As some of our readers may have heard, the City’s Planning Department are now projecting the following milestone dates on the Squares + Streets Roslindale Square small area planning process based on current progress:
- Mid-October: Draft Small Area Plan for Roslindale Square study area will be released for public review (45-day comment period). The small area plan is expected to include revised recommendations that integrate public input from the Ideas Reception Survey under the following five categories: Housing+Real Estate, Small Business, Arts+Culture, Open Space, Transportation, and Land Use Framework and Design.
- Early November – Draft Zoning Map Amendment released for public review (30-day comment period). The map, which will be drawn based on the public input on the Land Use Framework, will illustrate parcels recommended for rezoning, and the specific Squares+Streets zoning categories recommended to be applied to those parcels.
- Early December – Public comment periods end.
- January – BPDA Board votes on the adoption of the Plan and Zoning Map Amendment.
- February/March – (Depending on the outcome of the BPDA Board vote) Zoning Commission votes to add the Zoning Map Amendment into the zoning map for Roslindale.
Here’s a helpful timeline graphic that was provided with the revised schedule:
