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POR 2017 #35 · Agenda item attachment · Feb 6 2017
That the City Manager is requested to confer with relevant City staff about the possibilities of using salt in a more judicious manner, finding non-salt options or removing excess salt when the ice threat has stopped while the salt still remains
City of Cambridge
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ORIGINAL ORDER
IN CITY COUNCIL
February 6, 2017
COUNCILLOR KELLEY
COUNCILLOR DEVEREUX
WHEREAS:
The City uses salt in its efforts to keep City streets, sidewalks, and pathways clear from
ice and snow and to make the City as safe as possible for pedestrians and cyclists; and
WHEREAS:
Icy surface conditions pose a real danger to everyone travelling by any mode in the
City; and
WHEREAS:
Salt is bad for dogs’ paws and has negative impacts on vegetation and other things, to
include the streets themselves; and
WHEREAS:
It can be difficult to find the balance between using enough salt to keep surfaces
appropriately ice-free but not so much that surfaces are sheathed in salt, with its
attendant negative impacts; now therefore be it
ORDERED:
That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with relevant City staff
about the possibilities of using salt in a more judicious manner, finding non-salt
options or removing excess salt when the ice threat has stopped while the salt still
remains; and be it further
ORDERED:
That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City on this
issue.