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.
Call to action against Trump
Good Trouble Lives On, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. A national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on civil and human rights by the Trump administration, held on the anniversary of former civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis’ death. (Other events happen simultaneously in Somerville, Arlington and other communities.) Sponsored by the organizations the Transformative Justice Coalition, Black Voters Matter, Indivisible, Declaration For American Democracy and Public Citizen and held in-person at Cambridge Common, near Harvard Square.
Grand Junction Connector path
Grand Junction Connector pop-up events, 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday; 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. July 24; and 5:30 to 7 p.m. July 24. Community Development Department staff answer questions, take feedback and discuss ideas about the project – an accessible, off-road, multiuse path connection from Gore Street at Sixth Street in East Cambridge to the intersection of Rufo Road and McGrath Highway in Somerville, with the idea of ultimately making a path that links Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. At Gold Star Mother’s Park, 123 Gore St., East Cambridge.
Affordable apartments by lottery
52 New St. information session, 1 to 2 p.m., Tuesday. The 106 newly built apartments at 52 New St., Neighborhood 9 near Fresh Pond, have affordable rents, spacious units and contemporary features, and applications became available July 1. The lottery for who gets homes in the building will be held in September. Held online.
Major changes to major streets
Planning Board, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Long community processes for the future of Cambridge Street and Massachusetts Avenue from Cambridge Common to Alewife Brook Parkway culminate in presentations for discussion by the board. Members also consider permissions for signs for the Zara clothes shop at the CambridgeSide mall and for wayfinding at the IQHQ life-sciences campus coming together in North Cambridge. In the second-floor conference room at 344 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Next for Riverview condominiums
221 Mount Auburn St. community meeting, 6:30 to 8 p.m. July 24. A follow-up to a July 10 meeting about the 66-home Riverview condominium building, which will be demolished after the discovery that flawed construction in the 1960s makes it likely to collapse. Traffic will be rerouted around dangerous areas of Mount Auburn and Sparks streets, and this meeting will give updates on the overall situation and traffic questions. We most recently wrote about the situation here.
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