Community Plan, Municipal Election Prep, and NEW! Committee Opportunities

Hello All!

To those of you who made it on Tuesday evening, and those of you keeping up over email, here is a quick recap of our August Meeting!

Emily kept amazing notes, found at the end of the agenda and reproduced below.

One key ask: If you are interested in helping to put together the District Nine Forum for City Council, we are having a kickoff meeting next week - please indicated your availability HERE. I will reach out when we have something scheduled (if you can’t make the kickoff but fill out the survey, we will be sure to keep you in the loop to participate in future meetings, this will be about a 6 week process at least and there will be a lot to do!

Again, please find Emily’s notes below, and stay tuned for future updates! Look forward to seeing folks in September!

Cheers,

Caitlin

Meeting Notes

Zoning Discussion with Grey Black

• Squares + Streets is an ongoing zoning project focused on housing, public space, small businesses, arts and culture, and transportation in neighborhood centers and along main streets

  • Different timelines for different neighborhoods (ex. Brighton Center, Cleveland Circle, etc.)

    • Cleary Square next

  • Based on political will – constituents can build momentum for their neighborhood to be a focus

    • A-B will be a part of this as part of the A/B community rezoning plan

• A/B Rezoning Approach

  • Will modernize A/B land code + provide guidance/framework for future developments

  • Make it easier to create mixed-use buildings 

  • Enable new housing to be built

• Next open house: September (date TBD) - will discuss 10 focus areas in AB

• Can email feedback any time

• December 2025: Public meeting on zoning plan

• Spring 2026: Plan (hopefully) passes!

• Contact Community Engagement Manager Grey Black with any questions!

  • 617-858-0269

  • [email protected]

A/B Admin

• Committees: May be useful to divide ourselves up into committees around events, tactics, admin tasks (e.g., outreach committee, committee for a specific event or legislator engagement)

  • As we grow, time to start thinking about a more formal structure.  For now, here’s a great primer to read on how other PM chapters have organized!

• Candidate Forums: A/B may not do any endorsements this cycle & focus on our own district race only

  • Candidates in our district: Pilar Ortiz, Liz Breadon

    • Plan to host an A-B District Candidate Forum (possibly with ABHA/ABHC)

  • Brainstorm outreach/recruitment ideas for forum + turnout

• Virtual Meetings

  • Start adding more to the schedule, maybe Dec/Jan timeframe?

• Email Management

  • Potentially utilize OnePassword

Next Steps

• Caitlin to investigate password manager for emails (Beehiiv & gmail)

• Emily to send Jon a recap of organizing fair (to send via Mobilize)

• Caitlin to coordinate next meeting about city council candidate forum meeting

• At next few meetings we will discuss more formalized structure & identify some committees to work on