Public Improvement Commission - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

My name is Nick Gove, Chair of the Public Improvement Commission. I call to order the Public Improvement Commission hearing of August 6th, 2026. Mr. Reiming, please take the roll call. Certainly.

Would the representative from the Public Works Department please state their name for the record? Nick Gove. Property Management Department, please do the same. Joseph Callahan. Transportation Department.

Gordon.

Commission for Persons with Disabilities.

Sarah Leon.

Do we have someone from Water and Sewer here today? No, okay. And we do have someone, we do have nobody from ISD, but we do have a quorum, so we are all set. The floor is yours, sir.

Great. Thanks, Todd. First agenda item is hearing minutes at the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff acceptance of the minutes of the PIC hearing, which was held on July 9th, 2026. Do we have a motion?

I'll make a motion to accept the minutes of July 9th, 2026.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed or abstained? Hearing none, so moved. Okay, to the public hearing. Public hearing agenda item number one on a petition by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways in Boston proper. Washington Street, southwest of Summer Street and Winter Street. Summer Street, southeast of Washington Street. Tremont Street, southwest of Winter Street and Winter Street, southeast of Tremont Street. As shown on two sets of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan, Washington Street, Boston, two sheets dated January 21st, 2026, and City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan, Tremont Street, Winter Street, Boston, two sheets dated January 21st, 2026. We will hand it over to the proponent. You're on mute, Tino.

Can you hear me now? Good morning, Commissioners. My name is Daniel DeFranco Senior. I am the municipal liaison for the MBTA Downtown Crossing Station Accessibility Improvements Project, joined by Steven Fallon. He is the project manager for the MBTA. We received an approval at Lou Business on July 9th, I believe. And we're here for the public hearing. Before we go into anything else, I spoke with Chief Engineer Todd Liming about the ladder-like design of the two vent structures. The MBTA project team agrees with the concerns of the commission and panels will be added to all four sides of both vent structures on Washington and the one on Tremont. Details will be added to the PIC plans and submitted to Chief Engineer Liming as bylaws. Just wanted to make sure that everybody was comfortable with that. And my apologies for not including that in the new business hearing. But thank you for bringing that to our attention. I can introduce Steve Fallon, the project manager. He can go over the details for you one more time.

Good morning, everybody. Steve Fallon, project manager for the project. I'm sharing my screen here so we should start seeing plans here. So again, as a reminder of the project, this is to install three new elevators at Downtown Crossing and Park Street stations for the MVTBA to improve and provide much-needed accessibility through both stations. Part of the project involves installation of mechanical ventilation shafts to support these new elevators that we'll be installing. One of the vent shafts shown on this sheet here will be supporting two of the elevators, one kind of adjacent to and under this Macy's sidewalk here, and the other in the corner of this building here at the corner of Winter and Washington Street. Some sketches of the proposed bench shaft, and as Dino mentioned, we will be enclosing this with panels, so all sorts, or size, appear smooth, and working with city's various departments on collaborating and covering the bench shaft with public art or signage accordingly. Um, the 2nd, then shaft supports the 3rd elevator that is located in park street station across the street from Boston common. The elevator location is within the station in the center of winter street at the corner at the intersection of Traymont and winter. And the vent shaft is adjacent to an existing stairway into the station. and again has the same appearance as the other vent shaft and same kind of commons apply here. We'll be applying a metal panel to the outside so it is smooth surface on all four sides.

Commissioners, if I may add, we have coordinated with Boston Police, Boston Fire, the community, local community groups, and neighborhood services and any other department that needed to be coordinated with, we have done that.

Okay, any questions or comments from the Commission? How about PSC staff or members of the public?

I will take this opportunity to remind the public, if you wish to ask questions or add testimony, we ask that you use the raised hand function at the bottom of your screen, which can be found at the reactions tab. I do see one raised hand right now. Rebecca, please go ahead.

My name is Rebecca Lee. I'm a resident of Chinatown. I have a question about the signage referred to by Mr. Fallon, particularly on the 1 that is going to be at the park street station and potentially facing the park. When you say signage, are you talking about the kind of advertising signage that is on structures at South station and Dewey square? Or are you talking about directional signage? Because. I would think the parks department would have something to say if this were going to be advertising signage facing the park.

Rebecca, I could answer that question. What Steven meant to say was we're leaving that up to the city of Boston. Whatever the city wants to do as far as decorating it or signs or anything else, we've already agreed to leave that up to the city of Boston.

Is that in writing?

That is in writing, yes.

And that's an agreement between the MBTA and who? Which department of the city?

PIC. I worked that out with Chief Engineer Leiby.

Okay, so there's a written agreement about this that the Parks Department can rely upon.

Yes, I can jump in. We've had conversations with the project team about all of this, and the understanding is that we are going to leave these structures to the mayor's office of arts and culture to potentially program them for future public artwork, similar to the street lighting cabinet program that is run through the city. So we'll work with our city's legal counsel to add some language to the projects license maintenance and identification agreement as appropriate to. memorialize all of these agreements.

Great, thank you. Thank you, Rebecca.

Okay, thank you. Any, Todd, anything from you and the team? No, other than that, we're all set. Any other questions or comments from commissioners? All right. Hearing none, is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve a petition by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for the making of specific repairs in Washington Street, Summer Street, Tremont Street, and Winter Street, as read into the record by the Chair. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Any opposed or abstained? Hearing none, so moved. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioners.

All right, public hearing agenda item number two on a joint petition by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated in the Economic Development Industrial Corporation of Boston for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to Harbor Street in private way open to public travel in South Boston located on the southeasterly side at address number one, generally between Channel Street and Northern Avenue. As shown on a plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Pedestrian Usement Plan, 1 Carver Street, South Boston. One sheet dated April 15, 2026. We will hand it over to the panel.

Hi, good morning. I'm John Heschen with VHB representing Vertex Pharmaceuticals. I believe also on the call today we have Mike Ragusa from Vertex, Samantha McDonald from Bowditch, and Ilya Parano from my office here at VHB. Thank you for having us this morning. I'll share my screen. Give you a brief overview of what the project is. So as mentioned in the public announcement. This is a pedestrian easement petition for an improved sidewalk along the frontage of One Harbor Street from Channel Street to Northern Ave adjacent to the One Harbor Street property. Along that frontage, The. There we have competition is vertex. Who is the leaseholder of the property at 1 harbor? The property owner landlord is and actually currently also owns harvest street in this location. Which, and we've been in conversations with this for the last few years, and the understanding is that at some point, maybe within the next year or so. However, street will be transitioned to the city. From the ownership the. I'll just give a brief. There's an existing bituminous asphalt sidewalk along this portion of the 1 Harbor Street frontage. In the typical sidewalk section here, you can see the Harbor Street on the right-hand side of the section. there'll be a new planting zone with street trees a minimum five foot pedestrian zone new concrete sidewalk and this is an approximate the the property line varies a little bit but a portion of the uh concrete pedestrian zone sidewalk will be on the one harbor street property thereby necessity necessitating the need for the pedestrian easement and as identified the pedestrian easement is shown on the plan that's been included with the petition materials. It's my understanding that the easement document is close to being complete with Sean. There's just possibly some language that needs to be worked out due to the fact that EDIC currently owns Harbor Street, so this pedestrian easement will be on Harbor Street that's privately owned by EDIC until it transitions to the City of Boston. With that, that's a pretty simple overview of what's being proposed or why the pedestrian easement is needed in this instance.

Thank you any questions or comments from members of the commission.

Yeah, so this is the section of Harvard street that goes up against my 12 channel street, which has loading dots on 1 side, but it looks on this. Plan like it's curved with lights. So I'm OK, I see you'll go as far as, it's just off of your page. You stop before our .

So I'm sorry, can you, Amy, can you?

Yeah, no, the thing you have up explains it, right? Like where you see those cars pulled head in is a loading dock for, but you stop short of that.

Oh, here, the 12 where EDIC's offices are. Correct, yeah. Our work basically ends, there's a, kind of at the corner of the building, but we're not, this existing sidewalk is going to remain across from the 12 Channel Street building.

Thanks.

Any other questions or comments from members of the commission? All members of the public or PIC staff?

I'll just mention that the next action, the specific repairs, those plans might show the sidewalk and pedestrian ramp conditions a little bit better. So maybe we can touch on that again in the next action. Other than that, I have no comments on the easement.

Thanks, Todd. Not seeing any comment. All right. Any other questions or comments from the Commission? Hearing none, how about a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve a joint petition by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. and the Economic Development Industrial Corp. of Boston for the acceptance of pedestrian easement in Harbor Street as recommended by the Chair. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed or abstained? Hearing none, so moved. Okay, agenda item number three. On a petition by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated for the making of specific repairs within Harbor Street, a private way open to public travel in South Boston, generally at address number 1 between Channel Street and 1 MAF, as shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan 1 Harbor Street, South Boston, two sheets dated May 22, 2026. Back to the proponent.

Thank you. John Heshton again with VHB representing Vertex Pharmaceuticals. And again, this is the specific repair for the improvements along the One Harbor Street frontage between Channel Street and Northern Ave. As Todd had mentioned, these specific repair plans will show a little bit more detail, but the perspective image on the right-hand side here is a rendering of what the final condition is. Will be, it includes replacement of that existing 2 minutes sidewalk with a planting zone street trees. 5 foot pedestrian zone, and then on the 1 harvest street property outside of the right of way. There is also there will also be a. A decorative fence screening some of the utility and loading dark areas on that one. However, street frontage for vertex. The specific repair sorry that's the. pedestrian easement, specific repair plans. Basically, the project starts at the corner of the building just a little bit south of the Channel Street intersection. As that planting zone shifts the pedestrian zone, the sidewalk, a little bit onto the One Harbor Street parcel, three street trees, there's two new street lights in this zone proposed that will match the street lights that were installed across the street at Two Harbor about a year and a half, two years ago. Moving towards Northern Ave, a new concrete curb cut that services the loading dock area at this end of the building. This middle zone, again with the planting zones, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, street trees, the pedestrian zone, concrete sidewalk, a second curb cut. concrete curb cut and then planting zone and pedestrian zone the rest of the way to the intersection at northern ave there is an accessible ramp at this location which ties into a ramp Uh, at the corner of the 12 channel street building, which ultimately ties into the sidewalk constructed as part of 2 harbor street a couple of years ago. This this portion here, the phase 1 of 2 harbor is fully constructed installed this portion here between. you know the completed two harbor phase one in channel street as a temporary bituminous sidewalk but full pedestrian connectivity i do want to mention we've been had this for quite a while this plan that you see in front of you has gone through significant coordination and revision based on conversations with disabilities, with planning, with EDIC. And we're proud to say that we do have correspondence back from everyone, no further comment. I believe we've We've reached an acceptable point with all stakeholders and we're happy that we're here before you all this morning.

Great, thank you. Back to the Commission for questions and comments.

Just as mentioned by the project team, I'd like to thank the team for working with my office, with the Office of Accessibility Compliance within the streets cabinet as well, on some of the configurations of where the sidewalks landed and where some of the .

Any other questions or comments from the Commission? How about PSU staff and members of the public?

I'll just echo what John and Sarah alluded to. There was a lot of push and pull, a lot of kind of conflicting interests with the design of this sidewalk, and I really appreciate the project team sticking with us and coming to this, I think, really good compromise design. Other than that, no comments or issues from my side.

Thanks, Todd. I'm not seeing any public comment. Okay. Unless there's any other questions or comments from commissioners, is there a motion?

I'll make a motion to accept a petition by Vertex Pharmaceutical Inc. for the making of specific repairs within Harbor Street. Is that in favor by the chair?

Second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed or abstained? Hearing none, so moved. Thank you very much. Thank you all. Have a great day. Okay, public hearing agenda item number four on a joint petition by MEM Building CLLC and the Boston Housing Authority for the discontinuance of any and all rights to travel the public may have within a segment of General Lawrence J. Logan Way, a public way in South Boston located generally northwest of Old Colony Ave. As shown on the set of plans to tile the City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division discontinuance plan, General Lawrence Jane Logan Public Way, a public way in South Boston, two sheets dated June 18th, 2026. We'll hand it over to the proponent.

Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Sarah McCarthy from BHB. I also have Chance Brady here with us this morning on behalf of wind development. I will go ahead and share my screen. We do have quite a few actions coming up, so I just wanted to get over to Vance briefly so he can run through kind of the overall project before we get into the specific action.

Yeah, thank you everyone. So Chance Brady with Wind Development. I believe a lot of you have met with me or Drew Colbert before, but MEM redevelopment is the redevelopment of the Mary Ellen Reforming Community in South Boston. It's currently 1,016 units of affordable housing administered by the DHA. Actively, we are constructing the first building in the overall redevelopment, which is MEM Building A, where Sarah's circling the top right, which has 94 units, along with significant improvements to Logan Way, O'Connor Way, and some minor improvements on Divine Way. That project is scheduled to be complete right around Halloween of this year, and then we'll be moving Plan South to mem building c which you can see outlined in red here that will be the construction of two two buildings one project for a total of 192 units 176 of those units will be deeply affordable replacement units for the mem existing residents and 170 Two of those 176 units will be senior housing units, of which there is none in the existing community today. Along with the creation of these two buildings will be significant improvements, again, primarily on Logan Way, a private way being known as the MUSE between the two buildings, and then the Southern Way, which will, I guess, name TBD. is currently, you know, roughly where McDonough Way is. And then similar to MEMA, small improvements along the driveway. The intent would be We're getting into some early work on MEM Building C for the abatement and demolition of the existing housing in November with an anticipated full close in March of 27, where we would start to begin the roadways work in particular sometime in the spring. And that project will continue for another, in totality, 22 to 24 months with the roadways work being broken up by the respective moratoriums. I'll turn it back to Sarah.

Thanks so much Chance. So for this specific action, we have the discontinuance of a portion of Logan Way here. And this discontinuance is to facilitate the realignment of Logan, which will then turn into a 90 degree intersection with Old Colony Avenue and be separated from just off the page to the left here. So this discontinuance covers about 9,400 square feet, the second page of which shows the existing utilities within this area. For this phase, a majority of the utilities shown within this discontinuance are to remain, with the exception of any building services that connect to the existing building 30 here to the east, which is one of the five buildings that are proposed to be demolished as part of that phase. Again, as we progress into the upcoming action specifically for the widening, relocation, and extension, I can go into further detail about the realignment of Logan Way.

Thanks Sarah. Any questions or comments from members of the Commission? How about PIC staff or members of the public?

Sarah, forgive me if you mentioned this and I just missed it, but would you just touch very briefly on what's happening with the existing utilities within this discontinuance area?

Within this discontinuance area, the majority of them are remaining. There is a fairly large drain line that comes down here. There's some site lining that will remain until future phase, which will demolish the remainder of this area for the future work. any building services that cost through this discontinuance for building 30 are the only utilities that are going to be removed and demolished.

Thanks. I'm all set on that on the discontinuance.

Thanks, Todd. Not seeing any comments. Unless there's any other questions or comments from commissioners, do we have a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve a joint petition by MEM Building C, LLC, and the Boston Housing Authority for the discontinuance of General Lawrence J. Logan Way, as written to the record by the Chair. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed or abstentions? Hearing none, so moved. All right, next agenda item, number five, on a joint petition by ME and Building CLLC and the Boston Housing Authority for an abandonment of any and all rights to travel the public way, the public may have had within the entirety of Colonel Michael J. McDonough Way, a private way in South Boston located between General Logan Way and Old Colony Ave, as shown on a set of plans to tout City of Boston Public Works to Private Engineering Division.

abandonment plan parallel michael j mcdonough way private way in south boston two sheets dated june 18th 2026 back to the proponent against sarah mccarthy from vhb here on behalf of the applicant the next action here for the abandonment is a private way uh noted as michael j mcdonough where i uh right now it is an existing parking area for residents of again building 30 31 and 33 all of which are proposed to be demolished as part of the phase Again, we have a second repeat here outlining the existing utilities within this abandonment area. Specifically for this abandonment, all of the utilities here are strictly building services, so everything shown within this area is proposed to be demolished and removed. I should note, similar to the discontinuance plan as well, any of the utilities proposed to be removed and demolished have been approved as part of a cut cap plan with Boston Water and Sea River Commission.

So, questions or comments from the Commission? All PIC staff and members of the public. I'll stand on this one. Okay, we have a motion.

I'll make a motion to approve a joint petition by MEM Building CLLC and the Boston Housing Authority for the abandonment of Colonel Michael J. McDonough-Way is recognized by the chair.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Great. Any opposed or abstained? Hearing none, so moved. Thank you. Public hearing agenda item number 6 on a joint petition by NEM Building CLLC and the Boston Housing Authority for widening, relocation, and extension of the existing right-of-way lines of General Lawrence J. Logan Way, a public way in South Boston, as well as for the acceptance of a highway easement. Located generally between Montserrat, O'Callaghan Way, and Old Colony Ave. As shown on the set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works to Private Engineering Division Widing Relocation and Extension Plan, General Lawrence J. Logan Way, Public Way, and South Boston. Two sheets dated June 18, 2026. Back to the proponent.

Sarah McCarthy from BHP here on behalf of the applicant. As I mentioned, as part of the discontinuance action, this will facilitate a slight relocation of Logan Way here, just outlining in the locus map. We have the existing alignment here that connects into this half roundabout with Gavin Way. This area will be discontinued and Logan Way will be realigned to provide a 90 degree intersection with Old Colony Avenue, which is under a PPR restriction. As part of this widening, relocation, and extension here on the plans, you'll go over to the west here. We have the widening aligned with the approved widening of Logan Way as part of Building A phase here. With this portion of Logan Way, we are expanding the existing right-of-way about five feet north and 15 feet to the south. So the existing right-of-way of 40 feet is now 60 feet. I will also mention to the north of Logan here is where the proposed buildings C1 and C2 are located, how Chance described those, to the south of Logan Way are existing buildings as part of the MEM development that are to remain as part of this phase. There will be a future building or two, you know, located to the south of Logan here. So there will be a future widening of Logan that we will come back to PIC for, again, as part of those future phases. Looking towards the eastern portion of Logan Way, again, this is where the relocation is happening to connect with Old Colony Avenue. This is the full right-of-way proposed here. There's a 77 and a half foot right-of-way with the roadway sections provided on the plan with the traveling street parking. For any of the sidewalks that are proposed to be permanent, we have the furnishing zone and pedestrian zone. And then anything on the south that's a temporary condition ranges from about a five to eight foot sidewalk, long Logan, which I can outline further in the upcoming Pacific Repairs Action as well.

Sir, any questions or comments from commissioners? No, we're all set on the widening and relocation. Okay, do we have a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve a joint petition by NEM Building CLLC and the Boston Housing Authority for the widening, relocation, and extension of General Lawrence J. Logan Way as read into the record by the Chair. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Any opposed or abstained? Hearing none, so moved. All right, public hearing agenda item number seven, a joint petition by Indian Building CLLC and the Boston Housing Authority for the line in grade approval in the acceptance of a highway easement for a new public way in South Boston to be known as Strand Way, located between General Logan Way and General Devine Way. As shown, a line plan entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Line and Grade Plan Strand Way Public Way in South Boston, one sheet dated June 18th, 2026.

back to the proponent thank you very much sarah mccarthy from bhb here on behalf of the applicant and i'll start with the locus map denoting where the proposed street is located again connecting logan way and divine way here as chance noted it's kind of realigning and reusing the connection that mcdonough was providing between logan and old colony We have a proposed 60-foot right-of-way here, again, with two traveling street parking and then sidewalk ramping zone on either side. Again, if I can outline further as part of the specific repair plans as well.

Any questions or comments or questions? Well, PIC staff members in the public all set. I'm going to motion.

I'll make a motion to approve a joint petition by any and building CLC and the Boston housing authority for the line and great approval of strand way is ready to learn.

Thank you. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Any opposed or abstain. Hearing none. So moved. public hearing agenda item number eight on a joint petition by me and building cllc boston housing authority the acceptance of pedestrian easements adjacent to the following public ways in south boston general lawrence jay london way generally between one zero callahan way and all we have in general william h divine way on sutherland side generally uh wendell street and strand way as shown on two sets of plans entitled city of boston public works department engineering division pedestrian easement plan general lawrence j logan way a public way in south boston in two sheets dated june 18 2026 in the city of boston public works department engineering division pedestrian easement plan general william beach divine way a public way in south boston one sheet dated June 18th, 2026. Back to the proponent.

Sarah McCarthy from BHP. I'll start with the proposed pedestrian easement here on Logan Way. Again, similar to the widening, this pedestrian easement aligns with the approved pedestrian easement as part of Building A here. and that's just to ensure that the full eight-foot pedestrian zone here along the length of Logan is covered by the pedestrian easement. So this is about two and a half feet wide back from the proposed right-of-way line here on the north side of Logan. And so that continues until the right-of-way line with the proposed straightway as noted in the previous line and grade plan. And this continues down Logan after to the east of Strainway and connects into the public sidewalk located on Old Colony Ave. Again, two and a half feet just to encompass the full width of the pedestrian zone here along the cross section of Logan. For Divine Way, as noted, this pedestrian easement approximately covers the intersection with 9 and 1 Eller to just past Strand Way here. So on the western portion here, this is the private driveway that's being referred to as the MUSE, which accesses the parking for residents of C1 and C2. We have a driveway apron here, which I'll show in the specific repairs plan. So the pedestrian walk is set back a bit from the right of way line along Devine. So we have the pedestrian easement encompassing that area. And then about a two foot wide easement from the right of way along Devine for the entrances along C2. And then just East of Strand Way, again making sure that the coverage for the accessible ramps here and the connection back to the existing walkway on Divine Way are covered with this easement.

Questions or comments from the Commission?

I'm noticing in this general area there is some veteran memorial signposts. Does this project, will there be any impact on any of these veteran memorial signposts? They're basically street signs, often on the corner of an intersection. Is there any impact on them?

I don't believe so. The Veterans Memorial is looking at the locust map located to the north of this project here. There is an existing block of Divine, which again, I can show more specifically in the specific repairs, that will remain untouched as part of this phase.

It's untouched. Okay, if there was an impact, I'd ask if you had any communication with the City of Boston Veterans Services Department. But if it's untouched, that's fine, thank you.

Any other questions or comments from commissioners? Todd, how about you or other members of the public? All set on the easements. Thank you, sir. All right, do we have a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve a direct petition by MEM Building CLLC and the Boston Housing Authority for the acceptance of pedestrian easements in General Lange, J. Logan Way, and General William H. Devine Way as written to the record by the Chair.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed or abstained? Hearing none, so moved. All right. Public hearing agenda item number 9 on a set of joint petitions by MEM Building LLC, the Boston Housing Authority, for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways in South Boston. General Lawrence J. Logan Way, generally between Monserrat O'Callaghan Way and Old Colony Ave. Strand Way between General Logan Way and General Devine Way. And General William H. Devine Way, generally between One Dollar Street and Strand Way. As shown on the set of plans inside the City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan, General Lawrence J. Logan Way, Strand Way, General William H. Devine Way, a public way in South Boston, 10 sheets, dated June 18, 2026. Back to the pop-up.

Thank you very much. Sarah McCarthy from BHB on behalf of the applicant. So again, a lot of the detail here shown in the specific repairs plans related to the previous actions here. Looking at Logan Way specifically, I have the cross section on the left here. So just going through pedestrian access on the north side of Logan, again matching up with the approved Building A improvements as well. We have the buffer zone, a green space and furnishing zone, and then an eight foot pedestrian zone behind that. The pedestrian zone will have connections to stairs and accessible ramps for the entrances of building C1 along Logan, as well as an accessible entrance to the main entrance of the residence area here at the corner of Strand Way and Logan Way. We do have two proposed raised intersections shown within the limits of Logan Way. This intersection here at the kind of up west corner of Building C1, this aligns with a future roadway. Again, that will be part of the future phase that will be in front of PIC 4. And then a raised intersection located at Logan and Strand Way as well, noting accessible crossings with each connection of these raised intersections as well. For this portion of Logan Way, we do have sharrows proposed within the drive aisles. Again, as part of the future phase on the south of Logan, there will be a separated bike lane, which is being constructed as part of the Building A phase as well. But for this temporary condition, we will have sharrows shown within the limit here. Again, a similar condition going down Logan. We have the sidewalk, an eight foot pedestrian zone to an eight and a half foot pedestrian zone connecting to Old Colony. On the south of Logan here, we do show, similar to the other areas of Logan, a temporary sidewalk on the south side. This portion of the site in future phases will be a park design. So any improvements that are proposed as part of that design will be, again, another future action with PIC. Moving now to Strand Way, again, a similar cross section with a few drive lanes on street parallel parking. We do have a finishing and green tape zone with bike racks proposed within the limits here as well. The pedestrian zone behind that, again, with access to some of the entrances along C1 and access to walkways adjacent to C2. There is the Rays intersection located just on the plan left here. We do have a mid block crossing with accessible curb ramp as long as a crossing at Divine Way here. Since there is a stretch that doesn't have a race crossing, we also are proposing a speed hump here in between the Midmont crossing and the intersection with Logan Way. And then again, a seven foot sidewalk on this planned south side here, which is intended to be a temporary condition. Again, due to the planned south will be a future building phase, building B1 and B2 that will be in front of PID for any improvements as well. Moving to Divine Way with specific repairs here. As part of this block improvement, we do have a slight adjustment to the curb here, moving the curb here about one foot closer to the development and providing curb bump outs in order to have on-street parallel parking provided in this block section. And then a two-way drive aisles to the north of that as well. Again, these are the crossings that are outlined with the pedestrian easement here, the crossing here along Devine across the private way that has a driveway apron. We do have two realigned crossings on Devine at Wendeller Street with a reconstructed accessible curb ramps on the north side that are currently not ADA compliant. We are proposing to rebuild those as part of this phase. Moving east along Devine, again, we have a speed hump proposed halfway between these crossings. A crossing with accessible curb ramps at Strand Way with this location here being the area noted on the pedestrian easement to connect back to the existing walkway on Devine. Again, we also have crossings to the north here at the intersection and new accessible curb ramps as well for the north side of Devine. We have had extensive reviews with the planning department, transportation, the accessibility team. I just wanted to thank them for their input and help with somebody's design coordination item. I will also note as part of the Define Way Plan and the Logan Way Plan, we do note the locations of specialty bike racks here. One is proposed on Devine next to the Building A phase, and one is proposed on Logan closer, again, to the Veterans Park area that's being constructed right now. These two locations of the bike racks, again, are more related to them than Building A phase, but have been coordinated with Boston Transportation Department to make sure that they get incorporated into the LMI as part of this proposed phase. So I know there's a lot of detail on these plans covering multiple streets, so if there are any questions, I can answer them here.

Thank you, Sarah. Questions or comments from commissioners? Hearing none, Todd, about you or the staff or anyone from the public?

or Sarah or Chance, would you just touch on the maintenance agreement for this action and where you stand on that?

Yes, so that will be very similar to Building A. I know we'll probably be using the same language in terms of the division of maintenance in terms of wind development in the PHA and the city. So I have a chance if you want to add anything to that. But again, there was a lot of coordination for the Building A phase as well, just in terms of any wind gardens that are the proponent's responsibility for maintenance, et cetera.

Yeah, Sarah, nothing really to add. It's going to be the exact same. It'll honestly be the exact same language they used on MEMA.

Perfect, thank you.

That's all for me. Thanks, Todd. Not seeing any public comment. Any other questions or comments from Commissioners? Hearing none, how about a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve a set of petitions by MEM Building CLLC and the Boston Housing Authority for the making of specific repairs in General Lawrence J. Logan Way, Strand Way, and General William H. Devine Way as read into the record by the Chair. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Any opposed or abstained? Hearing none, so moved. Thank you, everyone.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Okay, two public hearing agenda items left. Number 10, at the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff and with consent of the owners, rescind the 2020 approval of specific repairs within the following public ways in East Boston. Chelsea street on southeast side address. Number 9, northeast of Maverick street Maverick street on its northeastern side. It addresses number 144 to 148. Southeast Chelsea street. Bremen street on its northwesterly side generally northeast Maverick street. As shown also plants entitled city of Boston, public works department, engineering division, specific repair plan. 9 Chelsea street, 144, 146 and 148 Maverick street. In private street in Boston, 3 sheets dated February. 2020 don't think we have a proponent present for this or do we.

I'm not seeing anyone, but I can give just a very brief overview. This and the next item are associated with the project, which was approved by the Public Improvement Commission back in 2020. Since that time, the project itself has undergone a transition in ownership. The new owners are intending on completely redesigning the project, both the building itself and also all of the streetscape improvements surrounding the building. Because of that, the previous approvals are moot and no longer needed. Both the old owners and new owners have consented to the rescission of these previous approvals, and the new owners intend to come back to the PXC at some point in the future with their new designs. So that's it.

quick and dirty uh for these two actions next time for that explanation any questions or comments from the commission back to you anything from you or the staff no also not seeing any public comments so do we have a motion

I'll make a motion to rescind the 2020 approval of the specific repairs of Chelsea Street, Maverick Street, and Bremen Street as written by the Chair. Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed or abstained? Hearing none, so moved. Okay, thank you. Last public hearing agenda item number 11. At the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff and with the consent of the owners to rescind the 2020 approval of a projection license within the following public ways. Boston, Chelsea Street on its southeasterly side at address number 9. Northeast of Maverick Street, Maverick Street on its northeasterly side at addresses number 144 to 148. Southeast of Chelsea street, as shown on a plan titled city, Boston, public works, department, engineering division. Projection license plan night, Chelsea street, 144, 146 and 148 Maverick street, Boston. 1, she dated February 2020. Similarly, I don't think we have anyone here. Todd, do you want to just give the quick overview on this?

Yeah, same situation, same project. The first action was just the streetscape-specific repairs. This is just a canopy which was extending out over the sidewalk. Same coordination. The new owners and old owners all consent to the rescission of this action, and the project will return to the PAC at some point in the future with their new design.

Great. Any questions or comments from the Commission? Todd, back to you, assuming you're good. I don't see any public comment. All set. How about a motion?

I'll make a motion to rescind the 2020 approval of a projection license in Chelsea Street and Maverick Street as written in the record by the Chair. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Any opposed or abstain? Hearing none, so moved. OK, that wraps up the public hearing. We're going to move on to new business. First new business item is Dearborn Street, Roxbury, a street name change on a petition by . We'll hand it over to the proponent.

We may not have anybody online for this one either. So this is an initiative which is being somewhat overseen by the city's operations team, specifically Keith Williams and Dion Irish. They have coordinated with the five abutters to the existing Dearborn Street, and the intention is to rename the entirety of Dearborn Street to be New Edition Way to recognize the very popular R&B music group. no issues from my staff or I. Again, all five of the abutters have countersigned the petition and consent to this renaming. If and when this renaming is approved, we will notify all the appropriate agencies, ISD, police, USPS, all those folks.

We'll need to just confirm with the city team on this. 20th of August works, but are there any questions or comments from the commission?

Todd, anything else on your end? No, I would anticipate August 20th being perfectly fine. If for some reason we need to extend it beyond that, we can do so. But August 20th should be fine for now.

All right, new business item number two, WDAV, Rochester High Park Specific Repairs on a joint petition by the City of Boston Transportation Department and the City of Boston Public Works Department. Hand it over to the team.

commission uh my name is frederick and i'm supporting the public department and boston transportation department i thought i had a little bit of support from city staff but if not i can roll with this just want to give them a chance we're here okay I will take it off and present this on the commission. This is on a joint petition from the Public Works Department and the Boston Transportation Department to provide new geometric safety improvements in Mill and Overlay, Wood Avenue, approximately from Seminole Street to... Final limit. Frazier Street. Between these two intersections were also providing new pedestrian ramps, reconstructing them, reconstructing sidewalks within the limits of the intersection. And I will present sheet by sheet additional improvements that we'll be making along the way. So at Seminole Street and Wood Ave, we're extending the edge line, stop controlled intersection, providing shorter crosswalks, improved safety, also reduce the potential for high speed to turn on and off Wood Ave and Seminole Street. We are providing a race crosswalk across Wood Avenue just south of Seminole Street and north of Rummelk Road. Reconstructing the sidewalk between Seminole Street and Maricosa Street. And reconstructing the sidewalk within the vicinity of Roanoke Road. There is some hardscape area proposed in front of Roanoke Road. This hardscape area is intended to be a previous surface that includes a geotextile membrane to prevent... but then it's covered with a washed brush block and that's just intended to replace an impervious miscellaneous fat ball surface. I'm happy to work with the Public Improvement Commission on how to take this look. This improvement, again, is intended to create less impervious space within the city library. In addition to the pedestrian sidewalk, pedestrian ramps improvement, this project will add new catch basins, and street lighting elements within the layout. Move on to the next intersection, which is Wood Ave and Ruskindale Road. This is widening and realignment of edge lines, reconstruction of crosswalks. construction of a driveway to formalize some parking that exists within off-street parking that exists within the public right-of-way but now it'd be more formally accessed through a driveway instead of a wide open paved area this provides the city the opportunity to widen sidewalks be paved from this area and allow for that area to become a surface. It wouldn't be moment C to reduce the amount of maintenance that is required, but it would be by mulch and more native shrubs that require less maintenance within the public driveway. Between Luskendale Road and Broad Avenue proposing a race crosswalk on Wood Avenue. And then P Hock Road Avenue to Wood Ave widening the sidewalk, reconstructing the pedestrian ramp. And then within that space we're also planting three new street trees as requested by the Parks Department. We'll be using a variety of species along the corridor. As mentioned at the previous intersection, additional improvements include drainage with catch basins and street lighting improvements for control cabinets, toolboxes, and foundations. Sorry, street lighting, as I'm describing. Street lighting around these intersections and improved visibility for people in the town. The next intersection is at Wood Avenue and Cotton. We're proposing pedestrian ramp reconstruction, sidewalk reconstruction, edge line realignment, just to formalize the intersection with more of a 15, and again, street lighting improvement. Following cluster of intersections that is at Wood Avenue, Oakwood Street, we're extending the edge lines to create the space for the race crosswalk between Oakwood Street and Tacoma Street. And slightly different geometry for Oakwood Street back to Uden. but we're able to reconstruct the sidewalks and the pedestrian ramps at Oakwood Street, across from Oakwood Street for the widening sidewalk, creating efficient space for potential installation of a blue bike station, depaving the corner between Wood Avenue and Tacoma Street, reconnecting residential driveway to Tacoma Street, planting two street trees, and providing street drainage improvements with a new catch basin on Tacoma Street. We're extending the edge lines on Tacoma Street and adding a blanket space that is pervious on the southwest corner of Wood Avenue and Tacoma Street. At the intersection of Tina Avenue and Wood Avenue, proposing to narrow the cross-section. This is a residential private street extending the sidewalk and providing pedestrian ramps to improve accessibility along Wood Avenue. At the back of those improvements, proposing a previous hard-skinned area, similar to what I described at Roskendale, where there's the pyrotexile membrane covered with crotch crock to allow for permeability, but it was not clamped in space. There's a A new catch basin installed this intersection as well to maintain proper drainage along Floyd Avenue. The intersection of Wood Avenue, Stafford Street, and Parker Street, supposing a wave intersection. Supposing extending the edge lines on Wood Avenue and the side street. Reconstructing and widening the sidewalk. depaving the corners and again using a pervious surface from your mulch and troughs and planting of one street tree in the south northwest corner of Zephyr and Wood Avenue. Additional improvements include street drainage, street lighting. We're proposing relocating one fire hydrant at the southeast corner of Wood Avenue and Parker Street in order to bend the accessible walk space to five feet along the easternly sidewalk of Wood Avenue, which avoids also removing a large mature tree which has a 36 inch diameter. We recognize there was a pinch there and we're undertaking that relocation of a fire hydrant to allow the reconstruction around at least a five foot wide sidewalk. The next intersection at Garrity Terrace and Wood Avenue, primarily pedestrian ramp reconstruction, edge line extension to allow for better pedestrian ramp construction on Garrity Terrace in the north. east corner of the intersection and reconstruction of presidential library on either side of Gary Terry. at Wood Avenue and Westminster Street. Supposedly extending the edge lines on Westminster Avenue to shorten the crosswalk and provide a waste crosswalk in the area that the local residents repeatedly noted incidents with cars speeding through the intersection, therefore closing two ways, one on Westminster Street and one across Wood Avenue, just south of Westminster Street, that would deter such an event in the future. Additional improvements include free drainage, free lighting, and reconstruction of the access to the Hummeroth Way, which is a private way. Yeah. The intersection and the corridor is Wood Avenue and Joyce Road. It's primarily building sidewalks and the pedestrian ramps including some new street lighting features and reconstructing sidewalks between Joyce Road and Ellard Road and installing a race crosswalk just north of Ellard Road on Wood Avenue. Reconstructing residential driveways, including new drainage features to help with drainage around the race crosswalk. And then expanding the edge lines on Ellard Road, rebuilding sidewalks on Ellard Road and the pedestrian ramp on that side street. We're getting close to the end. The next intersection is Dunbury Road and Wood Avenue. Here we're proposing a race walk across Wood Avenue to south of Dunbury Road and reconstructing one pedestrian ramp, adding new green drainage patch basin, relighting and cement at Wood Avenue and Edwardson Road. We're rebuilding the pedestrian road, Williams, and the sidewalk. And finally, the last intersection, the corridor with Wood Avenue and Fraser Street, which is a slight realignment of the edge lines on Fraser Street to T and the intersection, rebuilding the pedestrian ramps, the sidewalks, depending on residential driveways south of Fraser Street along Wood Avenue. I'll be happy to answer any questions from the commission.

Okay.

Any questions? Well, anything else from the city team before we move to commissioner comments? Okay. Any questions or comments from the commission? Todd, how about you?

Either Radu or Danielle or somebody, can you just talk a little bit about the green infrastructure and who's going to be maintaining all of that?

So currently, as part of this project, we reduced a lot of the green infrastructure in the project. So a lot of we see a lot of areas of hardscape and most of the areas are low maintenance plantings. Typically not something that requires a large amount of maintenance. We are currently working with the OGI team to add this as part of their operations budget to come in and take care of plantings that do exist. and we are still waiting to confirm and resolve that.

Thank you. And you intend on having that finalized for your public hearing in two weeks?

So I'll add, right, like we are currently on an OGI maintenance contract that will need to be reimagined with a variety of new projects, this being one of them, Cummins Highway being another. So yeah, I think that we are trying to package up what our new contract will be. I don't know that we will have that in any swift amount of time frame, but this is within that group of streets projects that are in the new management.

Perfect. Thank you. And also, Daniel, I believe you're continuing to coordinate with a few of the abutters regarding the changes in alignment to some of their driveways. And Redu, I know you mentioned the one spot at Farrar. I expect you to be all set with that as well, correct?

Yes, we should be meeting. I have two meetings scheduled next week with Farrar Ave and Roanoke Road. I am in contact with Tacoma as far as meeting with them and going over their concerns as far as geometry for their driveways. Perfect. Thank you.

Yeah, and if I can add just to all context, these are geometric changes that have already been implemented in a similar fashion with the pavement marking through the 311 response project. So there's a little bit of history in the corridor and people seeing changes to the large intersection. So that goes along a long way.

Yeah.

All right, so we'll see this on August 20th? We'll do it. Great. Thank you. All right, new business item number three, Park Street, Norwell Street, Dorchester, widening and relocation specific repairs on a set of joint petitions by the City of Boston Parks Department and Migration Department and the City of Boston Public Works Department. Give it back to the proponent.

Bee, do you want me to introduce everyone?

Sure, thanks, Jen.

Hi, I'm Jennifer Ng. I'm landscape architect with Klopfer Martin Design Group. I am joined with Kaki Martin, principal at Klopfer Martin Design Group, and Bee Chatfield, project manager at Boston Parks and Recreation. We are going to present Norwell Street Park today.

And sorry, just a quick question. We have two items on the agenda. One is the widening and relocation plan and the other is this park. So is there a preferred order or is this all never having handled these two things together before? Appreciate some direction.

At the new business hearing, can you just kind of talk about the entirety of the project altogether? In two weeks at the public hearing, we'll have the two actions split out, and then we'll be a little bit more focused on each.

Okay. Thank you so much.

Sounds great. Norrell Street Park. This is a context map. It consists of four vacant parcels and the Park Street extension. We are on the intersection of Norrell Street and Park Street and we are bound on the west side by the Fairmount commuter line. We are right next to the Talbot Street platform. This is a zoom in of the Norrell Street Park extents. You can see the four parcels, the four empty parcels, which are really just an open lawn patch. And then you can also see the Park Street extension that currently acts as a sort of parking, an informal parking ride. People park, they drop off passengers to then get onto the Talbot Street Station. You can see that the ramp is right on the west side of our of our park and then proceeds to the platform itself. The PIC review boundary is what is shown in pink, which is really the sidewalk itself and then the Park Street extension. And there's a Bluebeck station currently in that space as well. Yes. This is an image of what the vacant parcels look like. There is a community group west of Washington known as WOW that will informally program this. This is a view looking at the Norrell Street sidewalk. It's currently an asphalt sidewalk, fairly narrow, some streetlights, curb, and then a white picket fence. This is a view from Park Street. So you're looking up towards the Park Street extension. And what you can see here is that you can see the park and drop off, the blue bike stations, the sidewalk. Normally people are informally walking through the Park Street extension or taking the sidewalk, which is right next to you in a butter. This is a rendered plan of what the entire park is going to look like, and then you can see dashed in red. This is the PIC review boundary, which consists of an expanded access to the T, shifting the blue bikes, To the sort of South side North is to the right on this plan, and then having a little bit more of a buffer from the butters. And then 1 of the things that was discussed in the preliminary review was also taking care of the reciprocal curb ramps. So that has. Been accommodated as well. Something that is particular to this project is that the Park Street extension is actually two parcels. There is one parcel, which is 10 feet wide, which is currently a DPW parcel. And then there is another parcel, which is a discontinued parcel. So there is a widening and relocation plan in order to reactivate the discontinued parcel. What this allows us to do is to maintain DPW access for maintenance, and then also maintain access for MBTA. This is an excerpt from the specific repairs plan, which you can see a little bit more clearly. The active public right-of-way, which is 10 feet wide, and then the discontinued parcel, which is 24 feet wide, which we're trying to bring back, reactivate. And then this is the materials plan which shows the intended improvements for the Norwell Street sidewalk. We're going to replace the asphalt with concrete. We're going to fill in the curbs where there used to be old driveways as part of those vacant parcels, but no longer. We're going to maintain the existing path of travel, the existing sidewalk width. You can see the expanded path of travel and access to the MBTA. which also serves as a flexible space for the park. And then you can also see the new curb ramps that are coming in. So that was a very fast overview, but happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Any questions or comments from commissioners?

Todd? Um, I really appreciate the project team hanging in there. Um, I know that we had a lot of kind of weird and annoying, um, access requirements that, uh, forced us to be very creative with what's going on here and actually resulted in this wedding and relocation action being tacked on. So thank you be and your whole team for. for bearing with us there. The only thing I'll mention is that their current specific repairs plan is going to be updated and kind of pared down a little bit. They're working with Ashley on the PIC team to get that done. So we expect that to be done in the next couple of weeks before their public hearing. Other than that, I think they're in a really good place and we're all set.

Great. See you on August 20th.

Excellent. Thank you so much. Thanks very much.

Okay, new business item number 4, 125 Tremont Street at Hamilton Place, Boston Proper. Specific repairs on a petition by the Holocaust Legacy Foundation. Go over to the proponent.

Good morning, John Schmidt, Big Beach Engineering. Am I foggy to you as well? Can you hear me? Yep, you're good. Thank you. All right. So with me is Stuart Marshall from Stuart Silver. I'm John Schmidt with Niche Engineering. And in 2004, the Holocaust Museum went through the PIC process and got approvals for specific repairs and easement in a vertical discontinuance. Let me just see. Hold on here. Here we go. Here's a view of the building that is currently in construction and construction started about 2 years ago and I believe it helps to be completed by the end of this year. The original approval in 2024. Basically, maintain the existing curve along the existing curve line along the edge and also had a series of bollards that ran about 18 inches from the edge of the curve. Since that time, this proposal proposes moving the curb in about two and a half feet at the point at the apex here to provide better access for vehicles entering and exiting Hamilton Place. Also, after a series of test fits and construction activities, it was determined that the original layout of the ballards would not work because it conflicted with a number of utilities. So the bowlers now are pulled back off the curb on Tramont Street along this line right here. Then they have to kind of move out there closer to the curb line and then down Hamilton. They're pretty much in the original location as they were in 2024. This here will, this is showing you the bowlers and the footings that are required to provide adequate security to the building. And this is actually the plan that's before you today for requesting the public hearing in two weeks. And this is the Hamilton place drawing as well. Are there any questions?

Thank you. Thank you. Commission members, questions? Don, who are you?

John, could you just touch on your extensive cooperation and coordination with your neighbor? I know that's been a big part of it.

Yeah, so soon after the approval, we reached out to the Droger company, raising concerns about the training movements. And after a series of conversations with them and with their engineer, VHP, we've agreed on this new location that's prepared for you today. They have reviewed these plans and have signed off on them as well. So we do not anticipate any additional concerns from Droger. The drawings has also been reviewed by the Disabilities Commission who blessed this design as well.

Any other questions or comments from commissioners? Assuming August 20th is enough time.

Yes, we will be here in two weeks. Thank you.

Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, new business item number five. 59, Bartlett Station Drive in Roxbury, a projection license, earth retention license on a set of petitions by Nustra, Army Dead Corporation doing business as Bartlett, F5 LLC, we'll hand it to the proponent.

Good morning. My name is Eric Chamberlain. I'm with Davis Square Architects. I'm here on behalf of the applicant, Newestra Commuter Dodd. And with me here today is Ann Conway representing Newestra and Ahmad Zorain, who is the civil engineer. As a quick introduction, the project is a new construction building with 44 units of affordable housing. It's five stories above grade and a partial basement. The project received zoning approval through Article 80 and had design oversight from both BPDA and MOH. For the PIC, the project is seeking two licenses. The first is for a temporary earth retention system. In order to construct the basement, a temporary shoring system was installed under the public sidewalk. And in accordance with PIC requirements, the shoring system was then cut off and removed to a depth of more than six feet below the finished sidewalk elevation. You can see on this drawing the supportive excavation system is kind of here behind the curb line and again it's been cut off to six feet below grade and the sidewalk has been replaced. The second application is for a canopy which is over the main residential entry which is down here at the right hand end of the building. The canopy is an important design element for the building. It gives some weather protection for residents entering and exiting through the main entry door, which is here. And due to the curving property line, which is at the back of sidewalk, a small triangular portion of the canopy does project past the property line. The maximum projection is about 2 foot 8 inches. The bottom of the canopy at its lowest point is 10 foot 8 above the sidewalk and will not interfere with any pedestrian traffic. In working with Mr. Liming and reviewing this application, we've added an internal gutter to the canopy so that the canopy does not drip onto the public sidewalk. Water is routed to a downspout back on the property and then to an underground stormwater system. um that is the very brief summary but uh happy to answer any questions that you may have questions or comments from the commission all set sorry i couldn't find my unmute button all right we'll see you on august 20th thank you

New Business Item Number 6, 50 Harold Street, Washington Street, lost proper pedestrian easements and specific repairs on a set of joint petitions by Beacon Communities Corporation, New Businesses 50 Harold Partners LLC, and the Chinese Consolidated Development Association of New England Incorporated. Give it to the proponent.

Morning commissioners and chairman. My name is Rebecca and my real estate attorney with minutes. I'm here to talk about 50 health street, which will consist of 117 units of affordable housing at a site. Very prominent site at the corner of Harold and Washington streets and South and neighborhood. What used to be Chinatown. Before the mass Pike, this is a long awaited project. It's been 2 years in article 80 B review, and it is being sponsored by a joint venture of beacon communities. A very well known and established developer of affordable housing on the East coast, and especially in Boston. Here's a rendering of the building. And by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, a long-standing nonprofit organization in Boston. These two organizations have collaborated previously on 288 Harrison Avenue, a fully occupied affordable housing project at the corner of Harrison Avenue and Marginal Road in Chinatown, and this is literally three blocks away. So this rendering shows you the seven-story building that will be constructed about 142,600 square feet right at that corner. And behind it is the 100 Shawmut Avenue building that was built by the Davis Company as a combination of the renovation of the old warehouse building on the corner of Shawmut and a new high-rise containing luxury apartment, luxury condos, excuse me. So we're here for two petitions. One is a pedestrian easement to make a wider sidewalk along Harold Street, and the other is specific repairs on Washington and Harold Street. With me are Felix Liu from CCBA, Edward Chang, also from CCBA, and John Schmidt, And Marcel Fuchs from Niche Engineering and John will present the petitions.

Thank you, Rebecca. The pedestrian easement along Harold Street is approximately 70 feet, 78 feet long and 2 feet wide. And what this will do, it will provide a 5 foot, 5.2, 5 feet, 5.2 feet minimum width sidewalk for safe pedestrian access. The specific repairs on Harold Street, in addition to the sidewalk, will provide two new street trees, two, some new acorn street lighting, and new accessible ramps. The ramps across Washington Street is compliant and does not need to be repaired. The ramp that crosses Harold Street is owned by MassDOT, and we don't have access of the ability to upgrade that ramp. Along Washington Street itself, there is a number of improvements that include a 77 foot wide minimum concrete sidewalk. three Acorn streetlights, a bike-sharing station.

We are replacing three street trees, so we're gonna remove them for construction and replace them when we complete it.

We have approval from the Parks Department for that work. We also have a cascading infiltration basin that will collect the stormwater from the sidewalk and through a series of cascades go through a green area where it ultimately will overflow or discharge into the Boston Water and Sewer Storm System. There is also an existing bus shelter that will be maintained throughout for this project. That is generally the proposal before you.

Any questions? Great. Questions or comments from the Commission?

Todd? I'll sign on this. See you on August 20th.

Thank you, sir. Have a great day, everyone.

Thank you.

Okay, new business item number seven, 355 Bennington Street, Bremen Street, East Boston. Specific repairs on the joint petition by 355 Bennington owner LLC and the Friends of Accel Academy Charter Schools Incorporated. Looking to the proponent.

morning everyone my name is molly kennedy i'm from red gate here representing the 355 bennington street team with melissa galgano from hancock associates 355 bennington is a 170 unit apartment development with both mixed both market rate and affordable units with ground floor retail while we are here under the new business meeting we have been before the PIC for this project before at the end of 2023 and into the beginning of 2024. We're well underway with construction and throughout the process we've have learned that there have been changes to the Plan East Boston vision for Dace Square, which included changes to bike lane configurations and locations throughout the square itself. We had originally proposed and gotten approved through PIC bike lanes along Bennington and Bremen Street along the project frontage. In connection with BTD, BPDA, planning and transportation staff, we have designed a new layout, which you see here on the screen. It replaces the former bike lanes with parallel parking and minimal curb realignment, which is twofold. One serves the needs of the community in response to, you know, thoughts about parking in the area. Adding additional parking was well received with the neighbors. And it also does not preclude the city from implementing bike lanes or multimodal transportation in these areas in the future. So we've maintained maximum flexibility to the extent possible and met with various agencies and we really appreciate all the comments that we've received to date. With that, I'll hand it over to Melissa to talk in more detail.

Thanks, Molly. I don't know if I have too much more to add. I just wanted to bring up, this is our layout plan, kind of showing the new curb alignment. maybe for clarity i i did pull up our previous plan that shows the the bike lane here so this is what was previously approved so this is all gone and nothing really changed for the square and for the handicap ramps so this is our current pic submission showing the new alignments and we've addressed comments from PIC review. So if there's any other questions right now or...

Thank you Molly and Melissa, I appreciate it. Questions from the Commission? Todd, how about you? All set on this. Okay, see you on August 20th.

Thank you. Excellent. Thank you so much.

Thank you. New business item number 8, 25 New England Avenue and Dorchester Pedestrian Easement Specific Repairs on a set of petitions by Talbot Commons 2, LLC. To the proponent.

Good morning, my name is Imad Zurain from Develop Zurain. With me this morning also, Lina Ismail, the architect for the project. She'll be giving you an overview of the project itself, as far as the building, and then I could, subsequently, I could go through the specific repair that we're doing for the sidewalk. Lina?

Thanks, I'm at good morning everyone. Excuse me. Lena has a meal senior project manager from Studio Luz. This project is part of Talbot Commons too. So there's two buildings. We're speaking specifically about 25 new and a half today, which will include 23 new affordable apartments. This project has been reviewed and approved by the Mayor's Office of Housing and BPD. It also is. will be LEED Silver Certifiable, Net Zero, Green Enterprise Community Criterias will be met and it will be Passive House Certified. As you can see, it's currently under construction, slated to be complete by the end of November. So just quickly, it's a four story building. As you can see here, there's gonna be a new parking lot for 12 spaces on the right side of the plan. A lot of plantings and greenery and a future playground just to the left here. Some new benches, new sidewalk, new bike racks and some new street trees. I'll pass it back to you, Ahmed.

Can I share? I need to share. Oh, sorry, okay.

Okay, any questions or comments from the Commission?

Todd, how are you? I will note that the project has one set of outstanding comments that they still need to address from the planning department. And the understanding is that those comments will need to be fully addressed and the planning department will need to sign off on the updated plans prior to any commissioned vote here in two weeks or beyond.

We should be able to address those comments within two weeks. We've been talking to John, and I think most of the comments have been already addressed. There's only one comment that we're working on.

Yeah, I agree. I think they should be relatively easy to address.

Great. See you on August 20th. Thank you. Last item of new business, number nine, Central Square, Liverpool Street, Meridian Street, East Boston, specific repairs on a petition by Starboard Institute Incorporated.

I actually believe you are working off of an old version of the agenda. We had to drop that particular item, so we are done.

That's a wrap. Do we have a motion to adjourn?

I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Meeting adjourned. Thank you everyone.

Thank you.