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Next Monthly meeting
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 7:00pm
at Frisoli Youth Center - 2nd Floor
61 Willow St.
This is your opportunity to meet your neighbors, discuss your parking, lack of open space, crime and safety concerns, and get the latest information on what your fellow Wellington-Harrington neighbors are doing to improve our neighborhood. Thursday, September 24th, 2009 7:00pm
at Frisoli Youth Center - 2nd Floor
61 Willow St.
Agenda
Meet and greet City Councilor Candidate. Let him/her know your opinions and your vision for the neighborhood. Meet with the Cambridge School Commitee Candidate(s). Voice your concerns and learn what is being done for our schools.
Get a status of the Cambridge Community Development study on the Wellington-Harrington area regarding Open Space, Public Safety, Parking and Over Development.
As McGruff the Crime Dog® would say – we need to learn how to stop crime before it happens. It is our job is to help each other, especially kids, learn how to be safe and make our neighborhood safer.
Protecting our quality of life: blocking current and future overcrowding and destabilizing developments in our neighborhood.
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| mhjaquith | We will help you if yoy help us! | 0 | Feb 4 2009, 9:10 AM EST by mhjaquith | ||
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Thread started: Feb 4 2009, 9:10 AM EST
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East Cambridge Planning Team has a 15 acre problem right across the tracks from you,
Greetings neighbors, My name is Mark Jaquith and I am a member of the East Cambridge Planning Team (ECPT) and chair of the committee that we set up to study the Alexandria up-zoning petition that is before the City Council. Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. (ARE) has purchased 17 acres of land in E. Cambridge, mostly along Binney St. They build and lease research labs to biotech firms. ARE wants to build on most of these sites. Current zoning allows 700,000 sq. ft. They want 1.8 million. We worked with them and the city and got them to include retail housing, and community center space. Then at the last minute they just added the housing and retail sq. ft. on top and chopped 2/3 of the community space off. There is an Ordinance Committee meeting Wed. Feb. 5 at 5PM in city hall Please come out and support your neighbors across the tracks. You have Beal Co. breathing down your neck, We will help if we can. Thank you, Mark Jaquith 213 Hurley St. Cambridge, MA 02141 |
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| mhjaquith | Beal Kendall Square Development Proposal | 0 | Oct 16 2008, 11:57 PM EDT by mhjaquith | ||
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I believe that this proposal is the same as the one that was shot down by the city a few years ago. They will need to get the City Council to amend the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance. They are going to present their petition to the Council within a few weeks. After that, the Council must hold a public hearing within 90 days and then act on the petition within 45 days of the hearing. Then on to the Planning Board and BZA.
This area was rezoned in 2000 as part of the Eastern Cambridge Planning Study (ECAPS). The prior proposal was made before WHNA was formed and folks from the ECAPS committee and East Cambridge Planning Team responded and stopped it that time. Right now we are involved with a similar proposal by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. to upzone their 17 acres along Binney St. on the other side of the tracks, so you folks are going to have to fight this one. Their offer to construct 1200 to 2000 linear feet of the multi-use path along the tracks seems weak. I think the path is a great idea, but is it enough to justify changing the law to increase their profit? Mark Jaquith 213 Hurley St. East Cambridge Planning Team member |
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