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.
Cambridge Street and Mass. Ave.
Ordinance Committee, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. This committee run by vice mayor Marc McGovern continues a hearing from Oct. 30 about zoning petitions for Massachusetts Avenue (including up to 12 stories of residential uses along its length, and up to 18 stories of residential in Porter Square in exchange for increased open space requirements and minimum retail density) and Cambridge Street (including up to eight stories of residential uses along its length, and up to 10 stories in parts of Inman Square; up to 12 in the Webster Avenue and Windsor Street area; and up to 15 stories in the Lechmere area). The committee meets at City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Housing rights workshop
Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Learn about your rights as a tenant and resources that support renters. Speakers include attorneys working with Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services and the City of Cambridge’s Office of the Housing Liaison. At the Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge; a Zoom link will be sent to registered participants one hour before the event.
Regional open data access
Open Data Review Board, 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Anna Gartsman, director of SomerStat, also known as the Somerville Office of Innovation and Analytics, joins to present on its priorities and approach to open data and analytics organization and to help brainstorm how the cities might work together and with other neighbor communities. In the second-floor Ackermann Room at Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, and watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Get ready for winter weirding
City of Cambridge, 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Hear from sustainability experts on how climate change is affecting our winter weather and how to best prepare a home or apartment for colder weather while saving money. In the Cambridge Main Library community room, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Ninety-five affordable homes
Planning Board, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The board hears a plan from nonprofit developer Homeowner’s Rehab Inc. for a 95-unit affordable-housing project at 28-30 Wendell St. in the Baldwin neighborhood – former dorms and tennis courts bought in June 2024 from Lesley University. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
District’s least-chosen schools
School Committee Building & Grounds Subcommittee, 5:30 p.m. Nov. 20. This hearing chaired by José Luis Rojas Villarreal reviews class start times and transportation logistics and looks at school-choice lottery and transfer data to identify underchosen schools. There will also be updates on improvements at 158 Spring St., East Cambridge, a district building that closed in June as the Kennedy-Longfellow School after 51 years and is expected to reopen next year for a different purpose. Watchable online and by Zoom videoconferencing.
Updating the urban forest plan
Public Works public meeting, 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 20. A Urban Forest Master Plan enacted in 2019 – meant in part to grow the city’s tree canopy and cool residents as climate change heats things up – set a goal for 30 percent of the city to be shaded by trees. Officials say the milestone was reached last year and invites residents “to learn how the city turned things around” from a dramatic loss of canopy, as well as share their experiences and set new priorities. In the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School cafeteria, 459 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
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