Boston PIC Approves Harold Street Widening to Support Roxbury Homeownership Development

Uncategorized · Meeting of July 19, 2026

Boston's Public Improvement Commission unanimously approved a long-pending right-of-way package for a Roxbury homeownership project at its June 16, 2022 hearing. The commission approved the widening, relocation, and extension of Harold Street between Holworthy Street and Hollander Street — a plan revised over five prior hearings — along with companion discontinuances of sections of Holworthy and Hollander Streets needed to create proper subdivision lots across approximately 1.75 acres of city-owned land. Jamie Smith of the Mayor's Office of Housing and engineer James Pearson of Western Samson Engineering told the commission that revisions incorporated accessible ramps at all intersection corners, raised crosswalks, curb bump-outs, and storm drainage coordinated with Boston Water and Sewer.

The commission also approved a National Grid gas regulator station at Railroad Street near Corrie Street in West Roxbury and five Externet Systems fiber conduit grants of location covering roughly 7,000 linear feet in Dorchester and Mattapan, while scheduling ten additional utility petitions — six more from Externet Systems and two from National Grid — for public hearings on June 30, 2022.

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Source: the Uncategorized meeting of July 19, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.