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The Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) hosted its second block-by-block neighborhood planning session for Blue Hill Avenue on Mon., Sept. 12, with the controversial related topics of parking and parking meters rising to the top of the discussion. The meetings are meant to engage the community in the Blue Hill Avenue Action Plan process with the Boston Transportation
It isn’t a shock that communities like Dorchester and Mattapan continue to be one of the last communities to receive bike related amenities. As a person who lives in Mattapan and a person who works for an organization (Mattapan Food & Fitness Coalition, or MFFC) that focuses on biking as one way to get resident’s bodies moving, there are common issues that come up: 1. The bike
The topic on Thurs., July 28, was the Blue Hill Avenue redesign and the reconfiguration of Mattapan Square, but the format wasn’t a typical lecture-and-listen session, and the location wasn’t a school cafeteria. Boston Transportation Department (BTD) officials, the MBTA, and other planners provided information on the two transformative projects against a backdrop of a DJ
There’s been no shortage of hesitation within low-income, Black, and Brown communities in Dorchester and Mattapan when the city comes through touting major plans and multi-million-dollar upgrades. Most residents wonder out loud if those upgrades are really for them or are they precursors to their being pushed out of a community they have known and loved all their lives.
The crematorium at St. Michael’s Cemetery on Canterbury Street in Mattapan would expand from its existing eights spots (called retorts) and add four new oness in a brand-new building on the existing site in a plan shown to members of the Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) last week. The group voted unanimously to support the plan with some unique conditions