POR 2023 #157 : That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with relevant departments including the Affordable Housing Trust, Community Development Department and Law Department to review the attached zoning proposal and report back to the City Council with an initial assessment regarding the feasibility and efficacy of such an approach no later than October 31, 2023

How it started

Sep 11, 2023 · Proposed by Councillor Quinton Zondervan: 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 TONER”

Sep 18, 2023 · The motion to send it to committee carried 6–3. The minutes record the vote; they do not record who moved it.

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Voted yes (6)

Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Paul F. Toner
Sumbul Siddiqui

Voted no (3)

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan

Sep 18, 2023 · ↪ Sent to a Council committee for closer study, 6–3 (Referred to committee)

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Voted yes (6)

Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Paul F. Toner
Sumbul Siddiqui

Voted no (3)

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan

Roll call of Sep 18, 2023 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

The document Agenda item attachment · 3 pages

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Notwithstanding other provisions in the zoning code, a developer may build as of right multi-family housing, up to 3 stories tall (35’) or taller if allowed by the underlying base district, including standalone, attached, and semi-attached structures, up to 9 total units per lot, with no limits on density, and no minimum lot size per unit, but meeting the setback requirements of Section 11.207.5.2.3 “Yard Setbacks”, and the open space requirements of Section 11.207.5.2.4 “Open Space” of the Affordable Housing Overlay, provided that the developer make a portion of the units available to the city under a right of first refusal affordability covenant as follows:

Total Units

Affordable Units

📊 From here the report is project tables and figures, which don’t survive text extraction faithfully. Read them in the original PDF.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 11, 2023

CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR TONER IN COUNCIL SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2024-03-25). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.