These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website.
Progress at 90 Washington St.
Somerville Redevelopment Authority, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Updates and advances on the project at 90 Washington St. in Somerville’s Inner Belt, a 4-acre parcel that was once the Cobble Hill mall. Wood Partners won approval in July to build 418 homes there with 15,000 square feet of retail and 7,000 square feet of community space. Members also plan to go into a closed-door session about the value of the land – assessed by the city at $3.8 million in the spring. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
Hazardous waste collection
Household hazardous waste drop-off, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Items accepted from residents include motor oil, aerosol paint, household cleaning chemicals, rechargeable batteries and more. At the Department of Public Works, 1 Franey Road, Magoun Square.
Preamble with Boynton Yards …
Planning Board, 6 p.m. Thursday. The board gets a half-hour to itself before joining with the City Council’s Land Use Committee to talk about allowing more housing at Boynton Yards and Windsor Place, which is near the MBTA green line stop for Union Square, considering the downturn in tenants for lab space; as well as four zoning amendments concerning backyard “cottages.” Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
… before backyard cottages talk
Land Use Committee, 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The Planning Board and committee talks Boynton Yards homes and four zoning amendments concerning backyard “cottages” – which can be quite big – submitted by 24-year Somerville alderman Bill White. He and other residents are concerned the backyard homes are being built too big and without affordable units, and propose that the cottages be ancillary to a lot’s main structure, with size limited to 900 square feet, and that there be transparency when a lot is split; approval for a lot split with a chance for public comment; and that a lot split require an affordability component. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
