City Council — Regular Meeting, October 19, 2020

City Manager's Agenda (13)

• CMA 2020 #223A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to an update on COVID-19
• CMA 2020 #224A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-32, regarding the feasibility of identifying one evening or day per week that the Fresh Pond Golf Course can be open to the public for general use
• CMA 2020 #225Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $175,000, from Free Cash to the Public Investment Public Works Extraordinary Expenditures account to launch a COVID-19 sewer testing program
• CMA 2020 #226Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of a Community Compact grant of $15,000, received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Executive Office for Administration and Finance to the Grant Fund Community Development Department Other Ordinary Maintenance account support the development of an online dashboard specific to the Net Zero Action Plan (NZAP)climate
• CMA 2020 #227Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $50,000 received from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) Innovate Energy Efficiency Grant Program, to the Grant Fund Community Development Department Other Ordinary Maintenance account which will be used to support the Cambridge Multifamily Energy Retrofit Program, which aims to increase the energy efficiency of multifamily buildings with 5-49 units by offering technical, solar, and financing supportclimatezoning
• CMA 2020 #228A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-21, regarding a report on developing a Vacant Storefront Registryartstenants-rent📖 read 📄 PDF
• CMA 2020 #229A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-5, regarding implementing traffic calming measures on Upton Streetschoolstransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2020 #230Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $5,000,000 from Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Executive Department Extraordinary Expenditures Account for the City's third annual contribution to the MBTA Green Line Extension projectlabortransit-traffic📖 read
• CMA 2020 #231A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-49, regarding a report on the feasibility of closing several blocks of streets in Harvard Square to vehicular traffic, with the exception of deliveriestransit-traffic
• CMA 2020 #232A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-51, regarding the installation on Rectangular Rapid Flash Beacons
• CMA 2020 #233A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-25, which requested that the City work with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to identify the bus stop at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue at Churchill Avenue as serving Matignon High Schoolschoolstransit-traffic
• CMA 2020 #235A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-50, regarding a report on publicizing and enforcing and publicizing the eviction moratoriumtenants-rent📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
• CMA 2020 #236A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Zoning Recommendations for Retail Uses and Home Occupationszoning📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Communications (29)

29 resident communications received for this meeting — housing general (12) · transit traffic (10) · affordable housing (8) · tenants rent (5) · police safety (4). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (14)

• POR 2020 #223That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the City Solicitor’s Office and other relevant departments to determine what impact the Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping may have on the City of Cambridge and its community partners, what options the City may have to work around this order, and to report back to the City Council on this matter in a timely manner
• POR 2020 #224That the City Council go on record as supportive of PACE and requests that City Manager work with relevant city departments on how Cambridge might participate in PACE Massachusetts pursuant to the PACE Act including exploring all options for incentivizing participation
• POR 2020 #225That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the City Solicitor on an ordinance requiring the city to only purchase goods that are made in full compliance with USA environmental and labor standards
• POR 2020 #226That the Executive Assistant to the City Council confer with the Dedication Committee to consider the request from Councillor Marc McGovern to identify a suitable location to dedicate to Rita Queen
• POR 2020 #227That the Executive Assistant to the City Council confer with the Dedication Committee to consider the request from Councillor Marc McGovern to identify a suitable location to dedicate to Vincent Albergo, who passed away on October 9, 2020 after residing his entire 75 years in Cambridge
• POR 2020 #228That the City Manager be and is hereby requested to work with staff and Eversource representatives to set up a public meeting with residents
• POR 2020 #229That the City of Cambridge stands in solidarity with the Armenian people in Cambridge, throughout the Commonwealth and world, and the Republic of Artsakh
• POR 2020 #230That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with Claude Jacob, Chief Public Health Officer of the Cambridge Public Health Department, to expand COVID-19 testing dates and locations in Cambridge
• POR 2020 #231That the City of Cambridge call upon Senator Warren and Senator Markey to call for an end to immigration detention in the United States, the immediate reunification of immigrant families and the release of migrant children and parents from detention, and also to afford these families due process by allowing them the full and fair opportunity to seek protection from the United States
• POR 2020 #232That the City Manager confer with the Legal Department on the feasibility of making Cambridge’s Eviction Moratorium stronger to protect our tenants from displacementtenants-rent
• POR 2020 #233That the City Manager is hereby requested to instruct the Commissioner of Public Works to utilize continuous planting strips along bike lanes and at all reduced roadway areas in Harvard Square rather than painted buffer zones in Harvard Square to fully address bike and pedestrian safety in Harvard Squarebike-lanestransit-traffic
• POR 2020 #234That the City Manager is hereby requested to instruct the Finance Department to provide a dollar amount and percentage of money used by every department to address racial and economic equity in the 2022 Fiscal Year Budget, highlighting additional areas to be considered and that the City Manager present plans for implementation in the 2022 Fiscal Year Budgetbudget
• POR 2020 #235Policy Order calling for Judge Roanne Sragow to be reinstated to her position and remain in Cambridge
• POR 2020 #236Proposed zoning amendments for Retail Users and Home Occupations sent to the full City Council and Community Development Department with a favorable recommendationzoning📖 read

Resolutions (13)

• RES 2020 #248Congratulations to Dominique Capasso and Alex Burakoff on the birth of their first child
• RES 2020 #246Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• RES 2020 #249Resolution on the Death of Rita Queen
• RES 2020 #250Resolution on the Death of Clarence Anderson
• RES 2020 #251Resolution Wishing Daniel Queen a Swift Recovery
• RES 2020 #252Resolution on the death of Ralph A. Mazzei, Jr
• RES 2020 #253Congratulations to Louise Glück for Receiving the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
• RES 2020 #254Congratulations to Claude Jacob, Chief Public Health Officer for the City of Cambridge, for being honored with the 2020 Mitch Snyder Award
• RES 2020 #255Resolution on the death of Vincent Albergo
• RES 2020 #256Wishing Adam DuPaul a Happy 50th Birthday
• RES 2020 #257Resolution on the death of Eugene T. O'Brien, Sr
• RES 2020 #258Congratulations to Rozann Kraus and Dan Epstein on the occasion of their 50th Wedding Anniversary
• RES 2020 #259Resolution on the death of Ernest Ciampa

Applications & Petitions (3)

• APP 2020 #39A Zoning Petition Has been received from Arvind Srinivasan regarding zoning language relative to the Alewife Quadrangle Northwest overlayzoning📖 read 📄 PDF
• APP 2020 #40An application was received from The Sign Center representing Playa Bowls, requesting permission for a projecting sign at the premises numbered 71 Mount Auburn Street. approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abutter📖 read 📄 PDF
• APP 2020 #41An application was received from Charles Doty, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 810 Main Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. No response has been received from the neighborhood associationtransit-traffic📖 read

Other Business (6)

• AR-20-50Report on Cambridge’s Moratorium on Eviction Enforcement remaining in effect after October 17 and until at least the end of the state of emergency is declared and to publicize and notification appropriate partiestenants-rent
• AR-20-51Report on the feasibility of installing the remaining flashing crosswalks as outlined in the PB4 proposal, particularly on Broadway and Norfolk Streettransit-traffic

• COM 690 #2020 : A communication was received from Nicola Williams, regarding I fully Support P.O. 231 - As an immigrant, I can appreciate and relate to these issues to call for an end to immigration detention and separation from families.

City Manager's Agenda #14, CMA 2020 #236: I am in support of the long overdue revised ordinance for the Table of Uses zoning of retail uses and home. [zoning] 📖 read 📄 PDF

• a report from Vice Mayor Mallon, Chair of the Economic Development and University Relations Committee, for a public hearing held on September 30, 2020 the purpose of receiving final recommendations from the Community Development Department on updating the commercial land use classification system within the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance 📖 read
• a report from Vice Mayor Mallon, Chair of the Economic Development and University Relations Committee, for a public hearing held on July 30, 2020 to discuss to receive an update on the Retail Land Use Initiative and Retail Table of Land Use Update 📖 read
• information from the School Committee held on October 6, 2020 📖 read

Committee Reports (3)

• Economic Development & University Relations Committee hearing of 2020-09-30 — Placed On File [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Placed On File [Unanimous]
• Economic Development & University Relations Committee hearing of 2020-07-30 — Placed On File [Unanimous]