Chelsea Is Courting Developers: A Site Tour October 1, and Meetings on Dropping Parking Minimums
The City asks residents about ending parking minimums while showing builders the sites. Both are part of a year-long push to get…
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Chelsea Will Replace Your Lead Water Pipe for Free. Here Is How to Check Yours
Look up your address, book a two-minute check, and the City replaces a lead line in four to eight hours at no…
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Sixteen Funding Sources, Thirteen Months of Permitting and $43 Million: What It Takes to Build 62 Affordable Apartments in Chelsea
The project was permitted in 2022 and did not break ground until 2025. The gap was spent lining up money. A developer…
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Chelsea’s Master Plan Sorts the City Into Three Kinds of Place. Find the One You Live In
West Chelsea, Creekside, Forbes and the lower Broadway waterfront are marked for transformation. The Broadway corridor is marked for building on what…
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A Two-Family on a 6,126-Square-Foot Lot, and an Argument About Where the Front Steps End
Frontage 15 feet short, the lot 1,374 square feet short, and parking two feet from the line. How a house actually gets…
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‘Chelsea Is a City in Decline’ Was the Last Master Plan’s First Line. One Resident Spoke at the Hearing for the New One
Fifty years since the last one, about 200 pages, 40 zoning actions a board member says cannot all be done at once,…
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Chelsea’s Master Plan Had Its Only Public Hearing Tuesday. The Planning Board Votes October 27
Two years of work, six goals, and a strategy list that reads like a forecast of every argument the council had this…
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Four Chelsea Boards Met Tuesday Night. One of Them Was Recorded
A thirty-year solar contract, the sidewalk repair money, old unpaid bills and the text of the city charter. Three of the four…
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Chelsea Spent Two Thirds of a $32 Million Windfall. The Last $4.5 Million Went to the Schools
A third was never spent. A third bought the capital plan in cash. The last $4,495,000 went to Chelsea Public Schools, and…
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The $53,000 Denver Trip to the All-America City Awards, Line by Line
Thirty delegates, four nights at the Grand Hyatt, $12,000 in airfare, $7,245 in private donations, and a fourth All-America City banner. The…
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