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Public Improvement Commission

The Public Improvement Commission hearing is scheduled for Thursday, May 27, at 10 a.m.

To encourage social distancing, all project teams and most Commission members will be participating in this hearing from remote locations.  Hearing participants will be digitally connected in real time courtesy of the City’s Department of Innovation and Technology.

Members of the public who wish to participate in the hearing are strongly encouraged to do so remotely. The hearing will continue to be televised and may also be streamed online via Boston TV.  Those members of the public that are unable or choose not to participate remotely should report to City Hall room 801 at the time of the hearing.  All visitors to City Hall will have their temperatures taken and will be required to wear protective face coverings.  Written testimony for all agenda items will continue to be accepted via email. Testimony should be directed to PIC@boston.gov

Please note:

All project team members who intend to join their project's presentation, as well as any City staff representatives or members of the public who wish to remotely offer testimony, should complete the short (four question) request form.

Discussion Topics

  1. Agenda

    Hearing Minutes

    HM 1.    At the request of the Public Improvement Commission staff, the Acceptance of the Minutes of the PIC hearing held on May 13, 2021.

    Public Hearing

    PH 1.    On a petition by NSTAR Electric Company (d/b/a Eversource Energy) for a Grant of Location to install new electrical infrastructure within the following public ways in Roxbury:

    ●    Gurney Street – between Tremont Street and Station Street;

    ●    Tremont Street – at Gurney Street/Terrace Street;

    ●    Station Street – at Gurney Street/Halleck Street.

    (NB 5/13/2021) As shown on a set of plans entitled “City of Boston Public Works Department, Engineering Division, Grant of Location Plan, Eversource - Gurney Street, Roxbury,” 3 sheets dated April 17, 2020 (revised April 7, 2021).

    New Business

    NB 1.    267 Old Colony Avenue, Dorchester Street; South Boston – Pedestrian Easement, Specific Repairs – On a set of joint petitions by 267 Old Colony LLC

    NB 2.    55 Pier 4 Boulevard; South Boston – Grant of Location – On a petition by Verizon New England Inc.

    Administrative Matters

    AM 1.    Upon nomination by the PIC representative of the Public Works Department, appoint Commissioner Gregory Rooney and/or his Transportation Department designee as the Vice Chairman of the Public Improvement Commission

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