ADU Showcase May 12-17 in City Hall Plaza The Mayor’s Office of Housing is hosting a Backyard ADU Showcase on City Hall Plaza, where you can step inside a full-scale model Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) and learn how these small homes can expand housing options across the city. Whether you’re…

Roslindale Square Transportation Action Plan Virtual Update – Wed May 13, 6:30-8:00 PM Join Streets Cabinet planners for an important virtual public update on the Roslindale Square Transportation Action Plan on Wednesday, May 13 from 6:30 - 8:00 PM. Learn about what's been accomplished so far, the…

Action Alert: Speak Up for Safety and Accountability at Budget Hearing 5/4 @ 10:00 AM WalkUP Roslindale is joining with LivableStreets and other safe streets advocacy organizations to call on our community to speak up on Monday, May 4 at 10:00 AM, when the Boston City Council will hold a hearing…

Hyde Park Ave Safety Walk and Talk TOMORROW Sat 4/25 at 12PM Join TOMORROW Saturday April 25th with the Boston Better Streets Coalition and City Councilors Ben Weber and Enrique Pepen at Forest Hills Station to demand that the city fix the dangerous conditions on Hyde Park Ave. Boston…

Safe Streets Rally and Hearing this Wednesday 4/22 As the Globe has reported, safe streets projects across the city have been halted with no clear explanation, even losing existing funding. Please join WalkUP Roslindale along with other advocates, city councilors, and fellow residents for a rally…

Comment Letter on 4301 Washington Street Today, we submitted a comment letter supporting the proposed development at 4301 Washington Street in Roslindale. The Proposed Project strongly aligns with the objectives of the Squares + Streets rezoning initiative. Replacing a vacant building with 16 new…

And one more thing today on transportation projects in our neighborhood – District 5 City Councilor Pepen Letter The letter pretty much speaks for itself and puts several points out there demonstrating that we really can't anymore for progress on major projects in our neighborhood:

Concerns mounting at the Boston Globe (!) on where the city is (or isn’t) heading on street safety – with feedback solicited… Monday really was quite the day in the regional paper of record when it comes to safety on this city's streets: To begin with, the Boston Globe's editorial board took…

Arboretum Road Cleanup – 14 March 2026 – 10 am to 12 pm We here at WalkUP Roslindale remain delighted at last fall's completion and opening of the initial phase of the Roslindale Gateway Path from the end of the Blackwell Path to the new Arboretum Road entrance. We would like to start a tradition…

City Council hearing on snow clearance tomorrow – 2 pm Boston City Hall – Tuesday, 3 March 2026 Tomorrow afternoon, 3rd March 2026, at 2:00 pm, the City Council's Committee on Public Services will hold a hearing in the Iannella Chamber, 5th Floor, Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts 02201, on…

WalkUP Roslindale Snow Clearance Collaborative, Version 8.6 – Another big one! We're looking at a snowfall total on the order of at least 18" (45.7 cm) from this significant northeaster, which is several multiples over our 4" (10 cm) benchmark. Once again, each of us knows our part of the…

WalkUP Roslindale Snow Clearance Collaborative – Version 8.4 – Once more, with feeling! Yesterday's snowfall was a mere echo of the storm we had at the end of last month, but it still yielded about 5.3 inches (13.5 cm), well over our 4 inch (10 cm) benchmark. Once again, each of us knows our part…

WalkUP Roslindale Snow Clearance Collaborative – Version 8.3 – This is NOT a drill… Looking ahead to when this storm moves on sometime tomorrow, we can see that it's already a legitimately major winter weather event with snowfall already more than double our benchmark of 4" (10 cm), with a solid…

Comment letter on 3841 Washington Street Yesterday, we submitted our comment letter in support of a proposed development at 3841 Washington Street. We believe that this building will be a positive addition to the Roslindale community and will contribute to the supply of both affordable and market…

WalkUP Roslindale Snow Clearance Collaborative – Version 8.2 – Get on out there and clear! Here at WURSCC Headquarters in Roslindale, the measurement on the back deck rail is showing over 5" of the fluffy stuff, so we're calling out the forces once again to join our old friend the Boston Yeti in…

TONIGHT: 3841 Washington St Public Meeting This evening there is a public meeting for a proposed seven-story mixed-use development near Forest Hills Station and the Roslindale/Jamaica Plain border 3841 Washington St. The proposed project contains approximately 165 dwelling units, including…

Comment letter on 4487 Washington Street We submitted our comment letter in support of a proposed development at 4487 Washington Street in Roslindale that we believe strongly aligns with the objectives of the Squares + Streets rezoning initiative. Replacing a single-family use with 28 new dwelling…

10 years in and still at it! Yes, you read that right. WalkUP Roslindale are now in our eleventh year of pro-housing and pro-walk, -bike, and -transit advocacy. We announced this venture, which started out as the brainchild of Adam Kessel and your correspondent, in the spring of 2015 with the…

WalkUP Roslindale’s Year in Review – 2025 As adverse as the national level conditions have been generally for anyone concerned about the direction of this country and its respect for fundamental human rights as well as the causes we hold dear in particular, we here at WalkUP Roslindale can still…

WalkUP Roslindale Snow Clearance Collaborative – Version 8.1 – Assemble & Clear! It's a close call on whether we have hit the standard 4" (10 cm) threshold, but we will err on the side of safety and assistance, so we are joining our old friend the Boston Yeti and calling our forces out onto the…

4487 Washington St Public Meeting Wed 12/17 6pm The Planning Department is hosting a Virtual Public Meeting tomorrow, Wednesday 12/17, 6:00-8:00pm for the proposed project at 4487 Washington Street, a new five-story 28-unit residential building with 12 off-street vehicle parking spaces. The site…

Walk Audit Series Community Meeting Wed 11/19 6:30-8pm Please join us for our community meeting to wrap up our walk audit series! We'll report back, discuss our findings and improvements that have already been made, and talk about next steps. BCYF Community Center 6 Cummins Hwy, Boston, MA 02131 📅…

Comment letter on 4259-4267 Washington Street (former Bank of America location) We've submitted a comment letter in support of a proposed affordable housing project at 4259-4267 Washington Street, the old Bank of America location just off the square. As detailed below, it's great to see the…

Show Support for Affordable Senior Housing Tonight! Tonight at 6 PM, there’s a public meeting about B’nai B’rith’s proposal for a 6-story, PassiveHouse-certifiable building with 41 affordable senior homes and new retail — including a new home for the Thrift Shop — on the former Bank of America…

Cummins Highway Walk Audit – Wed Oct 15, 3:30 – 5:00 PM Join us on our third and final walk audit in this year’s series this coming Wednesday! We'll meet in Adams Park and depart by 3:35 to observe and document how safe, accessible, and welcoming the streets and sidewalks are for people of all…

Speak Up for a Safer Hyde Park Ave: City Council Hearing Oct. 6 Early Monday morning, yet another serious crash on Hyde Park Avenue left a pedestrian critically injured near American Legion Highway. Streetsblog MASS reports that Boston EMS transported the victim to the hospital after being struck…

4259-4267 Washington Street (Phase 1 of the former BofA site redevelopment) – Public Meeting on Monday, 20 October 2025 Just a quick note for interested and supportive folks in our neighborhood that the Small Project Review public meeting on the BBH proposal has been announced by the Boston…

Boston Climate Action Plan – Draft 2 – Feedback period ends 30 September 2025 (this Tuesday)! The second draft of the city's Climate Action Plan 2025 - which will guide the City through the next 5 years of efforts to reduce our collective carbon emissions and keep on track to hit a 50% drop from…

From Audit to Action: Washington St. Sidewalks Repaired! We are happy to report that our walk audit of Washington St on August 23rd has already yielded meaningful results - the Public Works Department was out on the sidewalks yesterday repairing the biggest sidewalk issues we identified! View this…

@universalhub.com just heard boom in Rozzie Village, followed by brief flicker of lights, followed by a large number of emergency vehicle sirens. Any clues what’s going on?

First fruits for Squares & Streets in Roslindale look really promising – 4259-4267 Washington Street come on down! The first project to file for approval under the new zoning is the mixed-use ground-floor commercial/all-affordable residential phase 1 of B'nai B'rith Housing's 2-phase redevelopment…

Walk Audit #2: Adams Park + Roslindale Square Area – Wed 9/17, 3:30-5pm The 2nd walk audit of our 2025 walk audit series is coming up next week! In this, audit we'll be examining the heart of our Roslindale community. We'll begin in Adams Park and walk around the Roslindale Square area, observing…

Walk Audit this Saturday 10:30am – Washington St from Basile to Archdale 📅 Saturday, August 23rd 🕥 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Our first in a series of three walk audits is this Saturday - please join us! We'll be meeting at the corner of South St and Taft Hill Terrace and departing shortly after 10:30am.…

Join the Walk Audit Series! We’re excited to host three walk audits in the coming weeks and months, supported by an AARP Community Challenge microgrant. These events are open to all, and we’d love your input. A walk audit is a community-led stroll through a neighborhood to observe and document how…

Comment Letter on 1200 Centre Street We sent in our letter (PDF, DOC) to express our strong support for the Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL) project at 1200 Centre Street that will create a 78-unit affordable senior housing community.

Arboretum Block Party this Saturday 7/19 11am-2pm! Join the Arnold Arboretum for a Block Party on Arboretum Road this Saturday, July 19 from 11am-2pm to celebrate the new entrance to the Arboretum (Phase 1 of the Roslindale Gateway Path)! Free pizza, face painting, and more! View the flyer in…

New City Initiative Alert – “Spaces for You” In line with the way the Wu Administration has been seeking to emphasize systemic planning instead of project-based development review, they're now out with a new initiative on public spaces they're calling "Spaces for You" and which they describe at a…

Hebrew Senior Life – Centre/Walter Proposed Project – Article 80 Public Meeting – 6 pm on 23 July 2025 With the Project Notification Form (PNF) for Article 80/Large Project Review of Hebrew Senior Life's proposed all-affordable senior residential development at Centre/Walter with the Boston…

Comment letter on Expanding Safety Surge Program This week, the Boston City Council held a hearing on Docket No. 0266 – Pedestrian Safety, Traffic Calming, and Expanding the Safety Surge Program. We emphatically support greater investment in pedestrian safety, which also benefits cyclists and…

The Boston Zoning Commission is set to hold their public hearing starting at about 9 am on this coming Wednesday, 21 May 2025, on the zoning text and map amendments developed through the small area planning process here in Roslindale Square over the course of the last... https://wp.me/p6X5no-XJ

The Welcome Home, Boston initiative seeks to create new homes for first-time homebuyers on city-owned land. Phase 3 will involve the vacant city-owned land at 917 American Legion Hwy and Wilmot St. The neighborhood-specific workshop for Roslindale/Hyde Park is this... https://wp.me/p6X5no-XD

This really is a great event every year and if you register early enough, you get a free Boston Bikes t-shirt. Get with the program if you can! Registration link is HERE.... https://wp.me/p6X5no-XA

Mark your calendar for two upcoming Boston Transportation Department (BTD) open houses this May! Roslindale Transportation Action Plan Open House Tuesday May 13th, 6:00 - 7:30pm @ St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church BTD will be introducing the project, sharing what... https://wp.me/p6X5no-Xm

[caption id="attachment_3671" align="alignleft" width="404"] The newly opened entrance at Arboretum Rd.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3673" align="alignright" width="400"] Updated Arboretum Map & Blackwell Path connection.[/caption]                      ... https://wp.me/p6X5no-Xc

There's been light reporting on this so far in the broader media, but we can confirm that the Planning Department successfully moved the proposed Squares & Streets Zoning Map and Text Amendments through the approval recommendation stage with the BPDA Board at their... https://wp.me/p6X5no-X8

The Boston Better Streets Coalition has organized a Hyde Park Safety Walk tomorrow, Saturday April 12 from 1-3 PM, to help envision a safer Hyde Park Avenue. Meet at Forest Hills Station at 1pm. City Councilors, officials, and Boston transportation planners will be in... https://wp.me/p6X5no-X1

Close on the heels of the end of the comment period yesterday, the Planning Department is hosting their scheduled closeout meeting on the zoning map and the revisions made thereto since its release in February. We encourage supporters to attend and thank the staff who... https://wp.me/p6X5no-WZ

The deadline for comments on the Roslindale Squares+Streets Zoning Map has been extended to this Saturday, April 5th. We've just submitted our comment letter on the map, make sure to submit yours! You may have submitted comments back in January or February for the Small... https://wp.me/p6X5no-WP

Key highlights from The Rozzie Zoning Zoom are now available! You can also watch the full recording here. Balancing Zoning Flexibility & Community Input Boston City Planner Abdul Zachariah discusses how the new zoning grants greater flexibility to property owners... https://wp.me/p6X5no-Wr

Highlights reel from the @walkuprozzie.bsky.social Roslindale Zoning Zoom! Seriously excellent, clear, helpful explanations of how zoning for density eases displacement, enhances affordability, increases tax revenue, accommodates parking, & allows aging in place. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...