City Manager is requested work with the Department of Public Works and the Cambridge Arts Council to formally review the use of the Fern Street path as currently designed and consider options to ensure that the path functions as a safe, shared bicycle and pedestrian path and to work with the Department of Public Works to consider whether it is appropriate and feasible for a skateboarding feature to be included at Danehy Park

How it started

Jun 26, 2017 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Jan Devereux: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 26, 2017 · Held by charter right one member's right to pause; the item returns at the next meeting

Aug 7, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

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

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2017 #308 (Dec 4, 2017).

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 26, 2017