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Category: News
The Archdiocese recently refurbished the undercroft at the Cathedral into an event space. Even here, in the basement, they’ve managed to capture light coming through stained glass.
The annual AHNA Partners Breakfast, held in the undercroft as the Cathedral of Saint Joseph.
The pothole over on Huntington Street was a proper sinkhole – the ground beneath gave way. Over on Sargeant Street, at the intersection with Garden Street, potholes are created by utility work. In this case, CNG cutting into the street and then not properly restoring the street. I already know what CNG, and the City, will say: CNG isn’t done with the work yet. It’s been ongoing for over a year, and they don’t come back for months, but what’s the point in asking them to do a proper job patching the street if they’re inevitably coming back to tear it up again?
The answer is that the one patch at the manhole is sinking. Of course, today, more work is not only inevitable, it’s imminent … .
Huntington Street is three blocks long, and only this middle block, on which 102 Huntington Street sits, has a real issue with parking. We’re not exactly sure why. Today, we went out to gather more data.
On the west side, there’s 2-hour parking permitted between 8 AM and 6 PM. There’s no parking to the corner. On both sides, there’s no parking while snow is on the street, or when the City collects trash and cleans streets – on Thursday, in the case of Asylum Hill.
On the east side, parking is entirely unrestricted, except in the case of snow and trash collection.
It seems that this block of Huntington Street would benefit from odd-even parking, or prohibiting parking on one side of the street altogether. This issue will continue to concern us because – oh, wait, can’t quite say that publicly yet!
Or, at least, the building. The neighborhood isn’t so keen on the conversion of Veeder Place into a self-storage facility, and they told the Planning division that. The Planning division said, well, the neighborhood should have said something a year ago, when the owner of the building put in for the zoning amendment that permits this new use. Only, Planning never told the neighborhood about that amendment, so … ?
