Month: October 2026

Our Letter Supporting Neighborhood Housing Zoning (Comments Due Oct 31)

Ben Bruno

WalkUP Roslindale has sent the Boston Planning Department a letter enthusiastically supporting the Neighborhood Housing Zoning Amendments for Roslindale, Hyde Park, and West Roxbury. Our letter is below, and you can view it here.

The comment period closes Saturday, October 31, and your own comment matters!

Our friends at Rozzidents for More Rozzidents built a tool that makes it quick and easy:
Make your comment here.

  • Make it personal! The generator is a starting point, but your own experiences and motivations make your comments much more meaningful. Have you encountered challenges renovating your home? Want more housing options for family members, friends, or future neighbors? Care about housing affordability, walkability, or supporting local businesses? Include those thoughts!
  • CC Mayor Wu and the City Councilors! In addition to the Planning Department, make sure our elected officials hear from constituents who support making room for more housing.
  • Submit by October 31! Don’t wait until the last minute.

Make Your Comment on Neighborhood Housing Zoning by October 31!

Ben Bruno

The comment period on the City’s Neighborhood Housing Zoning proposal for Roslindale, Hyde Park, and West Roxbury closes Saturday, October 31. Please take a few minutes to make your voice heard.

WalkUP Roslindale enthusiastically supports this proposal. It will bring zoning changes that finally treat most of our existing homes as the legal, conforming homes they are, make it easier to renovate and add accessory dwelling units, and allow our neighborhood to gradually welcome more neighbors within the urban fabric we already love. It is a long overdue step toward addressing our housing affordability emergency, and the Planning Department staff deserve real credit for their work. We will be submitting our own letter of support and will share it here soon.

The most helpful thing you can do is send in your own comment, and our friends at Rozzidents for More Rozzidents have built a tool that makes it quick and easy:

Make your comment now!

Want to dig in more first? The City’s story map explains the proposal, and you can look up the proposed zoning for your address.

Open Streets – Roslindale had a great time. See you there next year!

Matt Lawlor

Well, Open Streets finally made it down to Roslindale and the square put on an impressive show. We all know this, but the scale of our neighborhood’s center truly is ideal for events of this type – it was like walking among three very comfortable living rooms if you include Birch Plaza, Adams Park was as packed as it is on a market Saturday, and the weather absolutely could not have been better.

Many thanks to Mayor Wu and the whole team at the City should be proud of the overall success of the day’s experiment with much better streets and how we can achieve them, if only for part of a day.

We strongly encourage the city to do this again next year, only this time, let’s expand the hours so we can enjoy some outdoor dining, shopping, and entertainment into the evening! And finally, many of us here at WalkUP Roslindale were able to find the time to table at the event and chat with our neighbors about our activities and how we can all pitch in to make our neighborhood a better place. Good stuff all around and we are loving our new look logo!

Fall Stroll Through the Arboretum, October 17th

Ben Bruno

Join WalkUP Roslindale and the Arnold Arboretum for a guided fall walk! We’ll start at the newly renovated Forest Hills Gate and finish at Poplar Gate inside the Arboretum, with plenty of fall color along the way.

The details

  • When: Saturday, October 17, 1:00 to about 2:30 PM
  • Meet at: Forest Hills Gate, across from Forest Hills Station
  • Walk ends at: Poplar Gate, inside the Arnold Arboretum
  • Led by: Rodney Eason, Director of Horticulture & Landscape at the Arnold Arboretum, and WalkUP Roslindale

What we’ll cover

Expect a bit of everything: horticulture and history, how the path and gate improvements came together, and what’s next for connectivity and pedestrian safety in and around the Arboretum.

Please note ⚠️ ♿

We’ll walk a little less than a mile. The route is not fully accessible to people with walking disabilities, but we’ll be examining and discussing some of those missing links as we go.

We hope to see you out there! Please feel free to share the below flyer for the event: