Asked the City Manager to direct relevant departments to work together with the Chair(s) of the Health and Environment Committee and the Ordinance Committee, and include community input from residents and landscaping companies, to develop ordinance language that would lead to a phased in ban of the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in Cambridge

How it started

Sep 18, 2023 · Proposed by Councillor Patricia Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Sep 18, 2023 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

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

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2023 #268 (Nov 6, 2023).

Order adoptedSep 18, 2023

Referred for reportAR 2023-65Oct 16, 2023

Administration answeredCMA 2023-268Nov 6, 2023 · answered in 21 days

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 18, 2023