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[email protected] Boston Harbor Real Estate | 188 Sumner Street | East Boston BOOK YOUR POST IT Call Your Advertising Rep T IMES -F REE P RESS (781)485-0588 East BostonWednesday, October 2, 2019 Councilor Edwards calls Tackling Issues for ZBA reform New environmental justice group By John Lynds to hold event next Tuesday In the wake of the scan- By John Lynds advocacy group and Aero- dal that has rocked the dyne, the manufacturer of Boston Zoning Board of Last summer East Bos- the ARISense air quality Appeals in recent months, ton Olin College students, measuring technology. District 1 City Councilor Taylor Sheneman and The pilot program and Lydia Edwards is calling Christine Dimke, under the other environmental issues for an overhaul of the city’s direction of their professor sparked renewed interest in zoning board. Scott Hersey installed in- environmental justice for a The John Lynch bribery struments that have been group of Eastie mothers. scandal has trickled down measuring a wide array of Led by Sonja Ten- to the ZBA itself and now pollutants caused by fossil glad and Julia Burrell an Mayor Martin Walsh is Boston Centers for Youth & Families, and the City of Boston’s Public Facilities Department fuels emanating from high- East Boston chapter of calling for an investigation officials host a meeting last week regarding the planned Paris Street Pool rehab project. ways and Logan Interna- the national Mothers Out into the board. tional Airport. Front movement has been Lynch, the city’s Direc- The pilot program is a formed.