In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Cambridge Science Festival doings, the annual Fluff festival, clown class, Black Biz, roller disco and John Coltrane from the Cambridge Jazz Foundation.
Public meetings in the coming days look at reparations and restitution to black Cantabrigians; plans for the former offices of the American Friends Service Committee and changes to traffic and transportation on Mount Auburn Street in West Cambridge.
Public meetings this week include the City Council’s special summer meeting, encompassing everything from naming officers in use-of-force incidents and Danehy Park improvements to changing cannabis laws and keeping backyard chickens. There’s much more, too.
A proposed cannabis retail shop called Botanica has once again hit a snag in Somerville’s municipal process; a Medford Street housing project is approved; and more in a development wrap-up.
The establishment of a drug overdose prevention site is back on track after a disruption, Somerville city councilors heard at a meeting covering issues from traffic enforcement to gun violence and mental health.
Public meetings this week look at the police commissioner’s replies about naming the officer in a fatal Jan. 4 shooting – without the name; there’s bad news about finding, buying and building more affordable-housing property; and much, much more.
Cambridge moves toward ending special permits for adult-use cannabis and enacting Alewife Quad zoning, while Somerville looks at more density for affordable housing and delaying an increasing on developer linkage fees.