Cambridge, MA, USA City Council Funds Major Environmental Destruction at the Magazine Beach Recreation Area on the Charles River
The Cambridge City Council has dropped “the other shoe.” They have voted to destroy the excellent MicroCenter grove at Magazine Beach across from the MicroCenter store and next to the MDC Swimming Pool. The following is our letter of response scheduled to be delivered to the Cambridge City Council on Monday, October 18, 2012. As is the custom of the Cambridge City Council in votes concerning Magazine Beach, this action was taken as secretly as possible WITH NO MEANINGFUL PUBLIC NOTICE OR HEARING.
The hard copy of the letter has been posted by the City Clerk in Council records at https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3527&Inline=True, pages 154 to 172.
This is the first page of our file copy of the letter. Page 2 and the balance of the letter follow.
1. Destroy and Destroy and Destroy.
A. Latest SECRET Action on Magazine Beach.
B. Selected items kept SECRET.
(1) January 2016 outrage.
(2) General Magazine Beach Plans filed in Cambridge by the DCR and blessed and repeatedly denied by the Cambridge City Council.
(3) Drone Photos.
(A) The current outrage.
(B) PART OF THE DESTRUCTION ON THE CHARLES BY THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER.
(4) Provided by the Charles River Poisoner. PLANS AFTER DESTRUCTION OF MICROCENTER GROVE SHOWING COMING PARKING LOT BEING FUNDED BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO REPLACE THE MICROCENTER GROVE.
(5) More general documentation.
(A) The City Council condemned Excellent Grove.
1 From us.
A Page 45 from my letter listed above that the Cambridge City Council does not want to know about. Show the excellent MicroCenter grove being destroyed by this vote.
B Our photo of CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO DESTROY GROVE VIEWED FROM MICROCENTER SIDE.
2 The DCR destruction plans the Cambridge City Council does not want to know about, BUT REPEATEDLY VOTES TO PRAISE / IMPLEMENT.
2. Part of the always SECRET Record of the Cambridge City Council and of the PAID Proponent, the Charles River Poisoner.
A. The DCR admits guilt.
B, Poisoning of the Charles River.
C. Results of this attack.
(1) Poisoning on the Ground.
(2) Poisoning of the Charles River.
D. City Council Rewards the Charles River Poisoner.
E. The City Council targeted MicroCenter Grove.
(1) Drone Photo.
(2) View from MicroCenter side.
(3) Cropped destruction plans in DCR plan submitted to Cambridge Conservation Commission, passed on to Cambridge City Council and ignored.
(4) Formerly SECRET after plans provided to Cambridge City Council by Charles River Poisoner, cropped accordingly.
3. Reality of ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION REWARDED BY THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL.
4. Proper Voter response.
A. Referendum.
B. City Council Reelection goals.
1. Destroy and Destroy and Destroy.
A. Latest SECRET Action on Magazine Beach.
We note with distress but no real surprise the latest SECRET vote on Magazine Beach.
This is part of a continuing pattern of City Council votes on the Charles River in such a manner as to keep them as secret as possible.
On September 20, 2021, this was voted in in City Manager Agenda 1, vote 2C by the usual unanimous vote buried in a very large document. There were exactly no communications from the public on the topic, showing exactly how secret the matter is kept.
The grand total of the information provided FOR THE PUBLIC was:
THIS SAYS THE MONEY INCLUDES THE “Phase II-2 PARKING LOT.” SO THE CITY COUNCIL IS PAYING TO DESTROY THE MICROCENTER GROVE which is BEING REPLACED BY the moved parking lot on which the Charles River Poisoner has already been paid to do work preparatory to the destruction of this excellent grove.
Note that that EXCELLENT grove to be destroyed and the RELOCATION OF THE parking lot are not shown.
OUTRAGEOUS.
B. Selected items kept SECRET.
(1) January 2016 outrage.
The nominal actor here is yet another front name by the Charles River Poisoner, a person very highly favored by the Cambridge City Council. She, under various front names, has been involved in a whole bunch of outrages.
Using blatant Company Union prevention of action tactics, she and her friends were key in the destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges in January 2016. Our video on that outrage is posted at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o. The City Manager mentioned in this video is Richard Rossi. The video includes destruction at the Wild Area which has been recently blessed as well, with deniability, by the Cambridge City Council. It also includes the ongoing outrages at Magazine Beach of which the current action is part.
(2) General Magazine Beach Plans filed in Cambridge by the DCR and blessed and repeatedly denied by the Cambridge City Council.
These are posted at http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/ar1.htm, Item 4 [ed. This is a correction of the letter filed which included an outdated reference. That will be corrected by a follow on letter. IT GETS VERY ODD. Very clearly, software robots delete the “1", the number 1.] This includes the plans filed with the Cambridge Conservation Commission by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation along with our photos of targeted excellence.
This document has been filed more than once and repeatedly referred to. Initial filing was in response to a Mayday celebration on the City Hall steps by City Councilors bragging about their environmental sainthood, followed by sitting down in Council and voting in support of the outrage. Destruction plans at Magazine Beach SUPPORTED BY THAT VOTE included 54 mostly excellent trees then. With SECRET destruction not disclosed in those plans, destruction now exceeds 60 mostly excellent trees.
The X’s indicate destruction of the excellent MicroCenter Grove next to the DCR’s Magazine Beach Swimming Pool (below the line markings at the bottom right).
(3) Drone Photos.
These are taken from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw.
The following stills are identified by minute in the video with regard to the latest outrage:
(A) The current outrage.
Minute 2.33. The white rectangle is the DCR Swimming Pool. The area BRAGGED ABOUT is to the upper left of the swimming pool. The IMPORTANT STUFF, ALWAYS KEPT SECRET is the grove of trees to the upper right.
The Cambridge City Council was already paying the Charles River Poisoner for advance work on destroying this excellent grove. This latest secret vote INCLUDES FUNDING OF THE MOVING OF THE PARKING LOT BEING MOVED ON TOP OF THESE EXCELLENT TREES, and thus of destruction of those trees.
The Cambridge City Council LIES to its constituents by keeping this and other items of supported destruction as secret as possible and YELLING AT THE OTHER GUY on matters which are a pittance of the destruction being paid for / publicly supported by the Cambridge City Council.
The ONLY INFORMATION PREVIOUSLY PLACED ON RECORD BY THE CITY COUNCIL, OF COURSE, ONLY MENTIONS THE PARKING LOT TO THE UPPER LEFT OF THE SWIMMING POOL This language reference the COMING PARKING LOT AND THUS THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS EXCELLENT GROVE.
At the DCR’s show and tell to the Cambridge Conservation Commission, the DCR bragged that it is destroying this excellent grove to replace the parking being destroyed by the Cambridge City Council in this outrage.
THE LATEST VOTE ADMITS THAT THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL IS PAYING TO DESTROY THIS EXCELLENT GROVE TO “MOVE” THE PARKING LOT. The euphemism is to describe the outrage by the technical phase number,
Here is a blow up, from the above crop, of the excellent grove whose destruction the Cambridge City Council is supporting by this latest SECRET vote.
Here is a close up of the AREA to be destroyed under the Cambridge City Council’s USUAL UNANIMOUS VOTE.
(B) PART OF THE DESTRUCTION ON THE CHARLES BY THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER.
The City Council, through Richard Rossi’s actions in the 2000's introduced the use of poisons into the environment at the Magazine Beach Playing fields. The City Council created this poison drainage area through Mr. Rossi to drain off poisons which should not be used next to the Charles River. Minute 10.26. Dead bees have been seen
Dead bees have been seen in the area of poisoning BY THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL. Other free animals, MOST VISIBLY THE TOURIST LOVED 40 YEAR RESIDENT CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE, are attacked by this outrage.
The Charles River Poisoner, with multiple objections to the Cambridge City Council by the undersigned blocked this poison drainage area using DCR / Trump moneys and DCR provided “volunteers.” No other “volunteers” were used. SECRECY in Cambridge, of course. SECRECY, SECRECY.
As with the current vote, the last thing the Cambridge City Council wants the general public to know is its real record. Naturally, the City Council is consistently SECRET about its constant destruction.
More photos of this and related outrages are provided below at the beginning of Section 2.
(4) Provided by the Charles River Poisoner. PLANS AFTER DESTRUCTION OF MICROCENTER GROVE SHOWING COMING PARKING LOT BEING FUNDED BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO REPLACE THE MICROCENTER GROVE.
The following FORMERLY SECRET PLAN was submitted to the Cambridge City Council AFTER part of SO MUCH SECRET destruction was voted. The Charles River Poisoner provided these plans to the Cambridge City Council on February 24, 2019.
There is nothing secret going on here, except when City Councilors or their stand-ins are talking.
The AFTER STATUS of the excellent trees which the Cambridge City Council paid the Charles River Poisoner to do the ground work for destruction are designated by the number 3 on the left. Destruction moneys HAVE NOW BEEN PUBLICLY PROVIDED, ALBEIT AS SECRETLY AS POSSIBLE. Note the UNDESTROYED trees around the GREY area which designates the future parking NINE City Councilors are NOW paying to move on top of these excellent trees AS PART OF THE LATEST SECRET VOTE.
This is our crop of the plan submitted to the Cambridge City Council on February 24, 2019. This is what the usual UNANIMOUS City Council voted for.
In the NON SECRET part of the plan, the area which was being “improved” so that these excellent trees can be destroyed is below the DCR Swimming Pool (the white area at the bottom of this crop). We provided the NON SECRET part of the plan at the top of this letter. It is the “public” part of this SECRET vote.
Of course, this nasty stuff, the Cambridge City Council does not want to know about.
Across from THE TO BE DESTROYED EXCELLENCE is the parking lot of MicroCenter. The plans are before destruction which has be praised and funded now for years by the Cambridge City Council.
The DCR has since destroyed the left two of the four trees abutting that parking lot, part of the SECRET destruction SUPPLEMENTING the DCR’s destruction plans submitted to the Cambridge Conservation Commission which we passed on to the City Council with photos by us in my letter http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/ar1.htm, Item 4 [ed. This is a correction of the letter filed which included an outdated reference. That will be corrected by a follow on letter. IT GETS VERY ODD. Very clearly, software robots delete the “1", the number 1.].
In the plans submitted by the Charles River Poisoner, above, the MicroCenter building is the large structure in the upper middle. Trees destroyed on the Memorial Drive side of the building were included in the original 54 tree destruction plans submitted to the Cambridge Conservation and which we passed on to Cambridge City Council. The Cambridge City Council, of course, has ignored all communications.
We had hoped that this wanton destruction would eventually be corrected, but this previously SECRET plan delineates areas of work by the Red Lines. The destruction which the City Council supports on the MicroCenter side has no markings. THUS THIS WANTON DESTRUCTION WILL NOT BE “IMPROVED.” And the Cambridge City Council’s vote copied in Section 1.A skillfully commits them to fund the destruction of this excellent grove WHILE YELLING AT CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS WHO ARE FAR LESS ENVIRONMENTALLY DESTRUCTIVE.
(5) More general documentation.
(A) The City Council condemned Excellent Grove.
1 From us.
A Here is page 45 from my letter listed above that the Cambridge City Council does not want to know about. It shows the excellent MicroCenter grove being destroyed by this vote.
B. Our photo of CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO DESTROY GROVE VIEWED FROM MICROCENTER SIDE.
Here is a photo of ours from the MicroCenter side. These trees block each other, so, from the ground, it is very difficult to really repeat the drone shot.
The parking lot being moved on top of this excellence is visible beyond the doomed grove. The which has been subsidized to be done by the Charles River Poisoner BY A UNANIMOUS (AS USUAL) CITY COUNCIL is to the left of the main parking lot.
What little is said in the description of the vote is that CITY COUNCIL MONEYS ARE BEING USED FOR THE PARKING LOT TO GO INTO THIS LOCATION. Obviously that includes destroying these excellent trees.
2. The DCR destruction plans the Cambridge City Council does not want to know about, BUT REPEATEDLY VOTES TO PRAISE / IMPLEMENT.
Taken from the official filing, appropriately cropped. As mentioned, the filing the City Council does not want to know about has repeatedly provided. It is at: http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/ar1.htm, Item 4 [ed. This is a correction of the letter filed which included an outdated reference. That will be corrected by a follow on letter. IT GETS VERY ODD. Very clearly, software robots delete the “1", the number 1.]. At least one more tree has been added to the destruction plans.
“X” means tree to be destroyed as stated in the plans filed with the Cambridge Conservation Commission. This latest SECRET City Council vote brings destruction that much closer. SECRECY of planning, of course, is so massive that we cannot guarantee what is currently planned, and the Cambridge City Council has just voted for destruction funding without wanting to know what it is destroying. But they loudly yell at the other guy.
2. PART OF the always SECRET record of the Cambridge City Council and the PAID proponent, the Charles River Poisoner.
A. The DCR admits guilt.
The Cambridge City Council has expressed concern about the poisoning of the Charles River and has subsidized the DCR’s boondoggle to “clean up” the mess.
Nothing is said or done about cleaning up the problem, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Cambridge Development Department, and the Cambridge City Council, who are doing the poisoning of the banks of the Charles River, poisoning which has been rerouted into the Charles River by the Charles River Poisoner, who keeps getting funding from the supposedly environmentally concerned Cambridge City Council.
Magazine Beach was pristine until the outrages started from the Cambridge City Council and the Department of Conservation and Recreation [footnote 1] 1 started destruction in the 2000's.
[footnote 1: About ten years ago, the state legislature tried to clean up the outrages on the Charles River by destroying the then “Metropolitan District Commission” and replacing it, on the Charles, with the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Department of Transportation. Regrettably, the “planners” of the MDC went to the DCR with their destructive plans AND THEIR FRIENDS IN CAMBRIDGE GOVERNMENT. These destructive people have continued without a blink. We do not HONOR the change be recognizing differences between the MDC and the DCR, just calling it always the DCR.
[Interestingly, until, then Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy presented the DCR with “lovely” plans, the DCR bragged about the beautiful Charles River White Geese in signs along Memorial Drive.
[Three levels of Court tried to persuade the Cambridge City Council to get responsible government in place of Healy in the case of Monteiro v. Cambridge, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/judge-issues-decision-denying.html, The Appellate Court panel had such great disgust for the situation, it refused to call its opinion an opinion, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/judge-issues-decision-denying.html. The actual issue was women’s rights (she had had the nerve to want equal pay for equal work), but Cambridge women’s groups showed the uselessness of the most visible Cambridge organizations by word of mouth smearing of the victim BECAUSE THE COURT ORDERED SUCH MAJOR DAMAGES TO HER.
The voters clearly fired one guilty councilor in the next election and probably fired a second in the following election at least in part because of this outrage.]
THE POSSIBILITY OF ENDING THE DUMPING OF POISONS ON THE BANKS OF THE CHARLES RIVER IS KEPT AS SECRET AS POSSIBLE.
But the Cambridge City Council is very happy to PAY the Charles River Poisoner to do further “environmental work” such as the current outrage.
We have shown you above the drone photos of the EXPENSIVE DRAINAGE facility to keep poisons out of the Charles WHILE POISONING RESIDENT ANIMALS.
Following is a sign posted by the DCR next to the EXPENSIVE DRAINAGE facility. It brags that the drainage is keeping poisons out of the Charles River, WITHOUT MENTIONING, AS USUAL, the guilt of the DCR and the Cambridge City Council. This is our collection of relevant parts of three photos from Phil Barber.
As we have stated, the destruction was accomplished with DCR money including Trump money, and DCR volunteers provided rather clearly to minimize the knowledge and experience of Cambridge residents.
B, Poisoning of the Charles River.
Poison use on the banks of the Charles River dates back to management of the Magazine Beach playing fields by (subsequent City Manager) Richard Rossi representing the City of Cambridge. For more than a Century before then Magazine Beach was pristine.
Part of the Cambridge / DCR response is stated in a sign posted by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation near the most blatant environmental attack of recent years. (Phil Barber photos, collated)
The DCR is bragging that POISONS BEING DUMPED ON THE MAGAZINE BEACH PLAYING FIELDS which originated in Cambridge management is being neutralized by expensive drainage systems installed by Cambridge and the DCR.
Here is a cropped still from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw, minute 10.26, showing the part of the drainage which has since been attacked by the Charles River Poisoner with DCR / Trump funds and DCR “volunteers.”
B. Results of this attack.
Here are Phil Barber’s photos of algae creation next to the blockage and in the Charles River next to Magazine Beach:
(1) Poisoning on the Ground.
(2) Poisoning in the Charles River.
The City Council has since assisted in a DCR boondoggle to respond to the much larger and clearly related subsequent poisoning downriver from the Mass. Ave. Bridge.
There has been exactly ZERO discussion of getting a responsible entity to manage the Charles River by order of the legislature. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation shares responsibility for the Charles River. It has not been perfect but it has had significant instances of disagreements with Cambridge and the DCR in which MassDOT has looked like the Adult in the room.
I have observed DCR representatives refuse to deny intent to introduce poisons into the Boston side of the Charles River into open spaces being created in the I90 Rebuild Project IN SPITE OF THE OUTRAGES THAT THE DCR HAS CREATED WITH THESE POISONS WHICH IT / Trump funded, with poisons which would not even be on the banks of the Charles River if it were not for the INCREDIBLE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF THE DCR AND CAMBRIDGE.
C. City Council Rewards the Charles River Poisoner.
A very visible Cambridge City Council’s response to the actual poisoning has been to PAY the CHARLES RIVER POISONER to assist in plans to destroy the excellent MicroCenter grove next to the DCR Swimming Pool.
The DCR in its show and tell to the Cambridge Conservation Commission said that it intended to destroy the MicroCenter grove to move a parking lot on top of the grove.
Here is a drone photo crop, minute 2.33, of the part of the parking lot assigned to the Charles River Poisoner.
She was assigned to beautify the portion of the TO BE MOVED PARKING lot which is the grey area to the upper left of the white swimming pool. Beautifying the parking lot creates the DCR and CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL's "needed" move on top of the MicroCenter Grove.
This latest outrage by the Cambridge City Council is EXTREMELY VAGUE BUT RATHER CLEARLY INCLUDES DESTRUCTION OF THE EXCELLENT MICROCENTER GROVE.
E. The City Council targeted MicroCenter Grove.
(1) Drone Photo.
Minute 2.33
This is a further cropping of the above still.
(2) View from MicroCenter side.
(3) Cropped destruction plans in DCR plan submitted to Cambridge Conservation Commission, passed on to Cambridge City Council and ignored.
(4) Formerly SECRET after plans provided to Cambridge City Council by Charles River Poisoner, cropped accordingly.
The grey area is the tree destruction to be at least partly paid for by the Cambridge City Council.
The pool, as usual, is the white area.
3. Reality of ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION REWARDED BY THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL.
Rather obvious. But they love to yell at the other guy. It gives the voter a fraudulent impression.
4. Proper Voter response.
The bad stuff is always unanimous and kept as secret as possible while yelling at the other guy.
A. Referendum.
The grossly irresponsible Cambridge City Council wants its power increased by a referendum.
Nonsense. The voters should vote against it. They are clearly unfit to manage their current very important duties.
[The 40 year resident Charles River White Geese, beloved by tourists for generations. They are under attack by the Cambridge City Council along with less visible wildlife.
[The Cambridge City Council recently yelled about “rodents” arriving unwanted in Cambridge residential neighborhoods. With all the HABITAT destruction by the Cambridge City Council, the City Councilors cannot be so stupid as to claim surprise at animals whose habitats has been destroyed moving elsewhere.
[The Charles River White Geese’ habitat has been vastly destroyed from its mile length in the past. They cannot move.]
B. City Council Reelection goals.
This is just a tiny part of the reality that is the Cambridge City Council.
Just to name one other outrage from this City Council. It also voted UNANIMOUSLY for a massively irresponsible upzoning and related destruction for Harvard Square.
The zoning pays Harvard to move dorms from Harvard Square to Harvard’s coming I90 / Mass. Pike campus. It is in planning in relation to the I90 rebuild project on the Boston side of the Charles River. This new Harvard campus is coming in Boston’s Allston neighborhood between the Charles River and Allston Village. Allston Village would benefit from tourists following relocated Harvard students to the already student popular Allston Village. A large number of historical buildings will be destroyed in Harvard Square with related harm to the value of Harvard Square. Destruction encouraged includes historical housing.
Apparently there is a city created 200 page or so document dictating the politically correct way to destroy historical buildings.
The voter should vote for every candidate on the City Council proportional representation ballot, putting ALL incumbents at the end.
The way proportional representation works, no city council incumbents would get “transfers” until after ALL NON INCUMBENTS NO LONGER HAVE USE FOR THE TRANSFERS, very clearly a NO vote against the unanimously destructive Cambridge City Council nine.
Sincerely,
Robert J. La Trémouille, Chair
Friends of the White Geese
