We now have the most recent parking and traffic plan filed by the developers of the proposed hotel on the site of the Kaya restaurant. Click on the link to download it.
Google just added Greater Boston to its Street View mapping project, including Porter Square. Check it out here. Just click on the "Street View" box in the upper right hand corner.
Looks like they drove through the neighborhood last summer.
Printed copies of the pictures and the description of the rationale for the requested variances were distributed by Michael McKee at the PSNA meeting on November 15, 2007. The BZA hearing is scheduled for January 10, 2008.
To see the details in the best resolution, click the link to the larger image for each picture and then click the picture itself.
Also we now have the most recent parking and traffic plan filed by the developers. Click on the link to download it.
The pictures here show changes to the kiosk and new signs planned for 2008. Installing the signs requires a variance to the signage ordinance to allow signs on the second floor and to have a second sign for Emack & Bolio's. The changes to the signs in the windows for CVS and Shaw's don't require a variance, but Gravestar wants to include that in this application so as to have more control over what is done with those windows.
We've got the applicable zoning and traffic requirements that pertain to the Kaya Restaurant property at 1924 Mass. Ave.
Click here to read the entire document.
After 12 years in the Hope Fellowship Baptist Church, we must find a new place to hold our meetings. To that end, this fall we will embark on the Tour of Porter Square to check out the free and sufficiently large venues available to us. On September 20, we will meet in room 3-094 at the Sears Building/Porter Exchange/University Hall. On October 18, we will meet in the Senior Center at 2050 Mass Ave.
AGENDA
- Update on the redundant elevator project at Porter Square
The design phase was finished in August. Construction is next.
Some Porter Square residents are worried their traffic and parking headaches may get worse if a plans go forward to demolish a local restaurant and replace it with a 50-room hotel... (more from the Cambridge Chronicle story)
