Lack of affordability in ‘missing middle’ zoning cited as Planning Board members go 5-3 against
The “missing middle” zoning intended to bring more multifamily housing to the city got a negative recommendation Tuesday from the Planning Board. Members voted 5-3, delivering a blow to the proposal, though it will continue on with a City Council committee hearing at a date yet to be set.
Eversource mags given to kids violated policies; Utility says it’ll add climate change information
Pro-natural gas promotions targeting kids but making no mention of climate change were distributed to students by mistake, without going through the school district for approval, Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui said Monday.
Seizure of Armory Building to preserve arts use takes step forward in Somerville officials’ vote
Somerville took one step closer Monday to seizing the Armory Building owned by Cambridge’s Sater family, with the intention of preserving its use as a community space for the arts.
Affordable building keeps Planning Board favor with slight changes; Broad Canal plan displeases
Changes in the all-affordable building proposed for 2072 Massachusetts Ave. didn’t change how the Planning Board felt about it, and members voted to affirm its endorsement of the North Cambridge project to the Board of Zoning Appeal, where it goes next.
Construction around new Union Square T station expected for years, and elevator isn’t due ’til 2022
Though the Union Square stop on the green line is expected to open as early as October, there’s no sign yet of elevator access from its neighboring parcel, which got its building permit Thursday and could be under construction into the fall of 2024.
Plan for MIT’s empty triple-decker in Central, due to be affordable units, awaits assessment
An assessment of a long-empty triple-decker in Lafayette Square is expected to be complete within a couple of months, leading to a plan on its conversion into affordable housing for families.
Patients return to Cambridge Health Alliance, boosting finances as Covid pandemic wanes
The Cambridge Health Alliance, which serves a large number of poor and uninsured patients, had “truly a remarkable month” in March in terms of visits to doctors, chief financial officer Jill Batty told CHA trustees Tuesday.
Teardown ‘unoccupied’? The resident disagrees – and has fought over 88 Holworthy St. for years
A demolition application for a Strawberry Hill property lists it as “currently unoccupied,” but Ferahnaz Kahyaoglu lives there – and the owner knows it, if only from some of the several lawsuits she has filed since moving in two owners ago.
Armory Building might be seized from its owners by Somerville to preserve arts use for community
Citing the impending loss of a space relied on the arts community and its residents, the City of Somerville is looking at spending $5 million to take its armory away from the Sater family – also owners of The Middle East nightclub complex in Central Square – which has owned the structure since 2004.
Met Pipe suing Alexandria over its Binney math; MIT preps update for 93-year-old dorm building
The hyper complicated Alexandria Real Estate Equities zoning petition that passed in 2020 brought together recreational land the city has wanted for three decades and made room for an entire Eversource electrical substation. But one player says it was left out, and is suing.
