City Council — Regular Meeting, October 2, 2023

City Manager's Agenda (6)

• CMA 2023 #245A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a public health update
• CMA 2023 #246A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointment of David Kale to the Cambridge Health Alliance Board of Trustees for a term of one year
• CMA 2023 #247A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a recommendation from the Cambridige Election Commission regarding the assignment of thirty-two (32) police officers and any additional officers as required to the City’s polling locations for all elections in FY24, pursuant to G.L. c. 54, §72police-safety📖 read
• CMA 2023 #248A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appointments and reappointments of the following persons to the Family Policy Council; Appointments: Matthew Nelson, Khalida Griffin Shepherd, Urbana Barua, Rehaan Anjaria, and Abel Asefaw. Reappointments: Michelle Godfrey, Tina Alu, and Michael Johnston
• CMA 2023 #249A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to revisions to the Affordable Housing Overlay Petitionaffordable-housinghousing-generalzoning📖 read
• CMA 2023 #251A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a Surveillance Technology Impact Report which describes Operations & Case Management Software, requested by the Community Safety Departmentpolice-safety📖 read

Communications (22)

22 resident communications received for this meeting — affordable housing (9) · housing general (7) · zoning (5) · transit traffic (4) · trees (3). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

Policy Orders (12)

• POR 2023 #166That the City Manager is requested to work with CDD and the Law Department to review the proposed amendment to BEUDO regarding new buildings, and to propose adjustments, especially with regards to the building permit vs certificate of occupancy questionclimate
• POR 2023 #167That the City Manager is requested to direct CDD to meet with the Universities, large labs, large property developers and anyone with technical expertise regarding the proposed BEUDO amendment to get their inputclimate
• POR 2023 #168That the City Manager is requested to work with the Cambridge Police Department to place a Crossing Guard on the corner of Putnam Avenue and Western Avenue for one hour before the start of the CRLS school day and one hour after dismissalpolice-safetyschools
• POR 2023 #169That the City Manager is requested to work with all relevant City departments to install a needle lock box, an emergency call box, and a Narcan box in the plaza outside the Central Square Library
• POR 2023 #170That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to determine the feasibility of erecting a covered bus shelter in the immediate vicinity of 15 Lambert Streethomelessness
• POR 2023 #171That the City Manager is requested to work with all relevant departments to change the hours of off leash usage at Joan Lorentz Park to 6:00 to 8:00 am to allow usage prior to typical work hoursschools📖 read
• POR 2023 #172Appointment of Lauren Reznick to the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority for a five-year term
• POR 2023 #173Housing contributions from the City's Major Institutionshousing-general
• POR 2023 #174That the City Council schedule a roundtable on Monday, October 23, 2023, from 3:00 p.m. - 5 p.m. to receive an update from the City Manager, relevant departments, and community partners on Central Square
• POR 2023 #175That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to affix the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Banner above JFK Street and Mount Auburn Street beginning on October 4, 2023
• POR 2023 #176National Clean Investment Fund Grant Support Letterclimatetransit-trafficzoning📖 read
• POR 2023 #177That the City Manager is requested to work with the License Commission and other relevant departments to prepare recommendations on regulations that would ban or limit the sale of nips in Cambridgebike-lanes📖 read

Resolutions (8)

• RES 2023 #260Congratulations to Donna Gallant on her retirement
• RES 2023 #261Resolution on the death of John C. "Jack" Haverty, Jr
• RES 2023 #262Resolution on the death of Murrell Weekes
• RES 2023 #263Resolution on the death of Mark W. Grant
• RES 2023 #264Congratulations to John Sullivan on his retirement from the City of Cambridge
• RES 2023 #265Congratulations to Gilda M. Nogueira on her retirement as President and Chief Executive Officer of East Cambridge Savings Bank
• RES 2023 #266Resolution Congratulations to Vanessa Ward
• RES 2023 #267Resolution on the death of Lorraine C. Powers

Ordinances (1)

• ORD 2023 # 8An Ordinance has been received from City Clerk, relative to 2.76.020 enacted is to protect the human rights of all the residents of the City Protect Family Inclusion and Relationship Diversity PASSED TO A SECOND READING OCTOBER 2 2023arts📖 read

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2023 #51A Zoning Petition Has been received from Allene R. Pierson, regarding Cambridge Lodging House Zoning Change to strengthen Cambridge residential housing efforts, mitigate the disruptive impacts of short-term platform-based market rate rentalshousing-generalzoning📖 read 📄 PDF

Other Business (9)

• AR-23-59Report on the Standards for Chicken Keeping
• AR-23-60Report on meetings with Governor Healey, DCR Commissioner Arrigo and Secretary Rebecca Tepper that discussed resuming Saturday closures to traffic this summer and mitigating the traffic impacts, including by making potential traffic signal adjustmentstransit-traffic
• AR-23-61Report on the release any available demographic information related to the dues-paying membership of the municipal golf course, including (but not limited to) zip code, age, gender, race, and longevity of membership

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF
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• information from the School Committee
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• POR 2023 #178 : That the City Manager is requested to reaffirm the city’s commitment to

renovating the schoolhouse at 105 Windsor Street as a top priority following the completion of the

Central Square lots study 📖 read

Committee Reports (5)

• Civic Unity Committee hearing of 2023-08-21 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2023-09-12 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Committee hearing of (unknown date) — Passed To A Second Reading [Unanimous]
• Health & Environment Committee hearing of 2023-09-13 — Accepted [Unanimous]
• Ordinance Committee hearing of 2023-09-20 — Accepted [Unanimous]