I used to live on Bishop Allen and would regularly get woken up at 2am on a weeknight by mentally ill people screaming at the top of their lungs

That's not my experience. When I've been on Bishop Allen at night, there's no noise nearly as disruptive as an amplified concert.

There might be fewer people disrupted by this than attending the concerts, but one purpose of the law is to protect the needs of minorities.

Are you interested in finding a solution, or just rhetoric? It would be much easier to relocate the venue than to close Mass Ave and all the businesses in Central.

If you live that close to the main streets of Central Square, you're near bars, loud trucks, and all sorts of other loud stuff. Starlight events always ended by 9pm, and it was hardly ever the loudest thing happening in Central Square on any particular day. It makes no sense whatsoever to shut it down. Better to vote to shut down Mass Ave, outlaw construction, and close all the businesses, if you want quiet. It's just inane beyond all belief.

I can’t confirm if there are short term options (there should be), but check out the apartment blocks in Kendall area: loft, Third Street Third square and watermark Kendall (some apartments are furnished), 7ink has furnished apartments but it is in Southend so further away.

Same. Although unfortunate that it has be be closed, I think the concerns of those affected by the noise are very valid as well.

If you pay for 30 minutes of parking at 1:10:45, you should not get a ticket 29 minutes and 15 seconds later at 1:40. It doesn't matter what the wording is on the receipt. It's like buying a dozen eggs and only finding 11 when you get home, except worse since there's a $30 fine involved.

It's not the user's fault that the city's system doesn't include seconds in the timestamp. If they can't implement that, they should give everyone the full last minute.

The city is violating its implied contract. This is starting to feel like class action territory. I'm sure there are enough nationwide users of the app to make it worthwhile.

I'm a bit surprised that so many people are taking this position.

I like outdoor music, but I would not want to live across the street from a venue. Why doesn't the city find a more appropriate location that isn't next to any residential buildings?

I'm fairly sure BZA members up for reappointment can be rejected by a council vote. Nonetheless I both emailed and called the city manager to request the remove the BZA members who voted to shut down Starlight. You could also do that. But if the city manager hears from the council, that would definitely help.

It makes me sad that we have so many unelected officials that control so much of Cambridge. The City Manager is hired by the council, but then appoints BZA members that are kinda unaccountable. The City Manager appoints the Cambridge Historical Commission members who can veto changes in a large portion of Cambridge and are also unaccountable.

> I also asked councilors to make clear to the city manager that all BZA members who voted in favor of shutting Starlight down will NOT be approved for reappointment

Does the City Council have that power? The Zoning Ordinance just says they're appointed by the City Manager and doesn't mention anything about approval by the City Council. Maybe something else overrides that?

https://library.municode.com/ma/cambridge/codes/zoning_ordinance?nodeId=ZONING_ORDINANCE_ART10.000APVASPPE

FYI Daniel Totten is Quinton Zondervan's aide, not a councillor.

Marc McGovern also said they’re working on something. There’s also a citizens petition on the agenda for Monday’s council meeting. It’s agenda item APP-2. I wrote in support of it, but I don’t think it’s going to pass because it’s written in a legally confusing way.

> not to be pedantic, but I hate when people say "return cash to homeowners". Like, no they dont. what they do is not raise tax rates, and offer a tax incentive to not rent out your house. Returning money would be like what the Mass did last year when they sent us a check.

That's not accurate to Cambridge. We not only don't raise the rate, we lower it every year so that your amount paid doesn't increase. We're not even limiting that increase to inflation or any other factor, just saying no increase. There's no need to constantly cut taxes, we can and should pay for nice things.

not to be pedantic, but I hate when people say "return cash to homeowners". Like, no they dont. what they do is not raise tax rates, and offer a tax incentive to not rent out your house. Returning money would be like what the Mass did last year when they sent us a check. Not charging me more money for existing is not the same as returning cash

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that said, I just would love to make this happen by any means, and most people assume big line items like this require some type of fiscal trade off. If there is room in the budget for it as is, hooray! (but also, cut taxes some more then)

They haven't figured out the exact financing for it yet, but the majority will likely be bonded out over a few years and those bonds paid back over their terms. Cambridge has plenty of free cash, for example, we regularly return cash to homeowners($22 million last year) as we can't decide what else to do with it. It's also likely that we also get some contributions from private partners.

>A citywide FTTP network would likely require a significant capital contribution to be financially feasible, including a $150 million upfront City contribution, based on relatively conservative assumptions, including that 40 percent of premises subscribe.
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>There are several business models that the City could explore, each impacting Cambridge’s contribution differently depending on the type of partnership and a variety of business factors.

I assumed from this it meant that while it can be added to the budget, the budget has not been accounted for yet

Nothing needs to be cut to fund this.

The best place would be the Druid, on any day other than St Patrick's day.

Did I stutter?

Literally?

www.yourperfectpractices.com

The Perfect Practices offers in-home Strength Training. They train my husband and myself

I live in Cambridge and I literally don’t know a single person who is happy with Comcast

Well there's definitely demand according to this. 87% want a new ISP.

Personal trainers are a scam.

Send two screen shots to Cambridge parking ticket dispute on the cambridge website, and they may very well get in refunded. I got one refunded like that.