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September 24, 2020  

Future of 104-108 Walter Street by the Roslindale Wetlands Site – Online Community Workshop

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The Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association (LANA) and the Roslindale Wetlands Task Force (RWTF) are hosting two community workshops to explore the future of 104-108 Walter Street, which is now for sale.  LANA and RWTF have been urging the City to purchase the property to permanently protect the largest privately owned parcel in the designated Roslindale Wetlands Urban Wild area (largely 108 Walter) and to create up to four units of affordable home ownership, largely on 104 Walter.  We want to share what has been happening and get your input and comments. 

Thursday, October 1 at 7 pm.  LANA and RWTF are hosting a virtual community workshop, which will be an introduction and discussion about the future of 104-108 Walter.  We want to let you know what’s been happening and hear your questions and ideas.   Please click here for free registration.  Links to the virtual workshop will be sent to you.

Register on Eventbrite
September 6, 2020  

Annual Meeting – Monday, September 14th, 7pm

Neighbors! Join us for the bi-monthly LANA meeting on Monday, September 14th, 7pm on Zoom. Agenda items include Boston Police Area E updates, updates about the Wetlands and the Walter/Center Street Intersection, Treasurer’s Report, and Approval of the July minutes. Representatives from various city offices and elected representatives will also be joining us.
This meeting will also include the official Annual Meeting of LANA. As per the LANA bylaws, the Annual Meeting is held for the purpose of electing directors, establishing membership fees, and presenting the treasurer’s report to the membership. Members in good standing (who have paid their $20 FY2020 dues) can vote for Directors at the Annual Meeting. Dues must be received by 9/11. Checks payable to LANA should be mailed to PO Box 222, Roslindale, 02131. Checks must be reach the PO Box by September 11th for Members to be eligible to vote for board Directors at the Annual Meeting Sept. 14th. Only Members in good standing may vote or run for office.
The Zoom meeting is open to invited guests and people who live, work or own property in the Longfellow area. Log-in information can be requested by emailing longfellowarea@gmail.com.

 
July 1, 2020  

LANA Bi-monthly meeting – July 13, 2020 at 7pm (on Zoom).

Neighbors! Please join us for our next neighborhood meeting on Monday, July 13, 2020 at 7pm (on Zoom).

Agenda:
– Open discussion about racial inequality as it relates to the Longfellow neighborhood
– Update about progress on the the Roslindale Wetlands

This Zoom meeting is open to all who live in the Longfellow area. Log-in information can be requested by emaiing longfellowarea@gmail.com Please be sure to provide your street address so that we can confirm your neighborhood association.

June 12, 2020  

Statement from LANA Board

The board of the Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association mourns the death of George Floyd and the many others who have died due to racial injustice.  We reject systematic failures that cause inequalities.  We invite LANA members and neighbors to join the discussion of what we can do to make our neighborhood welcoming and safe for everyone.  Our next meeting will be on Zoom, on July 13 th at 7:00. In the meantime, we welcome your comments.

May 15, 2020  

May 11, 2020 meeting video


The video of the May 11 LANA meeting is posted here. The meeting was well attended, and included visits and updates by multiple City Counselors. To view the video, click on the link below, and use password to access the video:
https://us02web.zoom.us/…/ysF4bL_r3HFLXNbV-FDkAIl8FNS_X6a8h… 
Password: 4b#^4=*4

March 4, 2020  

Agenda – meeting on Monday March 9, 2020, 7 PM

  • Boston Police Area E5 report by CSO Ed Roach
  • State Representative Nika Elugardo
  • City Councilor Matt O’Malley
  • Update on Robert & South Street Intersection
  • Greening Rozzie Solar Challenge 

Meeting Location: Longfellow House Community Room, 885 South Street, Roslindale, MA Meeting starts at 7pm

January 12, 2020  

Agenda – January 13, 2020 meeting

• Boston Police Department Area E report
• Greening Rozzie
• Walter & Center Street Intersection update
• Roslindale Wetlands news
• Update on Traffic/Parking issues

Meeting begins at 7pm.

Meeting Location: Longfellow House Community Room, 885 South Street, Roslindale, MA 

August 3, 2019  

Bylaws updated

In order to maintain our non-profit status, LANA needed to ensure its bylaws were in order with all requirements. Bylaws were written, voted on, and approved by Board members on January 14, 2019. Follow this link to find the bylaws, and the minutes from past meeting.

March 10, 2018  

March LANA Meeting

Monday, March 12, 2018

Agenda:

  • Roslindale Wetlands Task Force

presentation on our local urban wild

  • 104-108 Walter Street Development Proposal

POSTPONED – date to be determined

Longfellow House Community Room
885 South St, Roslindale, Massachusetts 02131

 

January 9, 2018  

Proposed Changes at Arboretum’s Weld Hill

LANA has long been involved in preserving open space and natural habitat within the neighboring areas of the Arboretum.  Years ago we negotiated a legally binding agreement to keep Weld Hill scenic and landscaped.  We now find the Arboretum and the City of Boston have chosen ignore the agreement to install solar panels in the middle of the meadow.  As your neighbors; we ask you join us to keep the area preserved as Frederick Olmsted intended.
The Compromise That Led to a Change in Zoning at the Arboretum’s Weld Hill
Prior to 2007, a significant contingent of abutters and neighbors were opposed to any zoning changes that would have permitted the Arnold Arboretum from erecting a new institutional complex on Centre Street on land not zoned for institutional uses. The Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association brokered a compromise with the surrounding community, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Harvard University and the Arnold Arboretum to allow the Arboretum’s proposed research facility to proceed only if the neighborhood could be guaranteed long term open space protection on the surrounding parcel. Why?
Joyce Kilmer Park Was Paved for Joyce Kilmer Parking Lot – in Violation of Deed Restrictions
In 1957, the City granted permission for the construction of the Hebrew Home for the Aged over Joyce Kilmer Park at Centre and Walter Streets. After promising to protect the remaining open space at Joyce Kilmer Park, the City in 1973 (only 16 years later) violated its commitment to the community and allowed the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center to double in size. Most of the remaining parkland was paved for cars and a large concrete parking deck in violation of deed restrictions on the property governing allowable uses and setbacks.
Commitments Made by Harvard and the City to Roslindale Neighbors of the Arnold Arboretum
To avoid a repeat of the Joyce Kilmer Park fiasco and future violations of open space protections by creeping institutional expansion, the community demanded legally enforceable open space protections for the no-build portion of the Weld Hill parcel prior to assenting to any change in zoning at the site.
The Arboteum’s then-director, Robert Cook, committed that the no-build zone at Weld Hill would be folded into the Arborteum and treated under the same protections set to expire in the year 2882.
Dr. Cook committed, and the community agreed, that the only allowable use of the no-build zone at Weld Hill would be a nursery for growing plant material for research purposes.
The development controls language governing the no build zone was written to exclude and prohibit the installation of any solid fence around a future nursery that would block public views of open scape or obscure the natural and open condition of the landscape. This was agreed to by all sides.
During negotiations, when the Arboretum and the BRA claimed that a toolshed may need to be placed on the no build zone temporarily, for construction purposes during the building of the research facility, language was written to allow a temporary tool shed while prohibiting any permanent structures.
The Commitments to Preserve Open Space at Weld Hill Are Protected By Law
The development controls are legally binding. The deed restriction cannot be compromised, reversed or changed by the landowner, or by the City of Boston, or by the public, except by an act of the Massachusetts legislature by a two-thirds majority vote.
Call Your City Councillors, the Mayor and Your Neighbors
Tell them to uphold the deed restriction protecting open space at the Arboretum’s Weld Hill.
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