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02/17/2025

Allandale Farm files with CBPD, YES has groundbreaking
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By Richard Heath

Two Jamaica Plain institutions, one old the other a new arrival, Allandale Farm and Youth Enrichment Services, made news in January.

As first reported by The Bulletin in September 2024, Allandale Farm plans to expand, and on Jan. 17 it filed a small project review with the City of Boston Planning Department (CBPD) “to modernize the retail activities… essential to the Farm’s needs.”

“The goal is to enhance the availability of seasonal retail farm operations in the city to a year-round producer…and to maintain the Farm as uniquely rural.”

The Farm at 259 Allandale Street is 105 acres, but Jamaica Plain and Parkway residents are very familiar with the two acres of retail store (Market Barn), greenhouses and outdoor yards of shrubs and trees and seasonal Christmas trees behind the old Allandale Street stone wall.

Allandale Farm is managed by Helen Glotzer and owned by the Allandale Realty Trust. The Farm, as explained in the filing, “specializes in annual and perennial plants, cut flowers and vegetables, pumpkins, fresh native turkeys and Christmas trees as well as a retail store for milk, cider, pies and jams and garden supplies.”

The Market Barn and three greenhouses will be replaced by two buildings: one a consolidated greenhouse, designed by Union Architects of Providence and landscaped by Klopfer Martin Design Group with Emily Scarfe as project manager.

A new Market Barn, built on the footprint of the old one, will be designed as a two-story, 5,300-square-foot gabled barn with a cupola designed for cold storage commercial space and a small kitchen.

A new single greenhouse with four, pitch-roofed glass bays will be built, “as a single, more efficient retail greenhouse directly adjacent to the Market Barn.”

A 55-foot-wide over-look deck between and at the rear of the two buildings will project towards the existing ponds and upland woods.

At the eastern edge of the market barn and retail greenhouses will be an eight-foot improved road to connect with the back production green house(built in 2015) at the property line with Brookline.

There will be 50 parking spaces – about the same as the current number – and the entrance and exit will remain the same. The wooden barn for the resident black Highland steers, Curtis and Willard, will be moved back.

On the Brookline edge, near the entrance gate to the cider house built into the wooded slope, will be rebuilt as offices.

Allandale Farm is thoroughly protected by a Conservation Protection Sub-district of Jamaica Plain, Greenbelt Overlay District and an Agricultural Preservation Restriction held by the Trustees of Reservations. It requires one zoning variance because retail agriculture is a non-conforming use.

A virtual CBPD public meeting is scheduled for the Allandale Farm modernization on Monday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. (Bit,ly/3PS3ofP).

At The Bulletin deadline, news leaked out about another JP institution on Allandale Street: Faulkner Hospital. The new garage built out of the hillside has already opened; according to hospital communications an opening day ceremony for its new in- patient wing will be discussed at an internal staff meeting on Feb. 13.

Across town, an institution founded in 1968 and long located in the South End will soon move to JP. Three years, seven months and one abutters lawsuit later, Youth Enrichment Services (YES) finally broke ground for its new headquarters at 267 Amory Street at noon on Jan. 29.

“Our new headquarters will enhance our programs and allow us to inspire more Boston youth,” Executive Director Brian Van Dorpe said in a press release.

02/17/2025

Coming Soon: Billings renovations
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By Ariane Komyati

After four public design meetings over the past two-and-a-half years, the much anticipated improvements to Billings Field are set to begin this spring. Project Manager B. Chatfield explained that the Parks and Recreation Department is currently working towards completing the design drawings. She said after carefully reviewing resident input from the last public meeting in January of 2024, the department anticipates going out to bid in March once the final drawings are submitted.

The last public meeting regarding the Billings Field improvements took place in Jan. 2024. The updated concept proposal included an accessible ramp off of Bellevue Street, new accessible paths throughout the park, minor upgrades to the basketball and tennis/pickleball courts, a splash pad, minor playground upgrades, field upgrades, and a street hockey rink.

Most community members were in favor of the accessible ramp on Bellevue Street, while others stated that “a better use of the funds would be to make the accessible access point at the end of Quinn Way.”

Many community members and residents were vocal about their support for the in-line rink. During last year’s design meeting, Parks and Rec received over 30 comments in support of the rink. Many residents remarked how popular hockey is in WR and that they didn’t want their kids playing it in the streets anymore. Others said that there are too many tennis courts and they would rather see a hockey rink. Another person noted how kids from the community petitioned for this rink. A few representatives from Parkway Youth Hockey also spoke in favor of the rink. “Currently, skating and rollerblading isn’t allowed on the path at Billings. Hopefully with the renovations rollerblading will be allowed on the path so kids can be active in the park, especially on the way to the rink,” one community member said last year.

The Parks and Rec team said it took these comments very seriously. “We heard loudly from the community that if budget becomes an issue – and we don't know this until it has gone out to bid – that the proposed street hockey rink coming out of the project is not an option. As a result of that conversation, we simplified the design of the LaGrange entrance area – it's no longer a large plaza – and will therefore be easier and cheaper to build than what we were showing earlier,” said Chatfield.

Chatfield explained that the standard Parks and Rec process begins with presenting the design in "concept" at community meetings, using a colored rendering to illustrate key features. This concept is then developed into detailed, constructible drawings. While there haven’t been any significant changes to the Billings Field improvement plans since the last design meeting, Chatfield said the department has refined the design to make it buildable and now has a drawing set that a contractor can build from.

02/17/2025

COC considers NPS computers
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By Jeff Sullivan

The Norwood Capital Outlay Committee (COC) met and discussed one upcoming funding request from the Norwood Public Schools District (NPS), and received an update on previously-approved projects.

NPS Educational Technology Director Joseph Kidd said the department is looking to replace computers in two technology labs in the Norwood High School totaling $70,000. NPS tech upgrades are typically made during the Spring Annual and Special Town meetings because of the school year. This minimizes disruption to classes during the installation and avoids adding a potential new learning curve in the middle of the semester.

Kidd said they seek new computers in the NHS Norwood Community Media (NCM) media lab and the computer lab. For the media lab, Kidd said originally these costs were born by NCM, which is an independent nonprofit not directly linked to Town finances.

“All the television media programs have iMac computers that the students do video editing on each day and those will be eight years old next year,” he said. “In the past, this computer lab was funded through NCM, but they felt moving forward that it’s the responsibility of the schools to replace the lab computers. They did it the last two cycles, which was very generous of them, and they maintain the equipment of the state-of-the-art television studio that the students use every day.”

Kidd said in total the district is looking to replace 21 iMac computers.

The Computer Science Lab uses Windows PCs.

Kidd said this request is actually in lieu of a request for updating wireless access points. Originally, the wireless access points were going to be part of this year’s request, but the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Office of Digital Learning E-Rate discount program is not covering that. The E-Rate discount provides school districts with a 60 percent discount on technology, and so Kidd said to save more money, they’re switching the wireless access points request with the Windows computer science computers.

“When we go out for E-rate we get 60 percent off equipment, but it’s a five-year budget cycle and our budget is depleted,” Kidd said.

COC members asked Kidd how much of the $70,000 is contingency money, money that is there in case the price of the equipment is more than expected. Kidd said they have a bit of contingency built in there, but when these estimates were made, the recent tariff on Chinese goods was not considered.

“That’s not factored into this number right now, but we should have enough leeway that we’d be able to get the job done,” Kidd said.

COC members agreed they could revisit this issue before the May Town Meeting if needed. The COC voted unanimously to approve the funding request.

In other business, Assistant Town Manager Michael Rosen reported on several projects currently under construction, or at least about to be.

Rosen said the Norwood Fire Department’s (NFD) new fire engine is on schedule. “It has been ordered, but the build-out for that is three years,” Rosen said.

02/17/2025

CPC debates build now, save later, tariffs considered for NHA roofs
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By Jeff Sullivan

The Norwood Community Preservation Committee (CPC) voted to approve all Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding requests at its most recent hearing.

The votes were relatively speedy, save for the $250,000-$300,000 funding request for the roof replacements in the Washington Heights Development of the Norwood Housing Authority (NHA). The NHA is requesting $175,000 towards the replacement of roofs which would cover some of the $812,000 total price tag.

The housing was originally built in 1951 with 75 units in 51 buildings, and NHA Director Sean Barnicle said at the last hearing that 90 percent of the units’ roofs have reached the end of their useful lives, and the other 10 percent is only a couple years away from that. The $812,000 will replace 26 of the roofs of the 51 buildings. Barnicle said they are working with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (HLC) on a High Leverage Asset Preservation Program (HILAPP) grant which will, at the very least, provide a one-to-one-dollar match in funds the NHA can get its hands on.

But, he said, the grant program may be willing to go as high as a 2.5-times match if the CPC raised the funding request to $300,000. Regardless of the amount, any expenditures will still need to go before Town Meeting for approval.

CPC member Cheryl Doyle said there is perhaps an incentive to get this work done quickly, as material costs could go up in the interim due to international issues, mainly the proposed tariffs the Trump Administration is proposing on Canada. Two integral raw materials for roofs – lumber and shingles – are heavily sourced from both Canada and Mexico, with 70 percent of the crude oil the U.S. refines being imported from both countries (https://tinyurl.com/2ue2en4h), and 70 percent of the softwood the U.S. currently uses being imported from Canada (https://tinyurl.com/mpmhtjjc).

02/17/2025

1201 River St. changes questioned
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By Matthew MacDonald

The Hyde Park Neighborhood Association (HPNA) met on Feb. 6.

Its main appointment illustrated the nonbinding nature of the City of Boston Planning Department’s (CBPD) community review process regarding its Article 80 larger scale project applications when representatives of B’nai B’rith Housing – having been invited by the HPNA – presented an update regarding its under-construction project at 1201 River St.

The all-affordable, 55-and-older four-story development will provide 63 one-bedroom apartments. It is also eliminating more than half of the ground floor storefront space on that block of River Street, which is at the epicenter of Hyde Park’s downtown shopping district.

Questions were asked after the extremely brief construction presentation, and it soon became clear that project changes had been made after its Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) Board approval, and that they had not involved any community input.

The public portion of the Article 80 application process for 1201 River St. began in mid-November, 2021 and concluded with its BPDA Board approval about two months later. This process included one BPDA-led community meeting and a public comment period.

The main community concerns had to do with the elimination of that commercial frontage (the new development was approved for one 1,200 square foot commercial space on River Street, and knocked out six commercial addresses), off-street parking, and traffic congestion.

The project had been approved for 40 garage/lot parking spaces. Its design also had cars entering the parking area from one abutting side street (Central Avenue) and exiting by way of another (Winthrop Street), thus creating a one-way flow of traffic and an off-street pick-up/drop-off area.

However, during the CBPD’s internal design review process that took place after BPDA Board approval, parking was reduced by eight spots, and the Winthrop Street exit was eliminated, leaving Central Avenue as the only entry/exit to the building’s parking area.

When asked, B’nai B’rith Housing Project Manager Nathifa Debellotte explained the decision.

02/17/2025

IAG, residents positive about Great Scott plan, public meeting set for Feb. 24
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By Jeff Sullivan

The Impact Advisory Group (IAG) set up for the Great Scott building redevelopment at 1 Harvard Ave. in Allston had fairly positive comments on Monday night.

The City of Boston Planning Department (CBPD) hosted the IAG with the intent of getting feedback. The plan is to leverage 139 rental residential units to allow Great Scott to reopen on the site, while also allowing O’Brien’s Pub – which is currently on the site – to remain.

No parking and no multi-bedroom units are included. All units proposed are one-bedroom or studios. Noannet Group’s Jordan Warshaw said this was because residents looking to live above a music venue with no room for a car are not likely to be family-minded. He also said that such prospective renters, in his experience, prefer smaller apartment spaces with, hopefully, smaller rents. What was not said but could reasonably be assumed is that small apartments with relatively low rents are preferable to having multiple roommates, which is a common occurrence in Allston Brighton.

Former Great Scott owner Carl Lavin spoke during the presentation and said he joined with Warshaw and Redefined firm representative Paul Armstrong because he wanted to see the legendary music venue make a return to Allston Rock City. He said he’s been with Great Scott for almost 25 years, but when the pandemic hit, it hit the venue hard and it was not able to reopen due to issues with the landlord.

Lavin said Great Scott was originally founded in 1979 and started out as a neighborhood bar with some live music. “Then, college kids discovered Great Scott and descended and swarmed it and it was that type of place for a number of years,” he said. “My involvement started in 2003; I started booking shows weekly and it was at that time we sort of hatched the plan to turn Great Scott into a live music venue and cater to a different kind of music fan. We started having some success and the venue’s reputation grew in the area regionally and nationally.”

Lavin pointed out that touring national acts started at Great Scott, including Passion Pit, Charlie XCX, Groulove, Greta Van Fleet, Phoebe Bridgers, Nathaniael Ratelife and the Night Sweats, and comedians like Mac Maron and Nate Bargatze.

“We worked with thousands of bands, hundreds of promoters all different kinds of music and genres,” he said.

This time around, Lavin, Warshaw and Armstrong will own the building so that the rent issues that were reported to have been the venue’s downfall will not happen again. It had previously been reported that Great Scott closed because an agreement on rent between the venue and the landlord could not be reached.

02/17/2025

Selectmen review budgets, discuss cuts
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By Jeff Sullivan

The Norwood Board of Selectmen met on Feb. 11 for its regularly scheduled meeting and Town Manager Tony Mazzucco went through the Town Administration budget, highlighting a $9 million shortfall.

Mazzucco said the Town is looking at a 5.5 percent increase in costs this upcoming fiscal year, most of which is driven by salaries.

“Salaries are the highest budget driver. Top expenses are trash, coming in at $3 million, our IT systems and, of course, snow removal.”

Mazzucco said one of the biggest cost upticks for the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) budget is health insurance. “It is killing us,” he said. “We are looking at about a 10.5 percent increase in health insurance costs… That’s about $2 million. That is more than double our new growth, and it’s more than the entire levy increase in a given year.”

Mazzucco said this is through the Group Insurance Commission run by the state, and that last year it was a 9.3 increase and the year before was about 6 percent. “Which is bearable, just not sustainable,” he said.

He said comparing to other GIC communities in the nearby area, they are seeing similar increases and self-insurance communities are seeing upwards of 10 to 15 percent increases.

Mazzucco said many of the increases in salaries are contractual, and expenses will be up $466,500, even after delaying some capital expenses like highway maintenance.

Mazzucco also went through areas that have been underfunded or are “unmet needs,” which include software costs the Town uses. He said the costs of using software suites is always increasing, and any time the Town switches to a new software vendor, the costs start going up again in what he called a game of “whack-a-mole.”

Mazzucco then discussed potential scenarios of cuts and what it would mean for services, starting at a 1 percent cut from what’s currently proposed (the $5.5 million increase) to 6 percent of what was proposed (a $2.5 million in extra revenue). He said the cuts to services and Town personnel would be high. A 1 percent decrease in funding would result in eliminating the holiday lights and the Concert Committee, close Town Hall on Fridays, reduce legal counsel services, enact strict overtime controls, freeze salaries and reduce the library’s weekend hours.

02/17/2025

S+S close out hears displacement, parking concerns, Zoning map released this week
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By Jeff Sullivan

NOTE: The zoning map is now available at Map A (https://tinyurl.com/ywsrwdbx) and Map B (https://tinyurl.com/36heu7c7)

The City of Boston Planning Department (CBPD) met with about 60 residents in a virtual setting last week for the closeout meeting of the Roslindale Squares+Streets (S+S) plan process.

This is not, by any means, the end of the public process. The design plan has been formulated, according to the CBPD, to first collect public input and set out the priorities on the first draft of the zoning map. The zoning map will be the actual change to the underlying zoning of Roslindale Square and its close surroundings, and will choose zoning based on the S0-S5 districts laid out previously in the overall S+S process (https://tinyurl.com/55vx3t6z). CBPD representatives said there will be at least four public meetings on the zoning map when it is released, along with presentations to community groups and other outreach opportunities.

The plan has changed since it was last presented in January. For one thing, CBPD Deputy Director of Planning James Fitzgerald said the proposed changes to Poplar Street will not result in a no-vehicle stretch of Poplar Street at Roslindale Square. They received a lot of comments from the community in support of changing the nearby Washington Street corridor from one-way to two-ways, lessening the traffic burden on Poplar, as now southbound traffic has to loop through Poplar to continue towards Hyde Park and West Roxbury.

“With the restoration of a two-way Washington Street we’re pulling off all of that through traffic,” he said. “With a lot less volume there and having just local access needs on Poplar, it allows for a much more calmer street, a lot more opportunities for making pedestrian safety improvements and de-stresses that road for bikes and peds, and also provides the flexibility for further programming as it relates to Adams Park.”

The closeout also details “Community Vision” plans, which give kind of a bird’s-eye view of what the community plan will be looking for when zoning districts are considered. There were two options, Community Vision 1 will focus completely on increasing density in the commercial core of Roslindale Square and only allow for a maximum of four stories within that zone. Community Vision 2 “maximizes housing growth opportunities across the entire study area, including all of the residential fabric highlighted in yellow on the map.” Vision 2 got the most positive feedback, according to CBPD representatives, but the final plan is actually a compromise of the two visions, maximizing development while trying to keep it closer to the commercial core than laid out in Vision 2.

“The land-use and design framework does look to balance the two visions expressed in the community by limiting the proposed growth areas to the commercial core and major streets,” said CBPD Planner Abdul-Razak Zachariah. “The plan does clarify that surrounding residential areas will, in the near future, be addressed by the neighborhood zoning initiative.”

Also discussed was a reinforcement of the city’s past statements that there is currently no plan to redevelop the Taft Hill Public Parking Lot. Deputy Director of Comprehensive Planning Caitlin Coppinger said if there is a future redevelopment of the lot, there will be a concerted public process to make sure residents get their say. It should also be noted that at least one past iteration of this idea involved keeping the public lot, just building housing on top of it, with no loss of parking.

“I just want to clarify that there are no current plans to redevelop the parking lot and the administration stays committed to maintaining it as such,” she said. “This plan really outlines future opportunities and planning principles for developing the area. Parcel disposition of public land is one of the ways that we can really leverage affordable housing, so should the option to redevelop this parcel arise, it would be subject to a thorough public engagement process.”

Resident Luis Encarnacion said he and the majority of the people in his community do support the plan, however, he said he was less than impressed with the city’s anti-displacement plan.

“There are certain things we would like to point to and reevaluate and get a few more details,” he said. “Rezoning Washington Street will definitely lead to an increase of property values and it’s pushing out long-term renters and small businesses. There are no clear anti-displacement protections. There are no anti-displacement policies or commercial small business protections in place in the proposal as of right now.”

Encarnacion said he’s also concerned that the plan does not specify how many new housing units would be created, how affordability would be addressed, no estimate on funding resources being provided, and no assessment on how increased density would affect water, sewer, public safety and transit.

CBPD Planner Eileen Michaud said the Anti-Displacement Action Plan governing such issues citywide is expected this winter, and said since there was no development proposal on the table at this time, they have time to publicly go through any anti-displacement protections that might be enacted.

“Those considerations will ideally be more formalized and addressed directly in the recommendations of the Anti-Displacement Action Plan,” she said.

Parking was another issue. Resident Nate Stell said he was concerned that pushback on a lack of parking later on in the development process could sink the increased development he supports and the CBPD wants through this plan.

“I’m very supportive of the plan, particularly Community Vision 2; I want more neighbors and businesses here,” he said. “However, I implore you not to sleep on parking management. I think it’s the biggest blind spot in the plan right now.”

02/11/2025

Listening session gives seniors a voice
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By Dilani Yogaratnam

While seniors often get their respect, mainstream culture pays more attention to the frailty of aging versus the intellectual and social stimulation needs for the elderly.

On Jan. 31, at the West Roxbury Library, the City of Boston Age Strong Commission (ASC) in conjunction with UMass Boston held a listening session for seniors to discuss their desires to maintain independence as well as engage in their community via physical structures, resources and services.

Before the meeting started, the roughly 100 people were chatting and enjoying the camaraderie. There were so many attendees that an extra row of chairs had to be placed. Caitlin Coyle, director of research at the Gerontology Institute of UMass Boston, moderated the event and asked participants to keep their statements brief to accommodate all voices. This is the second collaboration between UMassBoston and ASC to form an action plan based on survey data and community engagement events.

Coyle began by informing the audience that the senior population has grown significantly from 2010 to 2020, and by 2035 the numbers are expected to almost double. Everyone, everywhere, is aging, she reminded the crowd. In response to this reality, the ASC, which took effect in the early 1970s, is responding to the population growth on several fronts, from creating more greenspaces to providing more senior-specific resources. What used to be the Commission on Elder Affairs is now called Age Strong Boston as a result of multiple conversations around encouraging residents to age strong in Boston.

Trying to get the temperature in the room, Coyle asked for residents to shout out their main concerns and she then summarized that seniors most wanted a “third place.” Coyle explained that a third place is somewhere beyond the home and a workplace, typically a restaurant or cafe. But seniors want that third place to be affordable. So far Ethos, a private non-profit that assists the elderly, provides the best spot at the West Roxbury Elks and offers a variety of classes for the elderly two days a week. But that’s not a senior center.

Residents mentioned the importance of being able to affordably stay in their homes while going to either Ethos or Roche Brothers’ senior-oriented events. Others mentioned the importance of being able to cross the street safely and credited the recent road diet on Centre Street. Some expressed frustration over the lack of communication toward seniors about how they can remain in their zip codes long term as well as enjoy tax relief on their homes. West Roxbury resident Mimi Largey-Lyons said her home insurance, car insurance and all the utilities went up and she is on a fixed income. She admitted she had a $22 raise on her social security, which drew some laughter from the crowd.

02/11/2025

Hospital likely to be sold outright, Task Force coming together
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By Jeff Sullivan

About 120 residents attended the informational meeting on Thursday, Jan. 30, at the Norwood High School focusing on the reconstruction and, hopefully, sale of Norwood Hospital.

Currently, the site and the building are owned by Medical Properties Trust (MPT), Steward’s old landlord. The hospital flooded in 2020 and the building was deemed a total loss. In the fall of 2023, work on the construction of the hospital stopped. It was later discovered that Steward had run out of money and, according to reporting from The Boston Globe and others this was due to dishonest business practices.

MPT took over the construction site in March of 2024 and is currently working on getting the building weather tight in anticipation of a new tenant.

Town Manager Tony Mazzucco said MPT has had good communication with the Town, and it is his understanding that MPT wants to find a buyer for the whole site and not an operator to pay them rent.

“MPT began communicating with us around October of (last) year and we appreciate they at least pick up the phone; it has been difficult to reach some of our partners in state government,” he said, emphasizing that he meant the governor’s administration. “MPT has clearly stated they want to get a deal done on the property. They want to sell it and leave Massachusetts. Obviously, they’re goal is to make as much money as they can, and our goal is to get a hospital.”

Town Meeting member Helen Abdallah-Donohue asked during the question-and-answer session if there was any way the Town could mandate that the property the hospital currently sits on remain a hospital. She also pointed out that the land used to be owned by the Town about 100 years ago.

“We gave them Linden Street,” she said. “We gave up the right to walk through that property forever when people worked at the press and had to go to the schools. We have to take some positive action to put the pressure on.”

Mazzucco said, as he has numerous times in the past, that the building sitting there now is constructed as a hospital. It has different configurations than an office building or a residential building, and it would be a substantial investment to reconfigure it to any other use.

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