Discussions regarding the proposed building at 2072 Massachusetts Ave. have been strikingly heated. I want there to be respect. It is a value we espouse, all of us.

We said it nearly three years ago: The City Council needs its own legal representation. Really, not much has changed since then. Maybe just that on Monday the council saw as much as $68 million for affordable housing slip away.

Let’s preserve Carole Johnson’s classic design at Lechmere Canal Park for all who live in or visit our beloved city.

Shovels are in the ground at a library park paid for by the East Cambridge Open Space Trust in not just money, but through the thousands of hours worked by unpaid volunteers in endless meetings, emailing, record keeping, pleading and persisting. These local heroes cannot be thanked enough.

We have a perspective that no other group in this discussion has, and we urgently want our children to remain in the classroom.

Can’t each Cambridge public school be allowed some freedom to open or shut down based on its own Covid-19 cases?

People may be nervous about living in a communal setting under coronavirus, but these days assisted living is a highly controlled environment with strict safety, sanitizing, screening and testing protocols in place to keep residents, staff and visitors safe. A worse impact of Covid is loneliness.

The presence of a green roofs section in our zoning code has led to not one green roof being created in Cambridge. A revision to actually make them happen is long overdue.

Any resident could reasonably wonder why the council is being asked to set aside nearly a half-million dollars in additional funds for a 13-person law department already budgeted for around $3 million. The city’s bad judgment means some of the money is going to frivolous purposes.

A proposed boutique hotel addition in Central Square will cast overshadow its neighboring building of affordable housing – exactly what the previous owners of the building complained was going to be done to them, leading to fewer units.