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Meeting Will Test Support for Extending OCTOBER COLOR! WWW.FENWAYNEWS.ORG 2019 FREE COVERING THE FENWAY, AUDUBON CIRCLE, KENMORE SQUARE, UPPER BACK BAY, PRUDENTIAL, LONGWOOD, AND MISSION HILL SINCE 1974 • VOLUME 45, NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 4, 2019 - NOVEMBER 1, 2019 Fensfest Ushers In Fall The Fenway Garden Society hosted FensFest on Saturday, Sept. 7. The annual harvest festival in the Victory Gardens featured food, music, a raffle, and a white elephant sale. (Photos courtesy of the Fenway Garden Society} Meeting Will Test Support for Extending Urban Renewal BY ALISON PULTINAS 2019 and submit a final proposal to the the BRA, continues to operate as a legal agreements—generally for affordable- he Boston Planning and state by August 2020. entity under state law, even though the housing creation or establishment of Development Agency (BPDA) Chris Breen at the BPDA agency changed its operating name to community gardens and public access— plans to hold a meeting on Oct. summarized feedback from six summer BPDA two years ago.) were recorded at the Suffolk Registry of 28 at the Fenway Community meetings in other city neighborhoods Legally, the state agency that Deeds at the time of the land transfers, TCenter “Inviting the surrounding for the city council’s Committee oversees urban renewal requires but apparently the BRA did not maintain community to a meeting to discuss on Planning, Development, and approval from the local government an accurate, reliable list. The project updates....” Although this might not Transportation in a presentation on body—in this case, Boston City Council— of cataloging all previous LDAs was a sound important, it begins a community Sept. 19. Councilor Lydia Edwards before it will accept major modifications major rationale for extending the plans engagement process for determining said, “these meetings can’t be called of urban renewal plans. Readers might six years ago. whether residents want the Fenway successful” and argued that “BPDA staff recall the tense 2016 process, when the The City Council’s Planning, Urban Renewal Plan extended past should co-host with local community BRA asked for a ten-year extension, but Development and Transportation 2022. groups [because] access is social the city council only agreed to a six-year Committee held two public hearings this All of Boston’s 16 urban renewal justice.” The process began in June and extension with bi-annual updates. year, in May and September. Councilor areas exist under state law, and as a will run through December; slide decks Michelle Wu, the committee chair, asked condition of the expansion granted in from the summer meetings are available he report submitted in August in May how the public can review the 2016, the state’s Department of Housing online at www.bostonplans.org/ of this year to DHCD noted that LDAs and the amendment process for and Community Development (DHCD) planning/urban-renewal/overview. “it is anticipated, but subject modifying UR plans, such as boundary required BPDA to submit a three-year Urban renewal districts were to the community engagement changes or added community goals. update. The agency will incorporate created in the 1960s and 70s, Tand recommendations, that the BPDA Devin Quirk, BPDA director of real feedback from this meeting into its next presumably based on agreed-upon will seek an extension of the term… for estate, explained that LDAs could be update report. The condition imposed by community goals defined in the plans. most, if not all of the above nine Urban accessed through the agency’s Zoning DHCD during the last extension requires Urban renewal powers give the BPDA Renewal Plans.” Viewer. However, BPDA Attorney Renee a report on what the BPDA intends to tools for eminent domain takings and The disposition of BRA-owned Le Fevre said the agency didn’t have the do with its urban renewal plans over pre-empt standard zoning. Typically, parcels and accurate documentation manpower to create all the links for a the remainder of the six-year extension urban renewal projects are built on of land disposition agreements (LDAs) complete online inventory. granted in 2016. Nine larger urban BRA-owned property and create have been cited to justify continued Most members of the public who renewal districts, including the Fenway special tax arrangements to encourage extensions for urban renewal. An testified at the two hearings supported and the South End, have not begun the development that allegedly would not LDA inventory has been completed, “sunsetting” the plans as ”obsolete, community-meeting process. The BPDA happen without government assistance. according to comments from BPDA artifacts of a bygone time.” At the intends to complete those by the end of (The Boston Redevelopment Authority, staff at the September hearing. These September hearing, Martyn Roetter, chair of the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay, asked, “Why not FROM MANSION TO FRAT HOUSE TO SHORT-STAY SUITES: terminate everything right now?“ What projects did the Fenway CITY OK’S ROOFTOP ADDITION AT HISTORIC 28 THE FENWAY Urban Renewal Plan enable in the 1970s BY ALISON PULTINAS door at number 30, Corporation sold and ‘80s on BRA-owned parcels? The he elegant, four-story house with a and they shared a par- the property, extensive list presented to the City prominent rooftop balustrade at 28 ty-wall agreement. In and in 2018 the Council committee last year included The Fenway, has gone by different 1921 Julia Thayer sold Boston Licensing 116-120 Huntington Avenue; Symphony names—the Stephen Van Rensselaer the house for $1 to the Board approved Plaza Towers East and West (affordable TThayer Jr. House in the National Register; Fiji Malcolm Cotton Brown ALISON PULTINAS PHOTO: a license change senior housing); St. Botolph Assisted House in MIT’s The Tech; and now Maverick Corporation, an MIT from dormitory Living (the Susan Bailis Center); St. alumni organization. to lodging house Suites/Fenway featuring “boutique short Botolph Terrace Apartments (affordable The Phi Gamma Delta of 42 rooms with term rentals.” housing); the Westland Avenue structure fraternity occupied the individual bath- Maverick Management operates housing Whole Foods (formerly a Stop building for decades. rooms. furnished studios in Boston and Brookline. & Shop) and a parking garage; the The property received permits in August The property is At the ZBA Carillon Condominiums on Mass. Ave. for total interior renovations, façade infamous for another hearing, Shanice (almost entirely market-rate); the new restoration, and a new rear garage. reason: MIT freshman Pimentel of the location for Morville House; Symphony However, on Sept. 17 the owners sub- pledge Scott Krueger mayor’s office Park; the Edgerly Road Playground; the mitted an unusual request to the Zoning died there of alcohol spoke in support New Research Building at 77 Avenue Board of Appeals: adding two floors and poisoning and aspiration in September 1997. of the addition, referring to a letter of a roof deck to create two three-bedroom An 11-month criminal investigation under non-opposition from the Fenway CDC and Louis Pasteur (former Boston English apartments, both 2,800 square feet. At- District Attorney Ralph Martin led to the Maverick Management’s promise not to rent High School site); the Symphony Road torney John Pulgini said Maverick Manage- first time a fraternity was ever charged with to students. The ZBA approved the change Community Garden; and easements at ment’s owners, Frank Hoff of Ipswich and manslaughter. No convictions resulted. MIT unanimously. the Church Park apartments. Bruce Miller of Newton, plan to live there. responded with its own investigation, sub- Pulgini said negotiations with the Only two BRA parcels remain in The wealthy Thayer family were the sequent changes in housing policies and a Boston Parks Department are ongoing. the Fenway: the plazas at Symphony first owners in 1899; when they weren’t settlement with Scott Krueger’s family, who A state law requires its approval for any Towers, which are scheduled to be abroad, undoubtedly the second-floor had sued the institute. development within 100 yards of certain transferred to the MBTA as part of ballroom was well used. Stephen Thayer’s After the Phi Gamma Delta chapter was Boston parks, including the Fens. the redesign process for accessibility mother, Alice Robeson Thayer, lived next dissolved, Sigma Nu fraternity moved in. Alison Pultinas lives in Mission Hill. improvements at the Green Line’s More recently, the Malcolm Cotton Brown Symphony Station. Alison Pultinas lives in Mission Hill. 2 | FENWAY NEWS | OCTOBER 2019 PHOTO COURTESY OF KENZIE BOK Questions for the District 8 Finalists n the preliminary election on Sept. 24, 4,149 votes were cast in the District 8 City Council race. The top vote-getters PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNIFER NASSOUR JENNIFER OF COURTESY PHOTO were Kenzie Bok, receiving 2,032 votes, or 50.4 percent, and Jennifer Nassour, receiving 740 votes, or 18.4 percent. IHélène Vincent placed third (14.6 percent); Kristen Mobilia placed fourth (13.7 percent); and Montez Haywood placed fifth (3.7 percent). Bok and Nassour will go on to the final election on Nov. 4. Prior to the election The Fenway News asked all five candidates to answer four questions about affordable housing, climate change, transit and bike infrastructure, and Fenway Park impacts. Here are the answers from Bok and Nassour. Jennifer Nassour Kenzie Bok Affordable housing rent increases, and believe that we need to meet them. I am a strong supporter of Mothers the cars-first thinking that has ruled remains an obstacle work with renters and owners to find ways Out Front and have protested natural gas transportation planning for the last to the city’s economic to better stabilize tenancies in general, since leaks with them in Boston; as someone whose 60 years. Should the City commit health, social equity, eviction—and the family homelessness that grandmother went door-to-door convincing to building a fully connected and and the economic often results—comes at enormous personal her neighbors to give up coal so they could protected network for micromobility success of tens of and public cost.
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