Past Meetings related to MBTA-CA

Last Updated: 9/26/23

NOTE: Below is a list of previous meetings related to MBTA-CA, including materials and recordings. For meetings following September 26, 2023, please see Select Board website.

  • 09.26.23 Select Board & Advisory Subcommittee public hearing and discussion on warrant articles
  • 09.19.23 Select Board discussion and potential vote to add an additional warrant article (STM 4) that requires ground-floor commercial for all of Harvard Street
  • 09.12.23 Select Board discussion and potential vote to add an additional warrant article (STM 3) that requires ground-floor commercial for all of Harvard Street except three parcels north of Webster Street
  • 09.07.23 HAB Meeting - voted to recommend to Select Board to amend zoning to allow cash payment in lieu of affordable units projects 4-10 units in size on Harvard Street, consistent with the rest of the Town 
  • 08.25.23 Meeting #13 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options) Meeting - final zoning edits discussed
  • 08.15.23 Select Board discussion and votes prior to Fall Town Meeting Warrant Article Deadlines
  • 08.15.23 Meeting #12 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee Meeting including public hearing on Heath/Sheafe and Walnut/High areas
  • 08.14.23 Meeting #11 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee Meeting including public hearing on Emerald Island Zoning Amendments
  • 08.09.23 at 8:30am Planning Board to review M-District and other Zoning recommended by MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee
    • Presentation | Materials
    • Recording
  • 08.08.2023 HARVARD STREET ZONING Preservation Commission
  • 08.02.2023 HARVARD STREET ZONING Planning Board 
  • 08.01.2023 HARVARD STREET ZONING Phase 3 Site Visualizations Workshops
  • 07.28.23 at 4pm Meeting #10 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options) Meetings: design guidelines for M-Districts
  • 07.25.2023 Update to Select Board
  • 07.21.23 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options) Meeting
  • 07.18.23, 6:30 pm Meeting #9 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee PUBLIC HEARING ON MULTIFAMILY (M) DISTRICTS
  • 07.18.23 Small Business Development Committee HARVARD STREET at 9 am
  • 07.14.23 Meeting #8 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options) Meeting
  • 07.12.23 Meeting #7 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options) Meeting
  • 06.30.23 Meeting #6 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (M-District Architectural Standards, Walnut/High/Juniper site, T-District yield)
  • 06.28.23, 06.29.23 HARVARD ST Phase 2 Workshops: Property-specific test fits
  • 06.27.23 Update #4 to Select Board: Initial Review of Compliance Options with MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee 
  • 06.21.23 Meeting #5 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options)
  • 06.20.23 HARVARD ST - Economic Development Advisory Board: Harvard Street Financial incentive for ground floor commercial, table of uses
  • 06.09.23 Meeting #5 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options)
  • May-June 2023 SURVEY RESULTS: 5600 Postcards distributed to business owners, residents, property owners, tenants on and within 600 feet of Harvard Street in preparation of workshops facilitated by Opticos Design. Survey results are divided among 7 subareas of Harvard Street for specialized attention to the distinct neighborhoods among Harvard Street. Slide 42 (areas 1-2), Slide 63 (areas 3-4-5),Slide 85 (areas 6-7)
  • 06.09.23 HARVARD ST Phase 1 Workshop #2 Babcock to Verndale
  • 06.07.23 HARVARD ST - Housing Advisory Board: Harvard Street Financial incentive for ground floor commercial, table of uses
  • 06.03.23 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (Site Walk across Various M-Districts)
    • Materials (no recording or minutes for site walk)
  • 05.31.23 Meeting #4 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options)
  • 05.31.2023 HARVARD ST Phase 1 Workshop Station to School
  • 05.30.23 HARVARD ST Phase 1 Workshop Babcock to School
  • 05.24.23 Update #3 to Select Board, focus on Harvard Street & Form-Based Code with Opticos Consultants
  • 05.19.23 Meeting #3 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options)
  • 05.12.2023 HARVARD ST Phase 1 Workshop #1 Babcock to Verndale
  • 05.09.2023 Meeting #2 MBTA-CA Multifamily Permitting Committee (District Options)
  • 05.09.2023 HARVARD ST MBTA-CA: Small Business Development Committee: holistic zoning plan for commercial success
  • 05.08.2023 HARVARD ST 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
  • 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
  • 02.07.2023 Select Board Direction to Staff
  • 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
  • 01.09.2023 Initial Proposal to Economic Development Advisory Board
  • 01.04.2023 Initial Proposal to Housing Advisory Board 
  • 12.05.2022 Initial Proposal to Economic Development Advisory Board

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12.21.2021 Presentation to Housing Advisory Board

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.