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East Boston youth-sports group wins nod for new field house, renovated fields
By adamg on Tue, 04/11/2023 - 11:09am
John Maconga of Boston Scores, in front of rendering of new fields.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by Boston Scores to build a field house at its existing fields off Westbrook Street in Orient Heights, which will be rebuilt as three soccer fields with artificial turf, two smaller fields, a playground and a community garden.
Boston Scores Executive Director John Maconga said the fields would be shared with the Salesian Boys and Girls Club and the Brooke School. He said the group is also looking at making the fields available to the public at some points, such as on weekends, but that an exact schedule has yet to be set.
Maconga added that the turf material for the new fields will not contain PFAS. The field house proposal required zoning-board approval because it was taller than otherwise allowed. Maconga said this would let his group put the building's mechanical systems on the roof, since the field sits in a floodplain.
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Safe artificial turf, so called community garden…
Promises buried in a tower of horse manure.
Good Friday...
Was last week. Are you still up on a cross suffering? It appears by that pointless comment that you are.
Send us a ping to where you are and the nice people in the white jackets can take you down and chuck you in the tomb.
Someone is willing to redo a field in the city and do a much better job than Boston Parks at it and somehow you find fault.
Since you can smell what you thought was a mulch fire 5 miles from you, perhaps you can't see what a good job Emerson has done with the playground on Randolph Street versus what the city can't seem to handle on Magazine Street?
Are you still a dung beetle?
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Magoo sez
Magoo feelz sorry for all those squirmy wormies that won’t exist because of artificial turf. Magoo.
This is great news.
What a wonderful organization. And the building will be climate resilient!
Learn more?
Where can I learn more about the proposal/plans?
futbol!
Great that the possibility of being open to the public is also being considered. Also great that a use like a football field is being moved forward instead of building housing in a flood zone, for a change. Not sure I've ever seen an artificial field that doesn't have PFAS in it, but there was another project in front of the Con Com and that claim was also made, so who knows. Proper maintenance of artificial fields calls for regular disinfectant spraying and/or antibiotics on it, otherwise it's a big petrie dish. Not the greatest thing. They're also tremendous heat sinks in the summer, but what the hell. At least it's not another cheap-ass box of crap.
But...why does that screengrab from the zoom session look like it was AI-generated?