Proposed amendment to Chapter 8.66 entitled "Tree Protection" be amended in section 8.66.40 entitled "Applicability" and also by adding a new section 8.66.055 entitled "Procedure for Other Projects" be referred to the Ordinance Committee for a hearing to review and consider the attached proposed amendments

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How it started

Jun 18, 2018 · Proposed by Councillors Zondervan, Carlone, and Kelley: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 18, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted

Present and voting at this meeting (5)

Dennis Carlone
Jan Devereux
Craig A. Kelley
Sumbul Siddiqui
Quinton Zondervan

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.

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AMEND SECTION:

8.66.040 - Applicability This Chapter shall apply to all trees located on lots specified in the following sections: §8.66.050 and 8.66.055. This Chapter shall not apply to any project of the Affordable Housing Trust or otherwise for the construction of low and moderate-income housing meeting the standards established pursuant to any City, State or Federal housing program designed to assist low and moderate-income households.

ADD SECTION:

8.66.055 - Procedure for Other Projects a. For any project not subject to 8.66.050, which requires removal of a significant tree, except for emergency circumstances, a permit request will first be submitted to the City Arborist. In all cases, the City Arborist shall keep a record of the type and size of tree removed, the reason for the removal, photographs of the tree documenting the reason for removal, the date, the contractor(s) involved, and the name and address of the property owner.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 18, 2018