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The BRA 100-Acres plan was
drafted privately between the BRA and large property owners
in 2001, and presented in public meetings between 2002 and
2005. Little change to the plan has occured between its initial
release and its current form
The 100 Acres plan was first presented by
Gillette and the United States Postal Service in 2001 and
soon adopted by the BRA. The BRA's 100-Acre Plan as of June
2002 is shown at right.
To view the evolution of the 100 Acres plan
between 2001 and 2005, click
here. |
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The 100-Acres plan as proposed
does not reflect input presented to the BRA during during
four years of public meetings of the Fort Point Advisory Committee
and Fort Point Working Group, nor does it reflect input solicited
by the BRA in a 6-hour Fort Point Open Space Charrette held
in 2004.
A Fort Point Community 100-Acres Plan is shown
at right. (click here to read more.) |
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The BRA’s 100-Acres
plan (diagram at top of page) proposes a wall of office towers between
A Street and the Fort Point Channel. This public realm scheme deviates
from the agency’s own Seaport Public Realm Plan, Municipal
Harbor Plan and the spirit of the BRA’s more recently published
Watersheet Activation Plan.
The BRA is proposing that the Fort Point neighborhood's
only recreational park exist at West First Street, nearly 1/2 mile
from Summer Street and the heart of the Fort Point community.
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By allowing
large-property owners to control the land use, massing and height
discussion, there has been little public scrutiny of the 100-Acres
Plan's proposed segregation of uses (i.e. office/residential),
its massing that far exceeds existing zoning or the historic
context of adjacent buildings, and excludes the 100-Acres from
recognition within the "Fort Point Historic District". |
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Click here to view an image of the Fort
Point Community’s 100-Acre Plan
Click here to read
more about the 100-Acres process
Click
here to download a copy of the actual 100-Acres Plan
Click
here to visit the BRA planning website
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