My name is Nick Gove, Interim Chief of Streets and Chair of the Public Policy Commission.

I call toward the Public Improvement Commission hearing of May twenty first, twenty twenty-six.

Mr.

Lyman, please take the roll call.

Certainly, with the representative from the Public Works Department, please state their name for the record.

Property management department, please do the same.

Joseph Callahan.

Thank you, sir.

Okay, hearing minutes, the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff, acceptance of the minutes of the public improvement commission hearing, which was held on May seventh, twenty twenty six?

Second.

I'll make a motion to approve the minutes.

Any opposed or abstained?

Hearing none so moved.

Okay, moving to the public hearing, agenda item number one, on a petition by Washington three four five eight LLC for the acceptance of a pedestrian easement adjacent to the following public ways in West Roxbury, Washington Street on its southeast or each side, addresses number 3458, southwest of Kenton Road, and Kenton Road on its southwest side of Washington Street.

As shown on a plan entitled City Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division, pedestrian usement plan 3458 Washington Street and Kenton Road, Jamaica Plain, one sheet dated May 19, 2026.

We'll hand it off to the proponent.

On behalf of the entire project team, we are requesting a continuance to the June 4th hearing where we square away some final details relative to the pedestrian ramps at the project site.

Okay.

Any questions or comments from the commission?

Notion.

I'll make a motion to continue public hearing item number one as ready for the record by the chair until June.

What?

Actually, I can't.

Sorry, we don't need a motion, correct?

We make a motion to continue.

Yeah, this is fine.

Seconded.

All in favor.

Any opposed or saying?

Hearing none so moved.

On to agenda item number two.

On a petition by Washington 3458 LLC for the making of specific repairs within the following public ways and West Roxbury, consisting of curb and sidewalk reconstruction with structural soil as well as new and relocated pedestrian ramps, specifically pavement, street lighting, infrastructure, street trees, street furniture, bike racks, driveway curb cuts, and a utility access hatch.

Washington Street on its southeast to least side at address number 3458 southwest of Kenton Road and Kent Road, southeast of Washington Street, as shown on a set of plans entitled City of Boston Public Works Department Engineering Division Specific Repair Plan, Washington Street and Kent Road, Public Way 3458, Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, Four Sheets, David April, 2nd, 2026.

Back to the proponent.

Thank you.

Again, Matty Blanchard with Howard Side Hudson providing the PIC permitting services for this job.

Joined by Washington 3458 LLC, the project proponent.

On the behalf of the project team, we're requesting a continuance of these specific repairs to the June 4th hearing while we finalize some pedestrian ramp design items with the city.

Back to the commission.

Questions or comments?

More motion.

I'll make a motion to continue public hearing item number two with written to work by the chair until June 4th.

Second.

All in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Hearing not so moved.

Okay.

Thank you.

That concludes the public hearing.

Uh we're gonna move on to new business.

Agenda item number one, uh 30 to 81 street and came Cambridge Street in Brighton, a pedestrian easement, specific repairs on a set of petitions by Franciscan Hospital for Children Corporate.

Good morning, chief, members of the commission, members of the public and staff.

Thank you for hearing us today.

My name is Howard Mosier.

I work at VHB in Boston, and I'm going to present the proposed actions for Franciscan Children's Hospital.

Um I would like to acknowledge that at uh at our disposal, we have a number of members of the team, including the owners from Franciscan Children's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital, representatives from the architect, landscape architect, legal counsel, and Civil Engineers.

At this uh time, I'd like to turn over the presentation to Jennifer Atlas for a brief introduction uh of Franciscan Children's Mission and why we need this project.

All right, uh thank you to the members of the commission uh for your time this morning.

Greatly appreciate it.

Um, you know, at Franciscan, we are so excited about our campus modernization plans.

Um, just wanted to give a little bit of background on us.

Um, Franciscan is a pediatric specialty hospital.

We are located in Brighton.

We serve over 8,600 patients a year, all children that you see on the right, those are many of our patients.

We were founded back in 1949, really with the goal of serving kids with complex needs.

Our mission is really to help kids reach their full potential and live their best life, whatever that means for them.

Today we are organized into four different service lines: behavioral and mental health, medical, dental surgical services, and we also have a special education school, our Kennedy Day School.

On the mental health side, we are one of the largest providers of mental health services for kids in the state, and a significant provider in Boston.

We have services all the way from inpatient care to outpatient and community-based programming, which we're excited to expand through our campus modernization plans.

We are the only pediatric rehab hospital in Massachusetts.

We serve many complex kids on ventilators through this program.

We also have an outpatient dental clinic that serves kids with complex needs, and we're a leading provider of dental surgery, and our day school serves at any given time 65 to 70 kids, sometimes more, also complex medical and behavioral health needs.

Many of our kids have mobility and accessibility issues, and we are so excited for our campus modernization plans.

You can see some of the goals for them on the slide.

We have been working towards this for a very long time.

We have currently eight buildings on our campus, half of which date back to their founding, our founding in 1949.

So we're really excited through our campus modernization to build a new building that will expand services and behavioral health and medical rehabilitation.

We're excited to add new services to have improved co-location of clinical programming and more space for patients, families, expanded research, and a better environment of work for our staff.

This project was really for our families and incorporates significant community feedback.

So again, so delighted to be able to share updates on this project today.

We're really excited about it and going to turn it back to Howard.

Thank you, Jennifer.

To orient the campus, you can see an aerial photo on your screens, Warren Street being to the south, Cambridge Street being to the north, and the campus is in the middle, and I'll zoom in.

And as I zoom in, I would I would note that the project that you're going to see in the proposed actions are the culmination of several years of engaged process with community city agencies and a lot of urban planning that kind of culminates in what we're presenting today in the urban realm.

As Jennifer noted, you can see this campus is kind of a cobbled together set of older buildings, not many being modern and not very efficient for the mission that the Franciscan is trying to accomplish.

I'll note in as we look at the proposed rendering, the proposed building will be situated in this northeast corner.

And taking advantage of the surface parking lot to start early construction as it transforms the campus, but I'll note there's a number of buildings here that are proposed for demolition.

So there'll be a new building in this corner, and then these buildings will remain in the master plan.

And just slightly changing the orientation north, you can see the where their vision is for the final condition of the campus with a new clinical building in this corner, reduced surface parking, a very large rain garden, very controlled play spaces for the kids, and the Kennedy Day School, and this building we call building seven remains.

As part of this project, we are consolidating a number of curb cuts.

There's a number that exist in current conditions along Warren Street, one of which will be closed, and there's an existing curb cut on Cambridge Street, which we are proposing to close.

We're proposing significant public realm improvements in the effort to improve the tree canopy, shading the street and the sidewalk, and provide a more pleasant and calm environment for pedestrians and patients and users of the hospital coming through.

Just to get a sense of the scale of the project, this is a view of the new building that is proposed with the rain garden in the foreground, and some of the linear paths.

So this is on the site, private site looking towards the new building, so everyone gets a sense of the scale of the project.

As it boils down to our PIC actions, we're asking for your consideration too.

One is the making of a number of specific repairs, which I'll speak to on the plans, but they include the revised curb cuts, two raised pedestrian crossings on Warren Street, new pedestrian sidewalks, new trees, street lighting improvements, irrigation for the landscaping, street furnishings, including benches and trash receptacles.

As a result of the improvements to the sidewalks, including widen the sidewalks and slight reorientations, we are proposing a granting of a pedestrian easement to encapsulate the revised public realm of 7700 square feet plus or minus, resize these sheets.

But as you see on the screen, there are um two sheets of plan view content on the specific repairs again.

Up here, the closure of a curb cut on, and I'll zoom in a little bit, the closure of the curb cut on Cambridge Street, which was important as part of the planning process.

Here is one of the raised crosswalks and the sidewalk realm, which drifts the red line being the existing property line, as you can see.

There's a slight reorientation to facilitate the installation of meaningful street trees in the buffer zone.

Blue bikes will be part of the project, they are slightly outside the pedestrian easement, but those are proposed.

Mailboxes, benches that are accessible, and irrigation equipment will be proposed in that zone.

Going to the next sheet, the second pedestrian crossing is just to the east of the other one.

It lines up with the path.

And for reference, this was the viewport looking at the building.

We are revising there's two curb cuts here.

We're revising it to one.

That will be the main entry to the project and certain project.

Also included in the project uh specific repair.

There's a number of details, which I will not dwell upon, but they're available for review.

And then, if I continue to the pedestrian easement plan, we are proposing the pedestrian easement, which encapsulates the revised public realm.

That concludes my portion of the presentation.

Thank you for hearing us and look forward to any questions you may have.

Thanks, Howard.

Any questions or comments from the commission?

Hi, Howard.

Thank you so much for the presentation.

On the disposal commissioner, we'd just like to thank the team for their hard work incorporating our feedback over the past couple of months.

Thank you.

Any other questions or comments from the commission?

All right.

June 4th, enough time.

We'll be ready, Chief.

Great.

Thank you.

See you then.

All right.

Happy holidays.

Thank you.

All right.

Next item on the agenda is 265 to 279 Center Street, Lambertine Street, Roxbury specific Paris, a joint petition by Jamaica Plain.

Neighborhood Development Corporation doing business as Mildred Haley II limited partnership within the Boston Housing Authority.

We'll hand it over to the Propol.

Good morning, Commission Member Steven Metresca with Nich Engineering on behalf of JPN DC.

This is a continuation of the Mildred Haley revitalization here Jackson Square, T-Stop.

The LM that you're seeing here is phase one.

And then there are sub phases within, and this is phase one A1B here, and we're focused on phase two, which is down at this point of the site adjacent to Center Street.

We'll get right into the petition for for bumping out the street curb line so that we can provide amenities such as sports papers and bike racks.

In addition to providing three new trees, we do need to remove one tree, and so we're scheduled for a June 4th Street hearing to discuss that matter with the tree commission.

We're restriping the crosswalks on Center Street and Lamartine Street and this location here, and we're providing a widened cement concrete sidewalk along this location in the public way.

Any questions, comments?

Looking forward to hearing them and addressing them.

Thank you.

Questions or comments from the commission?

Okay, hearing none.

It's June 4th last time.

So we do have the tree hearing on the 4th at 10 o'clock, which is I think the same time as this.

So I uh later in the month.

Yeah, I mean, if um if I can maybe be so bold, is there an opportunity to maybe be placed on the June 4th agenda, and if we need to continue, we could certainly request that.

I don't know what Todd maybe has any comments.

Todd, does that work or would you rather just do it on the 18th?

Um, well, so I think it would be tricky to attend both hearings at the exact same time.

Um, I'll suggest June 25th is probably a better option.

Okay.

Well, I have to try Todd, but I appreciate it.

One of the shots.

We're the shot.

Thanks.

We would like to be continued to the 25th, please.

Okay, yes, and confirming that that next hearing is the 25th, not the 18th.

Thank you.

Okay, next item of new business.

Uh Columbus Avenue, Washington Street, Roxbury, specific repairs on a petition by City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department.

Over to the proponent.

Welcome.

Uh, thank you.

Uh good morning.

I'm Jacob Murray from Waterfield Design Group.

We are the civil engineer on the Robert Larson Park Renovation Plans specific repair project.

Also with us is uh Priyanka from Boston Parks Recreation and Tracy and Kyle from Kyle's IC landscape architects uh for the park.

Uh the project is the renovation of the existing Robert Lawson Park at the intersections of Columbus Ave, Atherton Street, and Washington Street.

A small uh the park is owned and maintained by Boston Parks and Recreation.

A small portion is currently within the right-of-way for Columbus Ave and is already being maintained by Boston Parks and Recreation.

This is this kind of area in here.

I'll show a number of pictures here to help you get that orientation.

The edge of the sidewalk and the limits of the park are not changing.

Boston Park and Recreation is asking to maintain the approximate existing uh area uh and limit.

So the sidewalk here that you see on the proposed uh because rendering is it is this approximately the same.

There's actually a wedge right here that would be uh that is existing park that will become uh part of the concrete sidewalk.

And then a couple visuals of what that is, and then bring up the plans.

So the red line here is the area that's already uh within the right-of-way, but also maintained by the Boston Parks and Recreation.

But that basically is going to be re-landscaped as a park, uh, with uh some trees being maintained and others being planted, and with two entrances uh through the park area.

There is a new water and sewer connection, sorry, water connection that's being made, but that is going uh as all within Boston Parks Recreation property, and that is being made to Atherton Street, the new connection.

Uh Boston Water Sewer is currently reviewing those plans.

Uh there's no Boston Water uh sewer work within the right-of-way.

There is an electric connection uh down near the abutting property over in the north.

So uh also just note a traffic signal is nearby the park, and the infrastructure for the traffic signal has been added to the plans, but no disturbance in that area is proposed, and the applicant's requesting specific repairs permit to update the park within the right of way.

So with that, I'll take any questions you have.

Thank you.

Any questions or comments from the commission?

Hearing none.

Is June 4th enough time?

Yes, June 4th's enough time.

Thank you.

Okay, last item of new business.

Um, five to nineteen eleven center street.

Uh Park Street in West Roxbury, pedestrian needs with specific repairs on a set of petitions uh by cat builders.

LLC.

Hello, Commission members.

Uh my name is Michael Joyce with Joyce Consultant Group with the civil engineers for this project.

Um, so we'll hop right in.

Uh project's located at 1905 and 1911 center street.

Uh, the intersection of Center Street and Park Street in West Roxbury.

Um the applicant's proposing to construct a four-story 21 unit mixed use building.

Uh, and as part of that work, we are proposing um some sidewalk improvements.

Um, specifically, we're closing two existing curb cuts on Center Street, uh 16 foot curb cut here, 28-foot curb cut here.

Uh we're also proposing two additional street trees.

There's one currently in this location.

Uh, we'll be expanding that uh tree pit and then adding one to either side as well.

Um, as you work your way around.

Um, I should also mention there's a couple of bike racks being proposed and a couple of street benches here.

Um, as we work our way around the building.

Uh there's also going to be there's an existing curb cut on park street.

This area here here.

It's uh the existing curb cuts about 28 feet in width.

Uh we're going to be consolidated consolidating that to a 12-foot wide curb cut uh with the two-foot radius stones.

Um in addition to that work, we're also we have uh four pedestrian ramps either on the corner of the law, a corner of the site or directly across.

So we'll be uh bringing those pedestrian ramps up to grade, um, and providing uh street lighting improvements as well.

Um I think that covers the majority of that.

Uh if you want me, I can there will be a slight uh pedestrian easement on this corner here.

Um I can all hop to that plan just so that you can see, but that that's the location of the pedestrian easement about 14 square feet.

Um it's just uh space to provide uh pedestrian access at the corner.

That I'd be happy to open it up to any questions.

Thank you.

Any questions or comments from the commission?

All right, hearing none.

June fourth enough time.

Should be, yes.

See you then.

All right, great, thanks so much.

All right, that concludes new business uh of a motion to adjourn.

I make a motion to adjourn.

Second.

All in favor?

Thank you, everybody.

Thank you.