[SBC] Vernon Street; KSS/MaxPak zoning

[Ron Newman]

I went to the Traffic Commission hearing regarding Vernon Street.   
Almost all of the neighbors present, as well as some who submitted  
written statements, supported keeping the street two-way.  I made a  
short statement, as a Bicycle Committee member, in favor of keeping  
it two-way, pointing out that it is a major east-west bicycle route  
from the Community Path to Winter Hill.    The Commission unanimously  
voted to keep it two-way.

After the meeting, I talked to Joe Lynch of the Magoun Square  
Neighborhood Association.  He told me that although his  
organization's members supported the proposed PUD zoning for the KSS- 
MaxPak property, other residents of "the Patch" (Clyde and Warwick  
Street area) opposed it.  As a result, Alderman Sean O'Donovan is  
withdrawing the zoning proposal tonight.  Lynch was not happy about  
this, and feels that any "as of right" development permitted by  
current zoning will provide far less mitigation to the community than  
KSS's proposal.