Real estate transfer, path to faster homebuilding and housing voucher ideas get council approval
Support for a real estate transfer tax that would pay for affordable housing, vouchers to bridge the high cost of Cambridge rents and an easier permitting process to build homes was heard Monday from city councillors.
Cambridge is adding jobs, feeling some optimism even as hybrid staff and space demands challenge
Cambridge officials are largely optimistic about the city’s economy and where it’s headed in 2024, though some issues complicate the long-term outlook.
New owner of land holding arts center building wants to rezone to allow in more business types
Another potential rezoning of Somerville’s fabrication – or “fab” – district was met with intense opposition during a meeting of the City Council’s Land Use Committee.
Attend meetings Feb. 23 to March 1 in Cambridge about adding more housing faster and Porter labs
Public meetings this week look at making more housing and making it more affordable, a decision on a plan to reclaim the fenced-off Jerry’s Pond, room for small tech at Porter Square and planning for the Massachusetts Avenue of 2040.
Cambridge should end exclusionary zoning this City Council term
Everyone should have the option to live in every Cambridge neighborhood, not just people who can afford a single-family home.
If all goes to plan with development at Lyndell’s, customers need never go without its baked goods
Lyndell’s, the iconic Ball Square bakery that holds the title of oldest scratch bakery in New England, is expected to stay in business as it gets a makeover.
Senior affordable housing project in Cambridge would build space for services on its ground floor
A project to build affordable housing for seniors in the Cambridge Highlands has been mostly welcomed in early hearings by the Conservation Commission and Planning Board, with some debate over parking and height.
Somernova expansion plan is being withdrawn, with reintroduction likely coming in the spring
Plans for a $3.3 billion, 1.6 million-square-mile expansion of the Somernova tech and business campus are being withdrawn for now, the developer said.
Attend meetings in Cambridge from Feb. 9-16 about micromobility and toll of vacant spaces
Public meetings this week look at making a better Central Square, how to make City Hall contracting more equitable, the economic toll of vacant spaces and the use of “micromobility” devices on city streets.
Attend meetings in Somerville from Feb. 9-16 about displacement, disabilities and tobacco
Public meetings this week look at local compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, job creation and retention and displacement and gentrification, zoning changes and a potential regulation restricting the sale of tobacco products.
