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Communication and petition from the Fellsmere Heights Neighborhood Association regarding the former Malden Hospital site.
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Robert Doolittle
Friends of Fellsmere Heights
81 Pine St.
Malden, MA 02148
June 13, 2015
Mayor Michael McGlynn
City Hall, Medford, MA 02155
Mayor Gary Christenson
City Hall, Malden, MA 02148
Dear Mayor Glynn and Mayor Christenson,
I am writing on behalf of the citizens' group, Friends of Fellsmere Heights, which is promoting a mixed-use community alternative to the proposed housing development on the Malden Hospital site.
We would like to develop and present to both of you a plan that better reflects the hopes and needs of our two communities, and we are ready to go to work on a thorough proposal. However, we very much want todo it as a collaborative effort - both in terms of a joint effort of citizens and elected leaders and in terms of our two cities working together. Indeed, we can do little without that connection. Thus far, we have welcomed the support, advice and leadership of Council President Matheson from Malden and Council Vice President Lungo-Koehn from Medford.
More precisely, we are asking both Medford and Malden Mayors and Councillors for official recognition and support for our Fellmere Heights Committee, composed of members of the Malden and Medford community, to do the following:
1. Develop a plan (both the design and the funding) for the construction of a Fellsmere Heights park, community space, and small amount of housing on the Malden Hospital site.
2. Elicit feedback by communicating our initial design in various neighborhoods of both citites and inviting residents to add their needs and wishes to the final plan.
3. Include a person you assign to represent your office and be part of that committee - as a liason with you and a consultant we can call upon as needed. That person would not be expected to attend every meeting.
Membership on that committee will include, from Medford, Bob Fitzpatrick and Chenine Peloquin; from malden, Lynn DeLacey, Prisco Tammaro, Jessica Wolf, Alicia Garza, Joe Lawless, Steven Keleti and me. We are waiting on acceptance from two other members.
Thank you for considering this proposal. Please let us know if you have any questions.
We look forward to working together to bring the communities voice and both cities needs together for the redevelopment of the Malden Hospital site.
Yours for more outdoor opportunities,
Cordially,
Robert Doolittle
Friends of Fellsmere Heights
CC: Malden City Council members
Medford City Council members
State Senator Jason Lewis (5th Middlesex)
State Rep. Paul Brodeur (32nd Middlesex)
State Rep. Paul Donato (35th Middlesex)
State Rep. Steven Ultrino (33rd Middlesex)
US Senator Elizabeth Warren
US Senator Ed Markey
US Representative Katherine Clark