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POR 2016-29

Asked the City Manager to confer with appropriate City departments and to report back to the City Council on the current total number and locations of sandwich board and A-frame signs, details on the process and criteria for approval and annual renewal, details on the enforcement of non-compliant and unpermitted signs, whether the annual $75 fee remains appropriate, whether reasonable design guidelines could be encouraged or required in historic districts, and whether the application process could be improved to include more detail to better inform decision makers

How it started
Feb 1, 2016 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux and Councillors Carlone, Mazen, and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Feb 1, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one absent)

Voted yes (8), unanimous

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Jan Devereux
  • Craig A. Kelley
  • David Maher
  • Nadeem Mazen
  • Marc McGovern
  • Timothy J. Toomey
  • E. Denise Simmons

Absent (1)

  • Leland Cheung
Roll call of Feb 1, 2016 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2016 #65 (Mar 21, 2016).
Order adopted, 8–0Feb 1, 2016
Referred for reportAR 2016-12Feb 22, 2016
Administration answeredCMA 2016-65Mar 21, 2016 · answered in 28 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: Feb 1, 2016