Asked the City Manager to confer with the Cambridge Historical Commission and other relevant City Departments to ensure that any report or recommendation for a new Neighborhood Conservation District in Cambridge presented to the City Council include an analysis of the potential effects on City housing affordability based on current research, as well as any mitigations that the Cambridge Historical Commission recommends, so that the City Council may holistically evaluate the matter

How it started

Oct 5, 2020 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Mallon, Councillors Zondervan and Sobrinho-Wheeler, and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Oct 5, 2020 · Held by charter right exercised by Councillor Dennis Carlone; the item returns at the next meeting

Oct 19, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted as amended, 8–1. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

View the roll call

Voted yes (8)

Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan

Voted no (1)

Dennis Carlone

Roll call of Oct 19, 2020 · from the city’s record · 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: Oct 5, 2020

Public Comment (4)

4 written comments received (2020-10-19 – 2020-11-09). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.