Photo: District 7 Councillor Miniard Culpepper addresses reporters during a Roxbury Neighborhood Council press conference. Looking on are RNC Chair Connie Forbes and RNC members Kate Phelps, Reggie Stewart and Angela Williams-Mitchell. Photo by Yawu Miller
Back in 2003, Roxbury activists and elected officials were working on a master plan for vacant land in the neighborhood with Kairos Shen, who then was the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s director of planning.
The final deal between the BRA and Roxbury representatives outlined a detailed process through which large parcels of state-owned land would be developed, including fine details on how those decisions would be made and who would get to make them…