Fort Point District

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Fort Point District Landuse
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Boston Wharf
Land Owners
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Gillette
Land Owners
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Beacon
Land Owners
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USPS
Land Owners
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Others
Land Owners
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Municipal Harbor Plan Area
July 2000
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Chapter 91 Heights and Water Dependent Use Zone
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Chapter 91 Build Condition
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MHP Substitution Provisions
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MHP Build Condition
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Landmarks

• National Register
• Local Petition

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FAA Building Height Restrictions
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South Boston Parking Freeze
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Planning Context

• Central Artery/ Tunnel Project
• MBTA Transitway Project
• Convention Center Legislation
• Seaport Public Realm Plan
• South Boston Transportation Plan

• South Boston Waterfront District MHP
• MWRA CSO
• Backstreets Program
• Channel Center
• Watersheet Activation Plan

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Public Realm Plan-Open Space Plan
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Channel Center
Submitted January 24, 2001

Approved December
22, 2002
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Fort Point Channel Watersheet Activation Plan
May, 2002
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Planning Principles

• Promote Boston Harbor as a shared natural
  resource
• Preserve and enhance the industrial port
• Plan the District as a vital, mixed use
  neighborhood
• Develop the District as an integral part of
  Bostons economy
• Enhance the South Boston community

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Planning Principles (SPRP)

• Extend Bostons existing public realm
• Street networks
• Activate water-based uses
• Expand transportation
• Respect building heights
• Affordable housing and artist live-work space
• Civic and public uses
• Open space system

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Planning Principles (MHP)

• Mix of uses, increasing residential
• Public access to the waterfront
• Activate the Fort Point Channel
• Pedestrians links promenades and bridges
• Transitional buffers between industrial and
  mixed-use areas

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Planning Principles (IPOD)

• Character and resources of each sub-district
• Residents share benefits of revitalization
• Market rate and affordable housing
• Interim height and FAR limits
• Physical connections
• Creation of streets and open spaces
• A 24-hour community
• Visual and physical access to the waterfront
• Contemporary mixed-use economy

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Planning Principles (IPOD)

• Traffic flow system
• Harborwalk to serve as the framework for
  organizing open space
• Protect and create significant view corridors
• Preserve and protect public open spaces
• Promote the development of public waterborne
  transportation
• Protect water-dependent and water-related
  industrial and commercial uses

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100 Acre Planning Goals

• Streets and blocks system
• Phasing of infrastructure
• Pedestrian and open space system
• Contribution of private land owners
• Street and building character
• Land use and massing
• Existing structures
• New structures
• Housing policy

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A Street
Richard St.
W. Service Rd.
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Fort Point Channel Area Streetscape
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Fort Point Avenue
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Wormwood Street
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A Street
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New Street and New Street Park
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Gillette Harborwalk