Mount Auburn Cemetery is looking for buyers for a parcel of land on Grove Street. Much of the area is currently occupied by a parking lot for Mount Auburn Hospital. The Grove Street location of Watertown Community Gardens is in another corner. As the land is being marketed to biotech developers, we are dismayed by the prospect of yet another industrial development adding even more traffic to an already congested street.
Buckingham Browne and Nichols School has crafted a proposal to turn the property into playing fields for use by both the school and the town. This proposal is much more aligned with our vision of the future of this area of Watertown. We support that plan and oppose commercial development of the Grove Street site.
Watertown friends, please join us in signing — let’s preserve green space, increase playing fields for our kids, and avoid more congestion and traffic on Grove street.
Sign the petition here.