[Massplanners] Towns taking over state roads

[Joe Viola]

Hi Paul -

The Town of Brookline controls a section of Rt. 9 in Brookline Village - an
area known as Gateway East or Village Square.  The Town-controlled portion
of Rt. 9 (Washington Street) is adjacent to sections still controlled by
MassDOT. Hopefully the Town's improvements carry over to the state portion
as MassDOT looks to the future.

The Town was able to undertake its own visioning process for that portion
of the corridor, which led to the creation of a public realm plan.  The
public realm plan had conceptual level design plans that were the basis for
us to seek TIP funding at the Boston region MPO for roadway/corridor
improvements.  Town control over the planning process led to much-improved
bicycle and pedestrian accommodation in the corridor (along with
much-needed landscape and hardscape improvements) and allowed for close
coordination with new residential/commercial growth.

Joe
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Joe Viola, Assistant Director for Community Planning

Town of Brookline

Department of Planning and Community Development

333 Washington Street, 3rd fl.

Brookline, MA 02445



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Tel:  617.730.2125

http://www.brooklinema.gov/

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:45 AM Paul Dell'Aquila via MassPlanners <
massplanners at masscptc.org> wrote:

> Good morning, Mass Planners -
> Have any communities out there been able to take over control of a state
> road going through a downtown/town center? The Upton Police Chief mentioned
> this possibility to the Economic Development Committee recently and they
> have asked me to see if there are any examples of this occurring.
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul Dell'Aquila, AICP
> Upton Town Planner/Economic Development Coordinator
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