Planning & Community Development

Oct. 31st, 12 pm - First Meeting of Planning Process Committee

If you want to learn about Comprehensive Plans and how they are used, then please join us Monday at noon! The Planning Process Study Committee works with staff to develop the timeline, work program, budget and scope for an inclusive, community-driven planning and zoning reform process.

Nov. 3rd, 5-7:45 pm - Public Art Community Engagement Event

Help bring more public art to Brookline! The Economic Development Division, in partnership with the Brookline Arts Center (BAC), is hosting a community engagement event on Thursday, November 3, 2022 from 5:00-7:45pm at the Beacon Street Art Gallery (1351 Beacon Street) in Coolidge Corner to kick-off Brookline Art Makes Community (BAMC), an ARPA-funded commercial areas public art & placemaking initiative. Members of the Brookline community are encouraged to attend and learn about this new public art initiative, and contribute input on preferred types of public art (e.g. murals, sculptures, lighting installations), as well as potential locations for public art installations. Questions? Contact Aaron Norris, Economic Development Planner at [email protected]. We hope to see you there!

In Case You Missed It

• Last week the 10 Brookline Place Study Committee hosted a community workshop at Town Hall. Thank you to all the staff and volunteers who made this event a success; we enjoyed having an in-person, large meeting for the first time in almost three years!
• The Boston Foundation released its annual Greater Boston Housing Report Card, exploring in part the effect of the pandemic on the housing market.
• The State expanded MBTA Communities criteria for compliance with the new Multifamily Zoning Law to allow municipalities like Brookline maintain their local affordable housing requirements for a wider range of household-income levels.

Thanks to Virginia Bullock

After 20 years as a housing planner for the Town of Brookline, Virginia Bullock (pictured below at our celebration last week) begins a new work chapter this week as Manager of State Housing Programs at the Massachusetts Department of Housing & Community Development. We will greatly miss her deep affordable housing knowledge and thank her for so many years of dedication – in her tenure, the Town of Brookline permitted over 600 deed-restricted affordable units.

In-person 10 Brookline Place Community Workshop Event: Wednesday, October 19, 6-8pm, Brookline Town Hall – Room 103

Planning & Community Development Department staff and the Select Board-appointed 10 Brookline Place Committee will host an in-person community workshop event on Wednesday, October 19 from 6-8pm at Brookline Town Hall, regarding the potential rezoning and new life science lab use redevelopment of 10 Brookline Place in Brookline Village. The Brookline community is encouraged to attend to learn about the potential redevelopment of 10 Brookline Place for laboratory Life Science and other related uses, and to share input on the future of the 10 Brookline Place site. Community feedback from this event will inform the 10 Brookline Place Committee’s possible recommendations to the Select Board about a rezoning and new use proposal for this site to Town Meeting in the spring of 2023. Questions about this event? Contact Meredith L. Mooney, Economic Development Director, at [email protected].  

Save the Dates!

Zoom links to the following meetings will be posted on the Town Calendar a week ahead of time; in the mean time, you may want to save the date!

The Boylston Street Corridor Study Committee will resume their meetings beginning Monday, October 24, 11:30 am. The Design Review Committee for the Davis Path footbridge will be meeting on Thursday, October 27, at 6:00 pm.

The Planning Process Study Committee will meet for the first time on Monday, October 31st at 12 pm. This Committee is charged with developing a timeline, work program, budget and scope for an inclusive, community-driven planning and zoning reform process. 

Last weekend at Brookline Day...