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POR 2016-53

Asked the City Manager to direct the City Solicitor to prepare a legal opinion on whether the Peter Cohen zoning petition is reverse spot zoning and whether the petition puts the City at risk

How it started
Feb 29, 2016 · Proposed by Councillor Marc C. McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Feb 29, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

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 (AR 2016 #18 open, 3,819 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
Order adopted as amendedFeb 29, 2016
Referred for reportAR 2016-18Mar 14, 2016
Awaiting answer⏳ pending3,819 days and counting

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The document a council order
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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
February 29, 2016

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the City Solicitor to prepare a legal opinion on whether the Peter Cohen zoning petition is reverse spot zoning and whether the petition puts the City at risk; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back to the City Council in two weeks with the legal opinion.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Feb 29, 2016

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2016-03-14). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.