Area Developments

Help Improve Your neighborhood: Cambridge Common to Porter Square

Join City of Cambridge staff to discuss development of a master plan for the Massachusetts Avenue ‘streetscape’….from the Cambridge Common to Porter Square. Topics we’ll explore together include long-range planning for trees, other landscape elements, pedestrian safety, transportation, street furniture and neighborhood identity and culture.

To sign up for future mailings, find more information, or answer a short questionnaire: www.cambridgema.gov/commontoporter

Questions? Contact Stuart Dash at 617-349-4640

The Planning Board will discuss and possibly decide to reauthorize the special permits for for Lesley University's Art Institute of Boston project. It does not appear that additional public commentary will be accepted. Also on the agenda are the Faces project on Concord Turnpike and other topics.

Discussion of the St James / Oaktree condo special permit revision was deferred to the next meeting, on March 15, due to absence of board member William Tibbs.

Agenda

* Lesley/AIB Status
* Update on A Plan for Mass Ave between Porter and Harvard Squares
* Porter Square History
* Ears to the Ground

Lesley / AIB Status

The Planning Board will hold a public hearing on a Special Permit application (PB#241A), apparently to clean up several items in the previously approved permit for the Oaktree / St. James condominium development.

Agenda

• Businesses south of Porter Square
• Snow
• Ears to the Ground

Businesses south of Porter Square

We'll get a report from an informal group of businesses between Harvard and Porter Square, now forming in response to the "Massachusetts Avenue Master Plan" being worked on for that area. (We got an update on that in January.)

Snow

We'll have an informal discussion of snow-related issues. Are there any specific trouble spots, or any appropriate and constructive suggestions we could make to the city?

Monthly Meeting of the Friends of the Community Path
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Please join us in our efforts to extend the Community Path to the Charles River!

Thursday February 10, 2011 - 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA)
259 Lowell St., 3rd Floor Community Room
Somerville, MA 02144

The Cambridge Historical Commission will review Lesley University's plans for AIB, including selected demolition of read additions and basemenet, relocation of church building, replacement of steeple, repair and restoration, installlation of skylights, and construction of a 4-story building with connection to church building. (The project received approval in principle on June 3, 2010.)