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POR 2024-62

Asked the City Manager to direct the Community Development Department to work with the Co-Chairs of the Housing Committee to turn their vision of multifamily housing citywide into zoning language

How it started
May 13, 2024 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Azeem and Mayor Siddiqui: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
May 13, 2024 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • Burhan Azeem
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Joan Pickett
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Paul F. Toner
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
⌛ 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 as amendedMay 13, 2024
Heard in committeeHousing CommitteeMay 22, 2024

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WHEREAS: The Housing Committee met on May 8, 2024 to discuss allowing multifamily housing citywide; now and therefore be it

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the Community Development Department to work with the Co-Chairs of the Housing Committee to turn their vision into zoning language.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 13, 2024

Public Comment (10)

10 written comments received (2024-05-20 – 2024-06-03). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.