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.
Bike lane open house
Broadway Street Safety Improvement Project open house, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Broadway is due to get separated bicycle lanes and related safety improvements between Portland and Quincy streets. Similar projects have whipped up strong feelings around traffic complications and loss of parking. This open house (primarily about the section between Portland and Columbia streets) will provide an opportunity for the community to drop by in-person to talk with city staff, ask questions and provide feedback. At City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Net Zero Action Plan review
Health & Environment Committee, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. This committee run by city councillor Patty Nolan reviews and discusses the annual report for the city’s Net Zero Action Plan, adopted in 2015 to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, doing our part to prevent the worst of climate change. The committee meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Jersey Mike’s and Lulu Green
Planning Board, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The board mulls allowing a Jersey Mike’s sub shop at 675 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, in the Leader Bank building – permission needed because the maker of grinder sandwiches is a “formula business” with trademarked logos and a standardized color scheme, and local zoning is supposed to favor nonchain businesses. Meanwhile, the vegetarian South Boston café and restaurant Lulu Green seeks to replace the similar but closed-in-2023 Plant Pub in its space at 675 W. Kendall St., Kendall Square. (Such a Plant Pub replacement that there’s even pub fare such as Buffalo wings made of seitan.) Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
More charter review by council
City Council, 3 p.m. Feb. 13. A “special committee of the whole” continues a Jan. 27 hearing to review and discuss recommendations from a Charter Review Committee and additional suggestions from the full council about the city’s charter – the ruling document that gave us a city manager form of government and didn’t get a second look for 80 years. At Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
A look at Linear Park changes
Linear Park redesign open house, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Feb. 13. City staff and a design team show plans so people can learn about the project and ask questions. The park was created in 1985 in North Cambridge between Alewife Station and the Somerville city line; this refresh will widen a paved path to accommodate bicyclist commuters, walkers and other kinds of recreation and add seating, play areas and lighting. At Saint John the Evangelist Church, at 2270 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge.
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Just another one of those fake “meetings” in Cambridge where everything has already been long ago decided, in this case by conflicted bicyclists on city staff who don’t even live in Cambridge. Even the landscape architect for the original Park plan here has decried this destructive plan. It will no longer be the “refuge” originally contemplated – one we so sorely need now more than ever – which is already endangered by the arrogant and ever-entitled speeding smarty-pants racing along on their glorious, newfound “motorized devices.” Go ahead. “Attend a (another) meeting.” Be insulted. And contemplate why so many Americans voted for Donald J. Trump.
Poor Bono,
Bravo!
oh, Bono, you said it.. Thank you…
For those who don’t know, the city plans to spend $7 million to turn 1/4 mile of Linear PARK into a bike lane. Got those numbers?