Public Improvement Commission - Regular Meeting

The floor is yours, Madam Chair.

All right, I'll call an order of the Public Improvement Hearing of June 25th, 2026. Mr. Lyman, will you take a roll call?

Would the representative from the Transportation Department please state their name for the record?

Amy Cording.

Property Management Department, please do the same. Joseph Callahan. Inspectional Services Department. Ryan Ronen. Water and Sewer Commission.

Denise Devlin.

Commission for Persons with Disabilities. Sarah Leon. Great. We do not have anyone from Public Works today, but we do have a quorum.

Great. At the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff, we'll entertain a motion for the acceptance of the minutes of the PIC hearing held on June 4th, 2026.

I move to accept the minutes of the Public Improvement Commission hearing held on June 4th, 2026. Second. All in favor? Aye.

great public hearing uh a joint petition by jamaica plain neighborhood development corporation dba mildred haley ii limited partnership and the boston housing authority for the making of specific repairs within center street public way of roxbury located on its northerly side generally at address the numbers 265 to 279 across from lamartine street consisting of curb realignment sidewalk reconstruction with structural soil as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, specialty pavements, street lighting infrastructure, storm drain infrastructure, street trees, and bike racks. New Business 521-2026 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan 265-279 Center Street, Boston, Jamaica Plain, Mildred Haley Apartments, three sheets dated February 2026.

Good morning, Madam Chair, Stephen Vantresco, Edge Engineering, here to represent the applicant, JPNDC, excuse me, Urban Edge for the building two. This is the site that you can see on screen for Mildred Haley. We just ribbon-cutted phase one, and now we're doing phase two. This involves, as you said, some curb adjustment on Center Street across from La Martine with the appropriate amenities required by the City of Austin which we've provided included. We've also gone through I think the last open item was a tree hearing which we went to on June 4th. The tree, one tree was requested to be removed and that was approved. I believe we're still waiting for the formal approval from the tree warden but it was closed out on the June 4th hearing. I have nothing else to add to the presentation, but if there are other questions from the Commission or members of the public, happy to answer them.

Great. Questions or comments, Commission members? PIC staff or public?

I will take this opportunity to remind the public, if you wish to ask questions or add testimony to any action item, we ask that you please use the raised hand function, which can be found at the reactions tab at the bottom of your screen. PIC staff does not have any comments on this action at this time, and I'm not seeing any raised hands, so I think we're all set.

All right, I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number one.

I move to approve a joint petition by the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation, DBA Mildred Haley II Limited Partnership, and the Boston Housing Authority for the making of specific repairs within Center Street. That's further read into the record by the Chair.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you so much. On a petition by CAD Builders LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Center Street, Public Way, West Roxbury, located on its northwesterly side of addresses number 1905 to 1911, southwest of Park Street, New Business 64-2026, as shown on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Pedestrian Easement Plan 1905 to 1911, Center Street, Park Street, West Roxbury, one sheet dated May 18, 2026.

Sorry, just getting my bearings here. Hi, everyone. My name is Katya Posadlo, principal at Verdant Landscape Architecture. Can you see my screen? Just want to make sure that I'm sharing correctly.

Yes.

Okay, great. Thank you. I'm stepping in for the engineer, Mike Joyce from Joyce Consulting Group, who couldn't be here today. So I apologize for this little choppy. So I don't, these aren't exactly my plans per se, although I helped develop the landscape components. So what you see in front of you here is the pedestrian easement plan and So this project is related to a 14,000 square foot parcel located at the corner of Center Street and Park Street in West Roxbury. The proposed project is a construction of a four-story mixed-use building with about 20, I think it's 21 residential units and ground floor commercial space as well as off-street parking that will be accessed by a curb cut off of Park Street. The proposed pedestrian easement here in what you see in red is proposed because there's an existing ADA sidewalk ramp whose clear space behind it is not sufficient. So we're proposing about 14 square feet to be added or included in a new pedestrian easement to pass by that handicap ramp. I can go on to a specific plan related to this project or do you want to look at this? No, we'll stop here.

We'll take them one at a time.

Yeah, okay.

All right, questions or comments? Questions or comments from commission members? PIC staff or public?

All set on the easement.

I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number two. I move to approve a petition by CAD Builders LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Center Street as further read into the record by the chair. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? None. Motion passes. Public hearing item number three. On a petition by CAD Builders LLC for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways in West Roxbury consisting of curb and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, specialty pavement, street lighting, construction storm drain, infrastructure, street trees, street furniture, bike racks, and driveway curb cuts. Center Street, generally at addresses number 1905 to 1911, southwest of Park Street. Park Street, northwest of Center Street. New Business 6-4-2026 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan, 1905 to 1911. Center Street and Park Street, West Roxbury, three sheets dated September 29, 2025, revised May 5, 2026.

Thank you. Before I move on, it's easy to see here where the existing curb cuts are located that will be revised or closed up in some fashion. On the bottom left-hand corner on Center Street, there's a curb cut. In the middle of the frontage on Center Street, there's a curb cut. And then out on Park Street, there's a curb cut. So on this following specific player plan, we are closing up on both curb cuts along Center Street. And we are revising. changing the size of the curb cut on Park Street to a 12-foot wide curb cut. We are proposing to replace approximately 135 linear feet of concrete cement concrete sidewalk and also reset the curb along Center Street. There's one existing tree the one in the center here along Center Street that we will preserve and its tree well will be enlarged slightly. Currently it's about four by six we're going to make it four by eight and then we're adding two new street trees within four by eight tree wells which will be mulch surface. There's an existing band of brick paving along the curb line and the furnishing zone which will replace or reset and we're also proposing to add three hitch bike racks within that frenching zone and two single bench benches out in that area on park street we are proposing to reduce the existing curb cut from 28 feet to 12 feet and replace the 100 foot length of concrete sidewalk that's along that frontage and lastly throughout the site we're upgrading some existing street lighting there's two existing lights along Center Street, one of which needs to be relocated slightly, and at least one along Park Street, which will remain in its current location. And finally, we will be upgrading and improving four pedestrian ramps and crosswalks, one across Park Street, the one that's reciprocal across Center Street as well.

That's it, thank you.

Great, questions or comments from commission members? PSE staff or public? All set. All right, I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number three.

I move to approve a petition by CAD Builders LLC for the making of specific repairs within Center Street and Park Street as further read into the record by the Chair.

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed?

all right motion passes public hearing item number four uh on a set of petitions by the children's museum for the vertical discontinuance of portions of the following public waste in south boston vertically above and below the grades of the sidewalks congress street on its northeasterly side it addresses 308 to 316, northwest of Sleeper Street. Sleeper Street on its northwesterly side, northeast of Congress Street. New Business 6-4-2026 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department, Engineering Division, Vertical Discontinuance Plan, Congress and Sleeper Street. 308 to 316, Congress Street, South Boston. Two sheets dated March 23, 2026.

Good morning. This is Kevin Wright from BHB. I'm here with Annie Glykoff as well from BHB. Amy Auerbach from the Children's Museum. I'm Michael Frechette from Sasaki. As we presented at the new business hearing last week, the museum is subject to flooding because of the four-point channel and the sea level rise that's expected to impact the building. As a proposal to deal with those impacts there. Planning to install concrete shelves, waterproofing and new break along the Congress street and sleeper street facade. So, what you have before you, as we presented at. The new business hearing is the expected plan.

That shows.

impacts to Sleeper Street and the Congress Street facade. The discontinuity area is one foot above, excuse me, one foot off of the building and will run to an elevation of 11 Boston City Base to 21.1 Boston City Base, which is about 3.4 feet below grade and 6.6 feet above grade as shown in the detail. The project is aware of the Sleeper Street improvements planned by the city and has had multiple meetings with the public regarding the redesign and the drainage and has received support from the Office of Neighborhood Services. And since our new business hearing, the appraisal has been completed and submitted to PIC staff for review. And that's the improvements for this discontinuance at this particular time.

Great. Questions and answers for PIC staff or public?

Kevin, will you please just mention your intentions for acquiring the interest through City Council and also the results of the appraisal, which was recently conducted?

Yeah, so the plan is to go through the City Council once we have approval from the Public Improvement Commission to secure the deed, the appraisal, which was submitted to BIC staff for $70,000 and completed by CBRE.

Thanks. Great. I'm all set other than that.

All right. Questions or comments by Commission members? All right. Looks like we have public comments. Tom?

hi chair coding uh commissioners uh it's just a question is their neighborhoods in full support of what's uh what's being proposed here um obviously it's uh pretty integral that this gets done in coordination with them before sleeper street work starts in july so uh the process by which it goes in front of city council can somebody enlighten me as to how that's done um and what the timing of that typically is is that weeks is that months um that's really just my question right thank you

I can try to shed a little bit of light into that. Chung Lu, our attorney, may be on and may be able to provide some additional insight, but I'll give it a shot. So after the PIC approves the discontinuance of the public's rights within this little bit of airspace here, the project will then submit a bunch of paperwork to the city council, and they will consider basically releasing the fee interest Of that air of those air rights, which became kind of unencumbered city property. The appraisal that was conducted determined the fair market value of those of that space. And that would be remitted from the project to the city through city council. And at that point of deep would be recorded the registry and all that good stuff. That can take a few weeks or more. I think we can be flexible in allowing some of this work to begin while the project is going through that city council process, just so that we're not delaying anybody's work. Chong, if I stated anything, please feel free to correct me.

Yeah, I don't know whether you guys can hear me. This is Chong Liu from the law department. I'm the legal counsel for the PIC. We can hear you Chong, thanks. You are right. Once the commission approves, I have to draft a surplus legislation on behalf of the mayor and the file. before the city council and the council will run its own process. So that's a different process from the PIC. You have to individually follow up with them. And then assuming they approve that, they will kick back to the city clerk and then the city clerk will sign and the mayor will sign. And once they sign, I will draw a release deed and the release of the city's public interest. to the commissioner. So as you can tell, you know, since the paper traveled, it's gonna take a little bit of time. It's going to take a little bit of time. So I don't know if that answers your question. I'm the president and this is the legislation. In the very short term, I pretty much dropped a city ordinance to transfer this parcel to the patient.

It kind of does answer my question in that it feels like it's a long time. So, Todd, to your point that you had made, how do we ensure that this doesn't, the approval doesn't delay the start of construction on Sleeper Street? That's really what I'm focused on, right?

absolutely yeah kevin and his team have been working very closely with public works on their design you can actually see public works is intended final curb line shown on these plans that was intentional um in in the drafting of those plans so um i will make sure that everybody who needs to be talking with one another is talking with one another and that this project is making good progress um in a timely fashion so that we can get shovels in the ground both for this project and for the Public Works project with plenty of time so that nobody has any delays. That's something that we've been working on. We've been very cognizant of that, and we'll continue to work on that as this progresses.

And I'm assuming, Todd, this is sponsorship through the district councillor, so that would be District Council 2 at Flint? Is that usually how it's brought before the council?

I'm not sure how that works, if one of the specific counselors needs to sponsor this or if it's just brought through the law department.

No, it's a good question. The legislation is actually filed on behalf of the mayor. It will be signed by the mayor. And we draft the legislation. And I will keep you guys posted on how that works through the city's IGR in regards to affairs. So once it gets to the point and if you work with a particular city councilor or Anyway, I really encourage you to work with them to get on the same page with IGR, with the mayor's office. And then once they get to the city council, I really, really, really encourage you to work with whoever the councilor is to go through the council's whole process. Thank you.

Hi, good morning. I'm actually here on another matter, but I couldn't help but ask or wonder as I'm listening to this presentation. Whether this is an indication of a much larger issue regarding the city's resiliency planning in the face of climate change and rising sea levels. and also how many other instances similar to this one might arise. Just caught me as very unfortunate that we're facing something like this and the PIC is needing to address it in this way. So just thought I'd offer that perspective. Thank you.

Uh, I can maybe respond to that as well. Um, yes, doors. Climate change and sea level rise is definitely an issue that we are seeing. Throughout the city, especially in neighborhoods, like South Boston and Dorchester and downtown Charlestown, East Boston. Combated that with a number of different ways, deployable flood barriers, permanent reconstruction efforts. This is the way that this is the best way that the. Children's museum has identified to protect their own. Building in their assets, and we're seeing. Other buildings take a similar approach to protect their own buildings individually. The Office of Climate Resilience probably could offer a lot more information than I possibly could. I'm happy to put you in touch with them if you're interested in discussing some of the projects that they're working on. I can do that offline if you'd like.

Great, thank you. Any other additional questions?

all right i will entertain a motion on public hearing item number four i move to approve a set of petitions by the children's museum for the vertical discontinuance of certain portions of the following public ways on congress street and sleeper street as further right into the record by the chair second all favor aye aye aye opposed none all right motion passes thank you guys thank you very much

Public hearing item number five on a petition by Brighton Main Streets for the making of specific repairs to the following public ways in Brighton consisting of new wayfinding signs. Washington Street generally at Oak Square between Tremont Street and Gregg Avenue. Cambridge Street generally between Brighton Center between Washington Street and Henshaw Street. New business 6-4-2026 as shown on the plan titled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan Brighton Center, Oak Square, Cambridge Street, and Washington Street. Brighton 1 Chief dated June 3, 2026.

Hi, my name is Kelly McGrath and I am the executive director for Brighton Main Streets and I am here to ask permission for two small signs to go in our district. Just one that says welcome to Brighton Center and then one that says welcome to Oak Square. They'd be residing into traffic landings more useful like flower beds and things like that.

Great, thanks. Questions or comments by commission members? Yes, East Adler Public. All right, I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number five.

I move to approve a petition by Brighton Main Streets for the making of specific repairs in the area of Washington Street and Cambridge Street. That's further right into the record by the chair.

Second. All in favor? Aye. All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? All right. Motion passes. Thank you, guys. Public hearing item number six on a petition by AREMA region number 112 owner LLC for the making of specific repairs within Aberdeen Street Public Way, Boston proper located between Beacon Street and its southeasterly terminus consisting of curb and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated street lighting infrastructure, landscaping, fencing, and guardrail. New business six four 2026 is shown in a set of plans entitled city of Boston Public Works Department engineering division specific repair plan. Aberdeen Street Public Road Fenway three sheets dated May 21st, 2026.

Yeah, good morning. My name is John Moser. I'm with PHB and the civil engineer for the project. I'm here with Brian Meyer from ARE and Rebecca Lee from Mintz. So to provide some background on the project, Aberdeen Street improvements reflected on the specific repair plan are part of offsite mitigation for the landmark phase three project or 421 Park Drive. And just to give you kind of a background of where that is, in red here, the Aberdeen Street is highlighted and the 421 Park Drive project is highlighted in blue. and it's separated by the MBTA Green Line. So switching back to the specific repair plan, during the Article 80 process, the proponent committed a fixed number of funds to support neighborhood beautification in this area. The proponent had coordinated with the neighborhood and has provided the following plans. The summary of the plans is the replacement of all streetlights within Aberdeen Street, This has been coordinated with the street lighting division. And then at the end of Aberdeen Street, which is a dead end, abutting the green line tracks, we're proposing a new planter, guardrail, and privacy fence. One additional note from new business is on last new business hearing, we heard from Sarah Leong about some replacement of sidewalk panels. After reviewing the request and going out there and seeing everything, the proponent has agreed to replace some of those panels in this general area.

And we will continue to work with Sarah and her team on that replacement. So thank you.

Please let me know if there are any questions. Questions or comments from Commission members?

I just want to thank the team for the possibility in repairing some of those broken sidewalk panels near the driveway. Really appreciate it.

Any other Commissioner comments? All right, Dolores?

Yes, good morning again. Thank you. Commission members. I'm here to as a representative of the Audubon Circle neighborhood association. Um, in which this project is taking place in Audubon Circle section of the Fenway. And, uh, and especially staff from San Jose and associates has worked with our neighborhood association over the years. And in this case specifically on how some of the impacts of the 421 Park project might be mitigated and certainly these public improvements on Aberdeen Street are welcome and important asset aspect of that. We're particularly pleased about the new planters and the trellis that will be installed at the end of Aberdeen Street right at the dead end. I think a new guard rail is to be installed, which will be helpful for public safety and also a trellis to help screen, create like a vegetative screen of the facade of the building, which is quite large, of course. So we're just here in support and appreciate the PIC's support of the project and also ask if a written comment from the neighborhood association would assist in any way.

thank you very much uh yeah no i think that uh we'd love a written comment um you can send it in to todd um uh right like and we'll um add it to project support all right very good i would be pleased to do that thank you right uh any additional comments or questions can i see staff um john i just asked please just make sure that you include those areas of sidewalks to be reconstructed when you submit your final mylar plans to us

Thank you, Todd.

All right. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number six. I move to approve a petition by ARE-MA, region number 112, owner LLC, for the making of specific repairs within Aberdeen Street as further read into the record by the chair.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? None. All right. Motion passes. Thank you guys very much. public hearing item number seven on a petition by 363 east street loc for the acceptance of three pedestrian easements adjacent to the following public ways in south boston east street generally at address number 354 between bolton street and west third street bolton street northwest of east street west third street northwest of east street New Business 6-4-2026 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Pedestrian Eastman Plan Eastern Intersection of Bolton and E Streets, Boston South. One sheet dated March 6, 2026.

Good morning commission. This is my name is Brian Tim. I'm with RJ O'Connell and associates. We are the civil engineer and land surveyor for this project. The project is located at the intersection of West 3rd. E street and Bolton street in South Boston. We're here with new business, the last meeting, and we made some modifications since then just to address some comments that came up during that meeting. basically to create a wider consistent ADA path of travel on the new sidewalks, the expanded sidewalks. We did have three separate pedestrian easements. We have now been able to make that one continuous easement along West Third Street in the hatched area on the screen here. It's very narrow along E Street, approximately 0.4 feet in width, and then it continues around on Bolton Street here. Again, the purpose of these easements are to increase the width of the sidewalk in association with this project.

Questions or comments, Mr. Members?

Only talk about the pedestrian easements, right? On this one.

Correct. For now. Then we'll move on.

Yep. And I think this is just, can we do this with one easement or is that three separate ones on?

No, this is one boat for all easements.

That would be lovely. That's what we're proposing.

Questions or comments by Commission members? PIC staff or public?

All set. And yes, we will put all three easements onto one order and one instrument.

All right. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing item number seven.

I move to approve a petition by 363 East Street LLC for the acceptance of three pedestrian easements on East Street, Bolton Street, and West 3rd Street, as further right into the record by the Chair.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? None. All right. Great. Thank you, guys. Public hearing number eight on a petition by 363 E Street LLC for the making of specific repairs within the following public waste in south Boston consisting of curb realignment, sidewalk reconstruction, as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, specialty pavements, street lighting infrastructure, traffic signal infrastructure, street trees, bike rides, driveway curb cuts, and a bike share station. East Street, generally at address number 354 between Bolton Street and West 3rd Street, Bolton Street, northwest of East Street, West 3rd Street, northwest of East Street. East Boston, 6-4-2026 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan, Bolton, West 3rd, and East Street, South Boston, five sheets, dated June 24th, 2026.

Again, Brian Tim with RJ O'Connell and associates with the civil engineer on this project. Amy, I couldn't have presented a project any better than what you just did. So essentially, we were at the PIC meeting several weeks ago, had some comments from the commission, and we've addressed most of their comments. There was just some specific comments regarding the reciprocal curb ramps, which we've provided updated plans to Dolores and Sarah's team. to commit to improving the reciprocal curb ramps across West 3rd Street, across East Street, and across Bolton Street as well. That's short and sweet. Does anybody want more information?

Perfect. Questions or comments by commission members?

Thank you for sending those emails. We haven't had, we haven't gotten the chance to review them yet, but happy to work with the team after a vote on kind of the finer details if necessary.

All right, PIC staff or public?

I think we are all set.

Great, I will entertain a motion on public hearing item number eight, contingent upon final approval by the Commission for Persons with Disabilities.

Okay, I move to approve a petition by 363 East Street LLC for the making of specific repairs within East Street, Bolton Street, and West Third Street, contingent upon final approval by the Disabilities Commission, and also as further read into the record by the Chair.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Great. Thank you guys.

Thank you, everybody. Have a good one.

Public hearing item number nine, on a petition by staff 77 LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to the following public ways in South Boston, Dorchester Street on its northwesterly side at addresses number 75 to 77, southwest of Athens Street, Athens Street on its southwesterly side, northwest of Dorchester Street. New Business 642026 is shown on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Pedestrian Easement Plan 77, Dorchester Street, Athens Street, South Boston. One sheet dated May 26, 2026.

uh good morning uh james downing with uh harvard stanlinson also joined by our sarah kamanovich from harvard stanlinson uh and the applicant jim and andrew satires um quick couple of slides to go through about which we'll go through the petition uh as mentioned project is located at 7577 dorchester street in south boston bungalow anthony street to north and east west broadway to the southwest uh next size sarah please The applicant is seeking to redevelop two parcels of land shown here, a two-story building and a one-story building adjacent to it into a, next slide please, into a five-story building with 15 residential units and a ground floor restaurant. Next slide, please, sir. As a result of improvements in the public realm, the applicant is seeking to grant the City of Boston a pedestrian easement along Athens Street and also on Dorchester Street. On Athens Street, it's going to extend approximately 78 feet long and two and a half feet wide, and along Dorchester Street, it will be 60 feet long and six inches wide. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions the Commission or public may have.

Questions or comments by Commission members? PIC staff or public?

All set. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing number nine. I move to approve a petition by Stats 77 LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Dorchester Street and Athens Street as further read into the record by the chair.

Second. All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? Great, thank you.

Thank you.

Public hearing item number 10, not a petition by Stats 77 LLC for the vertical discontinuance of portions of Dorchester Street, Public Way, South Boston, located on its northwesterly side at addresses number 75 to 77 southwest of Athens Street, vertically above the grade of the sidewalk. New business 6-4-2026 is shown on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Vertical Discontinuance Plan 77 Dorchester Street and Athens Street, South Boston, 1 Chief, dated May 26, 2026.

Good morning, James Downing with Howard St. Hudson, Project Engineers, here to present the particular discontinuance petition from Stats LLC. Applicants seeking to discontinue two portions, or two protrusions into the public right-of-way. Each one extends from the second floor to the fourth floor, and each one is approximately 24 square feet. I'll be able to answer any questions the Commissioner and public may have.

Great. Questions or comments by coalition members? PIC staff or public?

All set on the discontinuances.

I'll entertain a motion on public hearing number 10. I move to approve a petition by Stats 77 LLC for vertical discontinuance of portions of Dorchester Street as further written to the record by the Chair.

Second. All in favor?

Aye.

Aye. Opposed? None. Great. All right. Public hearing item number 11. On a petition by Stat 77 LLC for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways in South Boston consisting of curb and sidewalk reconstruction as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, specialty pavement, street lighting infrastructure, bike racks, and a raised crosswalk, Dorchester Street, generally at address number 75 to 77 southwest of Athens Street, Athens Street northwest of Dorchester Street, new business, 6-4-2026 is shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan, Athens Street and Dorchester Street 75-77, Dorchester Street, South Boston, two sheets dated May 7th, 2026.

Good morning, James Downing with Howard St. Hudson Project Engineers. The applicant is seeking to construct some improvements within the public right-of-way. As mentioned, those include new cement and concrete sidewalks, bike racks, forest pavers, and also the installation of a raised crossing on Active Street. With that, happy to answer any questions the Commission or public may have.

Questions or comments by Commission members? PIC staff or public? All set. I'll entertain a motion on public hearing under number 11.

I move, excuse me, I move to approve a petition by Stats 77 LLC for the making of specific repairs on Dorchester Street and Athens Street as further read into the record by the Chair.

Second. Fair? Aye. Opposed? All right, great. Public hearing item number 12. A petition by Stats 77, LLC for the granting of a projection license for the installation of canopies over portions of the sidewalk within the following public ways in South Boston. Dorchester Street on its northwest early side at address number 75 to 77, southwest of Athens Street. Athens Street on its southwestern side, northwest Dorchester Street. New Business 6-4-2026 is showing on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division's License Plan, Athens Street, Dorchester Street, Public Way 75-77, Dorchester Street, South Boston. One sheet dated May 7, 2026.

Good morning, James Downing, Harvest Lane Hudson. The applicant is seeking to install a canopy that would project into the public right-of-way along the entire frontage on Athens Street. That projection would be approximately 8 inches into the public right-of-way, and along Dorseter Street, along the entire frontage, it would project approximately 3 feet 4 inches into the public right-of-way. I'm happy to answer any questions the Commission or the public may have.

Questions or comments by Commission members? PSC staff or public?

All right, I'll entertain a motion on public hearing on number 12. I move to approve a petition by Stats 77 LLC for the granting of a projection license on Dorchester Street and Anthem Street as further read into the record by the chair.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Thank you. All right, thank you guys. And on to new business. All right, new business number one, 50 Congress Street, Kilby Street, Exchange Place, Boston Properties, Pacific Repairs on a petition by Mahoney Development Group, LLC.

Good morning, James Elling from Howardstein Asset. I'm joined this morning by Sarah Kovalevich and also Pat Mahoney, who is the applicant. I've prepared a couple of slides for you to go through to introduce the project to the Commission and public. Eric, I'm happy to answer any questions for you. As mentioned, the project is located at 58 Congress Street in downtown Boston. It is bound by Exchange Place North, Kilby to the east, and Hawes Alleyway to the south. It's an existing 10-story office building, and the intent is to convert this into 169 residential units with ground floor commercial. Next slide, please, sir. The project is located within the groundwater overlay district, and as a result of which, to comply with that in Article 32, a new stormwater management system will be designed and incorporated into the project. Next slide, please, sir. A stormwater tank will be located within the basement of the building. However, injection wells will be required to be installed in the public sidewalk on the south side of Exchange Place. The applicant is also committed to reconstructing what's possible out here for ramp improvements, both on Exchange Place and also on Wall Street on the next slide, please, Sarah. Happy to answer any questions the public or Commission has.

Questions or comments by Commission members?

I will jump in here. So we have some area ways at the corners. We were able to start enforcement with the neighbors, so we won't be requiring any action for the reciprocals. I understand that there. are variances needed for the ramps that you guys are going to be reconstructing so all we ask is that the application is submitted to the maab and we're copied on the application before final business so you don't need to have it granted and go through the whole hearing just if we can get that process started and copy us and definitely reach out if you need any assistance with the variance application and what specific code to cite.

Understood, thank you.

Any other comments by Commission Members? PIC staff or public? All set. Will you be ready in is it by july 9th yep two weeks july 9th july 9th uh yes you will all right we'll see you then thank you uh new business item number two mount ida road murray street dorchester specific repairs on a joint petition by the city of boston public works department and the city of boston transportation department

Hello. Good morning, Chair and members of the Commission. My name is Thomas Chey with the Public Works Department, petitioning for specific repairs at Murray Street and Idaho Road in Dorchester. I'm also joined by our design consultant from GPI, Daniel, who will introduce himself later. But just a quick snippet, this project is a part of a subsection for a repair program specifically looking to address constituent requests for new crossocks around Boston. This location At this location, Public Works and Transportation Department are looking to provide a safe and accessible access point to the City of Boston Road and Park at the top of the hill, which is located on the plan southwest here, basically at the bottom of their stairs. We're looking to install a new crosswalk across Mount Ida Road. And to do that safely and accessibly, we're looking to propose a raised crosswalk, improve the existing pedestrian ramps across Marie Street, and address these concerns brought to us by the public. Additionally, these concerns, there was concerns about school buses making turns with the existing parking, and there were some modifications to that. Specifically, these plans, obviously, like I said, they include a raised crosswalk, curb extensions, sidewalk work, pedestrian ramps. and some minor drainage work as well as relocation of a couple street lights. I'll let Dan showcase the plans and share now if there's any questions for the members of the commission or from the public.

All right, questions or comments by commission members? May I see staff or public?

Looks like we may have lost Dan, but that's OK. I think Thomas covered it.

Yeah, I think we got this. Yeah, and Thomas, I'm assuming that two weeks will be enough time.

Yes, just as a heads up, we're also going through ONS, talking to the constituents specifically in this area for a public meeting with them next week. So we will be going through that. But that's it from us.

All right. See you in two weeks.

Thank you.

New business item number three, 65-69 Kilmarnock Street, Queensbury Street, Boston Proper. Production needs to be prepared on a set of petitions by 69 Kilmarnock Street. Properties LLC.

Good morning, Chairman and Commission members. My name is Joe Cappellino. I'm from BHB, a senior project manager working on this site project that requires these two actions. So pedestrian easement and specific repair we are seeking. I know we have a packed agenda. As many of you might be seeing this project for the first time, I just want to introduce Sam Bowen from our team. He's from Samuels and Associates. Just give a quick summary of the project. I will go to the next slide, Sam, when you're talking. But just for context, everybody, this site and this project is at the northwest corner of Queensberry Street and Kilmarnock Street, address 65 Kilmarnock Street. If we need to go back to this for any questions, we can. But I'll flip to the next slide. And Sam, go ahead.

Joe, as Joe mentioned, I'm Sam Bowen from Samuels & Associates. We're the owner and developer for this project. Quick refresh or recap on the project. It was approved by the DPDA at the beginning of 2025. We're approximately 89 units. About half of them are going to be for Boston Children's Hospital for patient family housing. The other half will be multifamily. We're looking forward to advancing construction on this project in the near future. And please present these PIC actions. I will turn it over to Joe.

All right, great. Just want to give you guys that context. Obviously, these are also just for context. Anybody who's not familiar with the project, but it is, as Sam mentioned, a residential project partnership to provide some patient family housing and also some just multifamily housing. If there are any questions we can get back but again I do want to just move on to the actions. There's a site plan for context. Again if there's any questions we can come back to this. I'll move to the pedestrian easement. So the existing sidewalk on Kilmarnock Street is about six feet wide from the property line to the existing curb. We'll talk about the proposed bus bulb out later that we coordinated with BTD and planning. But we are providing a three and a half foot wide pedestrian easement to make this total travel with for pedestrians, nine and a half feet. There are some existing street trees and some proposed street trees that we can look at on the specific repair plan, but this obviously makes this path of travel much more gracious and wider. So we were happy to provide this easement We did work with Todd to work on the geometry and actually provide this corner around this landscape planter that is on the site, but to ensure that this turn around this amenity here, this planter amenity, will remain open access for pedestrians. So pretty straightforward easement. If there are any questions, I'm happy to answer those.

Questions or comments by commission members? I think that the one comment that we had here is the desire to have slope stones on this driveway so that we have a more, right, like this is cutting into the pedestrian path of travel and if you add slope stones, we can get closer to something that feels accessible.

Sure. Yeah, and I think that's in reference to obviously some of the offsite geometry here where unfortunately we have a pinch point here that is existing that will remain, but we will note on the specific repair to provide slope stones so that this can, you know, kind of operate as wide as possible for this pinch point. So we're happy to accommodate that. Obviously, we'll be doing some new construction here to ensure that the cross slope of this path into the easement and the existing sidewalk is accessible, as it most likely is not today.

Great. Additional comments or questions? OK. Two weeks enough time?

I believe so, yeah.

See you on June 9.

Well, we will, I mean, we should move to specific repair, correct?

Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm not paying attention.

No, you're good. Um, I, I'm, I'm hoping, you know, we did have extensive coordination with many departments, um, specifically planning and some with BTD on this specific repair plan. So, um, obviously on the last sheet, Kilmarnock street was rotated to be, um, planned. west to east, but Kilmarnock Street is north on this plan as is closer to the true orientation of the site. So what you see is obviously Kilmarnock Street, you can see our easement here. You can see some proposed street trees, a street tree to remain. And you can see, I think the main feature of this specific repair plan is the movement of the existing curb line to provide this bus bull bout. So obviously there is some entree parking here that would be reduced for this bus bull bout. It is the MBTA Route 55 bus. This is very close to the terminal, and the bus does make a right turn onto Queensbury, which is one way, and the final stop. of the route is I think a little bit beyond Jersey Street. So it was requested very early on when we were doing our notice of project change with the BPDA to, you know, look into providing this bull bound. We obviously had no objections since this is on-street parking that we could take this seven feet from and the geometry did work out. So we did coordinate everything, the placement of the trees, the existing hydrant to remain. with the loading and alighting zones that are required for this bus pickup. And I think it's a great feature of the project. Obviously, we'll be rebuilding an accessible curb ramp, which I don't think there are any details that I'm concerned about there. We'll be restriping the crosswalk and stop bars needed. These things were just recently installed the idle project across the street at 60 Kilmarnock Street, but obviously we're willing to do some of this flat work to provide this bulb out. And then as we get to Queensbury Street, obviously the Queensbury Street sidewalk is in existing condition. It was wider. We didn't need to provide an easement. We were just maintaining this really what's a seven foot four inch width with the grass treeway, I'll call it, which we worked very hard with John Fishback and planning to maintain. Obviously, we had some issues with short-term bike parking, and really, you can obviously see that this site is a smaller site, and we needed 18 short-term bike parking spaces. We initially were proposing to pave concrete pads intermittently with these street trees to... Provide that, but we ended up coming to an agreement. And coordinating with. You know different Louisa gag to be specific to offsite some bike racks, which I know this is, you know, the plot thickens as we move around the corner here, but we do have a plan to show that we do have a planning document that we coordinated with some field work and some field measurements. Obviously we don't have survey at this address. This location was. recommended by Louisa Gag. So we went out, we did some field investigations, took some measurements. There was a separate document that was submitted, but you know, I'm not going to bring up as part of the new business hearing, but to show that, you know, these proposals for these short-term bike racks being at in vicinity of 125 Jersey Street is going to work and be installed. So we moved 14 spaces to that location and we kept four spaces, two bike racks, one on Kilmarnock Street and one, I'm sorry, one on Kilmarnock Street and one down on Queensborough Street near the Hydrant mailboxes that are there, Postal Service mailboxes. So again, if there are any questions, I'm happy to answer those, but that is, I guess my initial presentation of what we're proposing to do.

Great. Questions or comments by Commission members? KC Staff Republic?

That is the last action for this project, Amy, so I think we're all set.

I'm done crying this time. I'm assuming July 9th is still okay.

yep um that's that's perfect for us and again i think this is the plan well we'll we'll note the um slope stones here that does sound entry so thank you very much all right thank you guys in two weeks yep all right new business item number four 736 to 742 east broadway south boston specific repairs projection license on a set of petitions by monarch development llc

Sorry about that. Good morning, Madam Chair and members of the Commission. My name is Joe Connolly, project engineer with Howard Stein Hudson. I am presenting today on behalf of the proponent Monarch Development, and I am joined by Ryan Speaker of Ownership. The project is located at 736 to 742 East Broadway in Boston's South Boston neighborhood. The site is bounded by New Hill Place and private parcels to the north, as well as private parcels to the east and west and East Broadway to the south. The project involves the demolition of an existing building. It is a three-story mixed use with ground floor commercial space and two residential units on the upper levels. This will allow for construction of a four-story mixed use building providing approximately 12 residential units, ground floor commercial space, and a six-space surface parking lot accessed from New Hill Place at the rear of the building. So as part of the project, we are seeking approval for specific repair improvements and a canopy projection license. So this shows our limited specific repair improvements. The proposed work within the right of way includes sidewalk reconstruction to meet city of Boston standards. Two Japanese tree lilacs within four by eight tree pits chosen from the city's approved species list. associated structural soil and two visitor bike racks. The tree planting detail and notes were updated to match current city standards based on parks comments. So that about covers the specific repairs. I don't know if you want me to pause before I jump to the protection license.

Nope, go for it.

So this depicts our production license, which is proposed along East Broadway to allow for the installation of a canopy along the facade of the building. The canopy extends over the public way a distance of approximately 3 feet 4 inches to 3 feet 2 inches for a length of 50 feet 8 inches across the front of the building and extends 11 feet 4 inches above the sidewalk elevation. So I think that covers both now. So with that, I will open it up to any questions from the Commission.

All right. Thank you. Questions or comments from mission members? PSC staff or public?

I'll sit on this for the most part. I think they just need to secure final sign-off from the Disabilities Commission, but I know they've been working with them closely.

Yep. I'll coordinate with Sarah in the next couple weeks. Great.

Thank you. Two weeks going to be enough time?

Yep.

All right. See you, Joanna.

Great. Thank you.

New business item number five, 238 to 262 St. Patel Street, private alley number 816, public alley number 823, Gainesboro Street, Roxbury, abandonment, widening, relocation, pedestrian easement, specific repairs on a set of joint petitions by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

Good morning to the Madam Chair and PIC Commission members. My name is Jeffrey Pilon from Sammy Otis Consultants. We're the civil engineer on the project. Here joined by Ji Hai Angel from Northeastern, Tyra Hinckley from Perkins & Will the Architect, Shira Davis, Studio 2112 Landscape, Selby Turner from Feldman Survey, James Wong from Solace O'Brien for Electrical. The project is located at 262 St. Bolthoff Street, Roxbury. It is the original Matthews Arena at Northeastern University, founded by Gainsborough Street to the south, St. Bolthoff to the north, and Public Alley 823 to the east. Tyler will do a quick introduction to the project.

Yes, so this is a new basically a new arena for Northeastern hockey and basketball and other multiple purpose events. It includes fitness and recreation spaces. It also includes a basketball practice facility and turf facility for athletics. The project is about 310,000 square feet with entries in multiple corners. I guess that's the high level. I'll stick with that.

Excellent. The first petition we are requesting approval from the PC is to abandon existing 10 foot wide private alley 816 which is located along sample top between Gainesboro and it's terminus to accommodate the northeastern Matthews arena project. Shown here on the plan. There are no questions. I can move on to the next petition.

Yep.

The next petition we are seeking approval from PIC is to widen and relocate the existing right-of-way alley lines of Public Alley 823 to accommodate the proposed alley width and associated improvements. If there are no questions, I can move on to the next petition.

Yep.

This is the pedestrian easement petition. We're seeking approval from PIC to accept proposed pedestrian access easements along Gainsborough Street, St. Montauk and Public 8, Public Alley 823 to accommodate proposed sidewalks and associated improvements. There are no questions. We can move on to specific repairs.

Yep.

This petition we are seeking approval from PIC to construct public realm improvements including approximately 663 linear feet of new concrete sidewalk, 436 linear feet of curb reconfiguration, closure of two existing curb cuts, construction of one new drive curb cut within the alley, new street trees, new blue bike station, bike racks, new street light poles, reciprocal ramp replacements, associated roadway improvements along St. Botolph Street, Gainesboro Street, and Public Alley. As part of the process, we've been responding to all agency and utility comments received to date. They have been addressed and incorporated in the current submission. We've received some comments yesterday from Disabilities Commission and Accessibility Compliance Office. Those comments will be incorporated following today's new business meeting and be reflected in the plans submitted subsequent public hearing. Otherwise, all agency comments have been addressed. Any comments or questions?

Nope. All right. Any questions or comments, commission members? PSC Staffer Butler, do you have, there's one more action for this?

That is the last action, the specific repair.

Okay. I'm going to try it now. All right. PSC Staffer Butler.

Yeah, I will just mention that the MBTA is a co-petitioner on the abandonment petition because they are an abutter to a very small section of the private alley. But otherwise, they are not involved in this project.

Correct. South of the building.

Great. Two weeks going to be enough time?

That's perfect. Thank you.

All right. See you on July 9.

Thank you, Kylie.

And finally, new business number six, Washington Street, Summer Street, Tremont Street, Winchester Street, Boston Proper, specific repairs on a condition by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. You're muted, Dino.

There we go. Sorry about that. Good morning, Commissioners. My name is Dino DeFranco, Sr. I'm the Municipal Liaison for the MBTA Downtown Crossing Station Accessibility Improvements Project. Also with me today is the MBTA Project Manager, Stephen Fallon. This project involves replacing the existing elevator at the station entrance on Washington Street and building two new below-grade elevators, one on Summer Street and one on Tremont in Winter, to provide... better access between the orange and red lines uh the three new elevators will require vent enclosures one on washington street in front of macy's and a vent enclosure in the area of 131 tremont street uh that one will be between in between uh the mb piece of mbta property and the uh a couple of uh street signs tucked away out of out of the sidewalk area and does not uh in in pier the uh the accessible roof for pedestrians. I will hand it over to Steve Fallon so he can provide you with the technical information.

Good morning, everybody. I'm Steve Fallon, project manager as Dino introduced me. Just walk through the plans we have here for the two ventilation structures. One is, as you can see here, along Washington Street at the intersection of Winter and Summer Street. Macy's is to our plan south here. So this ventilation structure supports two of the three elevators. There is one at the corner of this building here, as well as one within the station underneath the sidewalk, kind of adjacent to Macy's. So both elevators are supported by this ventilation structure. kind of adjacent to Macy's along Washington Street here. And just elevations and a simple rendering illustrating the location and the appearance of the ventilation structure. Through the design process, there was feedback on simplifying the structure itself to enable various Boston departments to mount their informational signage or information in general To this structure, so the, it's just a framework structure that contains the ventilation and plumbing ventilation within it. So this is the 1st location again, adjacent to Macy's. Along the sidewalk in this grand paper area. The 2nd location is at the. Close to the intersection of trademark street and winter street. The Boston common is up on the page. North Northwest. So, it's adjacent to an existing and BTA Park street and entrance stair. and between the stair and an existing street level elevator entrance. So this is supporting our third elevator of the project that is at the kind of the intersection of Park Street and downtown crossing, again, between our elevator and stair entrance. And similarly, the elevations and renderings of the ventilation structure, again, same concept here, to enable the mounting of various Boston departments for informational signage or maps as needed. So that covers our designs for this. Are there any questions?

All right, questions or comments by Commission members? PIC staff or public?

Dino or Steven, would you mind just mentioning your coordination with the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture and what they might look to program on the exterior of these structures?

Todd, in my conversations with them, I explained to them that you and I had a conversation and that they could do whatever they thought was the best aesthetic look for the two events. And that we were going to leave it as standard and plain as possible, so all the decision making would be with the city agencies.

Great, so these may or may not end up being kind of canvases for public art in the future at the discretion of the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture.

And again, the MBTA is very grateful for your coordination and feels that it's on city property. So that should be our decision to do whatever you folks would like to do as far as the aesthetics with both of those events. if there's graffiti on any of these if somebody places graffiti will the mbta remove it and um maintain them uh i would say yes joe i'll double check on that but i'm positive because it is it is even though it's on the sidewalk it will be mbta property so it will be uh transit facilities maintenance responsibility thank you any other comments or questions

right will two weeks be enough time absolutely new july 9th thank you very much for your time everybody have a great day all right thank you all right that's the exciting conclusion i'll entertain a motion to adjourn i move to adjourn second all in favor aye aye aye all right thanks everybody see you in two weeks thank you

Thank you.