Public meetings this week look at bike lanes and Alewife offices and labs; Lamplighter Brewing and the return of the Indian restaurant Tanjore; how universal pre-kindergarten is being developed by the city and school district; and more.

An affordable-housing project that will overlook Danehy Park won praise from members of the Planning Board on Tuesday. One member called it a “poster child” for new Affordable Housing Overlay zoning that reduces the power of the board in refining projects before they’re built.

If the goal of eliminating single-family zoning in Cambridge is to right decades of racial injustice and inequity, the Planning Board was unconvinced Tuesday that the city was anywhere close to a way to achieve that.

In the Community Development Department’s proposed end to single-family zoning, the hard work and careful analysis that effective reform would require is characterized from the get-go as taking too much time and effort. “Whatever,” indeed.

Public meetings this week look at swearing-in the new City Council and School Committee; ending single-family zoning, building an 100 percent affordable-housing mixed-use project on New Street; tearing down the Garage mall; replacing a Harvard Street apartment building destroyed by a 2020 fire; and more.

Planning officials voiced serious misgivings last week around the specifics of the Affordable Housing Overlay, which so far underlies three projects making their way through Cambridge’s permitting process. But they acknowledged that they were forced mainly to watch with concern.

Public meetings this week look at processes for adding bike lanes, an unarmed public safety program design by residents, proposed affordable housing zoning tweaks, ways to lower city greenhouse gas emissions and more.

Public meetings this week look at administering the latest (and next) elections; the school district’s teen health survey; a real estate “linkage” fee leap; spending $65 million in American Rescue Plan money; and plans for – and protections of – the city’s Gas-Light and American Friends buildings.

The $900,000-per-unit cost of rebuilding Jefferson Park public housing stems partly from extraordinary factors such as bidding and wage requirements for public agencies, the large number of family-sized units, deteriorated utilities and hazardous materials at the site an analysis shows.

The main public meeting this week is of the City Council, whose agenda includes items about the upcoming inaugural event, a real estate transfer tax, citywide rat control efforts, finding long-term space for nonprofit organizations in Central Square and much more.