Perfect. Jeff, if I count seven, how many for a quorum this morning? >> Give me one second. I see nine. I know Nelson's going to be a minute or two late, so uh and Jamie is
not going to be here. So, we can start whenever you're ready, Michael. >> Let's let's do it then. Uh good morning everyone. We'll now take a moment to allow our interpreters to intro introduce themselves. There is no interpreters today. >> Okay, Ben, thank you for joining the
Boston Zoning Commission public hearing. The open public meeting law requires that I notify the public that this meeting is being recorded. Please be aware that an audio and visual recording of this meeting is being made. Do we have our recorder having started already? >> Yes. >> Okay. I'll now take a roll call of the
members present at the beginning of the meeting. The roll call will identify each member as being present. Miss Hatton. >> Uh, present. Miss Morawa >> present. >> Miss Miller >> present. >> Mr. Damela >> present. >> Mr. Maher.
>> Mr. Leth >> present. >> Mr. Aoyo. >> Mr. Woods >> present. >> Mr. Ostridge >> present. >> And I'm Michael Nichols and I'm present. This is our 9:00 a.m. public hearing. public hearing before the Boston Zoning
Commission to consider petitions for the second amendment to the amended and restated master plan for plan development area number 51 in Hood Park of Charles Town. The development plan for 15 Super Test Street within PDA area number 51 and also the development plan
for 25 Super Test Street within PDA area number 51. The hearing was duly advertised on December 17, 2025 in the Boston Herald. In a Boston zoning commission hearing on proposed petitions, the proponent will first present their case and are subject to questioning by first by members of the
commission only. After commissioners are done with questioning, we will be taking support and opposition testimony from the public at the same time. When I call for all testimony, please click the hand icon on your Zoom control panel. This will signal to staff that you wish to speak. Staff will announce your name and
allow you to unmute. Uh your microphone will be active, however, your webcam will not. If you are calling into the meeting and would like to testify, please dial star9 to raise your hand. In an effort to accommodate all who wish to speak about each proposal, you will be limited to two minutes per comment. Commission staff will indicate when 30
seconds remain. At that time, please conclude your remarks so others the hearing may continue and others may be heard. At the end of public testimony, the proponents are allowed a period of re rebuttal if they so desire. Uh, will the planning department please begin our 9:00 a.m. presentation?
Thank you. And uh good morning, Madame Chair, members of the zoning commission. Um and my name is Dylan Norris and I'm a project manager in the development review division of the planning department. And uh we are here before you to discuss the proposed second amendment to the amended and restated
master plan for plan development area number 51 uh Hood Park as well as the associated PDA development plans for 25 super test as well as 15 super test. Uh just as a reminder for folks, Hood Park or PDA number 51 consists of a 20acre
site located between New Rutherford Avenue and the Interstate Route 93 highway in Charleston. Hood Park is subject to an existing master plan for plan development area number 51 and is currently occupied by approximately 1,65,000 square ft of existing or permitted
structure. The proposed second amen uh master second master plan amendment contemplates increasing the 15 super uh super test street project from the originally approved 12,000q ft retail structure to an approximately 49,000 ft uh structure including a 24,000 ft
grocery store and approximately 32 units of uh residential rental housing. The amendment also proposes to increase the gross floor area of the 25 super test project from the previously approved uh
128,000 square ft to a GFA of 22,000 uh 224,400 ft as well as adding multif family residential housing as an allowed use to the hotel previously described in the master plan. These changes uh will
result in a uh change in the master plan F from a value of two as originally opposed to 2.2. Uh the 15 Super Test Street development plan and associated article 80 filing proposed the construction of a three-story approximately 49,000t
building which will not exceed a height of 57 ft uh with an additional 24,000 ft of ground floor uh retail space uh fronting New Rutherford and Superest Street. Additionally, on the upper two floors of this building, there will be 32 residential units uh primarily for
incomerestricted housing with an additional six market rate units. There is also an underground parking facility uh that will uh be shared with the future 25 Super Test Street project. The 25 Super Test Street development plan proposes the construction of an 18story
building with a maximum height of 235 ft. The gross floor area will be approximately 224,000 square ft for hotel, residential, and accessory uses with approximately 150 subgrade parking spaces uh in a shared
facility with 15 super test. On June 23rd, 2025, the proponent filed two letters of intent with the planning department for 15 super test as well uh development plan as well as the 25 super test development plan. the master plan
amendment, the 25 super test plan development area development plan and the 15 super test street plan development area development plan and the 15 super test small project review application were filed with the the Boston planning department on June 27th,
2025 which initiated a public comment period which concluded on August 21st, 2025. The planning department hosted three impact advisory group meetings on July 29th, September 15th, and December 1st, as well as three public meetings on
August 7th, September 16th, and December 1st of 2025. These meetings were virtually held on Zoom, advertised in local newspapers, and posted to the planning department's uh calendar, as well as email notifications uh were sent out to the subscribers of the planning
department's Charlestown neighborhood update. The second amendment to the amended and restated master plan and development plans for 15 super test and 25 super test were then brought before the BPDA board for a public hearing where it was approved on December 11th,
2025. At this point, I would like to hand it off to my colleague Michelle Yei to present the planning context for the project followed by a presentation from the development team. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Dylan. Um, good morning commissioners. My name is Michelle Lee and I am the planning the planning
review team planner assigned to this project. Next slide please. Uh the next Okay, thank you. The master plan area is located in the Charlestown neighborhood zoning district in a mixed use or MU1 zoning subdist. It is also subject to to two zoning overlays. the
coastal flood resilience overlay district or seafood in the plan development area or PDA number 51 Hood Park. The sites of these proposed projects at 15 and 25 Super Test Street are currently used as surface parking lots. Next slide, please.
The master plan area also falls within the study area plan Charles Town which was approved by the BPDA board in September 2023 and codified into zoning in October 2023. Plan Charles Town was an analysis of neighborhood needs and included recommendations to improve
access to service, new zoning for the existing industrial parts of the neighborhood and urban design guidelines to govern future development. While PDA number 51 was last amended in 2020 before the release of plan Charles Town, the proposed amendment to the master plan aligns with the updated zoning
parameters for use, dimensional, and density requirements. The plan also highlighted a need for mixed income housing of active ground floor uses with a priority for commercial spaces that include grocery stores and food and beverage establishments which the proposed projects will bring.
Additionally, the proposed project will create Hood Green, an open space that will be no less than one continuous acre that was envisioned in the master plan PDA and was reinforced in plan Charles Town. The planned public realm street safe streetscape improvements on Rutherford Avenue and Super Test Street
will also accommodate the city's redesign of Rutherford Avenue project. Additionally, the proposed project will will build a segment of the landscape bike and pedestrian multi-use path that was also envisioned in the master plan PDA that is a key component of the Charles Town Green Loop that was
proposed in Plan Charles Town. Together, these elements would create a safer, more welcoming pedestrian and cycling experience around the master plan area. Thank you. And now I'll turn it over to the development team to present the project in more detail. >> Good morning. My name is Mark Rosenstein
with Trademark Partners representing Hood Park. I'm joined today by uh David Manf Freddy and Jordan Mercurio with Elkus Manf Freddy, our architects, and Paula Dero uh with Pierce Atwood, our permitting attorney. Next slide, please. Oh, there we go. Uh next slide, please.
So, as has been mentioned, Hood Park is 20 acres. You guys are familiar with it. We've been in front of you a few times in terms of the master plan and as we've advanced the project here. Um, candidly, I think it's been a very successful process in in Charletown and and I know the community has been very supportive of the work that we have tried to advance at at the Hood campus. You see
it here outlined in red. It's on the western side of Rutherford Avenue between Rutherford Avenue and the I93 highway which puts it sort of outside of the core residential area of the Charlestown neighborhood and is really an ideal location for this sort of larger scale mixeduse development which
is consistent with the um plan Charles Town. Next slide please. Here you can see that um as as was already mentioned, Hood Park's master plan predated the plan Charlestown process, but is completely consistent with what was provided as um the baseline and the tenant u and the
requirements for plan Charlestown. This is an area meant for mixeduse density residential business larger scale projects between the highway and Rutherford. And so, as mentioned, this project as proposed is completely consistent with the planned Charles Town requirements, including, as noted, one
of our um sort of priorities here and sort of the good news for Charles Town. They've desperately been looking for another grocery store. And we have a grocery store as part of this project, which should provide a real new resource, particularly at this northern end of town where all the other services tend to be at the other end of Charles
Town. Next slide, please. This is the diagram that represents the PDA master plan. Uh the projects that are on the lefth hand side have been completed or in construction including the addition on the garage which we're working on now. Next slide please. The work that we're doing today is
really jumping to the right side of the screen and is and is what we refer to as the north block. It occurs between Super Test Street which is the street on the right side of that colored area. 25 super test is the taller building which is the mixeduse hotel and residential and then 15 super test is the grosser
and affordable housing that fronts on Rutherford Avenue with the oneacre of hood green between them. It's the reason we're bringing the two projects together. They both need to have the appropriate context to hood green and work together to really make this block contextually work and make sure that the programming and activation fit together.
And so it it made sense to bring both buildings and hood green as a package so that you could see the entire plan for what we're looking for at the north end of campus. Next slide please. Uh in terms of projects, next slide. Um Dylan has mentioned, but I'll run through quickly. 15 super test increases from
what was a 12,000 foot one-story sort of retail liner building into a 49,000 ft three-story uh grosser on the first floor with affordable housing units up to 32 on the second and third. Um it will finish the street wall and really complement what's happening on the side
of Rutherford Avenue. Um we're adding the grosser as a use which was not originally contemplated residential and parking. Um and changing the height from the lower height to 42 feet 57 to the top of the mechanical to accommodate that additional residential component on top of the grosser 25 super test was
128,000 ft of exclusively hotel. We are expanding that building up to 224,000 ft and adding residential. So we're actually decreasing from 128 to about 100,000 square feet the hotel component in that project and adding a little more than 100,000 square feet of residential.
That residential will be rental market rate and generates as part of the the zoning requirement 20% um requirement for affordable. And so in this case what we're doing is technically an offsite even though it's all on the same campus. It's not in 25 super tests. The residential units that are going on top
of 15 super tests are the 20% of the usable square foot accounting for the affordable housing generated by 25. It's the other reason that these two projects need to go together. 25 is the requirement that creates the affordable housing. Um what we're trying to
accomplish here is both um creating the affordable housing sooner because we're going to build 15 super tests right away. the hotel will take a little longer to develop. And so we're advancing that at our risk to bring the affordable housing sooner. And by putting it on top of the groceryer, we think it makes a really dynamic um
program there where we have housing and grosser and really manage that uh upfront and and hopefully get into construction this year on that uh effort. The rest of the metrics um as I mentioned u we're changing the height because we're adding some more density to 25 super test. That increase both at
the 15 super test building and at the 25 super test moves us from an F just below two to an F of 2.2. Plan Charles Town contemplated an F of three. So we are still well under the density of maximum numbers that were proposed in Plan Charle Town for this part of town. Next
slide please. Mitigation modifications. uh as part of the overall PDA approval that you guys granted in 2019, we have a mitigation package of $2.5 million for this development that has been reconfirmed as being consistent. The change there is
we've now made it so that it is prrated per building so that as projects come online that mitigation comes in rather than waiting for the 10 stack building which is the very large uh non lab office building. As you know, lab office is a little slower. That one will take longer. And so this way, it brings some
mitigation to Charles Town sooner based on the development of these two smaller projects. We've also agreed to a CPI inflation increase going forward. So that 2.5 million will grow over time. The longer it takes us to build the project, the more money that uh will be made available into the Charlestown community. And we have agreed to advance
some of that money on the on the 15 super test project to address some very specific education program needs at the Horus man school and some other things the Charlestown community has identified are urgently required and we'll get that taken care of this this spring. All other mitigation requirements from the
original PDA are in force and have not changed. Next slide please. Um just a few things and then I'll let the architects go. Um the groceryer is really important. I live in Charletown. that Charletown needs another grosser opportunity. And so that's one of the key metrics here and one of the reasons
we wanted to advance the project. 26 affordable units out of the um 136 new total residential units. Those 26 affordable units. Um one of the things we've been working on, we are hoping to do all two, three, fourbedroom. For a couple of different reasons, we're not
able to do that. Um, we have a mix of of studio 1, two, three, and four, including a three and fourbedroom, which are very rare and hard to achieve and needed in Charle Town. We acknowledge that the community needs as many two, three, and four bedrooms as possible. We've been working with Mayor's Office
of Housing, BPDA Planning Department. Um, we've spoken to councelor Kleta. We will speak to the community and and there is language that has been included in the BPDA board memo that requires us to work together to figure out the maximum number of multi-bedroom family units that we can provide as part of
this project. As you know, when you get right down to it, the detailing and the design of that is is part of making that commitment and we are committed to maximizing that amount of affordable family units. The rest are are I have mentioned already, but I I will just say um the hood green as an open space
commitment before that one acre as an urban grove is something the communities really um strive to have and and we will be bringing forward as part of a community design process over the next several months. Next slide. I'm going to let David Manf Freddy take over, walk you through the two different
buildings, and then we'll wrap it up. David, uh I'm David Manf Freddy from Elus Manf Freddy Architects. I'm join joined by Jordan Mccurio from my office as well. Next, please. I'll start with 15 super tests and we'll build it up from the
below grade uh up to the residential that Mark just described. Uh you can see the footprint of the building on Rutherford Avenue between Superest and D Street. There is one level of parking below grade. It's accessed off of uh Super Test and it provides 65 spaces uh
primarily for the grocery but also to accommodate the the residential. And the that bottom right corner um you can see the core that brings you directly from the grocery parking up into the grocery store itself both by escalator as as
well as by stair and and elevator up to the grocery level. You can see the residential core is completely separate. That's the yellow core. And that brings you directly up um to the third floor of the building and two apartments. Can you go to the next please?
So on the first the first floor of the building is primarily the grocery store. The grocery store uh as as uh Mark said is 24,000 square feet. You can see where that core is on the bottom right. Uh if you're a grocery guest, you can be walking here obviously from the
neighborhood. You can be driving here and parking and coming up escalator and elevator and and walking directly into the grocery store. You can see that we have a setback on on Rutherford. We also have um a a change in elevation because
Rutherford Avenue is at plus 16. Our floor is at plus 18 for resiliency reasons. That gives us an opportunity to build a front porch. um a kind of terrace that will spill out of the grocery store, accommodate as you can see tables and chairs and uh for the
people who come to the grocery store, buy lunch and stay or buy dinner and stay. You can see the residential lobby on uh super test completely enclosed loading for the grocery primarily for the grocery store uh and uh the access to to parking below.
Next, please. and then uh very schematically our residential floor plate, but the mix of units that Mark just described. Uh and it also gives us the opportunity to set back floors two and three uh creates
some outdoor space uh on the the the shallow roof of of the grocery store. You can also see our PV array uh on the roof of of the grocery store. Um and uh an outdoor deck for the residents of the building. to go to the next.
We have several exterior views from Rutherford Avenue. Um, again, three-story building. um architecture very much inspired by uh the kind of uh uh merkantile buildings that you find uh around the city and certainly in in
Charles Town in terms of having a a commercial base uh of a taller height with a lot lots of visibility and then two residential floors above buildings clad in primarily in brick and stucco uh and obviously a lot of visibility for
that grocery store as Mark described very important to the neighborhood. And you can see the terrace that's uh 2 ft above the adjacent street. You go to the next. This is a view looking down uh super test. You can see the all the way to the
left um access to the uh into the residential lobby and then uh the core and brings you up directly into the two floors above grade. And we take this the architecture really all the way around all four sides of the building
consistently um because of the visibility that you'll get to all four sides given the hood green that's coming in the future. Next, um the landscape really is um uh the opportunity to create this terrace. I
think um you might wonder a terrace on Rutherford Avenue today, but you look to the future and it's a different Rutherford Avenue and the opportunity to put people out there and activate that corner uh and then really redevelop uh Super Test Street and how it meets how
it will meet uh future Rutherford Avenue. And you can see on the on the right side on the north side of the building the future green loop uh that will be the multi-use path that runs along D Street and connects the Rutherford Avenue and crosses Rutherford
Avenue. Go to the next please. We'll move to 25 Super Test uh which is the building to the west across uh uh Hood Green. You can go to the next slide please. And you can see the building I
just described in the lower right, Hood Green, which is still very much in in design, but a full acre of of uh publicly accessible open space. And then the building that that Mark described and and now this has become truly a
mixeduse building um with hotel and residential on the ground floor, kind of sharing the ground floor. uh then hotel on the on the lower floors and and residential above. Uh and uh well, I'll take you around the building, but we you
can I want to just point out when this drawing, we really want to make a connection between the hotel and Hood Green. Uh let the hotel activity, and you'll see this food and beverage on the ground floor spill out uh into Hood Green. uh and we'll get some really
marvelous views from the building and to the building because of um this publicly accessible space. If you go to the next please. So when um phase two the hotel and residential building comes uh it the parking on the lowest level connects
then to the parking that we've will have built under the grocery store and residential. We'll use the same ramp. If you're going to the grocery store, you'll come down the ramp and turn right. Um if you're a resident or a hotel guest, you'll come down the ramp and turn left. Uh and uh you'll have
access to building core on the west side of the building uh all the way up on stack. Uh and uh you can see the uh basically it'll be it'll feel like one continuous level of parking. Go to the next. So, we want just wanted to quickly show
you the ground floor of the of the uh mixeduse hotel residential building because we think it's really important to activate this ground floor. You can see that basically 60% the 60% to the south um is all active spaces. There's
the residential lobby on the southwest corner. There's the hotel lobby in the middle on the west side of the building. Uh all on all three sides um there is activity. The idea being that there's food and beverage on the ground floor.
It's shared between those two users. We want to activate Hood Green. We want to make all of this a destination, not just for the residents and the guests in the hotel, but for the neighborhood as well. And as part of a bigger idea about how
all of uh Hood Park evolves over time in terms of having the amenities that come uh with retail and restaurants. And then the north side of the building is a little bit more of our our our function and utilities to the building. Our loading docks again completely enclosed.
And you can see that eventually um Stack Street is reconfigured uh in once the the building immediately west um is redeveloped. Stack Street will be uh reconfigured, but all of these functions will remain constant. If you go to the
next, it's just a a typical um hotel floor plan. Uh and very very conceptual at this point in time. I'm sure we'll it will evolve into a mix of um the different kinds of hotel accommodations
uh and um to the the unit the the guest room counts that Mark described. to go to the next. There's a residential floor. Uh and you can see the mix of units here. Uh again, there will be some really wonderful views from this
building both north and specifically south uh towards Boston and the north end and and uh government center. There's really a great view corridor here. Can you go to the next? >> Mark David. Yeah. Um very quickly, just
two more minutes. Next slide, please. We wanted to touch on Hood Green. As as David mentioned, this is very much a uh canvas to be created between our our organization, the city, and the community. Um there's been some planning study and and as was mentioned earlier,
the the Charlestown Green Loop is something that came as part of Plan Charletown and really wants to create a um a corridor around the city, excuse me, around Charleston as a neighborhood for bikes and pedestrians. Um it aligns with and and slides past Hood Green. And so we have the um honor of being the
first ones to create the first piece of that green loop and and that open space. Next slide please. Um Hood Green is really an important orientation point for campus. The uh Sullivan Square is in the upper leftand corner. So a lot of pedestrian and
bicycle traffic comes off the orange line comes across this part of campus to get to the rest of our both residential and commercial uses. Um offshoots has looked at it. The sun orientation is to the bottom of the page because that's south. And and the wind orientation, which is really important in this time
of year, comes from the upper left. And so we've really looked at some topography and some grading here to both manage the wind, provide shade, and really create a great open space for the community that will be activated both by folks on our campus. along the top edge of it. As David mentioned already, D
Street is where that that um multi-use path runs from Rutherford all the way to the west and then turns and and makes the corner to loop around Charleston. And so this is really a dynamic open space opportunity at at Hood Park and Fort Charletown as a community. Next slide. Um very very quickly some imagery
that we've been starting to talk to the community about with topography. there is a uh dire lack of trees right today or if you remember Hood Park was originally a parking lot around an industrial building no trees and so getting a really good urban forest trying to create some canopy and and
tree species here that will both accomplish some things for clean air provide a nice green space and and really provide some dynamic open space is the intent we have in Charlestown fields across the way at Ryan playground for soccer and football and so this is really meant to be a little bit more of
a community program space. Next slide. We are finally looking at the resiliency process here. Um, all of campus is low. Rutherford Avenue is down at elevation 16 and the water sort of comes around the shafts building and floods through campus. As we have moved forward, we have gradually been raising campus.
We're able to do that because the original buildings were built at train height. So everything's eyed. Everything that's in tan on the right side of the page has been raised up and built at that new resiliency level of elevation 20. On the um left, excuse me, right hand side of the diagram, Hood Green will be up at elevation 20. The hotel
and resi building will be at 20.5. We'll only be able to get up to elevation 18 for the grosser at 15 because we really have to transition from 16 ft up to 20. And obviously a 4ft grade change in front of a a grocery store doesn't really work. So, it's it's a step, but as part of this process, we are meeting
the obligations and and really trying to create a resilient opportunity. And as David mentioned, that building in 570 Rutherford in the upper right corner exists today. We need to keep the grading low around it, but once that goes away and that gets redeveloped, the rest of campus can be brought up in that corner and we'll meet the commitment to
raise all 20 acres to a resilient flood elevation. Next slide. That is our presentation. Um, thank you for your time and obviously we'll be available for questions and comments. Great. Thank you to the proponents. Uh we will begin by um questions and comments from me members of the
commission. Though I will note for the record that Commissioner uh Aoyo joined quite early in that presentation and Commissioner Maher joined during the presentation as well. So we have those members joining and voting with us this morning. Um I I would start by asking the proponents a little bit about the F
being under the maximum allowable. It seems, you know, I think I'm I'm delighted that sort of both of the projects proposed today are um making better use of the space on site, adding adding space and units, uh adding the grocery store component and the affordable housing. Um what limits you
at this time, be it financing or or other other interest, um keeps you from uh growing the number of units on or use of space on the sites. >> Yeah. So, Hood Park has a bit of a challenge and if you're familiar with it, there's an existing the existing old
building is here which we want to keep. It's a very low, right? I mean, it was an industrial building. It's like a story and a half. And so, the problem is when you when you leave that building as this big chunk in the middle, it's almost physically impossible to build enough density around it to get up to
that 3.0 F while staying within the context of the height limits that the community of Charle Town said. And and those are pretty high, right? It's 250 ft along the highway. We're taking advantage of that. Um, but because the existing building is such a low-rise thing, it's almost mathematically
impossible to get to a 3.0. As you saw, we're we're increasing substantially the F associated with 25 100,000 ft more of residential, which takes us right up to the maximum height allowed at that location. And and similarly adding those two stories of residential on top of 15,
right up against Rutherford, there's a much lower threshold of height. it's only allowed to be 75. We're at 57. And quite frankly, there's a density problem with trying to stuff more units on top of a grocery store needing parking and and loading at that sort of corner. So, um, and then last but not least, you
know, we've committed to that one acre of hood green. I think that's incredibly important. Um, and so love you love the idea of of being supported in increasing the F and the density and and trust me, we're trying to do as much as we can within the context of an existing campus with a large story and a half, twotory
industrial building that we want to preserve. >> Thank you. Uh, questions from other members of the commission. >> Um, I I was just going to ask Mark maybe if you could just lay out the timetable um a little bit more. um the phasing and
the uh particularly the construction of the garage underneath the green just just how sequentially and your time um expectations. >> Absolutely. So, uh first priority is 15 super test. We need to get our zoning done because we can't sign the legal document with the grosser until we're
legally allowed to do it. So, this is an important step to get that grosser signed up. Our goal is to get 15 super tests into construction this fall. um with 15 super tests, we build the garage under 15. We build the groceryer, we build the residential. Um that will
get open um in late 2027. That's priority number one to get that open. Um we will be advancing the design portion. So we we've completed our article 80 on 15. We have to do the design portion on 25, which we're going to do this spring. We we'll be finishing that up. Um
important piece of news happened uh on the 31st, right? the the crafts have come to an agreement with Boston on the soccer stadium which is about a quarter mile from here. As you can imagine, the the hotel is a great project at Hood. It's a home run when you have a soccer stadium walking distance from Hood Green
in that location. So, our goal will be to get into the design of that after the permitting process and finish design up this year on the hotel project. Um, and then the way the sequence works, the parking garage for the hotel and under Hood Green obviously gets built and
attached to 15. And the requirement in the BPDA board memo and our commitment here is that Hood Green cannot, excuse me, the hotel and resi building cannot open without Hood Green. They have to be concurrent. We can't do the hotel and leave Hood Green for another day, including the multi-use path and the
pedestrian. So, now that the stadium seems a little more likely, right? It's not done. Nothing's done till it's done. But that was a big step to get those uh relationships with the city and ever locked down. I think we will pursue that and over the course of the next year get the design and then I would love to
think that if the stadium were opening in 2028 2029 the hotel and 25 super test which means hood green as well would open like six days before the state. >> Great. Thank you. Thank you. Any
other questions? Okay, we'll move forward with public testimony. Don't believe we have anyone representing uh a elected official at this time. So, uh are there any members of the public who are interested in offering public testimony?
>> There seems to be no raised hands. Okay. And we'll close out public testimony and move into our business session. Any other comments, questions, or motions from members of the commission? I would just um note that I think um the Elkus uh presentation was very helpful
and and I think that the um the outdoor space at the grocery is is uh complimentary to what I see at at the Hood Park Drive area where you have some restaurants with outdoor space and and and so you've already started to enliven the area. I think that this is a good
way to bring that to this side of the campus. So, I thought that that was something that I hadn't really picked up on in the presentation. So, I appreciated that in the materials. >> I would just highlight I would just highlight too on the park standpoint when you get to that point of developing
uh Hood Green more and going through design just try to get some community feedback. Um the Charles Town as the part former parks commissioner, the Charles Town neighborhood is very vocal uh on their parks and their needs and despite there being parks just over the Washington Street Bridge to Charles I mean to the north end, they had no
interest in traveling there. So making sure you have a lot of feedback uh to create a space that will be well utilized by the Charlestown uh neighbors. >> Absolutely. I've been a resident of Charles Town for 25 years. I'm aware of Charles Town's opinion of how important open space is. We we have committed to a
great community process >> and as a relatively recent transplant into Charles Town, I think Commissioner Woods is spot on. So, >> um I would uh um Mr. Chair, make a motion that we approve the second amendment to the amended and restated
master plan for plan development area number 51 Hood Park, Charles Town. The development plan for 15 Super Test Street within plan development area number 51, Hood Park. And the development plan for 25 Super Test Street within plan development area number 51, Hood Park.
>> I second Miller. >> Got a motion and a second by Commissioner Miller. We'll move forward with a roll call vote. Um, Miss Hatton. Yes, >> Miss Morau. >> Yes, >> Miss Miller. >> Yes, >> Mr. Damela.
>> Yes, >> Mr. Maher. >> Yes, >> Mr. Left. >> Yes, >> Mr. Royo. >> Can you hear me? >> We did hear you, Mr. Maher. Uh, Mr. Le, >> yes.
>> Mr. Royo, >> yes. >> Mr. McNeel. Mr. Ostrich. Uh yes and well done. >> And the chair votes yes. Uh motion carries. Thank you very much to the proponents and the planning department team working on this project. >> Thank you very much everybody.
Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> That is our only agenda item for this morning. Uh anything Jeff Tara um administratively for the commission this morning. >> Uh Jeff >> I just want to say Jeff I didn't get to
vote so just yes. So you have it on record as well. >> Sorry about that. Ryan, >> all good. Just want to make sure >> wasn't on my sheet. Then Mr. Wood, thank you for that. That is important for the record. Uh Jeff Tara, anything um else for this morning?
>> Uh nothing today. Uh potential for one hearing next month, which is scheduled for February 11th. Um it will be an amendment to a PDA over in Souy. Uh but that needs to be approved by the BPDA
board first. So that is uh next week, but that's the only thing coming down the pike right now. >> Very good. Happy new year everyone. We will uh potentially see you in February. >> Great. >> Thank you. I have to know your