Archive ▸ 2011 ▸ 2011-01-24

Policy Order O-10

City Council, January 24, 2011

Councillor Seidel

WHEREAS: There have been community meetings during the past year conducted by the Community Development Department (CDD) for residents of North Cambridge regarding the North Massachusetts Avenue Improvement Study, which focuses on the area of Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge between Beech Street and the boundary with Arlington; and

WHEREAS: One issue which has been raised during these meetings is the impact of retail establishments on the character of the neighborhood; now therefore be it

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with CDD to report back to the City Council on the total number of buildings built on North Massachusetts Avenue, herein defined as that portion of Massachusetts Avenue between Beech Street and the Arlington town line, since 2000; and be it further

ORDERED: That this report include the total number of buildings built, the purpose of each building, whether ground floor retail space was part of the original construction; and be it further

ORDERED: That this report include a list of buildings currently under construction or that may be built in the next two years in this area of North Massachusetts Avenue.

← O-7 · meeting of January 24, 2011 · O-11 →

Recovered record. The city's clerk database (2002–2015) went offline; this page was rebuilt from the Internet Archive's capture of the original page (2021-02-11). Dates and codes are read from the document itself, never from the database's ids.