BPDA Austin Street Parking Lot Development | Charlestown

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Only new render of the new supplemental filing.

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New draft masterplan

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New draft development plan

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[Vagabond]

Only new render of the new supplemental filing.

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New draft masterplan

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New draft development plan

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OLD

NEW - lots of added pavement and unnecessary rotary... why even bother with the "Middle Road" with the multiple cut-thrus? I do like the new form of the protected courtyards and better frontage on Rutherford.

Phase 1 is the shortest building at only 7 stories - will that even be taller than the highway?

 

[NorthshoreCity]

Unfortunate - phase 1 was supposed to be 12 stories with 217 units...

 

[Jeremi]

This area isn't an appropriate place for human habitation.

 

[Charlie_mta]

The residents of Charlestown who live right next to it. It also separates a good chunk of Charlestown from the main section...

The city of Boston should have moved Rutherford Ave over to run alongside I-93 from City Square to Sullivan Square decades ago. It's too late now with all the development along the corridor.

 

[Vagabond]

How does this development impact the Rutherford realignment plan? The major roadway is still directly next to those fields, and the greenspace is provided on the other side of the road.

 

[Jeremi]

The fields will be unusable due to air quality and nobody will cross Rutherford even with the “road diet” that doesn’t actually fix the road.

 

[curcuas]

The fields will be unusable due to air quality and nobody will cross Rutherford even with the “road diet” that doesn’t actually fix the road.

It's interesting to compare this project to the Dot Ave rezoning projects, where they're planning parks along interior streets surrounded by towers of res/commercial and not putting them directly on Dot Ave. And Dot Ave is much less busy.

 

[#bancars]

The fields will be unusable due to air quality and nobody will cross Rutherford even with the “road diet” that doesn’t actually fix the road.

They'll probably get used, but it will have a health impact. A lot of people really don't understand how bad air quality and particulate matter is that close to a highway (including me just a decade ago)! Plenty of people use the skatepark in Cambridge under 93, as well as the soccer field right by the EF building, which is only a couple hundred feed from the highway.