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POR 2023-14

Asked the City Manager to instruct the Community Development Department to draft amendments to the proposed BEUDO language to change the net zero deadline from 2050 to 2035 and to propose language to meet that deadline throughout the document (From the April 20, 2022 Ordinance Committee)

How it started
Feb 6, 2023 · Proposed by Councillor Quinton Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Feb 6, 2023 · Held by charter right the city's note: “EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR TONER”
Feb 13, 2023 · Motion to refer failed Mover not named in the minutes; failed 4–4.
On Councillor Toner’s motion to refer POR 2023 #14 to the Ordinance Committee
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Feb 13, 2023.
View the roll call on the amendment

Voted yes (4)

  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Paul F. Toner

Voted no (4)

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Patty Nolan
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui

Voted present (1)

  • Dennis Carlone
Feb 13, 2023 · ✅ Order adopted as amended, 5–4. The Council's request went to the City Manager.
View the roll call

Voted yes (5)

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Dennis Carlone
  • Patty Nolan
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui

Voted no (4)

  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Paul F. Toner
Roll call of Feb 13, 2023 · 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. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page
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WHEREAS: The Ordinance Committee met on April 20, 2022, and voted favorably to ask the City Manager to instruct the Community Development Department to draft amendments to the proposed BEUDO language to change the net zero deadline from 2050 to 2035 and to propose language to meet that deadline throughout the document; now therefore be it

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to instruct the Community Development Department to draft amendments to the proposed BEUDO language to change the net zero deadline from 2050 to 2035 and to propose language to meet that deadline throughout the document (From Ordinance Committee meeting on April 20, 2022.)

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Feb 6, 2023

Public Comment (11)

11 written comments received (2023-02-13 – 2023-08-07). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.