Past Meetings
December 2024
December 19: City Council, Ordinance Committee
December 17: Planning Board
December 4: City Council, Ordinance Committee
December 3: Community Information Session
November 2024
November 19: Planning Board
November 19: City Council, Ordinance Committee
November 12: Planning Board
October 2024
October 31: City Council, Economic Development and University Relations Committee Meeting
October 29: Community Open House
October 24: Community Information Session
August 2024
August 21: Housing Committee Meeting
June 2024
June 27: Housing Committee Meeting
May 8: Housing Committee Meeting
March 2024
In March 2024, the City Council passed Policy Order 2024 #37, which asked the Community Development Department “to work with the chairs of the Housing Committee to create zoning language that effectively promotes multifamily housing, including income-restricted affordable housing with the goal of having viable housing for everyone especially lower-income residents.”
September 2022
City Council Housing Committee on September 13, 2022.
March 2022
Planning Board on March 15, 2022.
January 2022
Planning Board on January 4, 2022.
Planning Board on January 18, 2022.
February - August 2021
In 2021, the City Council's Neighborhood and Long Term Planning, Public Facilities, Arts and Celebrations Committee and Housing Committee held public hearings to discuss the elimination of single and two-family only zoning and restrictions on the type of housing that can be built city-wide.
The City Council and Planning Board also considered this topic in the context of two zoning petitions that were proposed by groups of Cambridge residents:
Neither of the above petitions was acted upon, but as a result of the latter petition, the City Council asked the Community Development Department to work with the Planning Board to develop concepts and principles to eliminate single family and two family only zones in the City of Cambridge. The Planning Board met in 2022 and delivered a report to the City Council, which was discussed by the Housing Committee,
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