PLEASE NOTE: This meeting represents our first return to in-person meetings! Hybrid functionality is available for those calling in from elsewhere. To call in, please use this link.
How to participate in-person: Come to the FXB building of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health; entrance is @ 651 Huntington Avenue. Look for room G13 — early arrival is encouraged!
Agenda
Community Updates and Announcements
Address by District 8 City Councilor Kenzie Bok (see community letter)
Meet Council Candidate Sharon Durkan w/ Q&A
Open Community Discussion about Current Affairs in Mission Hill
Minutes of our prior meeting on March 15, 2023 can be found here.
In the news: The Mission Hill Gazette reported about our March meeting. The Fenway News reported about a petition to create a protection zone that could preserve historic view corridors to the Basilica at 1545 Tremont St.
Events & Notifications
—Upcoming BPDA Meetings on Large Development in Mission Hill
—Thursday, April 20th, 6-8 PM: Updates to the 1558 Tremont Street project (former funeral home).
The meeting will include a presentation followed by Q&A and comments from the general public. Contact Name: Daniel Polanco, Dan.Polanco@Boston.gov
Register in advance: bit.ly/3U4ziqD—Tuesday, April 25th, 6-7:30 PM: Impact Advisory Group (IAG) meeting on a proposed large development Wentworth - 500 Huntington Avenue.
The development involves (a) demolishing an existing parking lot, three small buildings, and an artificial turf athletic field and (b) constructing two new mixed-use buildings comprising approximately 640,000 square feet of life science, office, cultural, and retail/commercial uses along with below grade parking. The meeting will include a presentation followed by Q&A and comments from the general public.
Contact name: Stephen Harvey, Stephen.J.Harvey@Boston.gov
Register in advance: bit.ly/3ToN1YR
—Tuesday, May 2nd, 6-7:30 PM: Public Meeting for the above Wentworth - 500 Huntington Avenue project with Q&A and opportunity to comment. Register in advance: bit.ly/3YSLNWX Written comments are due by May 19th 2023.
—Tuesday, May 9th, 6-8 PM: Wentworth Institute of Technology Institutional Master Plan 2023-2033.
Public meeting with Q&A and opportunity to comment. Contact name: Nick Carter, nick.carter@boston.gov
Register in advance: bit.ly/3UhuaQ2
—Events/Announcements by Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services—Please sign up to participate / volunteer. Contact: intern@missionhillnhs.org
—Saturday, April 22nd, 10AM-noon: Love Your Block - Roxbury Crossing: Volunteers needed to participate in street clean up.
—Friday, April 28th, 2-5 PM: Arbor Day Event in Fitzgerald Park
—Thursday June 15th from 5:30 PM: MHNHS 49th Annual Meeting - see flyer
—Wednesday May 17th from 5 PM: Deadline for submitting rental application available for new One Halleck Street development at Roxbury Crossing (Parcel 25). Further information, including income limits and opportunities for informational meetings via Zoom, can be found here.
—Mission Hill Little League—Saturday April 29th from 11-2 PM: 70th anniversary season starts @ 269 Parker Hill Ave. For further info please contact (617) 939-1766 or Missionhill.littleleague@gmail.com
—MH Crime Committee Meeting
-Thursday April 27th @ 6 pm: The MH Crime Committee meets on the last Thursday of each month (April date to be confirmed). Questions and requests to join the MHCC mailing list should be addressed to eric@longwoodboston.com
—Music And Vibrations: Project by MH artist Kevin Harris—Details and dates can be found here.
Zoom link is below: