The next Orient Heights Neighborhood Council (OHNC) Meeting is Tuesday, January 18.
Location: Zoom
Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m., but the Zoom link will open at 6 p.m. to get acclimated. The meeting will be recorded.
Zoom meeting link: https://bit.ly/OHNCJan18
Passcode: OHNC
Meeting Information and Protocol
• All participants will be muted upon entry and during presentations. Questions and comments to those presenting can be asked using the chat or “raise hand” feature of the Zoom platform. If there is a lull in conversation you may feel free to unmute but please be considerate of others attempting to participate at the same time. All submissions submitted via the chat will be read aloud by the OHNC host. Anyone unable to use the chat feature is welcome to email questions and comments to [email protected] and they will be passed on to the presenters.
• Attendance will be taken via a Google Form and responses will only be accepted from the start of the meeting until the end. Marking your attendance ensures your voter eligibility. Voters must have attended two out of the three regularly scheduled OHNC meetings or be an abutter to the property being voted on. The sign-in form will be posted in the Zoom chat at the beginning of the meeting and throughout.
• A recording of the meeting, meeting minutes, responses to any questions not answered during the meeting, and copies of the presentation slides, if available, will be provided following the meeting via Facebook and email. Meeting recordings are always available on our YouTube channel.
• Voting: During the pandemic voting will take place online via a Google Form. Board members vet all votes to ensure that the individual is eligible as either an abutter to the property or an attendee of two out of the last three meetings. All responses are confidential and not accessible to anyone but board members for the purpose of confirming voter qualification. Once votes have been tallied all Google Form submissions for that vote are deleted.
Agenda
• Announcements & General Presentations
◦ Public Safety
◦ Sergeant Joe Cintolo and/or Officer Tom Domenico provide an update on activity for Boston Police District A-7.
◦ Cargo Ventures presents on where they are in the Article 80 process for their McClellan Highway proposal.
◦ Design Review Committee 1/6/2022 Meeting Recap
◦ 2 Shawsheen Road and 95 Barnes Ave were reviewed.
◦ 95 Barnes Ave moved forward to the 1/18/2022 OHNC meeting for a vote.
◦ 1141 Bennington is still awaiting the scoping determination from BPDA that they were expecting to receive by the end of 2021. They estimate that they will be able to respond to the scoping determination with a report (DPIR) around late February or early March. At that point they will be able to come back for an additional round of review.
◦ 2 Shawsheen Road modified their original proposal.
◦ Meeting recap: https://bit.ly/DRCJan6Recap
• Development Presentations & Vote
◦ 95 Barnes Avenue- Erect a dormer, remodel third floor and add a roof deck to existing two family dwelling.
◦ Updated presentation: https://bit.ly/95BarnesJan6
◦ Plans and Refusal Letter from December 2021 Meeting: https://bit.ly/95Barnes
◦ Variances Requested: IPOD, Roof Structure restrictions and number of habitable stories.
◦ Owner/Developer: Derek Dolan
◦ Owner/Developer Contact: [email protected]
◦ Attorney: Richard C. Lynds, Esq
◦ Attorney Contact: [email protected]
◦ Architect: Studio Draw
◦ Abutter’s radius:
• Adjournment
◦ Old Business / New Business / General Community Updates
◦ Have news you’d like to share? Excited about a new effort in the neighborhood? Feel free to share any comments, feedback, updates, etc. during this time.
◦ In-Person / Hybrid Meetings
◦ We never received a response from either Lazarus Church or the Orient Heights Yacht Club.
◦ We have not reached out to the Salesian Boys and Girls Club yet as we’d like to have a location more centrally located in Orient Heights.
◦ The next OHNC meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 6:30pm.
◦ The next OHNC Design Review Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, February 3rd, 2022 at 6:00pm.