The possibility of charging more than $8 a year for resident parking permits was raised Monday at a City Council meeting, along with landmark status for the Shell gas station sign on Memorial Drive; holding fast on an Avon Hill historical district; criticism of paying Everett police officers for work in Cambridge; honoring freemason Prince Hall; and other issues.

Development of condominiums around a historic Porter Square church was hampered tonight at a meeting of the Cambridge Historical Commission, with commission members seeming to suggest ways for the project to be slowed and the revelation of an ancient deed that could be used in an attempt to block construction.