Presentations & Workshops
Last Updated: 5/25/23
NOTE: Community Organization meetings, in person group meetings, and precinct meetings that are informal are not listed here. Contact Maria Morelli, Senior Planner, to schedule site walks and discussions/presentations with your community group.
HARVARD ST. COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS BY NEIGHBORHOOD
Phase 1: Community Input for Desired Design Outcomes
- May 30 at Noon - School to Babcock
- Zoom meeting registration link | Pre-Workshop Survey
- Email addresses not collected to protect privacy.
- May 31 at Noon - Station to School
- Zoom meeting registration link | Pre-Workshop Survey
- Email addresses not collected to protect privacy.
- June 9 at Noon ADDITIONAL WORKSHOP Babcock to Verndale
- Zoom meeting registration link | Pre-Workshop Survey
- Email addresses not collected to protect privacy
- No need to re-submit survey if you answered it once before.
ADDITIONAL UPCOMING MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS
05.31.23, 06.03.23 (site walk), 06.09.23, 06.21.23, 06.30.23, 07.12.23, 07.21.23 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options) Meetings
06.05.23 Economic Development Advisory Board: Harvard Street Financial incentive for ground floor commercial, table of uses
06.27.23 Update #4 to Select Board: Initial Review of Compliance Options with MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee
06.28.23, 06.29.23 Harvard Street Phase 2 Workshops: Property-specific test fits
July 2023 Harvard Street Phase 3 Workshops: Draft Form-Based Code Zoning concepts
Mid-July 2023 Harvard Street First Zoning Draft for public, boards to review
07.11.23, 07.25.23, 08.15.23 OR 08.22.23 Select Board and Planning Board Joint Meetings prior to Fall Town Meeting Warrant Article Deadline
PAST EVENTS
2023
05.24.23 Update #3 to Select Board, focus on Harvard Street & Form-Based Code with Opticos Consultants
- Slides
- Recording
05.19.23 Meeting #3 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options)
05.12.2023 Harvard St Phase 1 Workshop #1 Babcock to Verndale
- Slides
- Recording
05.09.2023 Meeting #2 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options)
05.09.2023 Harvard MBTA-CA: Small Business Development Committee: holistic zoning plan for commercial success
- Slides
- Recording
05.08.2023 Harvard MBTA-CA: Economic Development Advisory Board: preliminary financial incentive for ground-floor commercial, proforma highest-best use, table of uses
- Slides Part 1 (incentive) and Slides Part 2 (uses)
- Recording
04.26.2023 Meeting #1 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options)
04.25.2023 Update #2 to Select Board: Guidance Change Requests, District Options, & Property Tax Questions
- Slides
- Recording
- Planning Staff begins at 5:22:07
- Tax Assessments and Zoning Changes begins at 5:40:37
- Town Administrator Letter to State Legislature
04.24.20230 District Options Workshop #3, including discussion of M-Districts
04.14.2023 District Options Workshop #2, including discussion of T-Districts
04.12.2023 Harvard MBTA-CA Coolidge Corner Merchants Associations Q&A
04.07.2023 Harvard MBTA-CA Black & Brown Club Inc. Q&A
04.04.2023 MBTA-CA Compliance Overview & District Options Workshop #1
04.03.2023 Update to Economic Development Advisory Board
04.03.2023 Harvard MBTA-CA Meeting #2 Brookline Council on Aging Network Livable Communities
03.28.2023 Update #1 to Select Board: District Options including Harvard Street & Overall Timeline
03.15.2023 Harvard Street Community Visioning Kickoff
02.28.2023 Opticos Design Contract
- Recording: Select Board discussion and vote on contract with Opticos regarding form-based code [jump to 57:43]
02.07.2023 Select Board Direction to Staff
- Recording: 2/7/23 Select Board discussion and vote of resolution regarding MBTA [jump to 31:27], resolution (.pdf page 24)
01.31.2023 Harvard St Proposal /Funding Request Select Board
- memo to Select Board (.pdf page 24),
- presentation slides
- Recording: Select Board meeting discussion [jump to 1:30:30] and vote to "allocate $277,000 from the Town's currently unallocated competitively available American Rescue Plan Act funds to the Department of Planning and Community Development’s Fiscal Year 2023 operating budget for the purposes of engaging a consultant to help develop a form-based zoning district compliant with the MBTA Communities Act along Harvard Street"
01.11.2023 Initial Proposal to Planning Board & Preservation Commission
- Slides | Recording
- Boards' Letter to Select Board 01.24.2023
01.09.2023 Initial Proposal to Economic Development Advisory Board
- Slides | Recording
- Boards' Letter to Select Board 01.09.2023
01.04.2023 Initial Proposal to Housing Advisory Board
- Slides | Recording
- Boards' Letter to Select Board 01.05.2023
12.05.2022 Initial Proposal to Economic Development Advisory Board
- Slides | Recording
COMMUNITY GROUPS (partial list)
Contact the community group for recordings. Informal conversations with Chairpersons of many groups are not recorded and therefore not listed here.
Black N Brown Club Inc.
Brookline CAN Livable Communities Advisory Council
Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Mothers Out Front
- Slides | Responses to Questions
2022
- 9/28/22 Housing Advisory Board meeting [jump to timestamp 1:40:33]
- 9/12/22 Economic Development Advisory Board meeting and presentation
- 9/8/22 State-hosted webinar on Guidelines
- 5/2/22 required submission to Department of Housing & Community Development
- Select Board, 4/5/22 minutes and presentation
- Housing Advisory Board, 1/19/22 [jump to timestamp 38:03] and presentation
- Planning Board, 1/26/22 presentation
2021
12.21.2021 Presentation to Housing Advisory Board