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February 2019 Neponset
River Greenway News
Join us at
our next meeting at 7:00 pm on Wednesday February 6 downstairs at
the District
E-18 Police Station, 1249 Hyde Park Ave., Hyde Park, MA. Our meetings are usually held on the
first Wednesday of the month at rotating locations in the
communities of the Lower Neponset River: Hyde Park,
Milton, Mattapan, and Dorchester.
Follow us on Facebook to keep up
between meetings.
The issues on which we are working are in the agenda for this
meeting at http://www.masspaths.net/neponset/council/agenda20190206.pdf
.
Future
Greenway Council Meetings
March 6, 2019
Port Norfolk Yacht Club
April 3, 2019
Foley Senior Residences, Mattapan
May 1, 2019
Milton Yacht Club, Milton
June 5, 2019
Hyde Park Police Station, Hyde Park
Notes from the
January 2, 2019 Meeting
- Neighbors
of Camp Meigs in Readville are taking turns emptying a barrel for park
trash. Could we apply that sort of volunteerism elsewhere along the
Greenway?
- There is
discussion of a walking path between the river and the wall along
Edgewater Drive in Mattapan upstream from Mattapan
Square.
- The design
of the next piece of the Neponset Trail from Tenean Beach to Victory
Road is underway. There will be a 75% design meeting on this and the
already-designed stretch from Victory Road to Morrissey Blvd. before
late summer.
- Sustainability money in the next bond
bill could be used to rebuild Morrissey Blvd. with the last northern
section of our trail along it.
Along
the Trail:
Saturday,
March 23 Bike Tour of the Neponset River
Greenway
We'll bike the entire Neponset Trail from
Paul's Bridge in Milton to Castle Island in South Boston and back,
starting at 10:00 am on Saturday, March 23. It's fairly flat, but almost
27 miles long. Here are a couple of photos from last year. More are
here.
 
Jessica at
our chocolate stop in
Dorchester The menu at
our hot chocolate stop in Milton
January 9 Article on the Neponset
Trail in Boston's Weekly Dig
A
Weekly Dig writer visited our trail a
few times and wrote a pretty nice, if not totally accurate, article
about it. The author didn't realize that the trail already continues to
Hyde Park and was overly pessimistic about future connections northward.
Marc Hurwitz wrote in the January 9 Weekly
Dig:
Not too long
before [a previous article on walks in Boston], a new section of
the Greenway had debuted, and since it was (at
the time) unexplored territory, it wasn't covered in the piece, but now
with several treks along the new part under our belts, it's time to look
at the entire walkway, including this new section, which leads to an
area of the city that had traditionally been rarely seen by hikers and
walkers.
Mattapan
Neighborhood Council Election February 23
In Boston,
elected Neighborhood Councils have slightly more say in development than
unelected neighborhood associations, though the Boston Planning and
Development Authority (BPDA) and the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) can,
and often do, over-rule them. After three years of discussion,
Mattapan is joining Roxbury and Jamaica Plain in starting one. In the January 17, 2019 Bay State
Banner, Yawu Miller writes:
With proposals for two marijuana dispensaries, two large development
projects that could bring more than 200 new housing units to Mattapan
Square and a slew of smaller condo projects that local residents say are
putting pressure on the neighborhood's rental market, Mattapan residents
are looking for a greater role in planning.To
that end, neighborhood activists are holding an election on Feb. 23 for
the newly-formed Mattapan Neighborhood
Council.
-Jessica Mink
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