The Advocate - A Household word for 30 years! Vol.30, No.34 -FREEwww.advocatenews.net Free Every Friday Students return to the classroom 781-286-8500 Friday, August 27, 2021 City Council hammers out parking issues at Jack Satter House Elderly beach residents protest city’s parking ordinance By Adam Swift T he installation of parking meters by the state’s DepartMayor Brian Arrigo and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Dianne Kelly welcomed fi rst grade student Lucas Angel, 6, back to school at Hill Elementary School last Wednesday morning. See page 6 for photo highlights. (Advocate photo by Tara Vocino) New high school site could be selected by October By Adam Swift W ithin the next few months, the School Building Committee could be making a fi nal recommendation on the site and design option for a new high school. During a community forum last week, the design team from project architect Perkins Eastman laid out the options that are still on the table. Three sites are still in consideration: the current high school, the former Wonderland Park site and the Revere Housing Authority property bounded by Constitution and Cushman Avenues. In addition, there are three to fi ve potential building confi gurations still under consideration for each site. “What is critical right now is looking at a handful – about 11 – options, and when we get to the end of this process in the middle of October and submit [the preferred school schematic report to the state] in late October, we need one solution,” said Robert Bell, an educational planner and programmer from Perkins Eastman. “The School Building Committee will be making the fi nal decision with input from the community and educators to take it down to one [choice].” Once that choice is made, there will be a better idea of the total overall cost of the project and total construction time. The new high school is being funded partly through the Massachusetts SITE | SEE Page 16 ment of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) along the beachside of Revere Beach Boulevard has only increased the anxiety of residents at the Jack Satter House. While parking in Revere in general, and especially along the Boulevard, is a constant problem, it is the residents of Jack Satter House, the Boulevard’s only senior housing development, who have borne the brunt of it. One of the major issues is a lack of visitor parking passes for a building where many of the residents depend on home healthcare aides and family members for assistance. Jack Satter House has been listed in the city’s parking ordinance as one of the buildings in the city not eligible for city parking permits and visitor passes for individual residents, and the more than 250 residents have had to make do with 19 visitor passes for the entire building. Monday night, on the heels of a motion made by Councillor-at-Large George Rotondo GEORGE ROTONDO Councillor-at-Large and a compromise promised by Police Chief David Callahan, Jack Satter House residents may soon see some relief for their parking issues. Callahan, who sits on the city’s Traffi c Commission, suggested the City Council forward a request to the Commission asking that Jack Satter House be removed from the list of Revere buildings not eligible for PARKING | SEE Page 17 City requests loan order for purchase of Riverside Boatyard property By Adam Swift D uring the past year, many of the questions surrounding the Riverfront Master Plan in the Gibson Park area have revolved around the future of the property at 29 Thayer Ave. Now, many of those questions about the former Riverside Boatyard are close to being answered. Last Monday night, the City Council scheduled a public hearLOAN | SEE Page 19 JOHN POWERS Ward 5 Councillor
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