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POR 2016 #60 · Agenda item attachment · Mar 14 2016
That the City Manager is requested to confer with the appropriate City departments to ensure that planning applications and supporting materials are made available via the City of Cambridge’s website
City of Cambridge
O-2
IN CITY COUNCIL
March 14, 2016
COUNCILLOR CHEUNG
WHEREAS:
The City of Cambridge is a leader in integrating government with technology, notably
with the City’s open data initiative and many easily searched City databases; and
WHEREAS:
A large goal of better integrating government with technology is increasing citizen’s
access to their government; and
WHEREAS:
It has come to the attention of the Cambridge City Council that projects in the City that
have filed planning applications are not freely available for review via the City of
Cambridge’s website; and
WHEREAS:
The online availability of planning applications and their supporting documents would
allow for residents to more easily stay abreast of changes that might affect their
neighborhoods; now therefore be it
ORDERED:
That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the appropriate City
departments to ensure that planning applications and supporting materials are made
available via the City of Cambridge’s website.
CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR DEVEREUX