Neighborhood Nine

For information about current planning efforts on Massachusetts Avenue bordering Neighborhood Nine see the Lower Massachusetts Avenue Study page.

The objective of a neighborhood study and subsequent updates is to identify planning issues in the neighborhood and articulate recommendations to address those issues. The study recommendations are the key part of the neighborhood study and updates. The recommendations are used not only to guide neighborhood planning efforts for the Community Development Department but in many cases are included as work items for other City departments when appropriate.

Recognizing the need to ensure that the recommendations put forth in the neighborhood studies remain current, the neighborhood planning staff works to update the neighborhood studies, reviewing recommendations to identify those obsolete, completed or remaining to be completed and to establish a schedule for outstanding items. In a more abbreviated version of the original study process, a series of public meetings is held for each update, and a Summary, Recommendations, and Action Plan document is produced.

2010 Neighborhood Study Update

The 2010 Neighborhood Study Update provided an opportunity to report back to the neighborhood on the status and progress made on the previous set of neighborhood recommendations and to get information on any new or outstanding issues facing the neighborhood that should become new recommendations. 

• 2010 Neighborhood Nine Study Update

2004 Neighborhood Study Update

The first Neighborhood Nine Study Update, published in 2004, represents the first such update completed for any neighborhood.

• 2004 Neighborhood Nine Study Update

Neighborhood Nine Study

This neighborhood study was conducted from 1993 to 1994 and issued in 1996.

• Neighborhood Nine Neighborhood Study

To request a printed copies of any neighborhood study please call Tracey Joyce in the Community Planning Division at 617/349-4650 or email her at tjoyce@cambridgema.gov.

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  Successful co-housing in Neighborhood Nine.

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  Corcoran Park playground on a winter day.

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  Masse Hardware, a long time neighborhood business.

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  Typical residential street in Neighborhood Nine.

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  View of Walden Square high rise.

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  Residential street in Neighborhood Nine.

• Cambridge Common 
• Danehy Park - Bound by Garden, Sherman and New Streets
• Garden Street Glen/Roethlisberger Memorial Park - Garden Street at the corner of Ivy Street
• St. Peter’s Field - Sherman Street and Cadberry Road
• Raymond Park/Corcoran Field - Walden at Raymond Street

• Shared Use Off Leash Dog Run: Corcoran Field - 6:00 A. M. to 9:00 A. M

• Map of Parks and Playgrounds

• Avon Hill Neighborhood Conservation District, administered by the Cambridge Historical Commission
• Concord-Alewife Planning Study. Completed 2005. 
• Map of Farmers Markets in or near Cambridge
• Harvard University and Lesley University Town Gown Reports. Annual. 
• Harvard Square Advisory Committee and other Harvard Square Links 
• Harvard Square Commercial District 
• Harvard Square Design Project 
• Harvard Square Map 
• Old Cambridge Historic District, administered by the Cambridge Historical Commission 
• Porter Square Commercial District 
• Porter Square Design Project 
• Porter Square Map 
• Yerxa Road Underpass Project
• Neighborhood Organizations

 

 

 

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• 1996 Neighborhood Nine Neighborhood Study

• 2004 Neighborhood Nine Study Update

• 2010 Neighborhood Nine Study Update

Neighborhood Planner: Daniel Wolf, dwolf@cambridgema.gov, 617/349-4618