Please Take Our North Allston North Brighton Resident Survey!
ABCPI is seeking a better understanding of what impact Harvard University's property acquisitions, leasing practices, and development plans are having on residents of North Allston and North Brighton.
Click here to take the survey.
CPI Steering Committee
Next CPI Steering Committee Meeting
Our next steering committee meeting is postponed -- check soon for a new date!
Recent CPI Documents
A CPI subcommittee have been developing a Community Vision statement based on material from the BRA's Neighborhood Planning Initiative, which reflects myriad neighborhood concerns. We hope this evolving document helps generate many conversations about what we want as a neighborhood.
CPI has held mini-workshops on Harvard's DPIR document. We created DPIR Fact Sheets to help you review the DPIR.
Here are the CPI comments on the DPIR.
Upcoming Community Meetings
- Allston Brighton North Neighbors Forum
Tues, Nov. 20, 6PM - 8PM
Thur, Dec. 4, 6PM - 8PM
Gardner School, 30 Athol St, Allston
- Harvard - Allston Task Force
Tues, Nov. 13, 6:30 - 8PM
Thur, Nov 29, 6:30 - 8PM
Honan-Allston Library, 300 N. Harvard St, Allston
What is ABCPI?
The Allston Brighton community is facing a unique convergence of development pressures and opportunities that require an active and engaged community to respond in a visionary and constructive way. The neighborhood is at a crossroads and there is a strong sense among some community residents that some possible futures would leave the neighborhood a hollow husk with a continuing major loss of families and economic and ethnic diversity. It is our belief that this is not in the long-term interests of the larger Boston community or the large institutions that are our neighbors.
Allston Brighton residents need to "connect the dots" and understand what the whole neighborhood faces. ABCPI seeks to help the community respond with a more unified voice so the neighborhood's views are heard clearly by the universities, hospitals, private developers and by the City of Boston.
ABCPI is a coalition that includes civic and community organizations and individual residents. The steering committee for ABCPI includes representatives from community organizations and interested indiviuals and meets regularly.
Supporting organizations: Allston Brighton CDC; Brazilian Immigrant Center; Brighton Allston Historical Society; Brighton Allston Improvement Association; Hobart Park Neighborhood Association; Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center