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POR 2022-310

Asked the City Manager to direct the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department to work with the residents at 931 Massachusetts Avenue to identify and provide a short-term parking spot in front of 931 Massachusetts Avenue

How it started
Dec 5, 2022 · Proposed by Councillors Toner, McGovern, and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Dec 5, 2022 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Burhan Azeem; carried 6–3.
the “Ordered” so that it reads: “That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department to work with the residents at 931 Massachusetts Avenue to identify and provide a short-term parking spot in front of 931 Massachusetts Avenue if it is possible to do so in a way that does not violate the Cycling Safety Ordinance, and report back to the Council by January 23, 2023.”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Dec 5, 2022, p. 11.
Dec 5, 2022 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Marc McGovern; carried 9–0.
POR 2022 #310 by adding “, by permit only,” in the “Ordered” after the word “spot” and before the word “in”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Dec 5, 2022, p. 11.
Dec 5, 2022 · ✅ Order adopted as amended, 8–1. The Council's request went to the City Manager.
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Voted yes (8)

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Dennis Carlone
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Sumbul Siddiqui

Voted no (1)

  • Quinton Zondervan
Roll call of Dec 5, 2022 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2022 #84 open, 1,347 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
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At 931 Mass Avenue, there are 52 units with no loading platform, and large trucks with appliance and furniture deliveries are required to either illegally double park in front of 931 Massachusetts Avenue and block traffic, or park across the street and endanger the delivery person crossing in traffic, all of which expose the delivery service personnel to injury, insurance liability, and ticketing by Cambridge Police; and

It is not sustainable to have movers and delivery drivers park one or two streets away or across the street and deliver large or multiple items; and

Residents need one temporary time-limited loading zone in front of 931 Massachusetts Avenue to allow for the safe, scheduled delivery of large appliances and moves; now therefore be it

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department to work with the residents at 931 Massachusetts Avenue to identify and provide a short-term parking spot in front of 931 Massachusetts Avenue and report back to the Council by March 15, 2023.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Dec 5, 2022

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2022-12-19). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.