Asked the City Manager to confer with the Department of Public Works and the Community Development Department to work with Eversource and other power providers to plan and implement infrastructure improvements to fully support future development in Cambridge and further to confer with the appropriate departments to draft an amendment to the City’s Zoning Ordinance that would see projects needing a special permit undergo a power needs assessment as part of the permitting process

How it started

Jan 25, 2016 · Proposed by Councillor Cheung and Vice Mayor Devereux: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 25, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

David Maher
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

What’s next

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2016 #76 (Apr 4, 2016).

Order adoptedJan 25, 2016

Referred for reportAR 2016-8Feb 1, 2016

Administration answeredCMA 2016-76Apr 4, 2016 · answered in 63 days

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 25, 2016