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POR 2025-106

Asked the City Manager to direct the Community Development Department, in collaboration with the Finance Department, to conduct a comprehensive review of current permitting fees for residential development projects, with a focus on identifying opportunities to create a tiered fee structure that reduces or eliminates fees entirely particularly for smaller-scale and affordable housing developments

How it started
Aug 4, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors Toner, Simmons, and Wilson, Vice Mayor Azeem, and Councillor Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Aug 4, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (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 Aug 4, 2025 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number (AR 2025 #44 open, 346 days). Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
Order adopted as amended, unanimousAug 4, 2025
Referred for reportAR 2025-44Sep 8, 2025
Awaiting answer⏳ pending346 days and counting

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Aug 4, 2025