These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City Calendar and in the city’s Open Meetings Portal.
Alewife area urban planning
Transit Advisory Committee, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday. This meeting includes a 50-minute presentation on urban planning for the Alewife area, which has been rezoned recently (in its Quadrangle section) and is the focus of a 30-acre redevelopment plan by the MBTA around the transit agency’s subway station parking garage. In the fourth-floor conference room of the City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge, and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Honoring the city’s veterans
City of Cambridge Veterans Day observance event, 11 a.m. to noon Monday. Retired Justice Shannon Frison provides a keynote speech at the Civil War monument on Cambridge Common, near Harvard Square (rain location: the Sheraton Commander Hotel), followed by an informal gathering and free luncheon from noon to 3 p.m. in the Liberty Revolution Ballroom at the Sheraton Commander Hotel, 16 Garden St., next to Cambridge Common.
Ideas for multifamily zoning
Planning Board, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. It’s the board’s turn to consider revisions to a multifamily housing zoning proposal that could allow for construction of six-story buildings as of right in parts of the city where single-family homes are common. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Net zero transportation plan I
Net Zero Transportation Plan, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. This approach to removing climate pollution from transportation and improving how we move around Cambridge will be described and draft actions discussed, and input will be collected from community members at this meeting held by Zoom videoconferencing and the next day in person.
Net zero transportation plan II
Net Zero Transportation Plan, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. This approach to removing climate pollution from transportation and improving how we move around Cambridge will be described and draft actions discussed, and input will be collected from community members at this meeting (with food provided) at the Citywide Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, Cambridge.
Mass. Ave. of 2040 open house
Massachusetts Avenue Planning Study community meeting, 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 14. The group held a process already looking at a segment of the avenue from Porter Square south to Cambridge Common; now it turns its attention to North Massachusetts Avenue, from Porter Square to Alewife Brook Parkway. This the second of three community meetings toward creating a vision for what the avenue will look like in 2040 and takes the form of an open house to solicit ideas and feedback. Snacks and beverages will be provided on the second-floor atrium of Lesley University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Ave., Porter Square, Cambridge.
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