Attend meetings on budget, the ‘missing middle’ and celebrating food and drink in Central Square
Public meetings this week look at closing Massachusetts Avenue to cars on weekends through September, quick-build bike lanes, millions in infrastructure borrowing, departmental budgeting, “missing middle” zoning, and a tiki bar in Harvard Square, patisserie, Mexican food and more.
Attend meetings on $500M in affordable homes, commercial composting, boutique hotel proposal
Public meetings this week look at a challenge to city for $500,000 in affordable housing and a call to demilitarize the police; interviews with two finalists for the interim superintendent; and a plan to enliven the Broad Canal area.
Bar owners went beyond First Amendment rights with their ‘raised voices, interrupting,’ AG argues
The legal defense of a faked Cambridge fire law hasn’t grown visibly stronger over time, but it has evolved as it moved to bigger courts and now includes attacks on First Amendment protections.
Attend meetings on lower majorities for zoning, pool repair, MCAS tests and ice cream from a lab
Public meetings this week look at passing zoning more easily, and a Green New Deal; opting out of the MCAS test and a vocational education coalition; the Volpe redevelopment in Kendall Square; “missing middle” zoning; a Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream in Cambridgeport; and much more.
Attend meetings on tree protection laws, keeping remote participation, Ragon relocation and more
Public meetings this week look at tree protection and cannabis delivery business laws, the Ragon Institute’s proposal to build near Kendall, MCAS standardized testing issues and much more.
Attend meetings on easing way for businesses, real estate transfer fee, two new eateries, more
Public meetings this week look at surveillance technology, tear gas and why the Planning Board doesn’t like proposed green roofs zoning; bao coming to Central Square and felafel to Porter Square; an overhaul of what and where businesses can be; and enacting a real estate transfer fee.
Acoustic music licenses could be fast-tracked, cost $100 a year under a commission proposal
Getting acoustic music into untraditional spaces such as bookstores began to look doable this week, as the License Commission took up the issue again after a rebuke from city councillors.
Attend meetings on condo conversion fee idea, neighbor groups, Envision goals, Alewife plan
Public meetings this week look at the city’ credit ratings, zoning plans and whether to add affordable housing to a city parking lot in West Cambridge; services for students; neighborhood group representation and the goals of Envision Cambridge; and a possible condo conversion fee.
Opposition to acoustic music is brushed aside; vexed councillors order action after four years
After waiting four years for city staff to help bring more acoustic music to Cambridge businesses without them needing a license, city councillors showed frustration Monday at getting a response that was incomplete and unhelpful.
Attend meetings on campaign finance reforms; hiring an interim schools superintendent; more
Public meetings this week look at how city councillors’ intent has been thwarted by the Planning Board and Licensing Commission; new restaurants and wine sellers; hiring an interim schools superintendent; School Committee ethics; and municipal campaign finance reform proposals.
