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POR 2018-43

Asked the City Manager to confer with relevant City departments to create additional Safety Zones for safer streets

How it started
Feb 26, 2018 · Proposed by Councillor Zondervan and Vice Mayor Devereux: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Feb 26, 2018 · Held by charter right the city's note: “CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS AS AMENDED”
Feb 26, 2018 · Amendment carried Moved by Mayor Marc McGovern; carried on a voice vote.
the aforementioned order by deleting the eighth paragraph
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Feb 26, 2018, p. 36.
Mar 5, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager.
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Present and voting at this meeting (9)

  • Alanna Mallon
  • Craig A. Kelley
  • Dennis Carlone
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jan Devereux
  • Marc McGovern
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • 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.
The document a council order
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City of Cambridge
IN CITY COUNCIL
February 26, 2018

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with City Staff to explore the possibility of accelerating the timeline for establishing safety zones on roads adjacent to land-uses serving vulnerable populations, including (but not limited to) the aforementioned examples, from a 3 year goal to something more immediate in accordance with Chapter 90, Section 18B; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with all relevant City staff and departments to examine the feasibility of posting advisory signage to broadly encourage a motor vehicle speed limit of 15 MPH in areas serving vulnerable populations; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with all relevant City staff and departments to examine the feasibility of increasing enforcement of our traffic laws prominently and immediately, including but not limited to stronger enforcement of: running red lights in safety zones, illegal right turns on red, speeding, and failure to yield to pedestrians at crosswalks

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Feb 26, 2018