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PLAN: Charlestown | Boston Planning & Development Agency

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Latest UpdatesPLAN: Charlestown, your neighborhood-wide planning initiative facilitated by the BPDA, has released two draft scenarios for the future of the industrial area along Rutherford Avenue and Sullivan Square. These draft scenarios are the continuation of a collaborative dialogue to create a framework for future development in this area. PLAN: Charlestown | Boston Planning & …

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Using Trees and Vegetation to Reduce Heat Islands | US EPA

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Using Trees and Vegetation to Reduce Heat IslandsTrees and other plants help cool the environment, making vegetation a simple and effective way to reduce urban heat islands.Trees and Vegetation ResourcesHeat Island CompendiumRelated WebcastsWhat Communities are DoingRelated Links on Trees and VegetationTrees and vegetation lower surface and air temperatures by providing shade and through evapotranspiration. Shaded …

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Charlestown Navy Yard Master Plan. Please Comment

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contact@pier5.org – Pier 5 Association, Inc. National Park Service Master PlanPlease read and please post and please sharehttps://www.nps.gov/bost/learn/news/2022-06-21-npb_develops_ea.htm  Please make comments here BEFORE JULY 20th!https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=214&projectID=90626&documentID=121095All residents’ comments are welcome and encouraged. All Friends and Neighborhood groups, Pier 5 Association, Flagship, Constellation, Shipway, Parris Landing, etc  may want to make a response. Charlestown Navy Yard Master Plan Please Comment – contact@pier5.org – Pier …

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New Coastal Zoning Overlay District in Effect – East Boston Times-Free Press

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New Coastal Zoning Overlay District in Effectby John Lynds • November 10, 2021 • 0 CommentsLate last month, Acting Mayor Kim Janey signed a new Coastal Zoning Overlay District into effect requiring new development in East Boston and other Boston coastal neighborhoods to take additional steps to limit the damage and displacement related to the impacts of coastal storms …

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New life for an Olmsted gem at Charlesgate – The Boston Globe

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New life for an Olmsted gem at CharlesgateUpdated August 5, 2018, 12:00 a.m.10A design plan for Charlesgate Park.COURTESY LANDING STUDIOCall it Charlesgate Greenway. Actually, Frederick Law Olmsted, the godfather of landscape architecture and creator of Boston’s historic Emerald Necklace, had a more formal name: The Beacon Entrance to the Back Bay Fens. The first park …

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National Park Service would tear down historic, but hulking and unused warehouse to create new USS Constitution Museum and visitor center | Universal Hub

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National Park Service would tear down historic, but hulking and unused warehouse to create new USS Constitution Museum and visitor centerBy adamg on Wed, 06/22/2022 – 11:10amNPS rendering.The National Park Service has proposed changes to the Charlestown Navy Yard that would include replacing the large, vacant Hoosac Stores warehouse next to the USS Constitution site …

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