These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website.
Middlesex Avenue bike lanes
Bicycle Advisory Committee, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The committee conducts an engineering review on two quick-build bike lane projects, including one along Middlesex Avenue in Assembly Row. Details of the project for between the Fellsway and McGrath Highway were first published June 30. In-person at Somerville City Hall Annex, 50 Evergreen Ave., Winter Hill, or watchable via videoconferencing.
People’s budget; warming center
City Council, 7 p.m. Thursday. In its only meeting between now and Aug. 28, the council holds elections for a president, filling a vacancy left by Judy Pineda Neufeld stepping down at the end of June, and vice president; the mayor requests movement of $800,000 toward renovations to the Cummings School for a warming center project offering meals, facilities and sleeping spaces for folks experiencing homelessness; and the council decides an appropriation request for more than $1 million as part of the city’s second annual participatory budgeting cycle, which lets residents direct city money to their most favored projects. Community participants proposed funding for expanded after-school programs, youth enrichment opportunities, community fridges, public community composting, rat controls and more. Lastly, councilors hold a closed-door session with economic development staff concerning redevelopment at 90 Washington St. The city wanted to use the land to house new fire and police department buildings, but the plan was scrapped after the city lost a court case; it owes the previous landowners $29.8 million. In-person at Somerville City Hall, 93 Highland Ave., Central Hill, or watchable via videoconferencing.
Somerville Ave. quick-build stroll
Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee, 6 to 8 p.m. Monday. A guided tour of a future Somerville Avenue Quick-Build Safety Improvements project by the committee and mobility division staff. The city envisions protected bike lanes in both directions, measures to make it safer for sidewalk users to see around corners and an evaluation of current bus stop locations. The stroll begins across from the car wash in Wilson Square at Somerville Avenue and Elm and Craigie streets and heads toward Church Street at Somerville Avenue near Market Basket.
Building at former Thunder Road
Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m. Wednesday. Owners of 379 Somerville Ave. apply for a certificate of occupancy for 10 new residential units and one new commercial space after a multiyear building project at the site of a former music venue. The demolition of Thunder Road and building of a new multifloor structure began in mid-2021; this is the last step indicating whether the building meets city and state zoning rules and building codes. On the other side of Union Square, owners of Liquor Junction look to increase their footprint to larger than 10,000 square feet within Twin City Plaza, 14 McGrath Highway, Inner Belt. Watchable via videoconferencing.
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