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Chelsea launches Palante planning workshops as city heads to All-America City finals
Summary
Municipal Administrator Fidel Maltés announced Chelsea will compete for the All-America City 2025 award and invited residents to three Chelsea Palante planning workshops on June 25, June 26 and July 9, providing dates, locations and a website for input.
Municipal Administrator Fidel Maltés announced that Chelsea will travel to Denver to compete for the All-America City 2025 award and launched Chelsea Palante, the city’s first comprehensive planning process in more than 50 years, inviting residents to three community workshops and online participation.
The announcement matters because Maltés said winning the All-America City award could increase visibility and open doors to funding and partnerships that the city could use to address housing affordability, traffic and parking, public transit access and air quality.
"Nos dirigimos a Denver para competir con ciudades de todo Estados Unidos por el premio All America City 2025," Maltés said, and he described representatives attending from local organizations including GreenRoots, the Jordan Boys & Girls Club, the Mystic River Watershed Association, the Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, Chelsea Housing, the Chelsea Police Department and the public schools.
Maltés said Chelsea is not the favorite in the national competition but noted the city has won the All-America City award twice before, in 1998 and 2014. He framed the trip as a collective effort, saying "este viaje es de todos nosotros, y no vamos solos, porque todo Chelsea viene con nosotros."
As part of the outreach, Maltés announced three workshops for Chelsea Palante: a session at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 25, in the Williams School cafeteria at 180 Walnut Street; a 6 p.m. session Thursday, June 26, at Metro Credit Union, 200 Review Beach Parkway; and a Zoom session at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 9. He directed residents who cannot attend to the project website, palante.chelseama.gov, where surveys are available for online participation.
Maltés encouraged broad participation across long-term residents and newcomers: "Queremos que se escuchen todas las voces de esta ciudad, ya sea que haya vivido en Chelsea por 30 años o ya sea que acabes de llegar." He emphasized family-friendly workshops with food and activities.
The announcement combined a civic promotion with a call for input on priorities Maltés identified — housing, parking and traffic, transit access and air quality — but did not describe specific policies or funding commitments beyond the planning process. Maltés said the administration seeks resident ideas on "qué es lo que necesitan para quedarse y prosperar aquí en Chelsea" and asked how residents envision the city for their children in 15 years.
Maltés closed the message with a civic appeal: "Muchas gracias por creer en nuestra gente, muchas gracias por creer en nuestra ciudad y, más que todo, muchas gracias por ser parte de ella. Chelsea va para adelante."
