A refilling Zoning Petition Has been received from Joseph T. Maguire of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. transmitting a proposed revised amendment to the zoning ordinance by creating the Grand Junction Pathway Overlay District

How it started

Refiled from the earlier petitions APP 2018 #351, APP 2019 #38, and APP 2019 #75.

What happened

Oct 21, 2019 · Referred to committee

Dec 10, 2019 · Heard in committee: Ordinance Committee testimony and discussion; any committee vote is in the committee's minutes

Feb 5, 2020 · Referred

Feb 5, 2020 · Heard in committee: Ordinance Committee testimony and discussion; any committee vote is in the committee's minutes

Feb 10, 2020 · Passed to a second reading

Mar 2, 2020 · ⚖️ Became law. Ordained unanimously, and now part of the Municipal Code. (Ordained, unanimous)

View the roll call

Voted yes (9), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan

Roll call of Mar 2, 2020 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

Entered the Municipal Code: became law as ordained in March 2020. The Code can be amended at any time; its current text is the authority on what’s in force today.

The document Agenda item attachment · 17 pages

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Refiled Zoning Petition for Grand Junction Pathway Overlay District

Dear Mr. Wilson: Please find enclosed for filing, on behalf of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and owners of affected land ("Alexandria"), a Zoning Petition for the Grand Junction Pathway Overlay District ("Petition"). This is the third filing for this Petition and is the same version that was before the City Council on October 7, 2019 when Alexandria informed the Council of our intention to refile. At this meeting the Council voted for the Petition to remain on the table.

Also enclosed, please find an updated draft Commitment letter. This draft incorporates the following key changes, which were to the Commitment letter: • The timing of Alexandria's conveyance of the Grand Junction Land to the City has been accelerated from issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy to issuance of Special Permits and approvals for the Project; and • A proviso regarding the City's land acceptance policy has been added to the Commitment regarding conveyance of the Grand Junction Land.

We look forward to working with the City Council, the Planning Board, the Working

Group and the community to create the Grand Junction Pathway Overlay District

and bringing these exciting changes to life. Thank you for your assistance in this regard Very truly yours, raph Joseph T. Maguire

Senior Vice President-Real Estate Development & Asset Services

📊 From here the report is project tables and figures, which don’t survive text extraction faithfully. Read them in the original PDF.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Oct 21, 2019

Public Comment (3)

3 written comments received (2019-10-21 – 2020-03-02). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.