Asked the City Manager to report back to the City Council regarding the potential of building below market rental housing on City-owned parking lots along Bishop Allen Drive

How it started

Dec 12, 2016 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Dec 12, 2016 · Amendment carried Moved by Vice Mayor Marc McGovern; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned order by striking out in paragraph two and three the word "affordable" and inserting in place thereof the words "below market rental

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Dec 12, 2016, p. 19.

Dec 12, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

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Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Craig A. Kelley
David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
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

December 12, 2016

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council by the last meeting in January 2017 as to the status of this request.

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

Public Comment (2)

2 written comments received (2016-12-12 – 2016-12-19). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.