Health & Environment Committee hold a public hearing to discuss the City’s Tree Ordinance and possible ways to improve …

How it started

Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux and Councillor Carlone — a statement of the Council’s position, not a request for action.

What happened

✅ Adopted after amendments — the Council approved a revised version (Order adopted as amended · Jun 20, 2016)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Craig A. Kelley
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions — no member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

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The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

June 20, 2016

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the City Arborist, the Department of Public Works, and all other appropriate City departments to suggest reasonable and feasible updates to the Tree Protection Ordinance to provide broader protections for trees on private property; such measures could include requiring owners who remove trees to plant Replacement Trees or pay into the Tree Replacement Fund and/or requiring a permit to cut down a tree on private property; and be it further ORDERED: That amount of the required payment into the Tree Replacement Fund be reviewed in light of the increased costs to the City of planting, watering and maintaining new trees; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back on this matter and on other efforts to plant and protect trees at a public hearing of the Health and Environment Committee to be scheduled in the early fall of 2016.

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2016-06-20). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.