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Issue #1 | Summer 2016 Newspaper A Newspaper Covering the Cambridge Citywide Plan ABOUT ENVISION CAMBRIDGE nvision Cambridge is a Ecommunity-wide process to develop a comprehensive plan for a more livable, sustainable, and equitable Cambridge. With input from those who live, work, study, and play in our city, Envision Cambridge will create a shared vision for the city’s future. The plan will result in recommendations on a broad range of topics such as housing, mobility, economic opportunity, urban form, and climate and the environment. INSIDE FEEDBACK FORUM 2 COMMUNITY SPACE 3 SPOTLIGHT PLAN UPDATES 4-5 PLACES WE LOVE 6 Envision Cambridge Mobile Engagement Station in action at Cambridge City Hall Annex ASK A PLANNER 7 Cambridge community members SIDEWALK TALK 8 see the things we see, meet the DID YOU KNOW? Welcome people we meet, and hear some of I AM CAMBRIDGE 9 the feedback we hear. According to the 2010-2012 Bienvenidos American Community Survey, CITY LENS 10-11 Envision Cambridge Newspaper the predominant occupations of features maps, data, history, fun Cambridge residents are: FUN AND GAMES 12 欢迎 facts, portraits of public spaces, Computer Engineering and and interviews with Cambridge elcome to the Envision Science Occupations - 20% residents, community leaders, Cambridge Newspaper, a GUESS WHAT? W and experts. The features will free publication produced by the Education, Training, and highlight lesser-known aspects of 29.7% Envision Cambridge Team. Library - 16% of Cambridge residents are enrolled the city and its neighborhoods. Management Occupations - 11.9% full time or part time in college or Since Envision Cambridge graduate degree programs. Happy reading! was launched in November, Service Occupations - 9.8% the Team has been busy trying HELP US SPREAD THE to understand what makes Office and Administrative DID YOU KNOW? Cambridge tick. Whether we WORD Support - 8.7% are collecting, analyzing, and Is there a location that is central 140 interpreting housing, transit, or to you, your friends, and your climate change data; interviewing languages are spoken in community that you think would Follow Cambridge. experts about Cambridge’s past, be good for flyering? If so, please present, and future; or talking to send an email to envision@ #EnvisionCambridge Cambridge community members cambridgema.gov. Please include on Twitter and Volunteer to teach English or “flyering location” in the subject about what they love about their Facebook! learn a new language at city and what’s important to them, line. The Cambridge we’re always discovering new Community Learning things about this amazing city. FYI There are Center. We made this newspaper so readers can learn as we learn. 4,566 Learn more at: We want to give you a window private businesses in cambridgema.gov/teachatclc into the planning process and let Cambridge. Envision Cambridge Newsletter | 1 FEEDBACK FORUM STAY IN TOUCH Do you want to receive project DID YOU KNOW? updates via email? If so, visit 42% of Cambridge’s land use is envision.cambridgema.gov residential, with commercial uses concentrated along key corridors and squares. Another substantial portion of the city is open WORD JUMBLE space, although it is not evenly distributed across neighborhoods. UNSCRAMBLE THESE WORDS Colleges and universities comprise 10% of the city’s land, with o n n g i z another 5% allocated toward civic, educational, and healthcare uses n (labeled at right as institutional). A small portion of the city is presently categorized as mixed- v n i e s n o i use, utilities, and industrial. i Source: City of Cambridge CDD Land Use and Roads GIS n p i l n a g n n CUT ALONG THE DOTTED LINE r i g b c m a d e a y c m u i m o n t u Survey 02: e a e g m n t e g n A Vision for Cambridge Envision Cambridge is a community-wide process to develop a comprehensive plan for a more g livable, sustainable, and equitable Cambridge. With input from those who live, work, study, and cambridge, community, engagement community, cambridge, play in our city, Envision Cambridge will create a shared vision for its future. ANSWERS: zoning, envision, planning, planning, envision, zoning, ANSWERS: Envision Cambridge Survey 01 asked for When you think of how you would like priorities for the plan and what you loved Cambridge to be in the future, what words or most about the city. We heard that housing, phrases come to mind around the following mobility and transportation, and urban topics? (Free associate!) SURVEY 02 form were the topics that matter most to you. Now we would like your help visioning for Mobility and Transportation WHAT DO YOU THINK? Cambridge. e want to know what you Survey 02 asks for your hopes and visions for Housing Wwant for your city. Each Cambridge’s future. issue of Envision Cambridge Newspaper will contain a survey If your hopes are realized, in twenty years that we encourage you to fill out. Community Interaction Cambridge will be . Cut out the survey and mail it to: Urban Form Melissa Peters Community Development Dept. City Hall Annex 344 Broadway Climate and the Environment Cambridge, MA 02139 Or snap a picture of your Economic Opportunity survey and email it to: [email protected] FYI What should the three main goals of the plan be? Major languages and language groups other than English 1. recorded by the 2010-2012 American Community Survey 2. include Spanish (5.4%), French, including Haitian Kreyol (4.3%), Chinese (4.8%), Portuguese 3. (2.1%), and African languages City of Cambridge (1.7%). 2 | Envision Cambridge Newsletter COMMUNITY SPACE SPOTLIGHT Spotlight on...Community Learning Center Great cities like Cambridge have spaces for communities to live together, gather, and celebrate. In Cambridge, these spaces are churches, neighborhood restaurants, and informal clubs that become a living room for people with similar interests. For this issue, we look at the Cambridge Community Learning Center (CLC). very weekday morning and 2015 ENROLLMENT BY COUNTRY Eevening, a rush of students floods the halls of the Community Country Number Learning Center’s (CLC) flagship facility at Central Square, which Haiti 208 occupies the former police station Ethiopia 83 building. Close to 1,000 students Bangladesh 44 annually enroll at CLC. Some are Brazil 41 speakers of other languages who USA 41 study English at five different China 35 levels; others are adults learning El Salvador 32 basic literacy, studying for high Dominican R. 24 16 school equivalency, and preparing Eritrea India 14 for college. Japan 14 Morocco 13 Students at CLC come from across Nepal 12 Cambridge and range in age, skill Jamaica 11 levels, and language backgrounds, Cape Verde 9 representing the diversity of Sudan 8 A section of a quilt made by students from the Community Learning Center Cambridge’s cultural heritage. Colombia 7 Students come from more than Puerto Rico 7 70 countries, including Haiti, Algeria 6 Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Brazil, and Honduras 6 China. Many students are long- Peru 6 term residents of Cambridge, while others are recent immigrants to the city. For more information CLC provides bright new on the center or to get classrooms with state-of-the-art involved, visit their technology and computer labs on website at: site. It also has a large, cozy lounge, where students often eat dinner cambridgema.gov/clcinfo or chat between classes. CLC works hard to provide connections or call (617) 349-6363. to jobs and career pathways for its students. It supports its The Cambridge many students who are aspiring Community Learning to healthcare occupations by Center is located at: offering specific classes targeted to medical language and maintaining 5 Western Avenue an active relationship with Mt. Cambridge, MA 02139 Auburn Hospital. It also maintains a relationship with Bunker Hill Community College and often WHERE IS YOUR graduates students to further COMMUNITY SPACE? learning opportunities there. Additionally, CLC has created We want to profile places that are part-time outreach positions that important to you. If you have a are filled by current and former suggestion, email it to envision@ CLC students. cambridgema.gov. Please include “Community Space” in the subject CLC always welcomes new line. students and also welcomes Cambridge residents looking to volunteer as classroom aides or DID YOU KNOW? tutors who work one-on-one with Cambridge is home to over 300 students to boost their language life science and technology- skills. related companies. Students from the Cambridge Community Learning Center Envision Cambridge Newsletter | 3 PLAN UPDATES PANELS, WORKSHOPS, SURVEYS, AND MORE It has been a very busy time for the Envision Cambridge team. The past six months have been about gearing up as the consultant team learns more about Cambridge and makes plans for how we will engage with Cambridge residents, workers, and visitors. Envision Cambridge had its first public event in mid-February, a “What’s the Plan?” panel at the Cambridge Public Library, where he plan needs to chools are the spine members from the consultant “Tfollow what the iking should be “Sof our city; they are team talked about major issues— community envisions, “Bmade more family- anchoring institutions including housing, the economy, rather than the inverse.” friendly.” like hospitals.” mobility, and climate and the - Cambridge resident - Cambridge resident - Cambridge resident environment. A lively discussion followed, with members of the Envision Cambridge public workshop at the Kennedy-Longfellow School public asking questions on topics ranging from urban agriculture to housing affordability to innovative new ways of getting around the city. This was the first of several panel discussions over the three- year planning process. On March 1, the Team launched its Mobile Engagement Station (see the next page to learn more).