Public meetings this week look at street cleaning without tows, green zoning, a municipal property inventory; conservative “birthing” clinics, board Stipends and bank frontage; and zoning to decide where labs are allowed.

Public meetings this week look at development of a Boynton Yards lab building, implementing municipal broadband, city charter changes and affordable housing

The $905,000-per-unit price tag for building a new Jefferson Park Federal public housing development is going up even more, and the project will take longer to finish.

Potential big changes to the city’s Affordable Housing Overlay were slowed as city councillors agreed to send them to two committees for preliminary discussion rather than to the bodies where language gets on track to be voted into law.

Public meetings this week look at expanding the Affordable Housing Overlay zoning from 2020 and how to use city-owned property; getting more EV charging and a municipal “green fleet”; the findings of the East Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Study Committee; and more.

A ceremonial groundbreaking doubled as a fundraising drive for Rindge Commons, a project of the nonprofit developer Just A Start that by completion in 2026 will bring 100 units of lower-income family housing to Cambridge’s Alewife area, along with an education and job-training center.

The council has been working on the 66 percent increase for more than a year, with increasingly intense debate as the current “incentive zoning” rate petition neared its expiration date next week.

Newly planted saplings are growing in a small lot in The Port neighborhood where an affordable-housing developer cut down mature trees a year ago to make room for bike storage, after telling city zoning regulators there were no trees there.

Public meetings this week look at reshaping City Hall with new positions and changing how developer “linkage” fees pay for affordable housing; plans for The Middle East nightclub and restaurant complex; deciding the days for “Riverbend Park”; and much more.

Public meetings this week look at linkage fees and playing fields, banning fur and fake health clinics, after-school program buses, bike lanes on Garden Street, a Porter Square pot shop, eliminating parking minimums, planning North Massachusetts Avenue and much more.