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POR 2021-143

City Manager is hereby requested to work with the appropriate departments and building contractors to reconsider the current plan which eliminates many trees including large old growth trees that are not part of the new building footprint and specifically do everything possible to save the three Oak trees on the west side of the property and any other large trees on the site

How it started
Jun 21, 2021 · Proposed by Councillors Nolan and Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Jun 21, 2021 · Held by charter right exercised by Councillor E. Denise Simmons; the item returns at the next meeting
Jun 28, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted as amended, 6–3. The Council's request went to the City Manager.
View the roll call

Voted yes (6)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Patty Nolan
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Quinton Zondervan

Voted no (3)

  • Marc McGovern
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Timothy J. Toomey
Roll call of Jun 28, 2021 · 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: Jun 21, 2021

Public Comment (2)

2 written comments received (2021-08-02). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.