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Boston city planners presented Allston residents and University developers with a long-term conceptual framework for neighborhood development at last night’s North Allston-Brighton Community-Wide Planning meeting where they discussed issues ranging from public transportation to open spaces and street-side commercial development.
The CWP process, which addresses development issues in Allston not limited to Harvard’s expansion, has been conducted internally since late fall as city officials focused on the University’s future institutional plans and decision to slow construction in Allston due to financial constraints.
Officials from the Boston Redevelopment Authority—the city’s powerful planning and development agency—said at the meeting that the CWP process is entering a new planning and implementation phase, after having been dominated by theoretical brainstorming and discussion last year.
Tad 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...
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 â?...