Remarks by Priscilla Rojas
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Thank you. Quick question. What is the estimated time to completion, just out of curiosity?
Cool. That's exciting. That's it. Any other questions or comments? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thanks, Tyler. Another one. Okay. Item number 12, request authorization and invitation for bids for construction work of the Shipyard Park Waterfront Repairs Project in the Charlestown Navy Yard.
Thank you. Questions or comments from the Board? All right. Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Item number 13, request authorization to execute a construction contract with ACK Marine and General Contracting LLC for the construction of the Long Wharf North Boardwalk Replacement Project in the amount of $460,410 with a 20% contingency in the amount of $92,082 for a total aggregate contract amount of $552,492. Tyler. Thank you again.
Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? All right. Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thank you, Tyler.
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Thank you for that. Additional questions or comments? Hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thanks, Michelle.
Item number 15, request authorization to enter into a grant agreement with the American City Coalition for the purposes of commissioning a market analysis of Nubian Square using $67,000 of neighborhood development funds and to take all related actions. Michelle.
Hearing and saying none emotion is in order so moved second all those in favor aye opposed the ayes have it motion passes. Thank you Okay, so the next two items will be Presented jointly with separate votes to follow so I'm gonna read both agenda items right now and Then we'll go into the presentation. So item number 16 requests authorization to adopt the Cleary square Squares and Streets Small Area Plan, which will guide future development, direct capital investments to design safer streets, enhance the public realm, and advance policies and programmatic investments to increase small…
Thank you. Questions or comments from the board?
Great. And before we continue with board questioning, we are just going to give the floor to Councillor Bippin. If you'd like to give some comments, we'll take you out of order.
Great. Thank you. Counselor. Do we have anyone else to take out of order? Okay. Okay.
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Okay, great. And definitely acknowledge that a lot of conversation with the community was had and a back and forth kind of If you could just go over some of the major points of maybe initial opposition or items that you really worked with the residents to kind of come to a consensus and that are particularly of interest for me was this fear of the commercial gentrification or the displacement of the existing small businesses that are there and many of them immigrant-owned. trying to get a sense of the height limits. I know there was a lot of discussion and changes on that. So just an overview…
And how about the other one? Oh, the height limits. Or did you just answer that? And I don't really know what all the... Oh, yeah, sorry.
So with that, so it's four stories. Is that what's kind of...
So we're not really are we creating ability for additional density in other areas zoning there we're not expecting like development.
but from a density perspective. So here's, I see that there are so many transit-oriented, transit nodes, right? And obviously, you know, transit-based development is what we've been pushing. So I'm just trying to get a sense of, like, is this density the right density, right, for these type of uses, right? And from a transportation perspective, just given that there's just a lot of access here. But I'm not totally, yeah, anything you can say on that.
great progress, right? But just to kind of note from a board perspective, I'm trying to kind of compare, right, how we're selecting these squares and streets, why we selected these particular corridors as opportunity for density. So again, happy that, you know, that the process went and if, so if something were, if a developer wanted to increase, right, that density from what that is, what process would that go under for a specific project?
Great. And I'm just going to challenge us all as an agency and as a community and fellow residents to, you know, as we come to these consensus, be thinking about the entire housing need that we need, not just for this particular, you know, we need to make available for this particular neighborhood, but across the city and what that the the magnitude of what that is. So just keeping that in mind of the size of the challenge that we have as we are going through these processes. Again, I think it's been a great process and I love what we're coming up on, but it's just something that I'm kind of,…
Oh, no. I have to read one, and then I have to read another one. So I'm going to read the first one first.
Okay. Item number 16, request authorization to adopt Cleary Square Squares and Streets Small Area Plan, which will guide future development, direct capital investments to design safer streets, enhance the public realm, and advance policies and programmatic investments to increase small business longevity and and housing supply and affordability within the Cleary Squares and Streets study area, the recommendations for a land use and design framework, targeted programmatic and policy investments, and regulatory mechanisms. A motion is in order. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye.…
Excellent work. But a motion is in order. So moved. Second. All those in favor? Aye.
The ayes have it. Motion passes. Thank you very much, Maya. Good job. Item number 19, request authorization to adopt a text amendment to Article 68 and a map amendment to zoning map 4F to allow for planned development areas to be permitted in the waterfront manufacturing sub-district and clarify the boundary between the First Street Local Industrial and the Waterfront Manufacturing Subdistricts. Michelle.
Okay, thank you. Questions or comments from the board? All right, hearing and seeing none, a motion is in order.
All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you, Michelle. Item number 20, request authorization to grant permission to the director of planning and zoning to sign the municipal plan board notification form on behalf of the board signifying that the board has been notified of the intention of Clippershift Wharf Multifamily Holdings LLC to file a chapter 91 license amendment application with the Department of Environmental Protection.