Asked the City Manager to work with the Community Development Department, Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department and Department of Public Works to determine what facilities, parking changes, and other improvements to the pavement conditions would be necessary and feasible to make Massachusetts Avenue a quick-build Complete Street between Sidney Street and Putnam Avenue

How it started

May 13, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux, Councillor McGovern, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Carlone: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 13, 2019 · Amendment carried Mover not named in the minutes; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned order by adding after the fourth paragraph a new paragraph which reads as follows: WHEREAS: For these critical protected bike lane connections to succeed, the City should implement the valuable community outreach lessons learned from the work done by the Consensus Building Institute around the Cambridge Street Bike Lane process, and ensure that key stakeholders such as the CSBA, the Commission for Persons with Disabilities, seniors and neighborhood groups are engaged in the quick build design process

The clerk's words, from the minutes of May 13, 2019, p. 16.

May 13, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. 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

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2019 #246 (Sep 16, 2019).

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

May 13, 2019

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Community Development Department, Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department and Department of Public Works to determine what facilities, parking changes, and other improvements to the pavement conditions would be necessary and feasible to make Massachusetts Avenue a quick-build Complete Street between Sidney Street and Putnam Avenue; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back on this by the end of June 2019.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 13, 2019