Asked the City Manager to confer with the City Solicitor, Inspectional Services Department and the Community Development Department to determine whether it is possible to reduce or eliminate Building Permit Fees for 100% affordable housing development projects, through an exemption or other means and investigate what types of real estate tax abatements are possible for 100% affordable housing moving forward

How it started

Jun 3, 2019 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillors Carlone and McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 3, 2019 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

Alanna Mallon
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 (AR 2019 #66 open, 2,635 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

Order adoptedJun 3, 2019

Referred for reportAR 2019-66Jun 10, 2019

Awaiting answer⏳ pending2,635 days and counting

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 3, 2019