18:57:34 From Eric Grunebaum to Hosts and panelists: Can that particular bridge design be combined with a rail stop? 19:01:05 From Eric Grunebaum to Hosts and panelists: Don’t have to go all the way to Lincoln Center to see a park with a building under it. Toomey Park in East Camb has a structure under it (maybe DPW?) 19:02:49 From Kathy Watkins, DPW to Hosts and panelists: Eric is correct. DPW has a small building under the hill in Toomey Park. It is a small storage building for electric equipment used to maintain the park. 19:04:48 From Eric Grunebaum to Hosts and panelists: It’s a nice park and very cool that there’s a sledding hill in East Camb. flatland. There could be one in the Quad flatland too. I can imagine DPW running occasional sledding contests 🙂 19:08:45 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: Question for CDD: what is the FAR that was used for the pie chart projections? 19:11:35 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: Regarding Neighborhood Uses, I would ALLOW them everywhere and REQUIRE them on Fawcett & Moulton. 19:14:51 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: I love the idea of a DPW facility serving multiple other purposes, including parking, public park, rooftop field space, and a buffer for the Highlands. Can we get more views of how it would integrate with the surrounding neighborhood? 19:15:58 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: I like the size of the residential buildings shown (100-200 units). The larger 400-500 unit buildings that have been built previously are block killers! 19:16:43 From Eric Grunebaum to Hosts and panelists: I want to add that I am very impressed by a lot in this plan and the dedication of quite a bit of land to open space, streets, residential and DPW. That’s a big chunk and a great evolution! 19:17:42 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: I don't like that CDD's pie chart shows the retail and light industrial uses reduced to just 1% each. We need these other uses to be closed to 10% in order to ensure that it actually becomes a neighborhood where residents can walk to get what they need. 19:19:05 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: I think raising the street level within the Raytheon parcels is a great idea, provided we are not displacing storm water to other surrounding properties. 19:19:32 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: I like the idea of a central pavilion as shown in the renderings. 19:19:58 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: Question- what's the clear span of the proposed bridge? 19:22:48 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: The issue with CSOs in the Quad is that the separated pipes exit the Quad, pass under the Triangle, and then are recombined into a single pipe that can overflow into Alewife Brook. Increased sewer flows from the Quad would translate into increased volumes of CSO. 19:25:45 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: I would love to see more details about the East-West multi-use path that is recommended in the Cambridge Bike Plan to run along the south side of the tracks. This would provide a continuous connection from Mooney Street, to Fawcett Street, the bridge, Wheeler Street, Terminal Road, Danehy Park, and Sherman Street. 19:28:34 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: I like the idea that the New Fawcett Street is MOSTLY carless, similar to how we manage Winthrop Street in Harvard Square, where delivery trucks are allowed during limited daytime hours. 19:29:41 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: Would love it if the central green space at the foot of the bridge could be expanded by incorporating some land from the Davis Co holdings to create a larger central urban space. 19:31:56 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: I don't like that CDD's plan seems to show most of the retail remaining in the shopping mall area, even while that district continues to have poor connections to the surrounding districts to the north and west. 19:33:49 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: I strongly support that a future crossing from Rindge Ave to the park/mall could be a tunnel rather than a bridge, similar to the Xerxa Road underpass and the two underpasses in Belmont. 19:34:59 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: Light industrial spaces could be located on the backside of the Mooney Street commercial buildings, still on the ground floor but facing the tracks. 19:39:17 From Ann Stewart to Hosts and panelists: CDD: is it true that NO shopping ctr owners in Cambridge want housing on their pkg lots or on top of existing retail? 19:42:20 From Ann Stewart to Hosts and panelists: moderate bonus says "green stormwater infrastructure..." and smaller bonus says "district flood protection"; aren't these the same? 19:45:17 From Ann Stewart to Hosts and panelists: Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Control Planning Update for the Charles River and Alewife Brook/Mystic River Public Meeting Thursday, December 15 6:00 p.m. Register online for this Zoom meeting: https://tinyurl.com/CSOmeeting2 19:45:59 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: 1% retail in a 1 million square foot district is equivalent to one 10,000 sf restaurant. 19:46:11 From Doug Brown to Hosts and panelists: We still need to know what FARs are being proposed for the three different scenarios. I expected we would see this at this meeting. 19:47:31 From Mike Nakagawa to Hosts and panelists: yes, what are the new totals for total s.f. now that we've blown past 4-story buildings in the district