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Public Improvement Commission Hearing

There will be a Public Improvement Commission hearing on October 10 at 10 a.m.

This Thursday's Public Improvement Commission hearing is scheduled for its regular time, 10 a.m. Project teams and Commission members will be participating in this hearing primarily from remote locations. Hearing participants will be digitally connected in real time courtesy of the City’s Department of Innovation and Technology. Members of the public who wish to participate in the hearing are strongly encouraged to do so remotely. The hearing will continue to be televised and may also be streamed live online via Boston TV. Those members of the public who are unable or choose not to participate remotely should report to City Hall room 801 at the time of the hearing. Written testimony for all agenda items will continue to be accepted via email. Written testimony should be directed to PIC@boston.gov

All project team members who intend to join their project's presentation, as well as any City staff representatives or members of the public who wish to participate remotely, should complete the registration form available online by Wednesday afternoon.

Discussion Topics

  1. Hearing Minutes

    HM 1.  At the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff, the Acceptance of the Minutes of the PIC hearing held on September 26, 2024.

  2. Public Hearing

    PH 1.  On a joint petition by the City of Boston Transportation Department and the City of Boston Public Works Department for the making of Specific Repairs within the following public ways in South Boston, consisting of curb realignment, roadway and sidewalk reconstruction, as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, traffic signal infrastructure, street lighting infrastructure, hydrants, driveway curb cuts, raised crosswalks, protected bicycle facilities, and median islands:

    • Old Colony Avenue – generally between Joseph Agri Street and Mitchell Street;

    • Dorchester Street – generally between Tuckerman Street and Rev. Richard A. Burke Street;

    • Mitchell Street – generally at Old Colony Avenue.

    (NB 9/26/2024) As shown on a set of plans entitled “City of Boston Public Works Department, Engineering Division, Specific Repair Plan, Old Colony Avenue & Dorchester Street, South Boston,” 5 sheets dated September 18, 2024.

    PH 2.  On a joint petition by the City of Boston Parks & Recreation Department and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for a Street Name Change, renaming the entirety of Bussey Street (public way), West Roxbury, located between South Street and Walter Street, to be officially known in the future as Flora Way. (NB 9/26/2024)

  3. New Business

    NB 1.  General Lawrence J. Logan Way, Monsignor Dennis F. O'Callaghan Way, Veterans Way, General William H. Devine Way, Major Michael J. O'Connor Way; South Boston – Highway Discontinuances, Widening/Relocation/Extensions, Line & Grade Approval, Pedestrian Easements, Specific Repairs – On a set of joint petitions by MEM Building A LLC and the Boston Housing Authority

    NB 2.  Trotting Avenue, Milestone Street, Axle Way; Brighton – Line & Grade Approvals, Layout Approval, Vertical Discontinuances, Pedestrian Easement, Private Utility Licenses – On a set of petitions by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

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