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...spreads himself really thin,” says Allston Burr Resident Dean of Quincy House, Judith F. Chapman. “There are so many times I see him in the dining hall and he’s been up all night writing…[in this respect] Tim, he still lives a lot like an undergrad does...
Armed with a lengthy PowerPoint presentation and an array of colorful maps of Allston, BRA Chief Architect Bob Kroin laid out a series of plans to address what he said were the three main goals distilled from previous CWP discussions: increasing the Charles River’s accessibility to Allston, connecting currently disparate neighborhoods with green pathways and street networks, and aggregating commercial and cultural activity along Western Ave. at several focal points...
...Read, a senior planner for the BRA, followed Kroin’s presentation by describing possible improvements to public transportation in Allston. These included the construction of an MBTA commuter rail station at the southern edge of the neighborhood as well as the development of a circular rapid bus transit system around Boston that would improve Allston’s already-extensive bus network...
Harry Mattison, a local resident and a Harvard Allston Task Force member, said after the meeting that while the presentation was intended to be a broad overview, he would rather the BRA focus more on specific development issues such as the Charlesview apartment relocation and not plans that “may or may not happen in 10 or 20 years...
...Pinchera, another Allston resident, said that Mattison’s view is short-sighted, and that the current CWP framework is helpful in bringing together diverse neighborhood viewpoints...