On big limbs — and small branches of democracy

In a place filled with grand parklands and jaw-dropping vistas, the piece of property never really looked like much.  The parcel sandwiched between Woburn Street and the race track calamity known as Lakeway Drive was a leftover, never quite suitable for the fate of every other patch of land in our midst (multi-story apartment complex.)  From 1989 to 2016, it was an institution somewhat beloved by ‘Hamsters with dirt 'neath their nails: the “Clean Green,” a garden-debris dis