The Boston Guardian September 25, 2020 Vol. 5 Issue 10 Utility Boxes Will Make You Hungry Courtesy Parks Department Courtesy Parks City Is Proposing Boston Common Improvements By Ian Stevenson Master Plan since the COVID-19 Martin J. Walsh, Boston’s mayor, Courtesy of Downtown BID pandemic began, the Boston Parks announced in January 2019 that he By Ian Stevenson The city of Boston is proposing and Recreation Department, would be committing $28 million The downtown Business a set of tree canopy, seating, and in partnership with the Friends to enhancing and maintaining the On downtown sidewalks 12 Improvement District (BID) entrance improvements on the of the Public Garden (FOPG), Common. artists have their paint cans out, financed 12 outdoor paintings on Boston Common. In the first introduced its proposals to the turning gray metal cubes into utility boxes. meeting on the Boston Common public last Wednesday evening. Continued on Page 5 depictions of Boston’s food. Continued on Page 3 Technical Glitch Spoils Zoom Weed Meeting By Charlie Wolfson

The meeting to gather public input on a cannabis dispensary license applica- tion was cancelled and then quickly rescheduled, causing some residents to miss out on the chance to air their concerns. Susan Juretschke Vicki Smith On August 27, a public meeting was scheduled to discuss the application And the Winners for a dispensary, called Are… Ember Gardens, that would operate at 297 Think of it as our local annual meeting. Vicki Smith Newbury Street. According Emmy’s and Oscar’s. The received the Paul Prindle to State Representative Jay Neighborhood Association Community Leadership Award Livingstone, the Zoom of the Back Bay presented its and Susan Juretschke was given meeting was cancelled at the annual community service the Mary Natalie Citizenship last minute due to a technical awards last week at the group’s award. glitch. Continued on Page 2 The Boston Guardian 2 | September 25, 2020

Weed Meeting Neighborhood Services, Jerome Continued from Page 1 Smith. For Advertising Laffer said that in addition to the technical difficulty that excluded Call An hour after the cancellation, “I’m working with my consul- some residents, the meeting the meeting was abruptly brought tants to see if [the meeting] needs was insufficiently advertised on (857) 265-3022 to order, though not everyone to be redone,” Hyde said. “We the city’s website. He said the who tried to attend the first want to do right by the neighbor- meeting notice did not indicate time was notified. Livingstone, hood and hear their inputs and the location of the proposed who represents the 8th state concerns.” dispensary. Many people would house district, said there should In contrast with Hyde’s only raise concerns about a be a new meeting to ensure that comments, Livingstone said the dispensary if they knew it was in every voice is heard. “The dispen- applicant told him that they their own neighborhood, so this sary would be near residential would not hold another meeting was a key detail to omit. buildings,” Livingstone said. “I unless the city forced them to. “It’s always disappointing and don’t know if those people have “All other applicants have held concerning to me when business- concerns, but I think they should meetings at times they announced es that want to move into our be able to be heard and I would and had multiple public meetings neighborhood give the short like to hear about them.” when there were concerns,” shrift,” Livingstone Elliot Laffer, the president of Livingstone said. “This applicant said. “It doesn’t speak the Neighborhood Association is acting differently and doesn’t well of them.” of the Back Bay, said he has appear to care to hear from the There are at asked the city to mandate public.” He said this conduct least three other another meeting for the applica- shows that the applicant “doesn’t applicants for the tion to move forward. care” about neighborhood input, same license, includ- “If you want public input, that considering that they deem the ing two represented [meeting] wouldn’t be a good previous, incomplete meeting by former city way to get it,” Laffer said. as a sufficient source of public councilors Josh Shane Hyde, the chief input. Zakim and Mike executive officer of Fuego Farms, It’s unclear whether or not Ross.. the company that is behind the city will mandate another City Councilor Ember Gardens, told The Boston meeting. The city’s representative Kenzie Bok who Guardian that he wants to make on the matter, Shanice Pimentel, represents the Back sure public concerns are heard did not reply to a request Bay, did not answer and he is working with the city for comment for this story, repeated requests for to find out what that will entail. nor did the city’s Director of comment.

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By Charles Wolfson ‘The decision- A Sept. 16 meeting between city planners and the Downtown Boston Residents’ making process Association to discuss transportation should’ve been issues quickly descended into a barrage of residents’ complaints about a plan carried out by the for permanent bike lanes. The planners, community, not only for their part, referred to data. A couple residents showed up to say they like the by city planners bike lanes and want them to remain. who might not live The program, called Connect Downtown, was tried over the summer and the city in the area affected.’ recently announced that it is set to become permanent. It includes new bike lanes on Boylston, Cambridge, Charles, Columbus tremendously since the experiment started. and Tremont streets, among others. But much to some residents’ chagrin, he did Residents at the Wednesday Zoom not provide specific numbers Wednesday. meeting were concerned that the lanes George Coorssen, a founder of the increase car and truck congestion and don’t Downtown Boston Residents’ Association, serve enough cyclists to be worthwhile. said the decision-making process should’ve “I hardly see any cyclists on Tremont,” one been carried out by the community, not anonymous resident wrote using Zoom’s only by city planners who might not live in chat feature. “And when I do see cyclists the area affected. downtown, they’re all over the road and the “We make it work,” Coorssen said. sidewalk, not in the dedicated lanes.” Vineet “Residents and business owners are more Gupta, the director of policy and planning able to make it work than someone who at the Boston Transportation Department, looks at data. People are more clever than said the city has collected “very good data” a bureaucracy.” on bike traffic, and that it has “increased Continued on Page 8

Virtual Open House Utility Boxes I’m hoping to give a softer tone to it. I’m Continued from Page 1 painting herbs right now, and plants add a little bit more greenery.” The BID received 51 submissions in After soliciting portfolio submissions July, which they narrowed to 17. Each Harbor Garage from the public in July, the BID selected remaining artist was asked to select a utility 12 artists to paint images on utility boxes box downtown and draw a mock-up of the around downtown over the coming weeks. design they would create, after which 12 Called “Tasteful Boston,” the project will projects were selected. The finalists were paid Redevelopment highlight the city’s culinary history. $100 for their mock-ups and the awardees “We wanted something joyful and positive will receive an additional $500 to complete Thursday, October 1 Zoom Link: bit.ly/3ksiaIv that would be engaging to almost anybody their paintings. The works are expected to 6:00 - 8:00 PM Toll Free: (833) 568 - 8864 on the street,” said Anita Lauricella, project be completed by Oct. 2. “It’s considered Meeting ID: 160 667 4998 manager of Tasteful Boston. Food, it seems, encountered art,” Lauricella said. “You see fits the bill. “What else are we all thinking it, you stop for 30 seconds or a minute, and Project Description: about these days?” it makes you smile…That’s really what it’s The selected murals will depict popular about: just bringing some more joy to the The Proposed Project will include approximately 865,000 square Boston foods as well as dishes that are street.” Lauricella said that she is hoping feet of residential (approximately 200 units), office, and ground- significant to each artist. Robyn Thompson- people will enjoy the new paintings by floor retail and other uses to activate the streetscape, in a single Duong, from Savin Hill, will be painting touring downtown to visit each site. building with below-grade parking, as well as improvements to the ice cream cones and bubble tea while “It’s a nice way for someone with their Harborwalk and extensive public realm improvements. incorporating colors from her Cape Verdean family or their friends to come down and heritage. Ngoc-Tran Vu, an artist from see [the paintings],” said Lauricella.”You can Dorchester, will focus on Vietnamese food. engage with the art, engage with downtown, mail to: Ebony DaRosa Boston Planning & Development Agency “We asked people to just think about their and do it in a way that doesn’t require a One City Hall Square, 9th Floor experiences with food in Boston,” Lauricella gathering or an event.” Boston, MA 02201 said. “Any time you see art in the street it phone: 617.918.4419 “I wanted to highlight marginalized engages you and makes you happy, especial- email: [email protected] dishes,” Vu said, who is painting pho, a ly during these dark times,” Vu said. “I’m traditional Vietnamese soup. Her utility box hoping people will stop, pause, and see a BostonPlans.org @BostonPlans is at 125 Spring Street. “The area has a lot different image in the area that will amplify, Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary of companies and banks; it’s a little sterile. uplift and inspire them.” The Boston Guardian 4 | September 25, 2020

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Boston Common along in its planning process, Vizza Continued from Page 1 said it will need to look for additional Hillfest Will Be Different funding. “We need to look at all the buckets Since then, a team of landscape of money that should be supporting the architects, city officials, and park park,” Vizza said, including corpora- advocates have worked to outline how tions and foundations. “This is going the city will renovate the oldest city park to make our center stage civic life really in the country. great for everybody…[The Common] The proposed changes include expand- can be a better, more resilient version of ing the playground near the Frog Pond, itself.” making the slope to the Common’s Park Wednesday’s meeting was the third Street entrance wheelchair accessible, public meeting on the Master Plan. The and adding more wayfinding signage last presentation was on January 15th. throughout the park. In the coming weeks, the Master Plan “The plan approach is divided team will be holding smaller public between parkwide systems and specific meetings, each focused on particular areas of use that we want to improve aspects of the improvement plans. and redesign to make it work better for The first, on September 23rd, was on more people,” Liz Vizza, president of the park-wide strategies for improvements, FOPG told the Boston Guardian. which will include new wayfinding The FOPG advocates and helps care proposals and plans for increasing the for the Boston Common, the Public tree cover in the park. Garden, and the Commonwealth “The landscape character of the Avenue Mall. Common is canopy trees over lawns,” No crowds without facemasks this year. The annual event, sponsored by the Beacon Hill Civic Around the Frog Pond, Vizza said the said Vizza. “The Common has gone Association, will be held this Sunday, September 27 from 1-5:30 PM. It will be both virtual and Friends hope to add more bathrooms from one tree in the 17th century to in-person. and expand the food vending. The 1,200 trees in the mid-19th century, to Friends are also hoping to add more about 600 trees today.” Since the 19th Schedule of Events: • At-your-home scavenger hunt seating behind the Visitor Center. century, the Common has lost hundreds Register at: www.bhcivic.org Some of the funding for the improve- of trees to Dutch elm disease. 2:00- 300pm - Virtual Cultural Hour ments was gained from the city’s sale The subsequent planning meetings 1:00- 2:00pm - Children’s Virtual • Performance by violinist Young-Shin Choi of the former Winthrop Square garage. will be on September 24th, 29th, and Programming • Virtual architectural and historical tour of $23 million will be allocated towards October 1st. After reviewing public • Virtual tour of an emergency vehicle and Beacon Hill the capital plan, and $5 million towards input, the Master Plan team is aiming to EMT with safety tips hosted by Hill House maintenance. As the city gets further have a final plan by next spring. • Virtual pet show and tell Continued on Page 8

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Kilmarnock Street Project Modified By Ian Stevenson building, which will now include a dog park and more greenery. The developers of a planned “We are airing on the side 8-story residential apartment of transparency,” said Stephen building on Kilmarnock Street J. Harvey, the project manager have changed the building’s for the Boston Planning and façade. Development Agency (BPDA), Cabot, Cabot, and Forbes at an Impact Advisory Group By Ian Stevenson development company, submitted belowground parking spaces. Plans (CCF), the developers of a (IAG) meeting on September a project proposal this month for the building also include a half 365-unit building at the addresses 17. “All the [recent] changes that A development company for an apartment building that acre park, with separate sections 60-80 Kilmarnock Street, are have been made are within the partnering with Boston Children’s would include open-market units for hospital visitors, residents, and electing to construct two large schematics of the zoning that’s Hospital (BCH) is proposing on most floors plus several floors the public. A few years ago, BCH courtyards on the south side been approved by the board.” to build a 15-story residential of apartments reserved for the received permitting to convert the of the property, which fronts The IAG is an appointed group building along Beacon Street in families of patients traveling long existing parking lot at 819 Beacon Queensbury Street, instead of the of neighborhood leaders who the Audubon Circle neighborhood distances to BCH. The proposal Street into an office space and three they originally planned for. offer input on major construction of Fenway. Scape Beacon, an contains 450 residential units, 53 parking lot for its staff. The developers have also enlarged projects. affiliate of Scape North America, a units for patient families, and 206 Continued on Page 8 the pedestrian alley alongside the Continued on Page 8

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Project Description: Project Description: Virtual meeting of the Longwood Medical Area Forum to discuss This is a Public Meeting held using Zoom in regards to the 819 the Simmons University IMP Projects, including the mixed-use Beacon Street project in the Audobon Circle neighborhood. The Living and Learning Center project. project proposes approximately 500 units of housing, 53 of which will be patient-family housing units in partnership with Boston This meeting will be held using Zoom. Members of the public are Children’s Hospital. encouraged to attend.

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Bike Lanes made to businesses to cut down on trucks residents of the area served by the new lanes. airing of hatred for bike lanes, Osgood Continued from Page 3 blocking traffic lanes at peak times. “I don’t think we should be accommo- shared updates on a couple of other aspects Some of the residents were not satisfied dating students and people biking into of city infrastructure. He said there will be with Osgood’s answers. While he spoke downtown when they’re not downtown new bus lanes throughout Boston, meant Chris Osgood, Boston’s chief of streets, at length of the city’s plans, they filled the taxpayers,” Furman said. to speed up commute times, which in turn transportation and sanitation, said the city Zoom chat sidebar with complaints, calling Many residents complained that some should encourage more riders — and reduce is undertaking a few initiatives to combat the bike lanes “a joke” and deriding cyclists. bikers don’t obey traffic lights and stop bike and car traffic. traffic jams downtown; but the bike lanes One person suggested a “combination bike signs, and put pedestrians at risk by biking “In order for people to shift to buses, that will stay. and bus lane.” on sidewalks. Osgood said the approach mode of travel needs to be more reliable,” Among the measures is a new mobility Another resident, Maria Furman, was to enforcement has been “education first,” Osgood said. “There’s no way they’re going team to assess where to limit street parking upset that most of the people making use though tickets can be issued. to hop on a bus if that means they’re going and an effort to regulate when deliveries are of the bike lanes might not be permanent Before the meeting descended into an to be late.”

15-Story Apartment Maitland Streets, the property construction projects. across the street, you could see how Continued from Page 6 slopes down towards the south and Members of the IAG expressed out of place this is,” said Dolores sits above two T train tunnels, one concern that the modern exterior Boogdanian, president of the of which has an exhaust shaft that of the proposed 398,000 square- Audubon Circle Neighborhood The hospital later changed its meeting on Monday night. opens onto the property. As part foot building does not fit in with Association. plans, however, and in November While the proposal would not of the project, the developers are the adjoining Audubon Circle Scape is still working to 2019 made known its intent to prevent students from leasing the proposing to add a raised two-way neighborhood, which is known for fine-tune the building design and develop the property as a residen- apartments, he noted that “we bike path on Maitland Street and a its late-19th century row houses. the mix of apartment sizes, tial building. don’t want undergraduates to live multi-use path along the south side “I find it aesthetically extreme- Flynn said. “We look forward to “The residential units will be in this building.” of the building. ly institutional,” said Mark working side by side with all of the open market units, but Children’s Many of the Hospital’s staff “The site itself is a bit of a Favermann, a local urban designer stakeholders.” Hospital intends and needs that currently commute long distances, Rubik’s cube,” Flynn said on on the IAG. “I don’t find [the A BPDA public meeting for housing to serve many of its and the hospital hopes that the Monday. The forum was the first building] appealing in any kind of the project will be held in late own critical staff and employees,” site’s future apartments will provide gathering of the project’s Impact residential way.” September, and city officials will said Andrew Flynn, Scape’s housing that is affordable for some Advisory Group (IAG), which is an “I think if you were to turn the meet with the developers in early CEO, at a Boston Planning and of its employees, Flynn said. appointed group of neighborhood vision of this building around and October. The public comment Development Agency (BPDA) At the corner of Beacon and leaders who offer input on major look at that row of brownstones period is open until October 9th.

Hillfest Events • Go to the Phillips Street Park with your Kilmarnock spoke about before.” the developers have made recd for a prize Continued from Page 6 The two courtyards will be an accommodation for Continued from Page 5 larger and more open to the the K Street Clubhouse, 4:00pm - Jeremy Bell, bagpiper street in the new design. a volunteer-run meeting • Bagpiping through the neighborhood, The project was approved “It’s a much broader place for primarily LGBTQ 3:00- 4:30pm - Real life architectural- ending up at the Phillips 5lleet Park to by the BPDA board in expanse to welcome folks recovering addicts. K Street’s ly-Chemed scavenger hunt (for older kick off our Neighborhood Meet-up January of 2019, but who might be meandering current location will be children and adults) construction has not yet on the street who want to demolished when construc- • Meet at Mt Vernon A Charles Streets], 4:30pm - Neighborhood Meebupl begun. The planned changes stop [by],” Casey said of the tion begins, but CCF has Tatte between 3-3:30pm • Come join us at Phillips Street playground will reduce the size of the benches that will be in the agreed to reserve space for • Grab your game card and take to the - kids and dogs are welcome, masks and structure by 15,000 square space. He said the courtyards the organization in the new streets to End the designated ago. M physical distancing required feet. will be “semi-public.” building. “I’m very glad to see Beacon Hill The main entrance to “It’s predominantly the that they’re making room for the building has been same project with some [K Street],” Giordano said. moved from Queensbury exterior design changes,” “it’s an important communi- to Kilmarnock Street, and Richard Giordano, director ty benefit that those folks the building’s exterior will of policy and community be allowed to stay and that The petition asks the court to determine that the Respon- dent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a now have more prominent planning at the Fenway they have a minimal rent.” LEGAL Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator metal-and-glass bays. Still, Community Development The modified design will be NOTICE OF PETITION FOR is appropriate. 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