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POR 2024-150

POR 2024 #150 : That the Neighborhood and Long-Term Planning Committee hold a meeting to

How it started
Nov 25, 2024 · Proposed by Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Mayor Siddiqui, Vice Mayor Azeem, and Councillor McGovern: a formal request from the Council to the administration. Introduced late, under Rule 36A: added after the agenda was published, so it reached the floor only on a suspension of the rules.
What happened
Nov 25, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • Cathie Zusy
  • E. Denise Simmons
Roll call of Nov 25, 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, unanimousNov 25, 2024
Heard in committeeNeighborhood & Long Term Planning CommitteeFeb 25, 2025

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Nov 25, 2024

explore the ability to prohibit, either through city or state legislation, the common practice of landlords requiring tenants to pay broker fees

Public Comment (3)

3 written comments received (2024-12-02). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.