Current Issues
SEPTEMBER UPDATE ON FENWAY PROJECTS:
see Boston Globe articles here and here
August 15th 2011: Fenway Triangle Mixed Use Project (Samuels Building)
This meeting is to discuss the Zoning Changes for the Samuels Site project. If you recall they have already gone through the Article 80 Large project review and we had a public meeting much earlier in the year with comment period. The zoning must be changed to allow the project, which has strong support in the community, to go forward. So this meeting deals specifically with the changes in the zoning and their Planned Development Area (PDA) plan.
Location: 1363 Boylston Street, Burtons Grill Private Function Room, 6-7pm
August 17th, 2011: Parcel 7 Air Rights Project (Meredith Management)
This meeting is to discuss the very minor change in the already BRA approved project of the Parcel 7 Air Rights. A Notice of Project Change (NPC) was filed with the BRA requesting the change of use of the approved building #2 in the plan from office to residential. The building footprint is essentially the same and actually the building gets a shade slimmer and the parking actually decreases with the change to residential. The meeting is required as part of the NPC but really the only change being that the use is now different from previously approved.
Location: 174 Ipswich Street, Boston Arts Academy Auditorium, 1st Floor, 6-7pm
August 24th, 2011: 1282 Boylston Mixed Use Project/McDonalds Site (Abbey Group)
This meeting is a follow up meeting to the public meeting that was held on Aug 2nd but coincided with National Night Out/Sox Game/Thunderstorm. This is a meeting that is triggered by the Article 80 Large Project review to discuss the impacts of the proposed building on the surrounding area.
Location: 1340 Boylston Street, Fenway Health Center, 10th Floor Auditorium, 6-8pm
February 10, 2010: ACNA Design Committee meeting with Boston Transportation Dept. et al on proposed Audubon Circle Redesign
The ACNA's Audubon Circle Redesign Committee met with representatives from the Boston Transportation Dept. and its partners in the design, HDR Inc. and Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge (landscape architects), to provide preliminary input on the design, now at 25%. After a brief presentation by HDR and CSS, ACNA representatives offered a list of desirables for the redesign, including reducing traffic accidents, improving traffic lane striping, maintaining resident parking spaces, preserving the historical nature of the circle, and improving pedestrian safety. A full neighborhood meeting for residents of Audubon Circle and the Boylston Street area is planned in March - stay tuned!
October 5, 2009, 6:30 PM: Neighborhood Meeting on Audubon Circle Redesign at Boston Arts Academy
On Monday October 5th at 6:30 PM representatives from the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Boston Transportation Department held a meeting about their developing plans for the redesign of Audubon Circle (see our Projects Page for the latest report and plan).
August/September 2009: Open House for approval of bicycle shop façade
On August 25th at 6 PM Boston Bicycle at 842 Beacon (at Miner St.) held a community open house to gain comments on and approval of the design of their new façade, at the request of ACNA.
August 2009: One Kenmore in the news
See the article on One Kenmore (here called the Fenway Project, by developer John Rosenthal) from the Globe! (20 August 2009) and the letter in response.
July/August 2009: Proposed Verizon cellphone signal transmitter at 465 Park Drive
At a Zoning Variance hearing at the Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday, August 4th, Verizon's request for a zoning variance to place a cellphone transmission tower on the roof and facade of 465 Park Drive was rejected. Speaking against the variance were ACNA board members and representatives from the offices of City Councillor Mike Ross and Mayor Menino.