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2026

• 2026-05-28 POR 2026-111 — That the City Manager, in collaboration with the Urban Forestry Division, DPW, CDD and Inspectional Services, is request
• 2026-05-07 POR 2026-100 — That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments to do extensive outreach to residents, busines
• 2026-03-19 CC 2026-29 — Minutes of the Regular City Council meeting held on March 16, 2026

2025

• 2025-12-22 CMA 2025 #308 📁 — A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 25-61, regarding cle
• 2025-12-15 CMA 2025 #300 📁 — A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 25-65, regarding Con
• 2025-08-04 CMA 2025 #207 📁 — A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 25-37, regarding ful
• 2025-06-02 POR 2025 #82 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments to ensure that there is full open access for a
• 2025-03-31 ORD 2025 # 9 ✅ — An Ordinance has been received from City Clerk Diane P. LeBlanc, relative to amend Articles 5.000 and 20.000 of the Camb
• 2025-03-24 CMA 2025 #63 📁 — A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a summary of a Planning Board Meeting on the 202
• 2025-03-17 COM 881 #2025 📁 — Communications were received from Nonie Valentine, regarding Our squares and corridors and Solidarity Ukraine flag in fr
• 2025-01-27 ORD 2025 # 2 ✅ — An Ordinance has been received from City Clerk, relative to ORDINANCE 2025 #2 Multi Family Zoning Petition-Part 2
• 2025-01-06 COM 160 #2025 📁 — Multiple communications were received from Young Kim regarding My Oral Comment tonight, Amendments to the MFH Petitions

2024

• 2024-09-30 CMA 2024 #216 ✅ — A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to request that the City Council authorize the purc
• 2024-09-23 POR 2024 #133 ✅ — That the Council accept Multi Family Zoning Petition - Part 2, as presented in CMA 2024 #207, as a City Council Zoning P
• 2024-09-09 CMA 2024 #194 📁 — A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 24-08, regarding rec
• 2024-09-09 CMA 2024 #193 📁 — Transmitting Communication from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $276,800, received from the
• 2024-09-09 APP 2024 #30 ✅ — An application was received from DND Homes LLC., requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 490 Putna

2023

• 2023-11-06 — ORD 2023 # 10 : An Ordinance 2023 #10 has been received from City Clerk, relative to the Municipal Code of the City of C
• 2023-10-16 POR 2023 #187 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to work with DPW to restore Linear Park by re-using the existing award-winning design
• 2023-09-18 AR-23-56 — Report on the establishment and implementation of a regular maintenance schedule for tree wells, bump outs, crosswalks,
• 2023-09-11 POR 2023 #151 ✅ — That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to establish and implement a regul
• 2023-09-11 AR-23-50 — Report on the review of the opportunity to work with MIT leadership and their staff to meet the requirement of planting
• 2023-08-23 CMA 2023 #220 📁 — A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a recommendation that the City Council approve a
• 2023-08-07 POR 2023 #134 ✅ — Canopy Loss & Developing a Replacement Strategy
• 2023-06-05 POR 2023 #106 ✅ — That City Manager is requested to ensure adequate funding to fully repair the irrigation system in Danehy Park immediate
• 2023-05-01 CMA 2023 #111 ✅ — A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to the appropriation and authorization to borrow $2
• 2023-04-24 POR 2023 #72 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments to bring together a working group to conduct o
• 2023-01-23 CMA 2023 #20 ↪ — A communication transmitted from Yi-An Huang, City Manager, relative to a Planning Board report recommending that the Ci

2022

• 2022-12-19 POR 2022 #317 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments to provide an updated tree canopy projection a
• 2022-10-17 AR-22-74 ✅ — Report on installing a new irrigation system in Danehy Park as soon as possible and better prepare for tree watering eff
• 2022-10-03 POR 2022 #187 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to work with all relevant City departments to install a new irrigation system in Dane
• 2022-06-13 CMA 2022 #133 ✅ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a recommendation that the City Council a
• 2022-02-28 CMA 2022 #34 ↪ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the Climate Resilience Zoning Task Force
• 2022-02-28 APP 2022 #8 ✅ — An application was received from Dillon Lammers, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 1065 Camb
• 2022-02-28 APP 2022 #7 ✅ — An application was received from Kelley Brown, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 301 Vasser
• 2022-02-28 APP 2022 #6 ✅ — An application was received from Dan Anderson, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 33 Webster

2021

• 2021-11-22 CMA 2021 #256 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-62, regar
• 2021-11-22 CMA 2021 #255 ↪ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-80, regar
• 2021-09-13 CMA 2021 #193 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 21-56, regar
• 2021-09-13 AR-21-56 ✅ — Report on the feasibility of committing financial resources to assist in redesigning and/or reshaping the outdoor public
• 2021-08-02 POR 2021 #167 ✅ — That the City Manager confer with the Department of Public Works, the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority, the Community D
• 2021-08-02 POR 2021 #164 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to work with relevant City departments on how the City can change practices such that
• 2021-06-28 POR 2021 #152 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to work with the DPW and the family to install a suitable memorial in a meaningful lo
• 2021-06-21 POR 2021 #143 ✅ — That the City Manager is hereby requested to work with the appropriate departments and building contractors to reconside
• 2021-05-17 CMA 2021 #124 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to further proposed amendments to the Tree
• 2021-05-03 APP 2021 #19 ✅ — An application was received from Eric Grunebaum, for Friends of Jerry's Pond, requesting permission for two (2) tempora
• 2021-04-26 CMA 2021 #90 ✅ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to proposed amendment to Section 8.66 of th
• 2021-03-22 CMA 2021 #50 ✅ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to proposed amendments to the Tree Protecti
• 2021-02-22 CMA 2021 #31 ✅ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a proposed amendment to Section 8.66 of

2020

• 2020-12-21 CMA 2020 #298 ✅ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the following requests relative to the e
• 2020-11-16 POR 2020 #264 ✅ — That the enclosed amendments to the Tree Protection Ordinance be adopted to extend the temporary prohibition on tree cut
• 2020-07-27 CMA 2020 #160 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-132, rega
• 2020-07-27 CMA 2020 #159 ↪ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 20-28, regar
• 2020-06-22 CMA 2020 #140 ✅ — Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $5,300,000 from Free
• 2020-02-10 CMA 2020 #30 ✅ — Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $1,200,000 from Free
• 2020-02-03 POR 2020 #24 ✅ — Thanking Charlotte Moore and Eileen Caves for their Art Exhibition titled “The Olive Trees are Weeping: Visions of Occup
• 2020-01-27 APP 2020 #2 ✅ — An application was received from Patrick Barrett, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 907 Main

2019

• 2019-12-09 CRT 2019 #79 ✅ — A report from Vice Mayor Jan Devereux, Chair and Councillor Quinton Zondervan, Chair of the Health and Environment Commi
• 2019-10-21 AR-19-132 ✅ — Report on planting new trees in Magazine Beach Park in the Spring of 2020 with a special focus on the eastern end of the
• 2019-10-07 POR 2019 #338 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to seek permission from the Department of Conservation and Recreation to plant new tr
• 2019-07-30 POR 2019 #268 ✅ — That the attached zoning petition be refiled as of August 15, 2019 and be referred to the Planning Board and Ordinance C
• 2019-06-24 CMA 2019 #190 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-18, regar
• 2019-06-10 POR 2019 #206 — That the proposed Special Permit Criteria amendments to Article 19 of the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance (as attached) be re
• 2019-06-10 CMA 2019 #168 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Numbers 19-63 and 1
• 2019-06-03 POR 2019 #191 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Department of Public Works, the Community Development Department,
• 2019-05-13 POR 2019 #167 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to contact AT&T, the owner of the parking lot located at the corner of Bent Street an
• 2019-05-13 CMA 2019 #135 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-139, rega
• 2019-05-13 APP 2019 #35 ✅ — A petition was received from Gypsy Place, Sayed Mousawi, regarding outdoor seating in front of premises numbered 90 Hamp
• 2019-04-29 APP 2019 #26 ✅ — An application was received from Jan Barry, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 5 Jay Street;
• 2019-04-08 APP 2019 #22 ✅ — An application was received from the DPW Department of the City of Cambridge requesting permission for two temporary ban
• 2019-04-01 CMA 2019 #69 ↪ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-19, regar
• 2019-03-25 POR 2019 #110 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to double the annual funding (from the FY19 Adopted Budget) over the next 3 to 5 year
• 2019-03-18 CMA 2019 #55 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-86, regar
• 2019-02-25 COM 133 #2019 📁 — Sundry communications received in support of the Tree Protection Ordinance and the moratorium
• 2019-02-25 AR-19-19 ✅ — Report on the empty tree wells in the Port area and establish a plan for replenishing these throughout the spring season
• 2019-02-11 POR 2019 #55 ✅ — That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the City Solicitor to provide the City Council with a legal o
• 2019-02-11 POR 2019 #49 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to direct the appropriate City staff to take an inventory of the empty tree wells in
• 2019-02-11 CMA 2019 #31 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-131, rega
• 2019-02-04 POR 2019 #36 ✅ — That the Central Square Massachusetts Avenue sidewalk maintenance/repairs and replacement tree planting become part of t
• 2019-02-04 POR 2019 #33 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to consult with the appropriate City departments to make the necessary provisions to
• 2019-02-04 — COF 2019 #6 : A communication was received from City Clerk Donna P. Lopez, transmitting a memorandum from Councillor Ke
• 2019-01-28 POR 2019 #29 ↪ — That the tree protection ordinance amendment discussed at the Ordinance Committee hearing held on Wednesday, January 9,
• 2019-01-28 COM 81 #2019 📁 — Sundry communications in support of Policy Order # 7 regarding tree removal
• 2019-01-14 POR 2019 #21 ✅ — That the topic of revamping the Memorial Tree Program be referred to the Neighborhood and Long-Term Planning, Public Fac
• 2019-01-07 POR 2019 #2 ✅ — That the Ordinance Committee hearing on Tree Protections scheduled for January 9, 2019 be televised

2018

• 2018-12-17 AR-18-139 ✅ — Report on the possibility of planting a substantial-sized tree at the corner of Inman Street and Massachusetts Avenue, d
• 2018-12-10 POR 2018 #313 ✅ — Tree on City Hall Lawn
• 2018-12-03 CMA 2018 #314 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-04 regard
• 2018-11-26 POR 2018 #292 ✅ — Televise the December 4, 2018 Health and Environment Committee hearing on the tree canopy
• 2018-11-05 CMA 2018 #281 ✅ — Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $100,000 from the Mi
• 2018-11-05 AR-18-117 ✅ — Report on using the best available salt substitutes and additives, and apply all other appropriate chloride reduction pr
• 2018-10-29 POR 2018 #261 ✅ — That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate City departments to use the best available sa
• 2018-10-29 CMA 2018 #264 ✅ — Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $67,179.02 from Free
• 2018-10-29 CMA 2018 #263 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-09, regar
• 2018-10-29 CMA 2018 #262 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-70, regar
• 2018-10-29 CMA 2018 #261 ✅ — Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $100,000 from Free C
• 2018-10-29 APP 2018 #343 ✅ — An application was received from Martin Cafasso, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 19 Fayett
• 2018-10-15 POR 2018 #239 ✅ — That the Chairs of the Ordinance Committee schedule a hearing on Tree Protections and the Chairs of the Health & Environ
• 2018-10-15 COM 614 #2018 📁 — A sundry communications received relating to the protection of trees
• 2018-10-15 COM 609 #2018 📁 — A Communications received from Judy Johnson, 55 Antrim Street, in support of Policy Order # 4 for the Ordinance Committe
• 2018-09-24 COM 586 #2018 📁 — Communication from Catherine Sullivan, 16 Notre Dame Avenue, regarding the number of trees that are dead or dying on Lin
• 2018-09-24 COM 583 #2018 📁 — Communication from Hannah Mahoney, 7 Rindge Terrace, in support of Policy Order # 4 relating to the gas structure work i
• 2018-09-24 APP 2018 #338 ↪ — A petition was received from Charles Teague, regarding Saving Linear Park
• 2018-09-24 APP 2018 #337 ✅ — An application was received from Margaret Ranstrom, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 73 Abe
• 2018-09-24 APP 2018 #336 ✅ — An application was received from Lena Kalachian, requesting permission for replacement of the facing of the projecting
• 2018-09-17 COM 574 #2018 📁 — Communication from Robert La Tremouille regarding the Community Preservation Vote #1C2 regarding an appropriation for th
• 2018-09-17 COM 566 #2018 📁 — Sundry e-mails received, regarding friends of White Geese and destruction of trees on Magazine Street
• 2018-09-17 APP 2018 #331 ✅ — An application was received from Eliot Square Enterprise/Peets Coffee, requesting permission for replacement of existing
• 2018-07-30 CMA 2018 #189 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-56, regar
• 2018-07-30 APP 2018 #329 ✅ — An application was received from Reid Joseph, requesting permission for a reconfiguration of a curb cut at the premises
• 2018-07-30 APP 2018 #328 ✅ — An application was received from Cyril Hughes, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 119 Pearl S
• 2018-07-30 APP 2018 #326 ✅ — An application was received from James Desrosiers, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 49-51 C
• 2018-07-30 APP 2018 #325 ✅ — An application was received from MIT Kelley Brown, requesting permission for a curb cut at the premises numbered 189 Vas
• 2018-06-25 COM 525 #2018 📁 — Communication from Robert La Tremouille, Chair, Friends of the White Geese, PO Box 391412, regarding seven excellent and
• 2018-06-25 AR-18-70 ✅ — Report whenever a city owned public tree (not considered a “street tree” under 87.3) must be removed for reason other th
• 2018-06-25 AR-18-69 ✅ — Report on identifying additional opportunities to plant trees in public spaces throughout the city, particularly in unde
• 2018-06-25 APP 2018 #320 ✅ — An application was received from JFK Street Realty Trust - Roger James, requesting permission for a 1 blade sign and 4 a
• 2018-06-18 POR 2018 #166 ✅ — That the proposed amendment to Chapter 8.66 entitled "Tree Protection" be amended in section 8.66.40 entitled "Applicabi
• 2018-06-18 POR 2018 #165 ✅ — That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to notify the City Council whenever a city owned public tree (not consi
• 2018-06-18 POR 2018 #164 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to identify additional opportunities to plant trees in public spaces throughout the c
• 2018-06-18 COM 505 #2018 📁 — Communication from Eric Grunebaum, 98 Montgomery Street, regarding trees and that the 550 trees planted each year are in
• 2018-06-18 COM 504 #2018 📁 — Communications from Charles Teague, 23 Edmunds Street, in support of all the Policy Orders regarding trees
• 2018-06-18 COM 503 #2018 📁 — Communication from Carol O’Hare, 172 Magazine Street, regarding Policy Orders #12, 13 and 14 and transmitting photos of
• 2018-06-18 COM 502 #2018 📁 — Communication from Judy Johnson, 55 Antrim Street, urging the City Council to protect the trees and supporting Policy Or
• 2018-05-21 COM 418 #2018 📁 — Communication from Florrie Wescoat, 33 Market Street, transmitting opposition from the Friends of Inman Square to protec
• 2018-05-21 COM 416 #2018 📁 — Communication from Judy Johnson, 55 Antrim Street, in opposition to the changes to Inman Square because it has not been
• 2018-05-21 COM 412 #2018 📁 — Communication from Debra Mandel, 242 Hampshire Street, regarding the tree canopy and in support of an improved vision fo
• 2018-05-21 AR-18-56 ✅ — Report on completing a tree canopy study based on the April 2018 LiDAR data before the end of 2018, and to complete futu
• 2018-05-14 POR 2018 #140 ✅ — That the City Manager is requested to complete a tree canopy study based on the April 2018 LiDAR data before the end of
• 2018-02-26 CMA 2018 #44 ✅ — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a request for an aerial license for a st
• 2018-02-26 CMA 2018 #43 📁 — A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 18-16, regar
• 2018-01-22 RES 2018 #10 ✅ — Congratulations to Cambridge Arborist David Lefcourt for receiving the Massachusetts Tree Wardens' and Foresters' Associ