Watch meetings on Tobin/Vassal Lane project, reopening schools in the fall, small-business aid
Public meetings this week look at the the Tobin/Vassal Lane school project, Kendall Square design, public schools’ curriculum for the fall and how faculty “check-ins” with students work, as well as plenty on the coronavirus recovery and the pot shop that wants to replace Stereo Jack’s Records.
Kendall rooftop garden to be razed for redesign, but its plants are getting out alive, with residents
Kendall Square’s rooftop garden is getting redone as part of a larger project at 325 Main St., but the garden’s plants won’t suffer – many are being taken away Thursday by residents to be cared for at home, according to the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority.
Watch meetings as Planning Board returns, school officials wonder at Covid-19 campuses
Public meetings this week look at new open space and other changes coming to Kendall Square and how coronavirus might change the use of school campuses and the revamp of Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane. A police funding order that caused conflict last week is also back to the City Council.
Watch meetings about $267M in spending, reopening the city, vote-by-mail and more
Public meetings this week look at $267 million in spending – starting with $237 million for the Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools – and when the city will wrap up its look at digital equity and begin work on municipal broadband. “Nonprofit row” and the Foundry projects take shape too.
Zoning handling Grand Junction and substation ‘just beginning’ after years of piecing together (corrected)
The council brought a Grand Junction path closer to reality and sent a power station farther from a school with zoning that rewards two developers at once. But the city manager and executive director of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority both warned that approval was really just the start.
Attend meetings on planting more greenery, schools budget, Kendall hotel, coyotes, more
Attend meetings this week on a $1.2 million plan to plant more trees, the limits of municipal independence in the face of federal immigration enforcement policy, the school district budget, a Kendall Square hotel proposal, a $250 million, four-year school and park project and much more.
The best of Cambridge in 2019
The good parts of 2019 seemed small in comparison with the forces arrayed against Cambridge and the nation – more like a flower spotted blooming in a battlefield, rather than the winning of a war. But these five moments might help guide us to better times.
Attend meetings on keeping Carnival in place, Margaret Fuller House, Alewife Quadrangle
Public meetings this week look at keeping the Cambridge Carnival celebrating in 2020 and every year afterward, a Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House revitalization strategy and the return of zoning for Alewife that could bring a bridge over the area’s train tracks.
Attend meetings on assigning Foundry funds, rallying for rent control and remaking a mall
Public meetings this week look at appropriating $30 million for the Foundry community building in East Cambridge; rallying for rent control and tenant protections at the State House; and how best to remake the CambridgeSide mall, among other things.
Attend meetings about arts crisis organizing, Cambridge Crossing swap of offices for hotel
Public meetings this week look at arts crisis political organizing, now that it’s been announced Green Street Studios is being forced out; the developer of Cambridge Crossing swapping in offices for a proposed hotel; Logan flight path noise; a taxi ride-hailing app; and more.
