Public meetings this week look at making a neighborhood in Alewife; bike lanes through Porter; school district budgeting; a Net Zero Action Plan update; solutions in helping the unhoused; permitting for Starlight Square and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology food kiosk; and more.

Public meetings this week look at bike lanes through Porter Square, honoring the RSTA program’s Michael Ananis, ending single-family-home zoning and a real estate “linkage” fee leap, a plan for sidewalk and street work and MBTA news, putting labs in neighborhoods, school district budgeting and more.

Public meetings this week look at problems with rats and a change in preschool hours, missing a May 1 deadline on bike lane construction, turning a vacant lot in The Port into affordable homes, special education policies, an energy-use disclosure law, Alewife-area lab moratorium, city manager search, law against wage theft and much more.

Public meetings this week look at bike lanes and off-street parking, a Net Zero Action Plan update, IQHQ’s life-sciences campus near Alewife, the search for a new city manager, using millions in American Rescue Plan funds, landmarking the Maria Baldwin House and much more.

Public meetings this week look at the next city budget, plans for land in North Cambridge owned by the life-sciences developer IQHQ and whether Brooklyn Bagel Factory can open in Inman Square in a former Taco Bell space. There’s also a chance to learn “Zoning 101” in an hour from Community Development Department staff.

Public meetings this week look at ending parking space minimums at developments; a local Green New Deal; fare-free buses; a school district budget; licensing rules and regulations; rethinking the Garage mall in Harvard Square; and more.

Public meetings this week look at getting bike lane advice and finding solutions for homelessness; the aftermath of a student protest and appointing a permanent superintendent; and the future of Cambridge Street; and getting town-gown reports from Harvard, Hult, Lesley and MIT.

Public meetings this week look at golf course reuse, finding new city managers, clerks and auditors; updates on housing progress; a Youth Resource Officers Program; BioMed’s 585 Third St. tower in Kendall Square; bike lanes through Porter Square; and more.

Public meetings this week look at preparing the school district budget process, Envision Cambridge and single-family zoning, landlord and leasing issues at the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority’s Foundry building and “nonprofit row,” and more.

Public meetings this week look at processes for adding bike lanes, an unarmed public safety program design by residents, proposed affordable housing zoning tweaks, ways to lower city greenhouse gas emissions and more.