When trees were cleared along Route 80 in preparation for a road-widening effort and a 300,000-square-foot retail development on the 53-acre property behind Ocean State Job Lot, neighbors had plenty to say about it.

They complained that the clearing went too far. And the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) agreed with them, stating that both the town and the developer leveled too many trees.

The fact that two projects were going on side by side further confused matters. The town was clearing land to widen this stretch of Plympton Road just as the developer, High Rock Cranberry Crescent, was clearing land in preparation for the retail project.

High Rock appeared before the Zoning Board of Appeals Wednesday night with landscape plans that showed tree plantings, increased berms (or hills on the side of the roadway) and undulating walls to help buffer the development.

Two Jamies Path residents expressed concern that the developer would mow down trees buffering their homes from the site, and received assurances the trees wont be touched. ZBA Chairman Peter Conner urged High Rock to make good on that promise, in light of the projects history, and ZBA member Michael Buster Main suggested the board include a condition that, should those trees be cut down, they must be replaced by trees of the same size. Replacing trees in this manner is extremely costly, Main said, and the condition ought to ensure the promise is kept. ZBA member Ed Conroy jokingly suggested they have armed guards protecting the trees.

Local attorney Bob Betters, representing High Rock, maintained that his client did not in any way violate the land clearing provisions of its permit.

In an interesting twist, ZBA alternate James Simpson said he felt creating such a comprehensive buffer was counterintuitive. Obscuring the visibility of the restaurants and retail businesses on the site is simply not good business practice, he said.

Landscape architect John Hensen, who developed the landscape design, noted that his client must abide by the direction of the towns boards, which have insisted upon a significant buffer to appease neighbors.

They graded exactly what they were supposed to, ZBA alternate Michael Leary, whos a voting member on this project, said. The sign is a little much, but Id approve this with the landscape plan showed.

The board voted unanimously to approve the bulk of the landscape plan, and asked that the developer return with more details on a newly submitted plan showing the undulating stonewall and enhanced buffer.

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A city committee approved the final plans for the new Alumni Park, renovations to the Alumni House and Memorial Union renovations in a meeting Monday night, bringing the city and university one step closer to finishing the projects by fall of 2017.

Nate Novak, landscape architect with SmithGroupJJR, presented the final plans for the projects to the Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee. The construction should begin in summer 2014. The renovation is estimated to cost $54 million, $8 million of which will go to the new Alumni Park.

Alumni Park will be a new green space located between the Union and the Red Gym, in the area which was previously a parking lot. Novak said the park is meant to celebrate the Wisconsin Idea, not be just a donor-funded park.

[The park] is meant to be a celebration in honor of the Wisconsin idea, the University alumni and their contributions to the university, to the state and to the world as a whole, Novak said.

Novak said the park will be very interactive, featuring different displays and panels in an effort to inspire the current generation of students. He said university planners are also proposing a mobile application to give an extra level of detail about the proposed exhibits in the park.

The park itself is structured based on a ripple effect, Novak said, with a center ring of landscaping and outward rings around it, as well as a center walkway through the rings.

The university is considering renovations to the Alumni House to create a direct entrance to the park, Novak said, adding that otherrenovations to the Alumni House include a new meeting area with tables and lounge chairs, as opposed to the reception desk and host of offices there now.

Its meant to be a place for alumni to go, Novak said. Right now theres really not much there. As alumni, its not very welcoming. This gives them kind of that area to help give people a place to go.

Rob Kennedy, a UW transportation planner, said there also will be added bicycle parking around the Union, since there is currently a shortage of bike parking.

Kennedy said planners have worked with a local vendor to invent a new type of bicycle rack that provides 25 percent more parking spots but takes up the same amount of space as traditional racks. These new racks have been tested at the Engineering School with significant success, Kennedy said.

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The entrance to the proposed garage would be at this existing gate in a small parking lot behind the Botanical Building.

The Balboa Park Committee approved the San Diego Zoo's proposed 650-space parking garage plan Thursday, sending it on to the Park and Recreation Board next month.

"I think it's a great project," said member Michael Singleton, a landscape architect.

The approval was not for the six-story garage itself -- which will be used by zoo employees -- but for the access plan along Old Globe Way just north of the Casa del Prado, Botanical Building and San Diego Museum of Art. The garage design is expected to be ready in the spring and only has to meet city building code requirements.

The zoo has long sought ways to relocate its employee cars out of the 2,700-space Park Boulevard surface lot that is full on many weekends and summer days.

This current schedule calls for completing grading and Old Globe Way improvements midway through the 2015 centennial celebration of the park's Panama-California Exposition. The garage would then be built by the time the zoo celebrates its own centennial in 2016.

Zoo employees, starting about 6 a.m., would access the garage from Old Globe Way at about the rate of 180 per hour and then trickle out of the garage in the afternoon. Traffic studies indicate no significant increase in congestion, even on busy summer days.

Committee member Don Liddell cast the only no vote, saying he was concerned about the noise that cars entering and exiting the garage might make, especially during performances at the Old Globe's outdoor theater.

"I don't know what the sound studies say -- sorry," he said.

Chairman David Kinney said the committee technically does not have the authority to approve the garage, because it lies within the zoo's leasehold. But he had the committee add to its resolution a call for high-quality architectural design of the building, close collaboration with the Globe and other park institutions in the garage's operational details and a look at the garage design as it progresses.

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