Today’s housing crisis has been a long time in the making. It will be difficult to fix it as fast as we should, but Cambridge has begun to move in the right direction.
The Planning Board gave unanimous approval Tuesday for a preliminary plan at 75 First St., part of a larger development of the First Street corridor between Bent and Spring streets by the company Urban Spaces.
Public meetings this week look at budgeting for Cambridge Public Schools and capital projects, Brattle Street improvements, East Cambridge developments, the voices of Indigenous people and a landmarking for the circa-1912 Gas Light Co. Building in Central Square.
Attend meetings on rodent control, intersection reconstruction, school building maintenance, affordable housing, Winter Hill and Porter and Davis squares, and more.
We want to work toward a Cambridge where residents and locally owned, independent businesses are able to thrive in vibrant and affordable squares and corridors, shielded from further displacement pressures from many sources, including continued biotech expansion.
Public meetings this week look at a revived Traffic Board, affordable homeownership changes, zoning for climate resilience and board and commission reports.
A planned redevelopment at the site of a long-closed Star Market appears to have broad public support as it approaches a vote on requested construction waivers.
Public meetings this week look at open space plans and programming, the affordable-unit experience in market-rate buildings, unarmed public safety agencies, final Alewife zoning proposals, plans for Cambridge Street and more.