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“Mondays with Marty” came to the North End / Waterfront this week as part of Mayoral Candidate Martin Walsh’s neighborhood outreach program. The town hall style meeting attracted dozens of neighborhood residents and business owners to the Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel on Monday, October 7, 2013.
Video Timeline Highlighting Selected Topics
00:00 Introduction by Erin O’Brien, UMass Boston Political Science Professor
03:50 Overview by Marty Walsh
06:50 Education and Boston Public Schools
09:10 Comments on Latest Poll
15:40 Crime and Neighborhood Policing
17:30 Development in Boston and plan regarding Boston Redevelopment Authority
23:30 Clean Streets and powerwashing Hanover Street
Public Questions and Comments
- 24:00 Recent crime incidents and housing issues
- 28:45 Height of proposed developments, BRA approvals before year-end
- 31:30 Long Wharf Park vs. Restaurant
- 32:30 North End Public Safety and Quality of Life Issues (Loud Parties, Party Line)
- 35:30 Moving City Hall to benefit early childhood education and parks
- 40:30 New development impacts on traffic, inadequate public transportation, lack of open space
- 45:30 Traffic alternatives (camera battery changeout cut about 20 seconds here, sorry!)
- 48:40 Making Hanover Street pedestrian only
- 50:20 Parks Funding and Friends groups
- 55:50 Zoning of commercial versus residential
- 59:50 Technology in city services
For more information on the campaign, see www.MartyWalsh.org.
