Public Disengagement Constituents Pleading for Generations
Fiduciary Duties of the BPDA include:
Obedience, Loyalty, Care, Disclosure, Good Faith and Fair Dealing.
Traffic, Health, Environment, Crime, Tree Canopy, Open Space, Historical Sites, Cultural Integration, Redlining repeats, Quality of Life Equity, Habitat, Spot Zoning, Climate Resilience.
Decades of BPDA lack of accountability and due diligence continues citywide and questions remain unanswered. Constituents have been pleading for generations.
RE: Docket #0257 – Boston City Council Government Operations
– A hearing to discuss creating a City of Boston Planning Department.
Community Coastal Voice Ignored by the Authority All of these concerns are addressed by the letters and reports provided here.
American History Convenes at the Head of Boston Harbor
The Navy Yard and Pier 5 were strategically located to see invading ships.
We now face the invasion of private developers… again.
Boston Redevelopment Authority recognizes the historic, healthful value of Pier 5.
Boston Redevelopment Authority recognizes the historic, healthful value of Pier 5.
Purpose of M.G.L. Chapter 9 is to protect the public interest in the waterways of the Commonwealth. It ensures that the public rights to fish, fowl and navigate are not unreasonably restricted and that unsafe or hazardous structures are repaired or removed.
They cause delays by malicious strategic misalignment of Calendars, RFPs, Paper trails, Meetings. Having ignorant pass through vehicle Public engagement front lines makes fudging EVERYTHING.
They caused long delays by their own actions such as blighting, false pretense news for decades, entertained residential despite two prior engineering reports, all logic, FEMA NFIP and all United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
- Fiduciary Duty of Obedience. …
- Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty. …
- Fiduciary Duty of Care. …
- Fiduciary Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing. …
- Fiduciary Duty of Disclosure.
Captive Tenants/Abutting & Abetting
Muzzled Abutters, Courageous is dependent on and can not be critical of the Authority in any way. Entrapped property owners are silenced and ignored.
Abutter interaction and intersections need more evaluation collaboratively. Pier 5 adjacent piers include renown Pier 6 restaurant to the North and the beloved Courageous Sailing Center city side. No meetings have occurred with all stakeholders / abutters.
Abutting properties Stakeholders with interest in the future of Pier 5 for private profit. Abutter, financed both with the Authority as servitude to them and with the overall community. without abutters and stakeholders being all at the same table.
Blurring abutters, public, stakeholders transparent forthcoming goals, intentions. and respective ROIs.
Circumstances of maintenance vs demolition. Budget impacts of non maintaining. Redirection of Pier 5 Maintenance allocation and Budget. Corruption
Courageous rents Pier 4 from the Authority and provided with benefits from the Authority. If Courageous expresses a wish in conflict with the Authority developers, their proposals will be discarded and jeopardize future operating and locations. How many other Authority properties are rented by Courageous?
Questions Spanning Decades Remain Unanswered
- Preliminary Cost Benefit Analysis
- No Followup (ZC met with Ben and asked him to tell Natalie that I had opportunities for grants and non-private money opportunities. He never got back to me. Natalie did not get back to me.
- Public Liaisons/engagement For instance, front line project public engagement “officer(s)” swaps near meetings.
- Number of subsequent questions from public engagement events/correspondence?
- The Authority frequently, intentionally, routinely omit dates from records and important documents.
- For instance Arthur Jemison Meeting….. recall. *video
- Subsequent answers and follow up information.
- Number of participants for each meeting online and off.
- Client Relationship Management Systems are defunct. Website is filled w dead ends and outdated.
- Lack of Due Diligence.
- At a recent Authority meeting an Authority member commented… “the BRA, or whoever we are this week”.
- Further Failures of Accountability, Fraud
Staggered, random, inconvenient,
trying use of lack of standards, lack of dates, Footnote to Redactions. - Swapping front people. CRM failures.
RFPs, LOIS,.
disservices, activities:
Childish, Offensive, Angry, Greed, evasive, aggressively divisive, unprofessional, disrespectful. - Reporting & Regulations
Environmental Impact Studies
Climate Risk Management
Environmental Justice Report
Socio-Ecological Anthropology
Transportation / Demographic
Massive Population increase
Engineering Reports (all considered) - RFP due dates fall immediately after the holidays.
- RFP needs Transparency Phrasing further discussion.
- The Pier 5 hearings are often held late at night. These nefarious tactics are not
- Convening Calculations
- Stakeholders of Expanded Marina
- Ultrasonic study re-affirms previously acknowledged perimeter pilings significantly damaged.
- Visual
- Visual…. report re-affirms previous studies, perimeter pilings significantly damaged.
- Recent progress
- Foth Study
- Desimone
- Childs
- Meetings minutes ? Intro paragraph?
- Biggest risks
- Environmental Impact Study
- Hazardous Materials / Recycling
- Recreational Equity Study
- Next Steps
- Environmental Impact Study
- Hazardous Materials / Recycling
- Share studies with public.
- Costs to due to blighting
- Ornithology Habitat
- Sub/Micro Habitats
- Internal Revenue Service
- USACE
- Authority ignorant of/opposed to SDGs
- Audobon
- Acoustic Impacts
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and what they mean
- Special Assigned Places
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) (Retrograde)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Federal Trade Council
- Attorney General
- Interchangeable Lexicon, Reports, Dating, Reports Required on whim.
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