Carl Barron Plaza, seen in July 2018, is a meeting place for the unhodged and low-income residents. (Photo: Marc Levy)
Redesign a place, electric cars help
City Council, Monday, 5:30 p.m. A group of mostly homeless people have submitted their own list of proposals, saying they have been banned from redesigning the Carl Barron Plaza in Central Square. They range from opening the doors of an Amazon pickup point inward to avoid hitting people, to adding stations for charging phones, heating food, washing hands, and filling water bottles – for the big one Part to make the space uninhabited and not more hostile What they suspect is behind a proposal that would delete a large part of its seats. The square offers a “place to interact with … friends and community members free of charge and to make contacts. There are very few places in Cambridge that allow us to do this, ”the group says, earning sympathetic ears from the councilors who want the committee to be heard to consider the ideas.
Topics relating to the topic of transport are also in the foreground, including the request to demand payments from owners of electric cars for the electricity they use at charging stations in the city, but not also for parking there. The double fee is unique to Cambridge, and some councilors would prefer to follow the example of Somerville, Boston and Brookline and take money for one thing or another to make Cambridge stop, “in terms of increasing accessibility and equity for electric vehicle owners lag behind their neighbors ”. and incentives for others to buy or otherwise use electric vehicles. ”Under another regulation, pedestrian and bicycle accidents that affect traffic should be reported to residents in real time, as well as to city councils, and Harvard Bridge could be given dedicated lanes, which connect the existing bicycle infrastructure on both sides. The option to keep Memorial Drive closed longer as the recreation space known as Riverbend Park is back as well.
The council meets at City Hall at 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. Televised and viewed via zoom videoconference.
IQHQ plans for Alewife property
Nature Conservation Commission, Monday 7 p.m. The first 45 minutes of this meeting are reserved to discuss a proposal for “redevelopment and restoration” at 1 Alewife Center from IQHQ, a property owner for offices and laboratories in the life sciences sector. His land is adjacent to the Alewife Brook Reservation and Jerry’s Pond, a wildlife habitat that grew out of a fenced, polluted former swimming hole by default. Viewable via zoom video conference.
West front to Harvard Square
Planning board, Tuesday, 6.30 p.m. The board of directors plans to discuss a cannabis retail store on the Western Front at 98 Winthrop St., Harvard Square, another business owned by Marvin Gilmore (former owner of the Western Front nightclub in Cambridge), Dennis Benzan (of La Fábrica Central Restaurant and night club) and Omowale Moses. Partners are open in Chelsea and are preparing to open at 567 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square. That Harvard Square location was Healthy Pharms’ medical marijuana dispensary for less than a year until a lawsuit by the owner of the neighboring Crimson Galeria building forced it to close in March 2018 – part of why Cambridge is now Revolutionary Clinics has two locations that sell cannabis to patients. (Now Galeria owner Raj Dhanda is preparing to run his own recreational cannabis franchise with three other members of the Moses family.) It’s also an advisory design review for an affordable housing project proposal from Just-A-Start in 52 New St. planned., neighborhood 9 near Fresh Pond. The developer is planning 107 apartments and 3,000 square meters of commercial space. Viewable via zoom video conference.
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