Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage)
Study: Greenway tower would not be shadow problem
By Thomas Grillo
Monday, June 14, 2010 - Updated 2m ago
E-mail Print (1) Comments Text size Share Buzz up!The Chiofaro Co. contends that a pair of waterfront skyscrapers will not ?significantly? cast greater shadows and generate more wind on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway than more modest-sized buildings.
In a filing that is expected to be received by City Hall today to address environmental issues raised by replacing the Harbor Garage with a 40-story office tower and a 59-story condominium and hotel skyscraper, Chiofaro said a proposed tower as high as 600 feet will not ?canyonize? the Greenway much more than a 200-foot building - the height recommended by the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
?This review should thankfully put the shadow issue to rest once and for all,? said Donald Chiofaro, president of the Chiofaro Co., in a statement. ?This exhaustive study proves beyond a shadow of doubt, if you will, that a building of any height casts no new significant shadows on the Greenway.?
Chiofaro said all shadows associated by a building of any size disappear from the Greenway by noon daily and almost entirely by 11 a.m. Furthermore, he noted that any new shadows on the Greenway from a building above the allowed height of 155 feet lasting longer than an hour are ?minimal.?
A BRA spokeswoman said the agency has not received the document and could not comment.
Chiofaro, who filed plans last year to transform the concrete seven-story garage into a mix of offices and residences, has faced criticism from abutters and Mayor Thomas M. Menino who say they would like to see the garage replaced with a much smaller-scaled development.
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