A few years ago, when the city approached neighbors in the Edgewater Drive area of Mattapan to ask if they would want to build out a food forest on a landlocked city-owned vacant lot in their neighborhood, the residents’ first question was critical: What, exactly, is a food forest”? According to the Boston Food Forest Coalition (BFFC), a food forest involves a coalition of
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With at-large Councillor Ruthzee Louijeune at the helm, the City Council seems close to a consensus on approving new boundaries of its nine district seats. Louijeune, the chair of the Civil Rights Committee who is presiding over the redistricting process, has in the last week held multiple meetings of her panel as she and others raced to meet election-driven deadlines in
If implemented, the 93-page report of zoning and urban planning suggestions could improve the state of housing, transportation, businesses, and open space in the neighborhood.
While walking along her usual Sunday morning route down Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, Fatima Ali-Salaam stopped to watch as a group of Family Dollar employees unloaded a semi-truck full of boxes. “That’s an entire store on that sidewalk,” she remarked to her companion from the Dorchester Reporter, expressing concern for the lack of adequate parking space many businesses in