TheCambridge Record
Agenda ItemsPolicy Orders

POR 2024-49

Asked the City Manager to direct the Community Development Department and the Law Department to draft proposed near-term amendments to the PTDM Ordinance and Zoning Ordinance

How it started
Apr 8, 2024 · Proposed by Councillors Toner, Pickett, and Nolan and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Apr 8, 2024 · Amendment carried Moved by Vice Mayor Marc McGovern; carried 8–0.
the second “Ordered” by replacing the period after the word discussion with a comma “,” and adding the words “and send recommended ordinance changes to the City Council not later than the first meeting in October of 2024.”
The clerk's words, from the minutes of Apr 8, 2024, p. 8.
View the roll call on the amendment

Voted yes (8)

  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Joan Pickett
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • E. Denise Simmons

Absent (1)

  • Burhan Azeem
Apr 8, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one absent)
View the roll call

Voted yes (8), unanimous

  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Joan Pickett
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • E. Denise Simmons

Absent (1)

  • Burhan Azeem
Roll call of Apr 8, 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.
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page

O-1

Residents and business owners in commercial areas impacted by current and proposed installation of separated bicycle and bus lanes have advocated for the city to provide parking mitigation; and

City staff, our recent Economic Impact Study, and CDD 2022 Parking Study all

recommended the development of zoning amendments to allow the use of existing underutilized accessory parking spaces along and near commercial corridors as an option to mitigate the loss of metered on-street spaces; and

Members of the City Council have requested that the city reexamine and provide changes to our current zoning to allow greater access to alternative parking options; now therefore be it

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the Community Development Department and the Law Department to draft proposed near-term amendments to the Parking and Transportation Demand Management Ordinance and the Zoning Ordinance to allow flexibility for property owners to share off-site parking with nearby properties, if necessary, to mitigate the loss of parking resulting from the installation of separated bicycle facilities due to implementation of the Cycling Safety Ordinance; and be it further

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to report back in a timely manner with a timeline for when these proposed amendments will be available for review and discussion.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 8, 2024

Public Comment (192)

192 written comments received (2024-04-29 – 2024-06-03). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.