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POR 2024-141

Asked the City Manager to direct the Law Department and the Community Development Department to work with the Board of Zoning Appeal to clean up language and come back to the Ordinance Committee with clarifications and amendments to requirements related to adding dormers to nonconforming one and two family dwellings

How it started
Oct 21, 2024 · Proposed by Councillors McGovern and Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Oct 21, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · two absent)

Voted yes (7), unanimous

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Patty Nolan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Cathie Zusy
  • E. Denise Simmons

Absent (2)

  • Marc McGovern
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
Roll call of Oct 21, 2024 · 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.
Order adopted, 7–0Oct 21, 2024
Heard in committeeOrdinance CommitteeOct 29, 2024

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Oct 21, 2024

Public Comment (2)

2 written comments received (2025-10-20). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.