Policy Order re Improving the Quality of Life In and Around Central Square

How it started

Sep 11, 2023 · Proposed by Councillors Simmons and Toner: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Sep 11, 2023 · Held by charter right the city's note: “EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR MCGOVERN”

Sep 18, 2023 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor E. Denise Simmons; carried 6–3.

POR 2023 #153 by substitution

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Sep 18, 2023, p. 12.

Sep 18, 2023 · ✅ Order adopted as amended

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Present and voting at this meeting (9)

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

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · 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.

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CENTRAL SQUARE PLANNING STUDIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

(As compiled by Robert Winters and available at www.rwinters.com)

Feb 1980: CDD report entitled “Central Square - Commercial Area Revitalization District”

June 1980: CDD booklet entitled “Facade Improvements” with focus on Central Square

Apr 1983: “Central Square Report” produced by City Council’s Central Square Subcommittee (study began in 1980 or 1981)

1987: A report produced in 1987 about a Subcommittee that allegedly built on the 1983 report (may be same as Central Square Action Plan)

Nov 1987: Central Square Action Plan

1989: Draft Central Square Development Guidelines

May 1993: Results of the “Mayor’s Forum on Central Square”

Oct 1993: Report by the Committee to Promote and Enhance Central Square Now!

Aug 1994: A Study of the Visual Images and Signage of Central Square (CDD)

May 1995: Central Square Improvements Project, Master Plan Report

May 1995: An Urban Design Plan for Central Square (executive summary)

May 2001: Summary Notes from “A Conversation about Central Square”

Feb 2000: The Gibbs Report, Central Square Commercial Market Study

Oct 2004: Central Square, Cambridge - Rising Fortunes at a Regional Crossroads (Rekha Murthy)

Dec 2004: Reviving a Traditional City - Central Square, Cambridge, gets a facelift (Rekha Murthy)

June 2005: Street Media: Ambient Messages in an Urban Space - a photographic analysis of Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Rekha Murthy)