Public meetings this week look at LGBTQ+ issues, Alewife zoning and development, the use of federal Covid recovery funds, the budget for the next fiscal year, a school district sexual misconduct policy, implementing a 988 crisis line and some food, drink and event issues – including a new bubble tea business for Harvard Square.

With food delivery waning with the pandemic, the acclaimed Season to Taste restaurant is looking to make up for that revenue with more seating, trading up to a 70-seat space being used by another eatery from its current 20 seats, the License Commission heard Thursday.

The family-run Turkish eatery Lavash Bar & Grille is in a soft opening on New Street with dishes from a classic shish kebabs, islak burger and iskender to mezes such as manti dumplings, sigara borek cheese snacks and kibbeh of ground lamb so perfect and neat it feels like a crime to bite into one.

There may not be many Filipinos in Cambridge, but it seems that the Philippines mattered enough to the community to place a woefully misguided monument to a war there on Arsenal Square, at Garden Street and Concord Avenue in Neighborhood 9.

Although I made this decision for my own business and strongly encourage others to do the same, businesses should have the freedom to make their own decisions. Creative approaches such as incentive programs encourage participation without forcing their hand.

An affordable-housing project that will overlook Danehy Park won praise from members of the Planning Board on Tuesday. One member called it a “poster child” for new Affordable Housing Overlay zoning that reduces the power of the board in refining projects before they’re built.

Public meetings this week look at swearing-in the new City Council and School Committee; ending single-family zoning, building an 100 percent affordable-housing mixed-use project on New Street; tearing down the Garage mall; replacing a Harvard Street apartment building destroyed by a 2020 fire; and more.

As the anniversary of the Jan. 2, 2019, murder of Paul Wilson approaches, police say “some progress has been made” but no suspect in the killing has been identified, similar to a year ago. The public’s continued help is asked in finding the killer.

Maybe frozen yogurt is just not meant for a starring role. A BerryLine has closed near Porter Square, leaving just one business in Cambridge or Somerville devoted to it – another BerryLine in Harvard Square.

The proprietors behind Giulia won permission Thursday to take over an empty nearby space for a seafood eatery, giving a permanent home for the pasta restaurant’s well-received fish dishes.