Newton MA Impact

Sign the Petition!

Oppose the Current 528 Boylston (Rt 9) Development

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NEWTON IMPACT

This petition is in favor of our neighborhood’s Newton Impact Community Group’s effort to reduce the size of the proposed Toll Brother's development of 244 luxury apartments units of housing in a newly constructed 7 story building on 528 Boylston St., Newton. This structure is planned for the Sam White Landscaping parcel just east of Old Field Road, south of Hagen Rd. and west of Dudley Road on Route 9 (just before the stop light at the top of the hill). Please join concerned residents about the many immediate issues with this fast-tracked development by the Commonwealth by joining our community group and having your voice heard. This will IMPACT safety, traffic (projection of 1200 extra cars daily), reduce green space and increase flooding, the environment, schools, and change the landscape of our community. It will not make our community more affordable to families making less than $110K a year.

I support the efforts of our neighborhood’s Newton Impact Community Group. Our community understands the site will be developed. We support a plan that provides affordable housing at a scale that fits within the neighborhood, creates usable open spaces, retains existing trees, doesn’t negatively impact the local ecosystem, and doesn’t dramatically increase traffic on local roads. The proposed development on Boylston Street is unwelcome because it is too large for the neighborhood, rendering it less safe and desirable, exacerbates neighborhood flooding, adversely changes the neighborhood’s character, and decreases our privacy. The increase in traffic is also likely to endanger our students walking or biking to school.

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  1. This petition is in favor of our neighborhood’s Newton Impact Community Group’s effort to reduce the size of the proposed Toll Brother’s development of 244 luxury apartments units of housing in a newly constructed 7 story building on 528 Boylston St., Newton. This structure is planned for the Sam White Landscaping parcel just east of Old Field Road, south of Hagen Rd. and west of Dudley Road on Route 9 (just before the stop light at the top of the hill). Please join concerned residents about the many immediate issues with this fast-tracked development by the Commonwealth by joining our community group and having your voice heard. This will IMPACT safety, traffic (projection of 1200 extra cars daily), reduce green space and increase flooding, the environment, schools, and change the landscape of our community. It will not make our community more affordable to families making less than $110K a year.
  2. I support the efforts of our neighborhood’s Newton Impact Community Group. Our community understands the site will be developed. We support a plan that provides affordable housing at a scale that fits within the neighborhood, creates usable open spaces, retains existing trees, doesn’t negatively impact the local ecosystem, and doesn’t dramatically increase traffic on local roads. The proposed development on Boylston Street is unwelcome because it is too large for the neighborhood, rendering it less safe and desirable, exacerbates neighborhood flooding, adversely changes the neighborhood’s character, and decreases our privacy. The increase in traffic is also likely to endanger our students walking or biking to school.