PLAN: Mattapan

2023
Mattapan, Boston, Massachusetts
Deputy Director at the BPDA
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PLAN: Mattapan is a City planning initiative that seeks to craft an equitable, community-driven future for Mattapan. Guided by a multi-year participatory process that launched in 2018, PLAN: Mattapan lays out a carefully considered, comprehensive vision that aligns future growth and investment with community values and identity. Over the course of more than 150 community meetings, Mattapan residents and community stakeholders worked alongside the planning team to craft a vision and goals for their neighborhood’s future and establish recommendations for how to achieve these goals.

PLAN: Mattapan envisions a future where:

Existing Mattapan residents are stable in their homes and new residents have affordable housing options.
Mattapan residents have safe and reliable transit connections to jobs, schools, and community spaces in Mattapan and throughout Boston.
Mattapan Square and other neighborhood nodes are home to vibrant, thriving local businesses and cultural spaces that reflect the needs of residents and uphold neighborhood identity.

PLAN: Mattapan will strengthen the existing culture and stability of the community through recommendations related to five planning topic areas: Equity & Environmental Justice, Housing, Mobility, Jobs & Businesses, and People & Places.

Role: As the Deputy Director for Downtown and Neighborhood Planning (later renamed Comprehensive Planning), I oversaw the staff managing all planning initiatives in Boston's neighborhoods, including PLAN: Mattapan. I advised on content/analysis direction, community engagement, interagency coordination, and reviewing the quality of the work produced.