City Clerk is requested to forward the Home Rule Petition establishing a Net Zero emissions requirement for building construction in Cambridge in accordance with its Net Zero Action Plan, adopted in 2015, to the entire state legislative delegation for immediate adoption

How it started

Dec 6, 2021 · Proposed by Councillors Zondervan and Nolan, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillor Carlone: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Dec 6, 2021 · Held by charter right exercised by Councillor Quinton Zondervan; the item returns at the next meeting

Dec 13, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (unanimous)

View the roll call

Voted yes (9), unanimous

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

Roll call of Dec 13, 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.

The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page

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SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, the City of Cambridge is authorized to establish a net zero standard for newly constructed buildings, starting in January of 2022. Such a standard may impose limitations on the combustion of fossil fuels in such buildings, as well as limit the installation of equipment that combusts fossil fuels, in order to ensure reductions in building emissions congruent with state and city climate change goals.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

In City Council December 13, 2021. Adopted as Amended by a yea and nay vote:- Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0. Attest:- Anthony I. Wilson, City Clerk A true copy; ATTEST:-

Anthony I. Wilson

City Clerk

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Dec 6, 2021

Public Comment (3)

3 written comments received (2021-12-13). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.