tension from a bike network safety perspective should be in . Are you able to respond?
Yes, Good morning. The commissioners and chair in Mechanical House I some so completely appreciate your comment Chief understanding there is broader planning for bike connectivity in this area. The signal details themselves
were added twenty five percent level design power. We made one submission to the signals team and are waiting for final or the next round of comments from them. But as it stands now the intention was to create some connectivity.
Understand there are no formal bike facilities on that side of the road going points east. Our goal here is just to make sure that the facility just doesn't abruptly end with no connection so I understand what you're trying to get out. We can take a look at a little
bit more of this really our goal is to hopefully connect people back to the the the sharing the other intersection but understanding even this block would have bike users particularly with this large new academic building with lots of students in it. So yeah, but let us take a look
at that and see if there's a better way to connect them at this intersection. Yeah, I appreciate that and even even you know, even in some future date of building a castle so there's like a shared use paths on both sides of the street has been discussed at
various points. This connection is not unless that's the plan is being eliminated it creates a very dangerous condition for cyclists on the other side of the pedestrian island where they would then need to cross slip lane coming off of Tremont Street northbound so it seems
that given the current existing facilities and an option might be to try to cross pedestrians with cross bikes, with pedestrians over among the cars to get them on to the north side of Melbourne and allow them to access the path that
exists today. That way. So we just appreciate coordination with our planning folks and bike network folks to come up with something that doesn't put people in harm's way. Then also simplify your signaling since you don't have to worry about returning conflicts with bikes on the
street that clear we'll pick up with them. I know they've read this submission once. OK, I'm on addressing all their concerns. OK, I appreciate that. All right. Moving east to Columbus Humanitas I just want to
confirm there has been full coordination with the BTB signals team on the placement and design any signal infrastructure or the relocation of any signal structure could sure related to this intersection.
It's I'm not I haven't had a chance to discuss with them directly but that's an intersection that we've not particularly efficient signal operations and a lot of potential for improvements with detection and other strategies.
And so I just want to make sure that that team has a chance to fully evaluate the the physical infrastructure that's going in in order to make sure that we're not accidentally foreclosed any future signaling traffic engineering changes
they might have been envisioned . I can also answer that question to so can I get from how it sounds. And so as Chris alluded to, this has sort of been like a long term strategy to upgrade everything at the intersection. So when the XP building went
for the sort of bottom right corner here was was addressed all the equipment was upgraded. This project is picking the latter half of the three quarters of the intersection and replacing all the equipment new detection, new pushbuttons
. There's light signals. There's a ton of things that are going into this to control this and make this a safe place for all and BTD signals to and also the AI team have all reviewed this and so I know where we haven't finished that
formal review. We're in one one round but initially there were no concerns about placement of particular infrastructure to my knowledge. But hopefully that addresses your question. Yeah, I know it does and
appreciate that and appreciate you confirming coordination and yeah, I can see that there's going into all the documentation here to stay at this intersection but I'll I'll ask a kind of general question
and then a more specific question. So this stretch of time Bazaarvoice between Monika's and the Ruggles T Station and the Southwest Corridor connection is extraordinarily chaotic from the perspective
of cyclists, pedestrians, drivers. It's sort of functions as one big and distinct mixing of everyone and I see some really great thought and effort into trying to organize that here. It appears that the goal if I'm
sort of interpreting the intent of the plans correctly is to take southbound bicyclists that are on the southbound on Street Lane on 27 to cross them on the far side of the lower bus way
into this new two way facility that's going to run alongside the the new building and the existing building going up towards rubbled station southbound direction. >> So I kind of have to related
questions to that one is Paige North. I am curious how we then intend to cross people back to the south west corridor and how that sort of interface is intended to work at the giant
crosswalk in front of Rudell station. But while we're on this part of the page, this is one of those unique locations where we have multiple bike facilities running in parallel along Columbus. So you can see the very bottom of the page there is another
two way facility here currently cyclists have a choice if you're on the On-street facility they can stay on the side of the vehicle and the travel lanes they can go up on the sidewalk alongside the garage and in front of Ruckle Station. And so I guess I'm curious to
hear what our intention is with people who are using the sidewalk level to weight facility around Columbus traveling Salsbury is the intention that they would continue to cross at the pedestrian crossing in merging with pedestrians in front of the driveway entrance or the
garage entrance going past the regular station is the intent to somehow direct them across the street onto this new to a facility and then pass them back to access Southwest Corridor. I'm just a little perplexed as to what are trying to steer people charts and all of this
and I can answer that question again so from our starts and so and I don't think there's anybody from planning on but they can also chime in here too. So we received some direction to to do a couple of things here. One is to connect and to create
that that new connection rivals that you alluded to understanding what we're trying to bring cyclists away from that very busy mixing zone at the bottom of the stairs for the local station. So the goal is to transition them to a new ramp that's built by that project by others. I think the key is still
working on that and so we've coordinated with those plans and really the goal is to remove a lot of that conflict from directly the Renmark garage that you alluded to which is right up the space of the base of the building on the right here and to to try to
remove that conflict area by place by shifting them to an on street facility. But that facility and that DCR Park Lennier Parkway still exists and will what if they intend to cross here? There is a very wide shared use path crossing in of some of the
the ramps there. It's not fully built or fully on this plan but it was recently rebuilt this part of the Yaqub it's a much wider 12 foot wide ramp. So that is the intention because that's also a low volume crossing because that's just a pathway. So that's sort of the intention
is to try to remove some of those conflict areas and to make them into safer areas. But this also allows connectivity to the rebels street project that also just finished as well. So having them on that sort of plan West side of the of this allows for those direct
connections to you know, further down into to Roxbury. So that's sort of the vision here I think from a planning perspective is to clarify it's from the city's planning department perspective, correct? Correct.
Yes, So the one the one thing I do want to say is that we've raised similar similar concerns. What's the planning transportation planning transportation team. But this was part of the work
that they've been coordinating internally about creating a robust bike network and you know, I do want to flag that there is another set of legs when the bikes are along eight forty which is the loading dock
for eight forty and run park. So the rental car garage is not the only conflict but you do end up pushing cyclists across across the two intersections to be able to make it safer and
just from being in this area all the time is that folks that are on DCR path don't go on the city path and then the folks are generally like to ride
without any humans in the way they'll stay on the street. So the bikers that are on the street say on a street and usually don't weave in to try to navigate around students but people would like to be on the
path the DCR path will stay and go through the newly built rebuild path in front of Ranka Garage EXPE and iSEC yeah so they stay on the sidewalk and then they go past Masab station
and keep going. Yeah this this this whole complex is a fascinating lesson in sort revealed preference and different risk and tolerances that different people have so
appreciating the point that this is coming from inside the building at City Hall I think I want I don't want to but the proponents in the position of having to, you know, kind of answer for our own internal teams as you know, perspectives
on this. I think from a policy perspective though it's important that we as a commission feel comfortable that the physical changes that we're proving to the street even if they're directed by our
planning team align with some kind of a strong long term vision so that we're not in the position of having to change the street again at some point in the future. So I think we can take this as our own internal action item to
do a check in with our teams about the intention behind this because I think from my perspective to be comfortable with this I need to understand how it fits into that larger network plan and what kinds
of behaviors particularly by cyclists. We are hoping that the design of C is reviewing today will induce and want to make sure that those that that that seems plausible in terms the desired outcome because what I would
like to avoid in a situation like this is for example that you know, southbound cyclists on the on Street Lane don't want to do that double crossing and the crossing and then the cross back and so then they find themselves either there
are now more bikes in the pedestrian on the sidewalk, the shared sidewalk in front of the Renaissance Center garage or that you then have those bicyclists in a narrow right street right away in conflict with vehicles.
I just I think I want to make sure that we have a coherent picture of how this all fits together and it passes the sniff test before we go ahead and improve permanent changes in the roadway to accommodate a particular future vision of this segment.
So I'm going to I will take action internally to kind of get that view. But we may need to pull you all back into that discussion if there's any changes resulting from that or if there are questions that we would want answered on this part of the project. For example, that question
of how you know whether we want to try to put in any additional guidance for people who are on the street cycle trek north of need to to guide them in one particular place or another. So long way of saying we have a little bit of internal homework to do but let's stay in touch
on this before your next hearing now and I'll just end by saying we really appreciate the effort to organize this space. It's desperately it's to make sure we get it right when we go . All right.
That is all my questions this see staff are members of the public. I think we're good on this one for now. >> All right. With that, will you be ready for your end? You've been a public hearing in
two weeks I eight we will. Excellent. We'll see you then. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yeah, All right. Onto our last agenda item new business ten three sixteen to three eighteen and three thirty one to three thirty nine
Northern Avenue South Boston vertical discontinuance and a petition by Vertex Pharmaceuticals in the economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston. The products please introduce themselves and their affiliations and walk us through what you are proposing to do so good morning again.
My name is Graziani product manager Engineering. I am joined here by Dan Baxter with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Classon Grayson with SJT architect on the project. We are here for a proposed vertical discontinuance across
Government Avenue between one existing building which is 316 to 318 northern half you can see on the top side the plan and one currently under construction building which is three thirty one two three thirty nine Northern have also known as twenty two drydock AV . Both these buildings will have
vertex on them in the future and this bridge is meant to facilitate that connection between the two. So the bridge itself it's going across straight away. You can see in this cross-section up here it's about seventy two feet wide across the right away the
height above grade at its lowest point is approximately thirty one point nine feet and there is nothing that extends down to gratefulness work by the two buildings on either side of the street. So there are no supports in either the public way or any parts of the private parcels as
well. And just to give an idea of what it's supposed to look like here surrendering this is looking down more than now. We've got the under construction building on the left and the existing building the right. So I will open questions,
missioners, questions. All right. Yes. Your staff or members of the public, Chris or someone else be nice if you could just speak a little bit to the urban
design review that's occurred through the planning department on this. I know there have been a lot of conversations surrounding this. I guess that OK, yes. A good morning chairman and members of the committee my
name is Dan Baxter. I am a senior director of engineering capital projects Vertex. I've been involved with this project from the beginning. It has gone through lengthy discussions. The Boss Vzkan Planning and Development Agency in through
their urban planning group as well as through the Boston Civic Design Commission. We've heard a number of comments. We've adapted the design as you see here to meet those comments we have presented to and been
approved by the EPA board of directors and continue to make the final small pieces adjustments with EPA's involvement relative to selection materials and things
of that nature or any other further, thank you spy that for the record. >> All right.
Thank you very much. All right. Well our Gary no questions comments we'd be ready for your public hearing in two weeks on May 8th. Yes. Well, all right. Excellent. We will see you then for that. Thank you. All right. Well, we made it to the end.
Thank you all very much. With that do I hear a motion to adjourn make a motion to adjourn all in favor? I, I any oppose or abstain so moved very jhansi in two weeks.
Thank you gentlemen. Thanks everybody.