Asked the City Manager to direct the Community Development Department (CDD) and Law Department to prepare a draft of a separate zoning petition to strengthen Active Use requirements on Cambridge Street and the Porter Square PUD subdistricts for sites that redevelop as single parcels

How it started

Dec 8, 2025 · Proposed by Mayor Siddiqui, Councillor McGovern, Vice Mayor Azeem, and Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Dec 8, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted. 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 Dec 8, 2025 · from the council’s minutes · 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: Dec 8, 2025