Asked the City Manager to work with the Finance Department to review the abatement process to see if there is a different way that the tax abatement process can be structured for condominiums or a proposal to make property owners apply for a residential exemption based on the purchase price of the property

How it started

Mar 20, 2017 · Proposed by Councillor Nadeem A. Mazen: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Mar 20, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted. 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. 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: Mar 20, 2017