Speaker Feature: We're excited to welcome @mayorjakewilson of Somerville, Lizzi Weyant of @mapcmetroboston , and Mary Wambui of Planning Office of Urban Affairs to the Metro Boston Youth Climate Summit this Saturday at Somerville H.S.
Each day this week we'll feature speakers, presenters, and workshops from the Summit and we hope you can join us Saturday! Link to register in our bio.
Join students from across Metro Boston to learn, connect, and build climate solutions together! This event is free, but sign up is required. Registration closes Friday, May 8th at 11:59p.m. For more info links in bio.
We’re ready for the Massachusetts Municipal Association’s Connect 351 Conference! Come visit MAPC at booth 608 today and tomorrow during the exhibition hours.
#connect351 #planningsince1963
We had a tremendous turnout at the Blue Hills Parkway Community Meeting last week, hosted with the Neponset River Watershed Association (@neprwa ) at Milton High School! A special thanks to all who attended in-person, as well as The @baystatebanner and Milton Times for covering the meeting! Find those articles through the link 🔗 in bio.
"The need for increased connections to the Blue Hills by methods other than cars has been highlighted in plans by groups like MAPC, the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s (@massdcr ) Parkways Master Plan and bike and pedestrian plans in Boston, Milton and Quincy... The community meeting focused on the part of the project that would bring changes to the stretch of the Blue Hills Parkway in Milton from Mattapan Square to where it becomes Unquity Road." - The Bay State Banner 📰
Part of the Boston to Blue Hills project, the effort aims to create both a vision and plans for walking, biking, and rolling connections from the Neponset River Greenway to the Blue Hills Reservation. 🚶♀️ 🚲 Learn more and stay up to date by joining the email list at: mapc.ma/boston-2-blue-hills
This week is all about a more resilient, connected Metro Boston!
1️⃣ Jan 15 (Virtual): Heat Resilience & Mobility Workshop. Hear from WalkMass on climate-safe walk audits & the NO-HEAT project. @mapcmetroboston@abctma @
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2️⃣ Jan 15 (In-Person): Blue Hills Parkway Community Meeting. Join us from 5:30-7:30 PM to help design new greenway corridors!
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#RegionalPlanning #HeatResilience #ActiveTransportation #BlueHills #ClimateAction
Shape the future of Blue Hills Parkway! Share your ideas!
Join the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) & NepRWA for a public meeting on design options for walking, biking & rolling connections from the Neponset River to the Blue Hills.
Jan 15 | 5:30–7:30 PM
Milton High School Library (in person only)
Get more info & register: neponset.org/event
@mapcmetroboston@friendsofthebluehills@neponset_greenway_council@hpnepriverac
We'd like to take a moment to welcome the new mayors in the MAPC region, who were officially sworn in on January 1!
▪ Robert Van Campen, @cityofeverettma
▪ Paul Lundberg, City of Gloucester
▪ Marc Laredo, City of Newton
▪ and Jake Wilson, @somervillecity
Everett, Newton, and Somerville are part of the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition and fall in our Inner Core Committee subregion; Gloucester is a member of our North Shore Task Force subregion.
@mayorofeverettma , @paullundbergmayor , @laredofornewton ,
@jake4somerville
MAPC and the Neponset River Watershed Association invite community members to learn about design options for the Blue Hills Parkway corridor, extending from Mattapan and Milton Upper Mills to Canton Ave.
The meeting will include an open house, presentation, and workshop during which attendees can provide input. Registration is encouraged but not required; find the link 🔗 to register and for more details in our bio. Swipe ⬅ for a map of the Blue Hills Parkway.
This meeting is part of a larger process to determine if community members are interested in a walking, biking, and/or rolling connection from the Neponset River area to the Blue Hills Reservation. 🚲
Help us spread the word! @neprwa miltonaccesstv @friendsofthebluehills@cityofquincy #BlueHills #miltonma #mattapan
Our main goal for MAPC's monthly newsletter - MAPC Matters - is ensuring that it stays relevant, informative, and supportive of the work municipalities are doing in the Greater Boston region.
To help us do so, as we approach the end of 2025 we want to hear from you! Take our brief, two-question survey at: mapc.ma/mapc-matters-input 📋
You can also find the survey and subscribe to MAPC Matters through the link 🔗 in our bio.
Earlier this week, MAPC Senior Transportation Planner Adi Nochur (pictured right on the panel) testified during the @cityofboston City Council's Planning, Development, and Transportation hearing on exploring amending the Boston Zoning Code to remove parking minimum requirements for new development.
Nochur provided the Committee with an overview of MAPC’s Perfect Fit Parking research, which has shown that parking is consistently overbuilt and underutilized at multifamily housing sites in Greater Boston, whether in urban or suburban locations. 🅿 🚗
Head to perfectfitparking.mapc.org 🔗 for more information, including a September 2025 update on our study in @cityofsalem – and the elimination of parking minimums for new multifamily housing developments in the City!
Thank you Sharon Durkan (@councilordurkan ), District 8 Councilor and Committee Chair for inviting MAPC to participate! The Committee also heard from Henry Grabar, journalist and author of “Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.”
MAPC - along with our partners at @masseea & @pioneervalleyplanning - were recently honored with the President's Award from the American Planning Association's Massachusetts Chapter for the Climate Resilience Playbook. 👏
What is the Climate Resilience Playbook? We recently covered just that on our Planning 101 blog: mapc.org/planning101. You can access the Playbook and our introductory webinar through the link.
MAPC staff members pictured above, from left to right: Stephen Larrick, Emma Zehner, Van Du, and Eric Hove.
@americanplanningassociation !
