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POR 2025-137

Asked the City Manager to work with the Community Development Department to draft zoning language based on the proposed recommendations, review the feasibility of the proposed recommendations with developers, and consider the possibility of having AHO construction be exempt from the proposed zoning

How it started
Sep 29, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors Nolan and Wilson: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Sep 29, 2025 · Held by charter right one member's right to pause; the item returns at the next meeting
Dec 11, 2025 · Heard in committee: Health & Environment Committee testimony and discussion; any committee vote is in the committee's minutes
Jan 26, 2026 · ↪ Referred onward for further work, 8–1 (Referred · two not recorded)
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Voted yes (8)

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Ayesha M. Wilson
  • Cathie Zusy
  • E. Denise Simmons

Voted no (1)

  • Paul F. Toner

Not in the portal's roll call (2)

  • Ayah Al-Zubi
  • Tim Flaherty

The legacy portal's roll call omits Councillor Al-Zubi is a stale-roster artifact, not an absence. She was seated from the start of the term: sworn in and voting Jan 5, 2026, marked present in this meeting's minutes, and in every roll call recorded after.

Roll call of Jan 26, 2026 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Sep 29, 2025