Thirteen Villages & One Goal... Newton Centre
Newton Centre Village has an attractive village center, with commercial buildings, churches, and private homes of great aesthetic value and historic significance. The Newton Centre “T” station and the First Baptist Church are landmarks designed by H. H. Richardson, architect of Boston’s Trinity Church.
Many houses on adjacent streets have been included in the Newton Historical Society’s annual walking tours of significant homes and have been marked by historic plaques.
Newton Centre's is a commercially diverse and vibrant village center, with a well-established network of public open spaces, a fully developed commercial infrastructure and footprint, and a strong village history. We live in single-family or appropriately-scaled-multi-family homes within easy walking distance of the “T” and of the Village’s businesses and restaurants, its parks and schools and its houses of worship. We live here because of these characteristics, and we oppose changes that would transform our village into an urbanized environment. |
Challenges
There are a number of challenges facing Newton Centre Village to do with excessive development and attempts to urbanize our village. These include proposals to build a multi-generational center and high-density housing complex on the 'triangle" public parking lot and the "surplusing" and possible disposition to developers of Newton Centre's beautiful and historic branch library building. Other challenges include plans to replace our public parking lots with new development or a large parking garage building, and "neighborhood parking plans" that would push even more commercial, commuter and employee parking onto our residential streets. In addition, many homeowners are seeking relief, through zoning, from developers seeking to build large multi-unit condo complexes into their neighborhoods.
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