City Council — Regular Meeting, February 10, 2025

City Manager's Agenda (1)

• CMA 2025 #26A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the Cambridge Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan final adoption📖 read 📄 PDF

Communications (56)

56 resident communications received for this meeting — 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 Orders (6)

• POR 2025 #11That the City Manager is requested 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 possibletransit-traffic
• POR 2025 #12That the City Manager is requested 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 Plantransit-traffic
• POR 2025 #13That the City Manager is requested 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 yearsbroadband📖 read
• POR 2025 #14That the City Manager is requested 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 lawsschoolstransit-traffic
• POR 2025 #15That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate department to put up a lawn sign every year a week before International Mother Language Day to commemorate
• POR 2025 #16That the City Manager direct 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 districtaffordable-housinghousing-generalzoning

Resolutions (8)

• RES 2025 #31Congratulations to the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra on their 50th anniversary
• RES 2025 #32Condolences on the death of Josephine Tuccinardi
• RES 2025 #33Congratulations to Nelson Carneiro on his retirement from the Cambridge Health Alliance
• RES 2025 #34Congratulations to Diego Matho on his retirement from the Cambridge Public Schoolsschools
• RES 2025 #35Congratulations to Nancy Smith on her retirement from the Cambridge Health Alliance
• RES 2025 #36Thanks to the volunteers from the Visitor Information Center for their dedication
• RES 2025 #37Congratulations to Cambridge Author Omo Moses, on his memoir titled "The White Peril."
• RES 2025 #38Condolences To The Family of Robert L. Terrell III

Applications & Petitions (1)

• APP 2025 #7An application was received from David Randa representing StretchMed, requesting permission for a projecting blade sign at the premises numbered 425 Massachusetts Avenue approval has been received from Inspectional Services, Department of Public Works, Community Development Department and abutter response with proof of mailing has been provided📖 read

Other Business (3)

• ARS-25-5Awaiting Report Status Update 02.10.25affordable-housingbike-lanesclimatehousing-generaltransit-traffic📖 read
• AR-25-5The 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 procedures

• an update regarding legislative activity 📖 read 📄 PDF 📄 PDF 📄 PDF

Committee Reports (1)

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