Let's Make it Happen on 6/20!

Say YES to transit-oriented, affordable housing for EVERYONE in Somerville

After over a year of collaborations with the Somerville community, the City, and our partners in the field, our proposal for redevelopment of 181 & 197 Washington St (the former Boys & Girls Club and existing Cota Funeral Home) will go before the Somerville Planning Board for vote on Thursday, June  20th at the VNA building at 259 Lowell Street, 3rd floor Community Room. This is the final step in the process for obtain a permit to develop the site. We need your support to make this project a reality for Somerville.

Here is what YOU can do help us make it happen on 6/20:

1. Attend the Planning Board Hearing on 6/20 - wear a sticker supporting “Everyone’s Somerville”, tell the Board why YOU support this project for our Somerville.
2. Contact your Alderman representative (calling is best) and tell them that you support the SCC/Cathartes proposal for 181/197 Washington Street                                                       Maryann Heuston (Ward 2) 617-492-5331 mheuston@hotmail.com 
     Tom Taylor (Ward 3) 617-776-1618 tftald32@aol.com 
      Bill White (at large) 617-625-9110 william.a.white@verizon.net 
      Jack Connolly (at large) 617-625-0781 aldermanconnolly@gmail.com 
      Dennis Sullivan (at large) 617-628-1857 aldermansullivan@aol.com 
      Bruce Desmond (at large) 617-666-1757 brucemdesmond@yahoo.com 
3. Contact SCC’s Rene Mardones rmardones@somervillecdc.org to help out and get involved in activities leading up to the hearing. 

This joint proposal between SCC and Cathartes Private Investments represents a unique private/nonprofit partnership to build 84 new energy-efficient apartments over retail and office space that:

• Embraces the community’s vision for a vibrant, connected, transit-oriented Union Square;
• Provides a welcoming gateway to a neighborhood remaining affordable to people of all incomes;
• Preserves opportunities for everyone to thrive in Somerville and to benefit from the Green Line Extension.

For more on our vision for this project, see our guest editorial published in the Somerville News, the Somerville Journal, and the Somerville Patch last week. There have also been some great letters to the editor!

For more details on this project, and what you can do to help make it happen, see www.everyonessomerville.org

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