Yesterday, we sent a comment letter in support of the proposed housing development at 361 Belgrade Avenue, formerly the proposed site of Roxbury Prep. Our full letter is reproduced below and is also available as a PDF and also in Spanish.
Tag: Belgrade Avenue
Last call for comments to ZBA on 59-63 Belgrade
If you haven’t yet reached out to the Zoning Board of Appeal to support the proposed project for 59-63, please do so by the end of Friday, August 19. See our earlier post for details.
Please help support housing at 59-63 Belgrade Avenue
Please contact the Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA) and your elected officials to show your SUPPORT for badly-needed new housing at 59-63 Belgrade Avenue.
This proposal will replace the Folsom Funeral Home, which is closing, and will provide:
- 31 new apartments, a mix of one and two-bedroom units
- 6 income-restricted apartments
- Ample on-site bicycle storage
- New transit-oriented housing directly next to the commuter rail and Roslindale Square
Please send a polite, brief support email in your own words to the following individuals with the subject line: “Please Support 59-63 Belgrade Avenue”
- ZBAPublicInput@nullboston.gov
- Ricardo.Arroyo@nullboston.gov
- Julia.Mejia@nullboston.gov
- Michael.F.Flaherty@nullboston.gov
- Ruthzee.Louijeune@nullboston.gov
- Erin.Murphy@nullboston.gov
- Nika.Elugardo@nullmahouse.gov
- info@nullwalkuproslindale.org (bcc for WalkUP tracking purposes)
This is an important infill proposal that will provide needed new transit-oriented housing, displace no one from the site, and enhance the entrance to Roslindale Square on Belgrade Ave. WalkUP Roslindale previously submitted a comment letter in support of the project to the BPDA.
Please submit your support emails before Friday, August 19th! The ZBA hearing will be held virtually on Tuesday, August 23rd.
Thank you!
WalkUP Roslindale Comment Letter on 59-63 Belgrade Avenue
Today, we sent a comment letter to the BPDA on a proposed residential project at 59-63 Belgrade Avenue. We generally support this project as it is constant with our goals and mission, and also offer some suggestions for how the proposal could be improved. Our full letter is below, also available as a PDF.
Report of another neighbor on foot struck by a car in Roslindale
This time at Belgrade Avenue and Walworth Street (near Fallon Field), this morning around 7 am. Only report so far is on Keep Roslindale Quirky’s Facebook page (reproduced below for those without access). The report indicates that an ambulance was on the scene. More needs to be done to put an end to this wave of car on walker crashes. The city’s Vision Zero ramp up this spring can’t come soon enough.
We don’t yet know exactly which corner the crash occurred or any other circumstances, although one after-the-fact eye witness reports it may have been near the auto body shop on the back right corner in the image below. Here’s the general area, which, unlike several other recent pedestrian crashes, at least has crosswalks and signals albeit poorly designed (and hence dangerous) due to the odd angles of the crossings:
