Public Improvement Commission meeting

Hearing Minutes

• At the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff, the Acceptance of the Minutes of the PIC hearing held on November 19, 2020.

Public Hearing

• 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 Roxbury and Dorchester, consisting of curb realignment, sidewalk and roadway reconstruction, as well as new and relocated median islands, pedestrian ramps, street lights, stormdrain infrastructure, protected bike lane infrastructure, and raised crosswalks:
  • Massachusetts Avenue – between Melnea Cass Boulevard and Columbia Road;
  • Columbia Road – generally between Pond Street and Massachusetts Avenue/Boston Street.

(NB 11/19/2020) As shown on a set of plans entitled “City of Boston Public Works Department, Engineering Division, Specific Repair Plan, Massachusetts Avenue, Melnea Cass Boulevard to Columbia Road,” 36 sheets dated November 11, 2020.

• On a petition by Crown Castle for a Grant of Location with lead company status and no participants to install new telecommunication conduit with City shadow within Harvard Avenue (public way), Hyde Park, located generally between Everett Street and River Street.

(NB 11/19/2020) As shown on a plan entitled “City of Boston Public Works Department, Engineering Division, Grant of Location Plan, 42 Bow St (Harvard Ave), Boston (Hyde Park),” 1 sheet dated November 19, 2020.

• On a petition by National Grid for a Grant of Location to install a gas regulator station and associated infrastructure within Seaverns Avenue (public way), West Roxbury, from Centre Street to a point southeast of Brown Terrace, generally at address nos. 17-19.

(NB 11/19/2020) As shown on a set of plans entitled “City of Boston Public Works Department, Engineering Division, Grant of Location Plan, Seaverns Avenue & Brown Terrace, Jamaica Plain,” 5 sheets dated October 26, 2020.

New Business

256-264 Huntington Avenue; Roxbury – Earth Retention License – On a petition by Huntington Theatre Company Inc.