Upcoming Green Line Extension Meetings

Mystic Valley Parkway Green Line Extension Meeting May 17

Join us on May 17, 2011, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m., at 160 Packard Avenue in Medford (Cabot Auditorium, Fletcher School) for the third Mystic Valley Parkway Green Line Community Visioning meeting.

This public forum provides information on the scope and timeline for the process, as well as providing an opportunity for public input on community-wide concerns.

The theme of this meeting is “community opportunities and concepts.” MAPC will present on what makes transit-oriented development successful; collect your feedback on preferences for potential future development around the station; and hold smaller break-out group sessions on the subjects of community assets and opportunities around the potential Green Line station.

The first public outreach meeting, held on Feb. 16 in Medford, introduced the visioning process to the public, described the scope and timeline for the process, and included an hour-long small group dialogue to capture the key concerns and ideas of those who attended. The second meeting, building upon the key issues heard in the first meeting, focused on providing information and answering questions on the topics of traffic and parking, air quality, land acquisition, and managing neighborhood change.

This third public meeting is focused on engaging residents in a discussion about community assets and opportunities around a potential station at Mystic Valley Parkway. MAPC staff will be providing background information on transit-oriented development and asking residents to participate in a preference survey which will help guide recommendations for future development around the potential station. This is the third of five planned public meetings as part of the yearlong visioning process.

Additional public meetings will be scheduled throughout this year, with the goal of gathering community input on the benefits and impacts of extending the Green Line to Mystic Valley Parkway.

Contact MAPC at glx@mapc.org or 617-451-2770 ext.2018 to request special accommodations, to offer comment, or receive more information.

– Information from Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)

Green Line Extension Design Working Group Meeting May 26

Green Line Extension Design Working Group meeting, 6:30 to 8 p.m., 51 Winthrop Street, Medford. This will be the third meeting of the Design Working Group and the first since Nov. 8, 2010.

Design Working Group documents can be found online.

– Information from MassDOT

– Photo by Alexander Svirsky, MassRoads.com