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A petition was received from Cambridge Science Festival requesting a temporary banner to be hung across Massachusetts Avenue at Norfolk Street, thirty-eight banners on poles in Harvard Square, eighty-eight banners on poles along Massachusetts Avenue, from Memorial Drive to Harvard Square, ten banners on poles along Broadway, from Ellery Street to Felton Street and ten banners on poles along Cambridge Street, from Trowbridge Street to Hovey Street announcing the upcoming Cambridge Science Festival April 13-22, 2018
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City of Cambridge
Electrical Department
Banner Permit 2018
Applicants Name: MIT Museum/Cambridge Science Festival
Address: 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139
Organization or Business Represented: Cambridge Science Festival
Pole locations:
• Iwo 3' × 20' street banner to be hung across Massachusetts
Avenue on the City's existing wires at (1) Norfolk Street and (2)
JFK Street in Harvard Square.
• Thirty-eight 24" x 36" street pole banners to be hung on poles in
Harvard Square. (maps enclosed)
• Eighty-eight 30" x 60" banners to be hung on poles along
Massachusetts Avenue, from Memorial Drive to Harvard Square,
MO-M58.
• Ten 30" x 60" banners to be hung on poles along Broadway, from
Ellery Street to Felton Street, Numbers 77-84.
• Ten 30" × 60" banners to be hung on poles on Cambridge Street,
from Trowbridge Street to Hovey Street.
Attached is the design of the banners.
Date of attachment: March 19, 2018
Contact Person: PA d'Arbeloff
Telephone: [phone removed]
Cell Phone: [phone removed]
Email: [email removed]
CAMBRIDGE
SCIENCE
SCIENCE
I ON THE STREET
FESTIVAL
February 15, 2018
To the Honorable City Councilors of Cambridge City Council
City Hall
795 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Dear Council Members:
I am writing to respectfully request your permission to hang banners to celebrate
and publicize the upcoming Cambridge Science Festival. The banners would be
hung during the week of March 19, 2018 and be taken down the week of April 23, 2018.
The request includes:
• Two 3' × 20' street banner to be hung across Massachusetts Avenue on the City's existing wires at
(1) Norfolk Street and (2) JFK Street in Harvard Square.
• Thirty-eight 24" x 36" banners to be hung on poles in Harvard Square.
• Eighty-eight 30" × 60" street pole banners to be hung on poles along Massachusetts Avenue, from
Vassar Street to Harvard Square.
• Ten 30" × 60" street pole banners to be hung on poles along Broadway, from Ellery Street to Felton
Street.
• Ten 30" × 60" street pole banners to be hung on poles on Cambridge Street, from Trowbridge Street to
Hovey Street.
All banners will be double sided so that they will look the same from both sides. Enclosed are the designs for
the street banner and the pole banners. If you have questions or need additional information, please don't
hesitate to contact me at [phone removed] or [email removed].
Thank you very much for your consideration of this request, and for the City of Cambridge's support of
another very successful Cambridge Science Festival!
Sincerely,
PA. d'all off
Ms. P.A. d'Arbeloff
Festival Director, Cambridge Science Festival
CSF POLE BANNERS, 2018
(Alternating photos, TBD)
PiF
CAMBRIDGE
APRIL 13-22
SCIENCE
FESTIVAL
2018
CambridgeScienceFestival.org
CambridgeScienceFestival.org
CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL COMMISSION
831 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Fl., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Telephone: [phone removed] Fax: [phone removed] TTY: [phone removed]
E-mail: histcomm@cambridgema.gov URL: http://www.cambridgema.gov/Historic
Bruce A. Irving, Chair, Susannah Barton Tobin, Vice Chair; Charles M. Sullivan, Executive Director
William G. Barry, Jr., Robert G. Crocker, Joseph V. Ferrara, Chandra Harrington, Jo M. Solet, Members;
Gavin W. Kleespies, Paula A. Paris, Kyle Sheffield, Alternates
COMMISSION
CERTIFICATE OF NONAPPLICABILITY
Mass. Ave. betw Arrow and Cambridge streets
Property:
Applicant: MIT for Cambridge Science Festival
Attention:
Brenda Blais, Steve Lenkauskus, Donna Lopez
The Cambridge Historical Commission hereby certifies, pursuant to
Chapter 2.78, Article III of the Code of the City of Cambridge and
order establishing the Harvard Square Conservation District, that the
work described below does not involve any activity requiring issuance
of a Certificate of Appropriateness or Hardship:
Install temporary banners on light poles in 38 locations as shown on
plans submitted by Brenda M. Blais titled "Harvard Square Area 1"
and "Harvard Square Area 2," submitted on February 15, 2018.
All improvements shall be carried out as shown on the plans and
specifications submitted by the applicant, except as modified above.
specifications are incorporated by reference into
Approved plans and
this certificate.
This certificate is granted upon the condition that the work
authorized herein is commenced within six months after the date of
issuance. If the work authorized by this certificate is not commenced
within six months after the date of issuance or if such work is
suspended in significant part for a period of one year after the time
the work is commenced, such certificate shall expire and be of no
further effect; provided that, for cause, one or more extensions of
time for periods not exceeding six months each may be allowed in
writing by the Chair.
Case Number: 3893
Date of Certificate: February 15, 2018
Attest: A true and correct copy of decision filed with the
office of the City Clerk and the Cambridge Historical Commission
on February 15, 2018.
By Charles M. Sullivan/slb, Executive Director.
"Twenty days have elapsed since the filing "of this decision***
No appeal has been filed
• Appeal has been filed
Date
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