Public Disengagement


Public Disengagement


The Developer Ocean Havens marina franchise employees discussed “Pulling the strings on Pier 5” as they moved into their new office at Flagship Wharf abutting the Pier 5 boardwalk.

A week after pulling strings, Courageous ceased communications with the community, neighbors, abutters and stakeholders by orders from the Authority and/or mega yacht partners Ocean Havens, LLC.


A Sectarian Planning Game

The Authority has yet to call a meeting of the Harbor Park Pier 5 abutters/stakeholders meeting.

Instead, they actively keep public interests out of their private business.

Obstruction of public stakeholders accessibility has long been a modus operandi of the Authority whilst removing properties from the public realm.

These are premeditated and strategically executed. They exemplify methods of disengagement are not Loyal to the public with Good Faith or Fair Dealing.

It is a joke to many Authority leaders who say “whoever we are this week”.

Nefarious Strategies include: Rebranding,
front representatives turnover to shed responsibility and deflect capacity of public input. Ignoring the public, intentional deflection, disconnection, intimidation, assault, intentional and non intentional incompetence.

The Authority systematically bulldozes public land for private profit. The Authority fails visions and oaths of the noble Greenway Crossroads and similar City green initiatives ever since.

Disconnecting abutters, Disconnecting Communities, Stakeholders….

Conflicts of Interest amongst Stakeholders.

Engineering Studies were ignored repeatedly as a part of Authority Intentional Blighting.

Private interest over Public equitable rights.

Against public outcries, formal engineering studies the Authority continues to privatize public property and intends to bulldoze the Pier 5 Memorial.

Innocence by Ignorance is no excuse.
It is no reason to pardon “career” Authority employees if they are guilty of any wrongdoing. Captive Architects, Planners, Designers, etc..

Misleading Residential Solicitations.

Why were there repeated RFPs for Condominiums when the Authority knew the Childs Engineering reported uses not acceptable. And other engineering reports. They wasted everyone’s time needlessly by suggesting and entertaining residential / mixed use private development ROI.

Historic views, sense of place and public access to the harbor are relentlessly destroyed continuously by privatization via partnerships with the Authority.

Starting a corporation mission with the word “Obey” is non-democratic. Renaming community engagement liaisons to be “Officers” as a part of the Authority reform is not helpful at all.

The Authority actively withholds from the public that Ocean Havens, llc is a long term coastal business partner of the Authority and that they are an active stakeholder, abutter, bidder, applicant. *insert meetings/docs.

They misrepresent their intentions and those of partners to the public and municipal, state and federal actual authorities.

The Authority causes delays by malicious strategic misalignment of Calendars, RFPs, Paper trails, Meetings.

RW Many employees have no idea about how this system works.

Disgruntled Past (both ways) It is not a reason to keep criminals onboard at the Authority. Jason Ruggerio Upload your CV<

Post study about Marina C02 footprint
Post study of legally acceptable acoustic pollution and impacts direct and via Bowl effect.

Shipyard Quarters and other residential buildings just North of Pier 7 complain of boats noise throughout summers.

Developers prepare to
“Pull Strings” to bypass public interests.

The Authority waterfront behavior is contrary to all global and local concepts of socio-ecological justice, equitable resilience, quality of life and public access rights to real waterfront, green and open space.


Authority Farce “PLAN”

Story Map Story

Old maps and drawings
are used by the Authority to obfuscate public communications, claim green quotas and skirt obligations through wreckless haphazard, outdated mapping.

The Authority claims to control most waterfront public property.

One of numerous practices of the Authority is to show “open space” with impermeable surfaces as the color Green on most of their mapping systems.

The Current Pier 5 Park RFP includes this old map. >>>

Public engagement remains hypocritical foolish farce.

Insert $1000 nominal Donation from Mrs. Lagasse to relevant nonprofit whose missions are contrary to those of Lagasse.

FEMA Careless negligent, intentional NFIP

Held meeting with Authority describing the opposite of the truth.

Active playing ignorant (or truly) actively keeping Boston from the National Flood Insurance Program. Insert Inundation District here. Spot Zoning has detrimental impact on climate readiness.

No NFIP participation means…

National Flood Insurance Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
National Flood Insurance Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Diversity vs Compounding

Marginalizing, Redlining segregation.

Continuity Failure, Value of a Sense of Place Destroyed.

Discontinuity in the means and ends.

Know Your Zone

Spot Zoning is when a small piece of land is given different zoning rules than the surrounding area. It illegal in most cases in most U.S. cities. These rules decide what can be built on abutting properties, how close things can get to property lines, and what’s considered acceptable use of the land.

Spot zoning is usually at odds with the city’s master plan and zoning restrictions. 

Spot Zoning is an unruly overt insufficiently overseen objectively. Spot Zoning encourages favored unfair process. It can give special treatment to a property owner at the expense of the public. Unjustified Rules; spot zoning is also illegal if it’s arbitrary, discriminatory, or doesn’t follow the comprehensive zoning plan. The Charlestown PLAN … see FARCE details.

Insert City Testimony with Arthur / Devin held elbows by a developer. They announced new spot zoning and left before the community spoke on the hearing topic. Insert Video

Public property continues to be given to the highest bidder against all public / constituent majority.

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