City Council ▸ 2024-12-23
City Council — Regular Meeting, December 23, 2024
1 City Manager's Agenda31 Communications3 Policy Orders3 Resolutions2 Applications & Petitions2 Other Business1 Committee Reports
City Manager's Agenda (1)
- CMA 2024 #268A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a request for authorization to allow the Purchasing Agent to award a five (5) year contract to a successful bidder on the School Bus Transportation Bidschools📖 read
Communications (31)
31 resident communications received for this meeting — schools (16) · zoning (10) · housing general (9) · transit traffic (8) · affordable housing (6). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.
Policy Orders (3)
- POR 2024 #161That the City Manager is requested to direct the City Solicitor to provide the City Council with a legal opinion on the City Council’s ability to levy a tax or fine on store fronts and commercial properties that remain vacant for more than two years, including any applicable definitions of “vacancy” and relevant legal precedents, and provide such opinion no later than the February 17th City Council meetingtenants-rent📖 read
- POR 2024 #162That the City Manager is requested to direct Community Development Department (CDD) staff to draft proposed amendments to the Cannabis Business Permitting Ordinance that would accomplish adding select HCA requirements into the ordinance so the city can waive the HCA requirement and that the City Manager is requested to ask the CDD staff to draft a zoning amendment to remove the repackaging prohibitionzoning
- POR 2024 #163That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct Community Development to prepare updated Multi Family Housing Zoning language and report back to the Ordinance Committee, not later than January 16, 2025housing-generalzoning
Resolutions (3)
- RES 2024 #305Condolences on the death of Francine H. (Salvato) Giannasca
- RES 2024 #306Congratulations to Doug Johnson on his retirement from the Kennedy School and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Universityschools
- RES 2024 #307Congratulations to CRLS Alum Andrew Millar for NCAA Championship
Applications & Petitions (2)
- APP 2024 #39An application was received from Katinka Jeffs, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 6-R Eaton 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
- APP 2024 #40An application was received from John Winslow, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 8 Whittier Street; said petition has received approval from Inspectional Services, Traffic, Parking and Transportation, Historical Commission and Public Works. Response has been received from a neighborhood association not in the area of the application addresstransit-traffic📖 read 📄 PDF
Other Business (2)
Committee Reports (1)
- Economic Development & University Relations Committee hearing of 2024-12-17 — Accepted [Unanimous]