City Council · Regular Meeting, February 10, 2025

• City Manager's report2025 · #26✅ Order adopted, unanimousthe Cambridge Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan final adoptionSubmitted by Yi-An Huang, City Managerclimate📖 read CMA 2025 #26

• City officer's report2025 · #18an update regarding legislative activitycharter📖 read COF 2025 #18

56 resident communications received for this meeting, on zoning (32) · housing general (26) · transit traffic (15) · affordable housing (12) · police safety (12). Individual letters are summarized in the city's agenda and are not republished here, by policy.

• Policy order2025 · #11✅ Order adopted, unanimousAsks the City Manager to work with the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department to investigate safety improvements such as signalization to the intersection of Cardinal Medeiros Avenue, Cambridge Street, and Warren Street, and to implement these changes as soon as possibleCouncil requesttransit trafficPOR 2025 #11
• Policy order2025 · #12✅ Order adopted, unanimousAsks the City Manager to work with appropriate departments to prepare a communication to DCR Commissioner Arrigo, urging that a study of traffic conditions at the intersections of Western Avenue and River Street at Memorial Drive and Soldiers Field Road (commonly referred to as “the box”), be included in their FY26 Capital PlanCouncil requesttransit trafficPOR 2025 #12
• Policy order2025 · #13✅ Order adopted as amended, 8–1Asks the City Manager to create a plan with a schedule and milestones to move forward with the creation of a Municipal Broadband Network and present it for consideration by the Council at a Finance Committee meeting in the context of capital projects for coming yearsCouncil requestbroadband📖 readPOR 2025 #13
• Policy order2025 · #14✅ Order adopted as amended, unanimousAsks the City Manager to confer with the relevant departments about exploring how the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department can advance protection of Cambridge students and other bus riders as authorized by the two new Massachusetts lawsCouncil requestschoolstransit trafficPOR 2025 #14
• Policy order2025 · #15✅ Order adopted, unanimousAsks the City Manager to direct the appropriate department to put up a lawn sign every year a week before International Mother Language Day to commemorateCouncil requestPOR 2025 #15
• Policy order2025 · #16✅ Order adopted, unanimousAsks the City Manager to the Community Development Department and Law Department to draft an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance that would make the provisions of Section 11.207.5.2.1, Paragraph (e), which allow qualified increases in building height under the Affordable Housing Overlay, not applicable in the Residence C-1 districtCouncil requestaffordable housinghousing generalzoningPOR 2025 #16

• Resolution2025 · #31✅ Order adopted, unanimousCongratulations to the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra on their 50th anniversaryRES 2025 #31
• Resolution2025 · #32✅ Order adopted, unanimousCondolences on the death of Josephine TuccinardiRES 2025 #32
• Resolution2025 · #33✅ Order adopted, unanimousCongratulations to Nelson Carneiro on his retirement from the Cambridge Health AllianceRES 2025 #33
• Resolution2025 · #34✅ Order adopted, unanimousCongratulations to Diego Matho on his retirement from the Cambridge Public SchoolsschoolsRES 2025 #34
• Resolution2025 · #35✅ Order adopted, unanimousCongratulations to Nancy Smith on her retirement from the Cambridge Health AllianceRES 2025 #35
• Resolution2025 · #36✅ Order adopted, unanimousThanks to the volunteers from the Visitor Information Center for their dedicationRES 2025 #36
• Resolution2025 · #37✅ Order adopted as amended, unanimousCongratulations to Cambridge Author Omo Moses, on his memoir titled "The White Peril."RES 2025 #37
• Resolution2025 · #38✅ Order adopted, unanimousCondolences To The Family of Robert L. Terrell IIIRES 2025 #38

• Application / petition2025 · #7✅ Order adopted, unanimousa projecting blade sign at the premises numbered 425 Massachusetts AvenueApplication from David Randa representing StretchMed📖 readapproval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, CommuniAPP 2025 #7

• Report status2025 · #5Awaiting Report Status Update 02.10.25affordable housingbike lanesclimatehousing generaltransit traffic📖 readARS-25-5
• Awaiting report2025 · #5✅ Report received and acceptedThe City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments to prepare a report on the use of M.G.L. Ch. 40U to determine which local statutes can be enforced by the local-option procedure in order to better collect fines in violation of Cambridge ordinances and provide a recommendation to the City Council for implementation of Ch. 40U proceduresAR-25-5

• Transportation & Public Utilities Committee hearing of 2025-01-28 · Report Accepted [Unanimous]