POR 2024-77
Cambridge City Council go on record requesting that MassDOT begin engaging with Cambridge residents and the Cambridgeport neighborhood early and often throughout the BU Rotary/Reid Overpass Reconstruction
POR 2024 #77 to add to the second “Ordered” the words “Brian Arrigo, Commissioner, Department of Conservation and Recreation” after the words “Governor Maura Healey”The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jun 10, 2024, p. 7.
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Voted yes (9), unanimous
Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Joan Pickett
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
E. Denise Simmons
O-2
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is currently in the process of planning a major reconstruction project of the BU Rotary/Reid Overpass, which will have significant impacts on the Cambridgeport neighborhood; and
The Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association has asked MassDOT to enhance their
civic engagement efforts on this project, including specific requests for a project web page and a community meeting once MassDOT's design consultant has completed their initial technical analysis and alternatives evaluation, before they undertake any significant engineering or design work; and
In their typical process, MassDOT would not have a public meeting for this project until the 25% design hearing, at which time MassDOT would have already selected a design approach and invested significant time and money into design development; and
By that point, MassDOT would be very reluctant to have meaningful engagement with the residents of Cambridge and Cambridgeport about a project that will have major effects on our city and our neighborhood for the next century; now therefore be it
ORDERED: That the Cambridge City Council go on record requesting that MassDOT begin engaging with Cambridge residents and the Cambridgeport neighborhood early and often throughout this process; and be it further
ORDERED: That the City Clerk be and hereby is requested to forward a suitably engrossed copy of this resolution to Monica Tibbits-Nutt, Secretary of MassDOT, Governor Maura Healey, and the Cambridge delegation in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate.