City Council Meeting – June 16th, 2025
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City Manager’s Agenda
Reports and Communications
- #1 (CMA 2025 #159) A Federal update
- #2 (CMA 2025 #154) 5th Annual Cycling Safety Ordinance Report and the status and timeline for the completion of the Grand Junction Multiuse Path
- #4 (CMA 2025 #155) 2025 Parking Impact Report
- #5 (CMA 2025 #156) A response to the council’s request to research setting a maximum housing unit size
Appropriations and Grants
- #3 (CMA 2025 #155) Authorization request for the Renewable Energy and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction revolving fund
- #6 (CMA 2025 #156) $1,000,000 from the Federal Grant Stabilization Fund to support rental housing vouchers to be offered by the Cambridge Housing Authority
Policy Orders
Requests that the city…
- #1 (POR 2025 #88) require the Department of Transportation to study parking utilization on Broadway and the surrounding neighborhoods before installing bikelanes on Broadway
- #2 (POR 2025 #89) “suspend implementation of Broadway bike lanes”
- #3 (POR 2025 #90) prohibit the use of Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides on City-owned properties and by City contractors
- #4 (POR 2025 #91) apply for UNICEF’s Child-Friendly City certification
- #5 (POR 2025 #92) evaluate adjustments to meter enforcement hours on Broadway and designate 25 spaces as residential permit parking overnight
- #6 (POR 2025 #93) have the Cambridge Department of Transportation study the feasibility of modifying non-resident parking permit fees for households on Broadway
Charter Rights
- #1 (CMA 2025 #146) Appointments: Half Crown-Marsh Neighborhood Conservation District Commission – Appointments: Sarah Holt, Emily Oldshue, and Ruth Webb. Reappointments: Marie-Pierre Dillenseger, Donna Marcantonio, and Peter Schur
- #2 (CMA 2025 #147) Appointments: Avon Hill Neighborhood Conservation District Commission – Appointments: Nondita Mehrotra. Reappointments: Constantin von Wentzel, Heli Meltsner, McKelden Smith, Theresa
- #3 (CMA 2025 #145) Appointments: Historical Commission – Appointments: Florrie Darwin, Scott Kyle, and Michael Rogove. Reappointments: Chandra Harrington, Joseph Ferrara, Elizabeth Lyster, Yuting Zhang, gavin Kleespies, Paula Paris, and Kyle Sheffield.
- #4 (POR 2025 #86) That the council urge Governor Healey and MBTA leadership to amend the MBTA Alewife Station Complex redevelopment RFP to include eliminating untreated Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO), which lead to raw sewage spilling out into surrounding neighborhoods
All comments are from members of our comment team.
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