City Council support of asking the Cambridge Historical Commission to initiate a landmark designation study process on the Abbott Building in Harvard Square

How it started

Dec 19, 2016 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux and Councillors Carlone, Mazen, and McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Dec 19, 2016 · Held by charter right the city's note: “EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR TOOMEY.”

Jan 9, 2017 · Tabled set aside by vote

Feb 27, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted

View the roll call

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.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Dec 19, 2016

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2017-01-09). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.