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	<title>Newton Villages - A city-wide coalition to improve our village centers &#187; Riverside*</title>
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		<title>Public meeting to discuss proposed development at Riverside station</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/09/public-meeting-to-discuss-proposed-development-at-riverside-station/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All villages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower Falls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ October 6, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 


BH Normandy Riverside LLC will present revised plans to develop the property it leases at the MBTA’s Riverside Station at 7pm, Thursday, Oct. 6, in the Williams School auditorium, 141 Grove Street.

The meeting was scheduled in conjunction with the Riverside Station Neighborhood Coalition (RSNC) and the three aldermen elected for Ward 4. More information is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zipcars arrive in Newton Center</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/06/zipcar-arrives-in-newton-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/06/zipcar-arrives-in-newton-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newton Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riverside*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two rent-by-the-hour cars are now available in the &#8220;triangle&#8221; parking lot on Langley Road. Zipcar members may reserve the Toyota Prius ($7.50/hour) or the Nissan Altima Hybrid ($11.50/hour).
The spaces are leased to Zipcar, the Cambridge-based car-sharing company. If this one-year trial program proves successful, the program may be expanded to other village centers in Newton.
To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newton Villages board member quoted in Globe article on Riverside development</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/06/newton-villages-board-member-quoted-in-globe-article/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2011/06/newton-villages-board-member-quoted-in-globe-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Riverside*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newton resident and architect John Pears, who has served on our board of directors since the inception of Newton Villages, spoke last night at the community meeting about the proposed development at the Riverside MBTA property.
In today&#8217;s Boston Globe article by Stewart Bishop, Pears was quoted saying:
I think the way is sits now there’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaping a &#8216;human-scale&#8217; environment</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/11/shaping-a-healthy-human-scale-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/11/shaping-a-healthy-human-scale-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chestnut Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Needham Street*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Highlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riverside*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newtonvillages.org/?p=1798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a post yesterday, &#8220;livable communities&#8221; blogger Steve Miller suggested a healthy environment requires three things:

Smart Growth,
Active Transportation, and
Human-Scale Architecture.

This year, we&#8217;ve written about smart growth, some definitions of it, and how its principles might apply in the context of Newton. At the same time, a Mixed Use Task Force, created by Newton Mayor Setti [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if&#8230; the T stopped in Upper Falls?</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/10/what-if-the-t-stopped-in-upper-falls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/10/what-if-the-t-stopped-in-upper-falls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Sisson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chestnut Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Corner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Newtonville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riverside*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Newton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A futurist view?
File this under &#8220;wishful thinking,&#8221; but&#8230;
What if the MBTA extended a branch of the &#8216;D&#8217; line through Upper Falls all the way to Needham? This is not a new idea.
If Upper Falls got rail service back, how would reactivating the old rail line there change Needham Street? 
What if one could ride on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Proactive Plan for Large Mixed-Use Developments</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/06/proactive-mixed-use-developments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/06/proactive-mixed-use-developments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cuddy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chestnut Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Highlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riverside*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[planning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newtonvillages.org/?p=1024</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have thought once or twice before, &#8220;Why do developers do our planning for us?  They tell us what they want, and we react.  Why don&#8217;t we have our own vision?&#8221;
Mayor Warren has convened a committee to create that vision&#8211;the Comprehensive Plan Mixed Use Task Force (MUTF). The group is led by the rightly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Meeting on Riverside</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/05/community-meeting-on-riverside/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/05/community-meeting-on-riverside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 22:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cuddy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All villages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riverside*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newtonvillages.org/?p=822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[ June 17, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The developers of the Riverside T station have rescheduled the community meeting that was recently canceled.  The next meeting will be held on Thursday June 17, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Williams school.  (Map &#38; directions here.)

This meeting will benefit from the recently released traffic study completed by the developer's consultant, VHB.

For more information, visit http://www.riversidestation.info, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where can Newton grow?</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/01/where-can-newton-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2010/01/where-can-newton-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Kelley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chestnut Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newton Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newtonville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riverside*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Falls]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newtonvillages.org/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the recommendations of the  Citizen Advisory Group (2009) and the City of Newton&#8217;s Comprehensive Plan (2007), our city&#8217;s long-term financial health will require moderate growth &#8212; some commercial and some residential development.
The Comprehensive Plan recommends “Flexible Moderate Growth&#8221; that &#8220;involves preservation of Newton’s residential amenities, strengthening of business in Newton’s village centers, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riverside presentation 1/12/2010</title>
		<link>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2009/12/riverside-presentation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newtonvillages.org/2009/12/riverside-presentation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cuddy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auburndale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riverside*]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BH Normandy Riverside LLC will present its latest plans for development of the MBTA Riverside site at the regular meeting of Newton&#8217;s Economic Development Commission.  The meeting is at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, January 12, in Room 209 in City Hall.
Plans dated 12/10/09:  Option A, Option B.
]]></description>
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