These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website.
Joint health initiative starts
Somerville-Cambridge Public Health Collaborative Advisory Board, 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday. A group overseeing a collaboration to tackle shared community health challenges meets for the first time to establish grant uses and begin hiring staff. The neighboring cities established the collaborative, funded by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, this year to employ health officials with responsibility toward both municipalities. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Lab and apartment developments
Planning Board, 6 p.m. Thursday. Greystar, a global real estate company, asks a special permit for a 1.3 million-square-foot lab, office, hospitality and park development at 20-23 Cummings St., Assembly Square. Greystar – also putting up a 16-story lab building a few blocks away at 74 Middlesex Ave. – says this project would go on the site of the La Quinta hotel and 99 restaurant. Also being heard is a mixed-use, four-story development with three residential units and commercial art gallery at 53 Chester St., Davis Square, next to Redbones Barbecue. The current structure, built in 1920, is a two-family house. This is a joint hearing with the Land Use Committee, which joins at 6:30 p.m. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Land Use Committee, 6:30 p.m. Thursday. A request from three companies – Horace-Ward, Bealm Realty and Delhi Properties – is heard for a zoning allowance for taller buildings on Horace, Ward and South streets, Ward 2, near the Cambridge luine. Current zoning allows four stories; the developers seek up to six. This is a joint hearing with the Planning Board, which begins its meeting a half-hour earlier. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Scaling down tobacco use
Board of Health, 6 p.m. Thursday. Members of the board discuss drafts of a regulation on the sale of tobacco products, building off of talks about a policy aimed at creating a “nicotine-free generation.” The board previously discussed raising the age for the legal purchase of tobacco year by year, preventing current adolescents from ever buying the product as they grow into adulthood, while preserving access to tobacco products for a current generation of users. Watchable via videoconferencing.
Safety study and bridge project
Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Staff presents on mobility-related topics: a report covering pedestrian mobility statistics from last year; and a MassDOT project to replace parts of the Maffa Way/Mystic Avenue bridge, also to be discussed at a public meeting next week. At the Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Ave., Central Hill, and watchable via videoconferencing.
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