POR 2017 #122 : That the City Manager is requested to review and to report back on the following issues:

How it started

May 8, 2017 · Proposed by Councillor Dennis J. Carlone: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 8, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (two not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (7)

David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
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: May 8, 2017

could a tax premium be placed on abandoned properties to compensate for their negative impacts on adjoining property values; could the city evaluate abandoned property value in part by their lack of income for eminent domain; if a property is vacant for a multi-year period of time could the City seriously consider taking it by eminent domain; and could the City require a re-occupancy permit if a property is vacant for a period of time