The fate of Cambridge's three veterans' housing projects will be decided at a Board of Appeals hearing at 4 p.m. today. The University has petitioned the city that they be extended until August 1.

The projects, on Massachusetts Avenue, Memorial Drive, and Museum Street, were built in 1946 to house the returning veterans studying at the University. The contract with the city states that they were to be torn down last February.

A request by vice-President Reynolds to extend the project until summer was turned down by City Building Commissioner Stephen F. Spencer last month. Today's hearing is on the University's appeal of that decision.

Unnecessary Hardship

In the petition, Reynolds states that tearing down the temporary accommodations at this time would cause unnecessary hardship and expense to many veterans' families, as well as interfering with their academic work.

Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Affairs Committee of the State Legislature has reported favorably on a bill to institute a traffic light at the corner of Memorial Drive and DeWolfe Street. Four-hundred undergraduates yesterday filed a petition requesting such a measure. The bill will probably pass the legislature shortly.