Attend meetings on 299-unit Alewife building, flood insurance program, restaurants’ capacity
Public meetings this week look at issues such as 36-54 CambridgePark Drive, an apartment complex that promises retail that will make Alewife feel more like a neighborhood, and another 60 units of affordable housing.
Cambridge gets climate change prep partner as Watershed Association updates mission
After record-setting floods in January and March, the Mystic River Watershed Association said Friday that it is updating its mission and adding resources to help communities manage extreme weather coming as a result of climate change.
Attend meetings about recreational marijuana, Harvard Square cinema and flood plain zoning
Public meetings this week look at issues such as fair treatment for sellers and users of recreational marijuana, improvements to the city’s aging firehouses, a slew of environmental issues and the once and (apparently) future Harvard Square Theatre on Church Street.
What happened to Gore Street’s pin oak tree? Eversource contractor’s error forces removal
Residents and city staff are outraged after a contractor hired by Eversource damaged the roots of a large oak tree Tuesday on Gore Street so severely that the tree had to be cut down immediately for safety reasons.
Councillor has policy orders ready for action that can slow loss of tree canopy immediately
We’ve been disrespectful of nature for too long, and an assessment this year will surely show even further tree loss. That’s why at the next council meeting I will introduce three orders designed to protect our canopy while we wait for a tree task force to complete its work.
Three things we can do to save the city’s trees while task force takes a year to study situation
Our Tree Ordinance requires only an “inch-for-inch diameter” replacement, only for trees bigger than 8 inches in diameter and only for new construction larger than a 20-unit apartment building. Everyone knows this is ridiculous, and the policy is failing.
It’s time to listen to Cambridge’s children, who want to protect the trees we rely on
Will we listen to our children, recognize that their survival in the age of climate change depends on our ability to truly understand the value of trees, and make this the year Cambridge turns around its horrifying trend of destruction?
Another bad 10 days for trees in Cambridge, just part of May 2 ‘Tree Massacre Slideshow’
Fifty mature trees were cut down April 14-24 in my neighborhood, about half of which were more than 20 inches in diameter. See them and more in a Cambridge “Tree Massacre Slideshow” on Wednesday in Porter Square.
With heatwaves, daylong floods on horizon, citizens aim to jumpstart green protections
The city says it is planning for worst-case climate change projections, including a tripling of days over 90 degrees in temperature and daylong floods that might trap people at their offices, but some officials and residents are pushing for more guarantees, and faster.
This winter weather report looks backward to totals for snowfall, fallen trees, outages
With the fizzling of a storm forecast for Wednesday – it was expected to drop up to foot of snow, but no snow came – and temperatures expected to rise into the 50s in the coming week, winter seems to be truly over. What happened?
