Public meetings this week look at West Broadway reconstruction, tenants and landlords rights, homelessness and a “dark skies ordinance,” a composting program, improvements for cyclists and a new Woody’s Liquors on the Medford border.

Despite significant changes to design, a proposed expansion in Somerville by U-Haul heard significant grievances from neighbors and residents.

Public meetings this week look at Core Empowerment, a cannabis seller seeking to open in Magoun Square where K-2 Beer & Wine once had the same plan, and the design of development proposals on Prospect and Spring hills.

Pro-labor politics could raise construction costs in Cambridge, where city councillors have been concerned about spiraling project expenses.

The on-again, off-again plan by Lesley University to relocate restaurants from an inside food court to prime street-front real estate is on again and official.

A study of making it harder to do a “down conversion” – making fewer homes out of more homes – survived a Cambridge City Council vote easily despite staff suggesting it was less welcome than one looking to build multifamily housing citywide.

Harvard plans to take the empty former Coop Annex building at 12-30 Palmer St. and reuse it for new commercial ventures and outdoor space.

An end to parking minimums has been embraced by most Somerville city councilors and staff for Mayor Katjana Ballantyne and heads on to more public process

Complying with new climate-conscious building codes are an adjustment, people in construction industries say, but the adjustment is underway.

if Winn thinks that green-lighting affordable housing projects with 100-plus units in our fair city is an onerous process, try living at Walden Square Road in the coming years.