The Transportation and Public Utilities Committee will hold a public hearing to review and discuss the Residential Permit Parking Program, associated costs, and the relationship between the program, the services it provides, and the general use of the public ways in Cambridge. The hearing will also include discussion of the Policy Order passed at the March 30, 2026 City Council meeting.
A communication was received from Brooke McKenna, Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, transmitting a presentation titled "Residential Parking Permits".
Policy order 2026 · #32 · That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments to raise the fee of the parking permit program for all residents to $75, consider how to include a self-identified check off option so as not to increase administrative costs for a subsidized fee of $25 for residents who live in affordable housing, are enrolled in a program such as SNAP or are low income, remove the senior exemption for the residential parking permit program and lower the number of cars that individual residents are allowed to get a residential parking permit for from four to two.CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 9, 2026, PLACED ON THE TABLE IN COUNCIL MARCH 2, 2026 POR 2026-32