Attend meetings on the ‘MassAve4’ bike lanes, Alewife, issues facing Black residents and more
Public meetings this week look at Strategic planning for Kendall Square, plans for the “MassAve4” stretches of bike lanes and the Lechmere Canal Park, school Covid protocol changes, Issues facing Black residents, amending the city charter and zoning for the Alewife area.
Attend meetings on linkage fees and bike lanes, pot shops and improving the city’s playing fields
Public meetings this week look at linkage fees and playing fields, banning fur and fake health clinics, after-school program buses, bike lanes on Garden Street, a Porter Square pot shop, eliminating parking minimums, planning North Massachusetts Avenue and much more.
Attend meetings on MBTA cuts, lab buildings, housing, Memorial Drive, bike safety and more
Public meetings this week look at reversing plans for bus cuts; zoning around lab buildings, parking and multifamily housing; Memorial Drive closings and bike safety in Somerville; a greenhouse gas emissions law; and much more.
Attend meetings on pre-K for more 4-year-olds and a fee for no-shows to License Commission
Public meetings this week look at pre-kindergarten for more 4-year-olds, school district Covid updates, a proposed License Commission hearing fee of $100 and more.
State law overrides effort on LGBTQ kids’ privacy as committee votes on nondiscrimination policy
A change that would have protected LGBTQ students against being outed to potentially unknowing or hostile parents was taken out of a school district nondiscrimination policy.
Attend meetings on advancing Alewife zoning, catering from within a condo, a Harvard bank
Public meetings this week look at Brattle Street safety improvements, schools’ nondiscrimination policy, a caterer in Porter and bank and apartments in Harvard, and Alewife zoning recommendations.
School district and educators compromise, delivering two-year contract and optimism
After months of stalled negotiations, the Cambridge Public School District and Cambridge Education Association have agreed to a contract for teachers, assistant principals, deans and curriculum coordinators. The roughly 1,100 educators in units A and B were working under a one-year contract that ended Aug. 31.
Attend meetings on farewells to city officials, upgrades at 105 Windsor and Alewife zoning
Public meetings this week say goodbye to a city manager, chief operating officer, attorney and auditor with a combined 152 years of service; granting $4.5 million to improve an 1868 city building in The Port; MBTA bus network redesign; Alewife zoning and park planning processes; and more.
Attend meetings on tenant rights, climate crisis and cutting the ribbon at the Foundry building
Public meetings and gathersings this week include a ribbon-cutting at the $46 million Foundry community building, a tenants-rights forum sponsored by A Better Cambridge, Brattle Street safety improvements, a school district nondiscrimination policy, the restaurant replacing Loyal Nine in East Cambridge, and much more.
Attend meetings on $49M more for new school; buying city office space; a ‘Pit-A-Palooza’; more
Public meetings this week look at a big price jump for the Tobin and Vassal Lane schools campus; a purchase of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank Building in Central Square; a Pit-A-Palooza for Pit Rat Day; bike lane issues; the best ways to teach reading; use of federal Covid funds; after-school and summer programs; and much more.
