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BCF Newsletter Layout--November 2001.Qxd Belmont Citizens Forum Vol. 2, No. 6 A Newsletter for Belmont Residents November 2001 Firehouses Badly Need Repair or Replacement By Sharon Vanderslice in the stations is so out-of-date that, Osterhaus said, if he encountered it during an inspection of a pri- To say that Belmont’s fire stations are held vately owned building, he’d have to cite the owner together with duct tape and glue would be no exag- for code violations. A recent tour revealed exposed geration. Maintenance on these buildings, located wires hanging out of a box in the cellar and exten- on Leonard Street, Trapelo Road, and Fairview sion cords draped under sinks in the bathrooms. Ave., has been deferred for so many years that the The firefighters staff these stations around the firefighters have had to use whatever materials they clock, working 24-hour shifts, and the living condi- could scrounge up to keep the stations habitable. tions are decidedly substandard. Soot from the Eight-inch chunks of horsehair plaster are diesel engines covers the downstairs walls, and falling out of the walls. Floors are buckling and fumes rise to the upper floors where the firefighters tiles are peeling up. Paint is shriveling. Windows sleep and eat. The kitchen at the Waverley station are leaking. Some of the furniture looks as if it was was cobbled together by firefighters who hauled recently rescued from the sidewalk. And this is just continued on page 8 the cosmetic stuff. There are pipes rusting out, slates falling off the roof, and gaps under the main doors that allow snow Table of Contents to blow in during the winter and skunks to sneak in during the summer. Bike Paths Approach Belmont. 3 Rattly windows are held open and closed with an assortment of shims, matchbook covers, packing Bonds Finance Capital Projects. 5 tape, and, in one case, a pool cue. Fire Chief William Osterhaus says one of his firefighters was Networking Picnic Draws Crowd. 7 injured and unable to work for three weeks after a window collapsed on top of him. And because the Alewife Plans Opposed in Other Towns. 11 outside brickwork has not been repointed in decades, the buildings routinely flood any time there Belmont Uplands Rezoning Options. 15 is a heavy rain. During one storm, the computer network equipment at the Belmont Center headquar- Junction Brook Flow Questioned. .16 ters was completely disabled by rainwater. The fire- fighters had to take out the components and bake State Asks McLean to Save Buildings. 17 them in an oven for an hour in order to get the sys- tem working again. Why Don’t We Have a Master Plan? . 20 What is even more alarming is that the wiring 1 Environmental Events Calendar Friends of Spy Pond Park Annual Meeting. The Hall, City Council Chambers. Sponsored by Mystic guest speaker will be a representative of the compa- River Watershed Association. For information, con- ny chosen to do the Spy Pond Park renovations. tact Janet at (781) 316-3438 or [email protected] Sunday, December 2. Potluck dinner at 6 p.m. The meeting follows at 7 p.m. Location: 20 Winter Walk through the Western Greenway. Hamilton Road, Apartment 401 (Spy Pond Condos). Join Roger Wrubel, Director of Habitat, a For information, call (781) 648-0630. Massachusetts Audubon Society sanctuary in Belmont, for a 3.25-mile trek through Habitat, the The Role of the Urban Forest in the Mystic River McLean Hospital property, Rock Meadow, the Watershed. A talk by Thomas Brady, Conservation Metropolitan State Hospital land, and the Olympus Administrator/TreeWarden for the Town of Hospital grounds in Waltham. The greenway com- Brookline and President of the Massachusetts Tree prises over a thousand acres of wetlands, meadows, Wardens & Foresters Association. Brady will dis- and forests. Saturday, January 19, 9 a.m. to 12:30 cuss how construction activity adversely effects the p.m. The walk will leave from Habitat Wildlife forest and simple steps that can be taken to ensure Sanctuary, 10 Juniper Road, Belmont. Space is lim- the health of the urban forest for the next generation. ited and reservations are required. $20 per person. Wednesday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. Woburn City Please register by phone at (617) 489-5050. Belmont Citizens Forum Officers and Trustees Help Needed Sue Bass, President Jim Graves, Vice President Peter Rand, Secy. John Dieckmann, Treasurer Events / Hospitality Committee Rosemary Chase Eva Patalas Help put on public meetings of the Mark D’Andrea Tom Shapiro Ann Coit Sifneos Belmont Citizens Forum – like the bi-monthly Friends meetings and periodic regional forums Newsletter Editor: Sharon Vanderslice by arranging refreshments, making sure Artwork: Ann Coit Sifneos people sign in, handing out literature, etc. Belmont Citizens Forum, Inc. Publicity Committee is a not-for-profit organization that strives to maintain the small-town atmosphere of Belmont, Massachusetts, Help get out the word about coming events by by preserving its natural and historical resources, making and putting up posters, putting up limiting traffic growth, and enhancing pedestrian safety. sandwich boards, sending out press releases, We do this by keeping residents informed about planning etc. All sorts of talents needed: art and writ- and zoning issues, by participating actively in public ing; walking around asking merchants to hearings, and by organizing forums on key subjects. Our newsletter is published six times a year accept posters; and the heavy lifting of setting (January, March, May, July, September, and November). up the sandwich boards around town. Published material represents the views of the authors and not necessarily those of the Belmont Citizens Forum. Please call Sue Bass at 617 489 4729 or Letters to the editor may be sent to e-mail her at [email protected] P. O. Box 609, Belmont MA 02478. 2 Bike Paths Approach Belmont on Three Sides By John Dieckmann grant, with the balance coming from state transporta- tion funds.) The design phase will be completed in A Belmont bikeway, originally planned as part of 2002, and the path itself could be completed as early the larger Wayside Rail Trail, was first proposed in as the end of 2003. 1994. But when the town of Weston opted out of that trail in 1997, and the financial woes of the “Big Cambridge. The MDC has constructed a path Dig” began to crowd out funding for other trans- with a rock dust surface between the Alewife T sta- portation projects, it appeared to some that all hope tion and Brighton Street, on the north side of the for a bikeway in Belmont was lost. Recent develop- commuter rail tracks, and is now discussing the pos- ments in neighboring communities, however, may sibility of paving this stretch of the bikeway. The provide a more hospitable environment in which to Belmont Bikeway would continue west from the move the bikeway project forward. Here is what’s Brighton Street end of the path. happening elsewhere: Waltham. The Waltham City Council recently Watertown. State funding to construct the voted to proceed with development of its portion of Watertown Bike Path, sometimes called the the Wayside Rail Trail, independent of what other Watertown Branch Rail Trail, has just been approved. towns may decide. This path connects Grove Street (near the intersection with Arlington Street) to Arsenal Street (near the Wayland and Sudbury. The Bay Circuit intersection with School Street), along that stretch of Alliance recently secured permission to establish a the abandoned railroad right-of-way that passes the hiking and mountain biking trail (unpaved and east side of Fresh Pond and the west side of the Mt. unfunded, for now) along the Wayland and Sudbury Auburn Star Market. It then runs parallel to portions of the Wayside Rail Trail route. This stretch Arlington and Arsenal Streets before reaching will become a permanent part of the Bay Circuit Watertown Square. The overall length is 1.3 miles. Trail, making it part of the Bay Circuit regional The estimated cost of this 12-foot-wide paved bike- greenway. Once that route is established, it could way is $100,000 for design and $1 million for con- later be upgraded to a paved bike path in the future. struction. (This will be paid for by a $400,000 HUD continued on next page 3 Bike Paths, continued from page 3 now, the town must first decide on a viable route, one for which all the necessary land, or permanent ease- All of these projects should encourage us to move ments to use the land, can be acquired. The tradi- forward with the Belmont Bikeway portion of the tional rails-to-trails method, in which an abandoned Wayside Rail Trail. rail right-of-way is transferred from a state agency, The Wayside trail was designed to follow the may not be available here. Although the right-of- abandoned right-of-way of the Central Massachusetts way west of Waltham has been inactive since 1971, Rail Line for 26 miles, from Alewife through the commuter rail in Belmont remains in use, and the Belmont, Waltham, Weston, Wayland, Sudbury, and MBTA has not been overly receptive to sharing its Hudson, ending in Berlin. Modeled after the rail bed with a bikeway. Parallel routes are possible, Minuteman Bikeway in Arlington, Lexington, and however. To cover the distance from Brighton Street Bedford, the new bikeway would benefit many to Belmont Center, a combination of Channing Road Belmont residents. It could be used extensively for and high school land close to the railroad tracks recreation — biking, jogging, roller blading, walking might be used. In this case, a bike and pedestrian — and as an alternate commuter route, thereby tunnel under the tracks at Alexander Avenue would removing some of the traffic from our local streets.
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