Public meetings this week look at eliminating leaf blowers, ending more net-zero exemptions on buildings, open data, its licensing and artificial intelligence, changes on Cambridge Street and a switch from Laundrytown to eatery near Alewife low-income housing.

Cambridge public notices about the Cycling Safety Ordinance and from the Avon Hill Neighborhood Conservation District Commission and Mid Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission.

A proposed Beudo amendment would have a significant impact on cutting the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, and its provisions are reasonable and doable.

Cambridge’s city manager will be a position of the past if the Charter Review Committee has its way, residents learned in the committee’s two most recent meetings.

Public meetings this week look at assessing the city manager, hiring a fire chief and automated parking enforcement, bicycle and bike lane use data, expanding the power grid, fast, switching to a “strong mayor” form of government and a Vassal Lane school name change.

Public meetings this week memorialize transgender deaths and traffic fatalities, and debate property tax rates after a City Council swearing-in caucus.

Cambridge public notices about 10 Avon Place, 30 Arlington St.; a phased-out ban of the use of gas-powered leaf blowers; and “Lodging House” zoning.

In studying the future of city-owned lots and properties in and around Central Square, four have uses already set as affordable housing and open space, while 10 – five buildings and five empty lots – need more discussion.

Creation of a Cambridge Freedmen’s Commission was embraced by city councillors, city staff and members of the public at an Ordinance Committee meeting. 

One of the city’s major affordable-housing developers, Homeowners Rehab Inc., has been criticized for its response to heating, elevator and other problems reported by tenants at the 116-unit Inman Square Apartments.