Allandale Farm, on the Jamaica Plain/Brookline line, this week filed plans to replace its current cramped farmstand with a larger "market barn" open year round and its current small retail greenhouses with one larger greenhouse.
Plans submitted to the Boston Planning Board also call for moving the current chicken coop 10 feet further away from the farmstand parking lot, which will still leave plenty of room for Boston's only cattle herd - Scottish Highland steers Curtis and Willard - to graze and lounge along the newly speed-bumped Allandale Street.
The proposal, filed with the Boston Planning Department, also calls for adding three new parking spaces to a reconfigured parking lot - along with "landscape islands with canopy trees," EV chargers and racks for eight bicycles.
The farm, which has been in operation for some 150 years, originally as part of the much larger Brandegee Estate, may also need approval for the work from the Zoning Board of Appeal, because current city code does not generally allow farms or farmstands in residential zones. However, the farm's filing notes that the farm and farmstand were both in existence well before current zoning codes were adopted.
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