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Residents and developers urge committee to protect DCR access and add egress for Columbia Point as UMass project advances
Summary
Harbor Point residents, developers and officials testified in support of bills seeking to protect DCR access and require improved egress for the Columbia Point peninsula amid large-scale development proposals.
Residents of Harbor Point, developers and local officials urged the joint committee to act on legislation intended to protect public access to Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) land along Dorchester Bay and to address traffic and emergency-access concerns tied to large private development proposals on Columbia Point.
Orlando Perella, chairman of the Harbor Point Community Task Force, told the committee that Harbor Point’s roughly 3,500 residents (about 1,289 housing units, including roughly 400…
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