Cambridge public notices for the Board of Zoning Appeal and Cambridge Historical Commission, Planning Board definitions for hotels and motels and for the Khalida Griffin-Sheperd zoning petition, and an ordinance about the Fresh Pond Golf Course Pro Shop Fund.

Before the city knows how a change in zoning for private parking lot use plays out, there’s something else at risk: a deadline for the installation of bike lanes.

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.

Public meetings this week look at a proposed six-story U-Haul rental center, creating and shaping public safety policies, an Inner Belt hotel and more.

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.

Public meetings this week look at resolving conflicts in Ball and Magoun squares and South Medford where parcels split at city lines and zoning districts; the future of the Armory arts building; a Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination backlog; and more.

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

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.

It’s been rough going since a plan was unveiled in 2021 for new affordable apartments in North Cambridge, but the latest version has just one more design review stop before it’s time to work out construction funding.

Public meetings this week look at how the Cambridge Public Schools community feels about the district; what Massachusetts Avenue will look like in 2040; a way to add green space in a Kendall Square park; and a new unarmed crisis response team.