Asked the City Manager to deem all residential zones as “Safety Zones” and lower speed limits to 20 MPH and to lower the speed limit in all office and business zones to 25 MPH

How it started

Sep 12, 2016 · Proposed by Councillors Cheung and Toomey: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Sep 12, 2016 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Jan Devereux; carried on a voice vote.

to add at the end a new paragraph which reads as follows: ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the appropriate staff to request DCR to include residential streets along Fresh Pond Parkway and to post and to enforce the 25 MPH speed limit

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Sep 12, 2016, p. 38.

Sep 12, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

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Present and voting at this meeting (9)

Craig A. Kelley
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

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

September 12, 2016

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to deem all residential zones as “Safety Zones” and lower speed limits to 20 MPH; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to lower the speed limit in all office and business zones to 25 MPH.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 12, 2016