Boston Commission Approves Food Forest Land Transfer, Codman Square Parking Parcel Shift

Uncategorized 2020-02-12 clip6204 · Meeting of February 12, 2020

Boston Public Facilities Commission approves two Dorchester property transfers, including a $100 food forest conveyance. The commission voted unanimously on both items at its February 12 session, clearing an internal city transfer of a 1,349-square-foot parking parcel at 6 Epping Street from the Department of Neighborhood Development to the Boston Transportation Department, and approving a conveyance of vacant land at 424-428 Geneva Avenue to the Boston Food Forest Coalition Incorporated for $100. DND project manager Bernard Mayo said the Epping Street parcel, located in Codman Square, will remain part of a municipal BTD-operated parking lot, and that DND will return to the commission separately to seek authority to sell an adjacent strip near the Codman Square Health Center entrance.

The Geneva Avenue conveyance caps a process that began with a June 2019 community meeting; the Boston Food Forest Coalition has since secured $125,000 in grant funding, $50,000 through DND's Grassroots program and $75,000 through the Community Preservation Act, and finalized designs for a site that will include raised garden beds, a community greenhouse, fruit trees, and a gathering space on land that has sat vacant for nearly 30 years.

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Source: the Uncategorized 2020-02-12 clip6204 meeting of February 12, 2020, reported from the official video recording and transcript.