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Designated Port Areas: A Generational Opportunity to Create a Thriving Boston Harbor for All
Established in 1978 to safeguard maritime industries, DPAs must now evolve to address contemporary realities and unlock their untapped potential for the benefit of the entire region.
At its core, this report emphasizes that DPAs can be dynamic tools for shaping the future of our waterfront. The report highlights engagement as a powerful measure in the face of the influence, power, and wealth shaping some of our most valued waterfront areas. Tools like Chapter 91 and the Designated Port Areas give the community the superpower to advocate for themselves in an impactful way. The report calls on regulators, administrators, and waterfront stakeholders to come together in neutral, facilitated discussions to ensure that decisions about DPAs are informed, inclusive, and transparent.
→Source: Barr Foundation BlogWhat’s next for Peddocks Island? Advocates are planning its future — and they want the public’s help
A sampling of ideas [are] being floated as part of the Peddocks Island Vision Plan, a long-term project to reimagine and develop the second-largest Boston Harbor island, with the hope of attracting more visitors to its shorelines.
→Source: The Boston GlobeBoston Waterfront Partners submit joint comment on Northern Avenue Bridge proposals
Boston Waterfront Partners jointly submitted a comment letter to the City of Boston about the Northern Avenue Bridge redevelopment, noting that “a bridge designed for the people of our city, not for its cars, is an important milestone in the progress you have made to a more equitable, welcoming, and resilient waterfront.”
Read the full comment letter here.
→Source: Boston Waterfront PartnersResilient Mystic collaborative invites new municipal partners
Facilitated by the Mystic River Watershed Association and the Consensus Building Institute, the RMC is focused on three key goals: collectively manage stormwater quantity and quality, decrease risks to critical infrastructure in the Lower Mystic and increase the resilience of vulnerable residents during and after extreme weather events. Having now established these goals and other foundational governance mechanisms for the collaborative, the group is eager to expand to include the remaining 11 Mystic River Watershed communities.
→Source: Arlington Wicked LocalReport: CLF Releases Study of Flooding in Boston’s Waterfront Open Spaces
The report, “Climate Change and the Massachusetts Public Waterfront Act,” highlights how climate change and flooding will threaten public access to coastal tidelands across Massachusetts, as well as the changes the Commonwealth needs to make to protect this access.27
→Source: Conservation Law FoundationRecurring events
- Friends of the East Boston Greenway: →Monthly Meeting
- Friends of the Boston HarborWalk: →Monthly Meeting