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Joan Pickett
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MCNA News Flash

MC News Available now

Hot off the press! Check out the latest goings on at Mid-Cambridge:
  • Learn details of the Annual Meeting to be held May 20th 7PM
  • Learn about the upcoming Zipcar hearing May 7th 5PM and May 19th and what it means for on street parking
  • Learn what is going on with Joan Lorentz Park renovation
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Ice Cream Cone

17th Annual Ice Cream Social 

 Ice Cream Cone

Rain Delay
When:
Rescheduled to Thursday May 25th, 2009 6 to 8 p.m.

Where: Wilder Park on Lee Street (corner of Lee and West between Broadway and Harvard Street)

Free ice cream donated by Toscanini's!

Due to the forcast, we are rescheduling the event from Wednesday June 24th to Thursday June 25th. Please join us in meeting your neighbors.


Please bring a non-perishable food item
to support the Margaret Fuller House food bank.

Planning Board held public hearing on Tuesday, May 19, 7:30 p.m. to amend the zoning ordinance on Zipcar

The Planning Board of the City of Cambridge held a public hearing on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at the Second Floor Meeting Room, at City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts on a zoning petition by the City Council to amend the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Cambridge as follows:

  1. Article 2.000: insert new definitions "Parking Facility, Vehicle-Sharing Service; and Vehicle-Sharing Service Vheicle"
  2. >Article 4.000: insert a new “Vehicle?Sharing Parking Facility” use in the Table of Use Regulations, Section 4.32 ? Transportation, Communication & Utility Uses, line i ? Vehicle?Sharing Parking Facility56 and insert “YES” for all zoning district columns except for the Open Space District where it is "NO".
  3. Article 4.000: insert a new footnote 56 to read “Subject to the provisions of Section 11.20”.
  4. Article 11.000: create a new Section 11.20 ? Vehicle?Sharing Parking Facility that sets out the regulations to permit Vehicle –Sharing and the associated parking facilities throughout the city and establishes a Planning Board Special Permit process and associated criteria for allowing the use at a greater intensity than allowed by right.

Copies of this petition are on file in the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts and at the Community Development Department, 344 Broadway. Questions concerning the petition may be addressed to Liza Paden at 617 349 4647 or lpaden@cambridgema.gov .

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Events and Resources

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Planning Board Agendas and Zoning Hearing Notices

Cambridge Historical Commission and Mid Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission Agendas

Mid Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District

Cambridge Civic Journal

Cambridge War Memorial Recreation Center

Cambridge Riverfest and Dragon Boat Races June 6-8, 2009