Welcome to the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association Web Site

Our aim is to reach more of our residents with helpful information.  Perhaps new residents will learn about the association and join us, or simply learn about the neighborhood and the shops, services, and facilities in the area.  New and longtime residents may find our calendar of events useful.  If you are interested in issues affecting the neighborhood, you may want to consult the archives of back issues of the M-C News.  However you use the site, we’d like to hear your comments and suggestions about how to make it serve you and your neighbors.

Doane Perry
MCNA President

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MCNA News Flash

Read the latest edition of the MCNA Newsletter here
Notes on the happenings about mid-Cambridge.
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MCNA Coordinating Committee and
Neighborhood Monthly Minutes
Current minutes of last month's
CC meeting, neighborhood meeting minutes,
and special meeting minutes.
View Monthly Minutes Here

Fogg Museum Community Open House 
Where: 32 Quincy Street
When: May 17, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
          May 18, 1:00 - 5:00 pm

Take one last stroll through the galleries before the noted art museum is closed for renovatoins until 2013. Free and open to the public.

MCNA Annual Meeting 
Where: 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, in the Cambridge College Building.
When: May 21, 7-9:00 pm

Business meeting and speakers on four major construction projects in the neighborhood. Please see the latest Newsletter above for the agenda.

Saturday work for the Main Libraray Expansion and the War Memorial Renovation Projects 
When:  Saturdays between now and June. 
Where: Broadway, by Library Construction 

The General Contractors of both the Library and the War Memorial Projects have requested that they be allowed to work on selected Saturdays from now until the high school closes for the summer. The constraints for them will be that their work not involve any major trucking activity on Broadway or Cambridge and Ellery Streets, would most likely be interior work, and any outside construction would be limited to the hours from 9am - 4pm.

Any questions, please contact Alan Burne, Project Director @ 617-349-4438

Shady Hill community needs your support 
Residents of the Shady Hill planned community are vigorously opposing development on the open green their homes cluster around. They claim the developer's permit to build a 5,000 square foot residence on the green was obtained illegally, with no public hearing, and the construction would damage both the quality of life in their neighborhood and the value of their homes. They point out that the prices they paid for their property were based on the beautiful green space their homes face out upon, which they were assured would always remain open and undeveloped in accordance with the 1915 plan.

At its heavily-attended Thursday April 10th hearing, the Board of Zoning Appeal voted to delay any decision on zoning issues raised by the hotly-contested plan to build on historic Shady Hill Square. Opponents have petitioned Massachusetts Land Court to decide questions of both zoning and ownership arising from the plan. If Land Court agrees to rule on the zoning issues, any decisions by the BZA would be superseded by the Court. The BZA therefore voted to wait for Land Court to decide on that point before taking action of its own. The case will be considered again at BZA’s July 24th meeting if Land Court rules by that time, or postponed further until the Court has ruled. Please read more...

MCNA Bi-Annual Fundraiser
Please support MCNA's effort to focus on important neighborhood issues by contributing to our fundraising effort.
Please return this form with your contribution and comment.  

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