Public hearing in the matter of the draft environmental impact statement for the proposed copley place project: place: rabb lecture hall, Boston public library, main branch, copley square, Boston, mass., 02201, date: Thursday, March 20, 1980, time: 7:00 p.m.
Contributors: Eyal Reporting Sercice.; Brazil. Ministério da Agricultura.
Published: 1980
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Copley Place (Boston, Mass.); Housing -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- South End.; Political participation -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Development Projects.; Development Projects -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay -- Public Hearings.; Environmental impact analysis -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay -- Development Projects.; Parking -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay / South End -- Issues.; Tent City, Boston (Mass.); Traffic -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay / South End -- Issues.; City planning -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay.; Winds -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay.
Description: ...transcript of a hearing chaired by Peter Dinkle, manager of the Fenway Little City Hall concerning the proposed development project on air rights over the MA Turnpike adjacent to Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay by Urban Investment and Development Co. (UIDC); briefly states the purpose of the project, summarizes the impacts and records comments from the following: Michael Caine, Ken Campbell, Robert Case, Yvonne Forrest, Kenneth Gritter, Cole Harrison, John F. Kenney, Jr., Rev. Thomas Kennedy, Elliot Laffer, Charles R. Levin, Myra McAdoo, Jeff McCandless, Jack Mills, Webb Nichols, Robert Richards, Stuart Robbins, Elizabeth Seifel, Ambrose Spencer, Marcia Wiley and Sam Znaimer; the comments concern, among other issues, the visual quality, socio-economic (jobs), traffic and parking, energy, commercial aspects, impact on neighborhoods, property and housing values (especially in the South End), affordable housing (Tent City), wind and displacement; copies of this item were in the BRA collection...