Attend Cambridge meetings from Dec. 5-11: Tow-free street cleanings and green zoning
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.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a pie-based fundraiser to open art studios
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Petsi Pies founder Renee McLeod shares her secrets for a good cause, a Holiday Plant Enthusiast Market is coming, there are open studios by Brickbottom/Joy Street artists, Robert Pinsky reads, “Something Strange” returns and much more.
Limits on lab construction begin zoning process with rancorous talk on ‘highly unusual situation’
A citizen zoning petition was forwarded Monday by the City Council that might regulate where labs can go in Cambridge, possibly prohibiting biotech construction in places such as Central, Harvard, Porter and Inman squares or major thoroughfares such as Cambridge Street and Broadway.
Attend Cambridge meetings from Oct. 31-Nov. 6: Zoning limiting labs, superintendent’s contract
Public meetings this week look at zoning for labs and North Massachusetts Avenue, the school superintendent’s contract, an Alewife neighborhood planning update, and Historical Commission consideration of bike lane projects on Garden Street and apartments in Harvard Square.
Attend meetings in Somerville from Oct. 24-30: Porter, Assembly and Boynton Yards lab pitches
Public meetings in Somerville this week look at life-sciences projects proposed for Porter Square, Assembly Square and Boynton Yards, as well as more development for Porter, job creation, school repairs and maintenance, and more.
Lab building plan for Somerville’s Union Square can’t get started without resolving one question
Union 2 Associates could give Somervillians everything from a skating rink to a branch library in Union Square. But needed approvals may start with another developer.
LabCentral’s Golden Ticket prizes to founders unlock life sciences that lack in ‘Biodiversity’
LabCentral Ignite’s Golden Ticket program awards companies founded by women and people of color to help “solve for underrepresentation” in biotech industries.
Order asks for a conversation on restricting labs as they spread outside cramped Kendall Square
Representatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall Square Association and Chamber of Commerce fired warning shots responding to a proposal that could limit labs to the city’s industrial zones.
Attend meetings on MBTA cuts, lab buildings, housing, Memorial Drive, bike safety and more
Public meetings this week look at reversing plans for bus cuts; zoning around lab buildings, parking and multifamily housing; Memorial Drive closings and bike safety in Somerville; a greenhouse gas emissions law; and much more.
Wastewater testing will add influenza to Covid, just as monkeypox and polio become concerns
Cambridge already tests its wastewater for Covid-19, and now the city is adding testing for influenza, but poliovirus and monkeypox testing is more complicated.
