These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website.
Pocket park fix is complete
Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development, 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday. Built in 2005, Henry Hansen Park is set to reopen after undergoing a seven-year redevelopment process. The small corner park is named after World War II veteran Hank Hansen, a Magoun Square resident who was killed a week after helping raise the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi. City officials invite residents to join in cutting the ribbon at 70 Partridge Ave.
Housing over Lyndell’s; lab plan
Planning Board, 6 p.m. Thursday. The board hears developers hoping to continue work on a nine-story lab building next to McGrath Highway approved two years ago and from DiCamillo Associates on plans to build 30 apartments, including six affordable units, atop Lyndell’s Bakery, an iconic establishment at 720 Broadway, Ball Square. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Honors for city’s veterans
Veterans Day commemoration, 2:30 to 3 p.m. Monday. A ceremony honors veterans at the 1863 Civil War monument and the gravesite of the unknown British Soldier. At Milk Row Cemetery, 439 Somerville Ave., near Union Square.
Somernova expansion process
Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development, 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.; 1:30 to 4 p.m.; and 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Somerville is updating zoning with resident feedback to address the potential expansion of Somernova, a 7.4-acre campus hosting tech startups and artists. The new plan would create a “research and development district” in balance with protections for the area’s arts economy. Three meetings (the first on civic space; the second on mobility; the third combining the two topics) to help create a path forward for the project will be held at Somernova, 8 Tyler St., Ward 2.
City Council addresses crisis
Public Health and Public Safety Committee, 6 p.m. Tuesday. This City Council committee discusses allocating more resources to addressing a growing homelessness crisis. Several city councilors seek updates on such programs as the city’s warming centers, future overdose prevention site and drug use prevention in Davis Square. Watchable via videoconferencing.
An addition to Assembly Row
Planning, Preservation and Zoning, 7 p.m. Wednesday. Learn about updated designs – in the works for more than half a decade – for the triangular Block 9 in the outskirts of Assembly Row. Called 275 Foley St., plans call for more than 200,000 square feet of office space with retail on the bottom floor (and a floor plan “designed with a day care tenant in mind”). The team provides an overview for the concept and offers an opportunity for community input. Watchable via videoconferencing.
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