Asked the City Manager to work with relevant City departments and the recently formed coalition to consider options including consideration of costs and benefits to meet a 2050 25 year storm level of control of CSOs, update regulations for private development of stormwater, use of green infrastructure, and improve meaningful public outreach regarding ongoing sewer and stormwater investments, including the creation of a Combined Sewer Overflow Commission

How it started

Sep 29, 2025 · Proposed by Councillor Nolan and Vice Mayor Azeem: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Sep 29, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous · one absent)

Voted yes (8), unanimous

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy

Absent (1)

E. Denise Simmons

Roll call of Sep 29, 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. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 29, 2025

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2025-10-06). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.