An Ordinance has been received from City Clerk, relative to the Parking and Transportation Demand Management (PTDM) Municipal Ordinance. REFERRED TO THE ORDINANCE COMMITTEE IN COUNCIL OCTOBER 21, 2024 PASSED TO A SECOND READING IN COUNCIL DECEMBER 2, 2024

CLEAN VERSION – Final proposed text only, edits not shown Parking and Transportation Demand Management Planning; Parking Space Registration Amendments to Section 10.18.050 – Parking and Transportation Demand Management Plans Amend Section 10.18.050(b) to read as follows: (b) The PTDM requirements of this Chapter shall apply to each of the following, unless the facility is exempt under 10.18.100: (i) any commercial parking facility for which a certificate of occupancy or operating license, variance or special permit was not obtained prior to the effective date of this chapter; (ii) an existing commercial parking facility at which the number of parking spaces is increased after the effective date of this chapter; (iii) any parking facility at which the use of existing or permitted parking spaces is changed to commercial use after the effective date of this chapter; (iv) any new project to build or create by change of use twenty or more non-residential parking spaces; and (v) any new project to expand an existing parking facility resulting in a total number of non-residential parking spaces of twenty (20) or more. Amendments to Section 10.18.070 – Requirements Applicable to Small Projects Amend Section 10.18.070 to read as follows: The owner or operator of each Small Project, except those exempt from these requirements under 10.18.100, shall implement at least three (3) PTDM measures and maintain records of such implementation. A list of acceptable types of measures may be obtained from the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department, the Inspectional Services Department, the Community Development Department, or the License Commission. The Planning Officer shall create and periodically update this list, which shall include: T-pass subsidies; bicycle parking; changing facilities; carpools/vanpools; financial incentives not to drive alone; or other similar measures. Creation of Section 10.18.100 – Flexible Parking Corridors Create a new Section 10.18.100 to read as follows:

10.18.100 – Flexible Parking Corridors. (a) The provisions of this Section shall apply to any Parking Facility located on a lot that directly abuts one or more of the following streets or street segments: • Aberdeen Avenue between Huron Avenue and Mount Auburn Street • Acorn Park Drive • Ames Street • Belmont Street between the City Line and Mount Auburn Street • Bennett Street • Binney Street between the Grand Junction Corridor and Land Boulevard • Bow Street between Massachusetts Avenue and Dewolfe Street • Brattle Street • Broadway • Brookline Street between Granite Street and Massachusetts Avenue • Cambridge Street • Cambridgepark Drive west of Steel Place • Concord Avenue between Blanchard Road and Birch Street • Dewolfe Street between Bow Street and Memorial Drive • Eliot Street • First Street between Cambridge Street and Binney Street AND between Athenaeum Street and Main Street • Franklin Street between Western Avenue and Magazine Street • Galilei Way • Garden Street between Huron Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue • Granite Street between Pearl Street and Brookline Street • Hampshire Street • Huron Avenue between Grove Street and Concord Avenue • JFK Street between Eliot Street and the City Line • Kirkland Street between Oxford Street and the City Line • Magazine Street between Franklin Street and Massachusetts Avenue • Main Street • Massachusetts Avenue • Mount Auburn Street • Museum Way • New Street between the Danehy Park Driveway and Fresh Pond Mall property line • North First Street • Peabody Street • Pearl Street • River Street • Somerville Avenue • Steel Place between Alewife Station Access Road and Cambridgepark Drive • Sidney Street Extension • Third Street between Binney Street and Broadway • Quincy Street between Kirkland Street and Harvard Street • University Road between Mount Auburn Street and Bennett Street

• Vassar Street • Waverly Street between Brookline Street and Henry Street • Webster Avenue • Western Avenue (b) A Small Project shall be exempt from the requirements of Section 10.18.070 (Requirements Applicable to Small Projects) if it qualifies by being located on a lot directly abutting one or more of the streets or street segments listed in Section 10.18.100(a). (c) A Parking Facility shall be exempt from the requirement to create a PTDM Plan as described in section 10.18.050 if it meets the following criteria: (i) The Director has accepted a registration form for the facility meeting the requirements of section 10.18.040 before the date of adoption of this Section 10.18.100, (ii) The facility is located on a lot that abuts one or more of the streets or street segments listed in subsection 10.18.100(a), and (iii) The facility would otherwise be required to create a PTDM Plan under 10.18.050(b)(iii), or the facility creates commercial parking by change of use of preexisting parking spaces and would otherwise be required to create a PTDM Plan under 10.18.050(b)(iv). (d) A preexisting Parking Facility with registered commercial parking spaces which has a PTDM Plan applicable to those spaces shall be eligible to amend its PTDM Plan to remove monitoring and TDM requirements related to commercial parking if the facility is located on a lot that directly abuts one or more of the streets or street segments listed in Section 10.18.100(a) upon date of enactment. (e) The provisions of this section shall cease to be effective ninety days after the date the US Environmental Protection Agency issues its approval to rescind and replace the Cambridge parking freeze regulation set forth at 40 C.F.R §§ 52.1128(b), 52.1135 unless the City Council votes to extend the validity of this section.