Ordinance Committee meeting – July 8, 2020 - MINUTES
Date: Wed, July 8, 2020, 5:00pm (Remote Meeting)
Present at the hearing: Councillor McGovern (co-chair), Councillor Carlone (co-chair), Councillor Mallon, Councillor Nolan, Mayor Siddiqui, Councillor Sobrinho-Wheeler, Councillor Zondervan
Members Arriving Late:
Councillor Toomey
Members Absent: Councillor Simmons
The Ordinance Committee met to conduct a public hearing on a petition to add an Affordable Housing Ordinance to the City’s Zoning Ordinances.
Councillor Dennis Carlone called the meeting to Order at 5:10pm. He explained that the governor's executive order issued on March 1, 2020 has authorized the use of remote participation, participation at meetings of the city's public bodies in response to the threat posed to the public by the COVID-19 virus, and that the city council was holding this meeting remotely.
Councillor Marc McGovern made a presentation about the procedural history of the proposed Affordable Housing Ordinance (hereinafter “AHO”). He explained that the City Council first started having formal meetings about an Affordable Housing Ordinance around November 2018. He explained that the Housing Committee held five meetings in which about 170 people spoke about the AHO. There have been five Ordinance Committee meetings in which about 50 people spoke on the subject. The Planning Board had three meetings related to the AHO in 2018-2019 with about 34 public commentators. There were 15 neighborhood meetings with staff presentations, seven open houses in public spaces across the city on the AHO. The Housing Committee held a meeting on the AHO last term in which they discussed affordable housing financing where about 80 people spoke. In all there were about 250 public commentators and 35 public events and meetings to discuss this topic.
Councillor Marc McGovern explained that the AHO was refiled in February 2020 but sat on the table due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The petition was refiled again on June 8. He explained that the Planning Board would schedule a meeting on the petition sometime in August. He explained that the Ordinance Committee will have another meeting on the AHO in late August or early September. Councillor McGovern stated there have been over 40 amendments that have been added to during this process.
Staff members from Community Development (hereinafter “CDD”) made a presentation to the Committee. Representing CDD were Iram Farooq, Assistant City Manager for Community Development, Jeff Roberts, Director of zoning and development, Chris Cotter, housing director, Cassie Arnaud, senior housing planner, Daniel Messplay, Senior manager for zoning and development, Erik Thorkildsen, urban designer in the community planning group and Arthur Goldberg from the city solicitor's office.
She explained that this process dated back to 2014 when the city council passed ab order asking us to determine what the city would need to do in order to create 1000 new affordable housing units by 2020. Staff met with various stakeholders and the people who are involved in development of affordable housing and, in 2015, presented a report to the Coty Council with a series of recommendations. The city has gradually been implementing those action steps in the intervening years.
Since then the City Council has adopted and increased incentives zoning provisions which is essentially a funding contribution to Affordable Housing Trust that comes from non-residential development in the city.
In addition, City funds have been allocated as part of the operating budget to at the behest of city council to the Affordable Housing Trust and, in principle, those funds were coming from building permit fees or percentage of building permit fees.
Since the adoption of Community Preservation Act, the city has consistently and allocated the maximum amount possible, which is 80% of the funds, to the creation and preservation of affordable housing. The City also in 2017, adopted changes to the inclusionary zoning provisions which is the percentage of new residential construction that is required to be affordable to people who are families who make 80% of the area median income or less. That used to be it used to net out to just over 12% and has now been increased to 20%.
The Affordable Housing Ordinance would allow additional density and changes to the zoning ordinance that would facilitate the creation of affordable housing, make additional sites available and streamline the permitting process for buildings that are 100% affordable and permanently affordable.
She explained that there are only a handful of people or entities in the city who develop affordable housing and most of them are nonprofit. She explained that every affordable housing project in the city in recent years has required significant subsides from city, state and federal entities.
One of the cornerstones of the petition is ensuring that affordable housing is equitably distributed throughout the city. Currently, there are parts of the city that do not have any, or very little, affordable housing while there are larger concentrations in other parts of the city.
The principal reasons for the disparity are the difficulty in competing with market-rate developers for sites. The second reason is the zoning itself, which creates significant limitations; for instance, some districts do not permit multifamily housing.
She explained that historical segregation has concentrated affordable housing in areas of the city thought to be undesirable. She explained that this systemic segregation has followed through in the current zoning ordinance.
Councillor Marc McGovern moved to extend public comment sign up until 6pm.
The motion passed by the following roll call vote:
Yeas:
Councillor Carlone, Councillor Mallon, Councillor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Simmons, Councillor Sobrinho- Wheeler and Councillor Zondervan
Absent: Councillor Toomey
Jeff Roberts gave a general overview of zoning in Cambridge. He explained that through a provision in state law, affordable housing developments currently have the option of seeking zoning relief through a comprehensive permit process but there is a risk of an appeal and the process can be time consuming and cost prohibitive.
The effect of the affordable housing overlay would be to provide an alternative to the process of seeking zoning relief by creating an alternative set of development standards, that would specifically apply to affordable housing.
Those standards are intended to enable greater density to make affordable housing development feasible to provide a predictable as of right permitting process and to apply city wide, including in some of those areas that currently have more restrictive zoning.
He noted that the city's green building requirements, which were just updated last year, would continue to be applicable to these developments. Those green building requirements would not be waived or relieved under the Affordable Housing overlay.
All developments under the proposed overlay, regardless of their size and their location, would be subject to an advisory design review process conducted by the planning board. The idea behind this was to create and shared vision for the qualities that were desired in new affordable housing.
Councillor Carlone opened public comment at 6:00pm.
Margaret Drury, 1 Dudley Court, Cambridge stated that she supported ordination of the proposed affordable housing zoning overlay. Due to the soaring costs of housing many black, brown and low-income residents have suffered displacement or the threat of displacement. Statistics show that black brown and low-income Cambridge residents are three times as likely as other residents to become infected with the corona virus. People who cannot afford to stay in their homes often end up in overcrowded under resourced, shared accommodations, where it is impossible to stay six feet away from other residents. more affordable housing is desperately needed. Without an affordable housing overlay, nonprofit builders of affordable housing will consistently be outbid by market rate developers can pay more and act more quickly than nonprofit developers. Nonprofit developers are hampered by their need to assemble complicated financing, including financing for the future operating costs for 100% affordable building. With the modest increase in density allowed in the city wide affordable housing overlay, along with more predictable review process, developers have 100% permanently affordable housing will be able to take advantage of building opportunities all over the city, and to spread the high cost of land and construction across more units, making them better able to compete against for profit developers and better able to fulfill their mission of decent and affordable housing for all members of the community. Most important of all, the overlay would go a long way towards ending the increased de facto segregation in Cambridge This segregation is neither equitable nor defensible.
Brennan Waters, 466 Cambridge Street in East Cambridge. The community is hurt whenever a family has to leave Cambridge because the rent was raised and whenever new parents who love the city move out because they can't afford to buy a house or a condo here or whenever someone who works in Cambridge or even works for the City of Cambridge, can't afford to live here. She supports the affordable housing overlay.
Allan Sadun, 17 pleasant place urged committee to forward the petition to city council for approval. He urged the committee to reject any amendments that would further restrict the set of possible developments or sites eligible for the affordable housing overlay. In California, there was a bill called sb 35 that was passed to streamline the approval of affording housing affordable housing developments. One affordable housing developer said last week that the bill reduced their average approval time from seven years to four months. That's a 95% reduction of costs on lawyers, consultants, public relations, etc. The biggest barrier to creating affordable housing is the fact that it is so hard to buy land for affordable housing to be built.
James Zall, 203 Pemberton St, Unit 6, in Cambridge, there is no bigger and more consequential inequality than restrictive zoning. What started as a system for segregating housing by race and class, has evolved into a complex skein of policies and restrictions on height with density and other factors of building. The rules have been knotted so tightly that about 60% of the current housing, including buildings that most people like and admire, just couldn't be built today. And yet some are trying to restrict housing even further by such means is infrastructure impact certifications, and neighborhood historic committees. Not enough housing is being built. A start on reforming the restrictive zoning system doesn't have to wait on federal action on rule grants from the state legislature, or approval from the city manager. It's up to the city council to begin to reverse decades of damage by ordaining the affordable housing overlay promptly.
Carolyn Fuller, 12 Douglass Street, spoke in support of the AHO. She hopes zoning is no longer allowed to be the tool used to bifurcate the city into the haves and the have nots. Restrictive zoning is currently hampering the city’s ability to reach stated affordable housing goals. It is time to loosen those restrictions for 100% affordable housing.
Jade Sylvan, 502 Green Street in Cambridge, lives in a multifamily three-story home that would probably not be allowed to be built under a lot of the restrictions that are currently in place. She stated that she supports the Affordable Housing Overlay.
David Sullivan, 16 Notre Dame Avenue in North Cambridge, strongly supports the proposed affordable housing overlay. He believed the housing crisis in Cambridge has become worse over the last few years. It is important to address the long history of redlining and other racial segregation that has occurred in the past. Urged committee not to adopt amendments that will dramatically weaken the purposes of this overlay. The purpose is to give affordable housing developers a chance to compete fairly in all neighborhoods of the city, not just some.
Loren Crowe, 8 Museum Way in East Cambridge. She supports the affordable housing Overlay. Council has a mandate to pass the AHO. City should choose to shift zoning ordinance from one that preserves the status quo to one that enables a more just community to be built.
Christopher Schmidt, 17 Laurel street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The affordable housing overlay would help find the opportunities for new affordable housing throughout the city. The median price to purchase a single-family home is nearly twice that of a condominium. Despite decades of families being priced out, it is extremely important to find new ways to make homes available for those who do not make the median area median income. Please pass the affordable housing overlay as soon as possible and move on to so much more.
Esther Hanig, 136 Pine Street in Cambridge. The passage of the Affordable Housing overlay would help to restore both some diversity and social justice to the city. According to the 2017 Cambridge Community Needs Assessment, housing affordability is the most pressing issue that Cambridge currently faces. While housing affordability is a challenge for many there are vulnerable subpopulations that face particular challenges in this issue, including Black or African Americans. The neighborhood with the lowest rate of affordable housing is West Cambridge, the percentage of affordable housing is 1.3% and only 2.2% of the population is black. Urged council to pass the overlay quickly so that the city can begin to meet the need for more affordable housing, create true economic and racial diversity in all neighborhoods.
Jackson Moore-Otto, 9 Doane Street. Strongly supports the Affordable Housing Overlay. The city needs abundant housing that includes the affordable housing overlay.
Peter Williams, 35 Homer Avenue in West Cambridge. Strongly supports the Affordable Housing Overlay. Cambridge is a wonderful place to live but right now, only the wealthy can afford to actually buy a home here. The restrictions that lead to this unaffordability have explicitly racist roots. The people who designed the policies might be gone, but many of the policies are saying remain, and even more of their consequences linger.
Eva Martin Blythe, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge. Spoke in support of the Affordable Housing Overlay. The city needs for more quality, affordable multi-family housing. The inequalities between neighborhoods are the result of decades of economic power and control.
Susan Schlesinger, 34 Glenwood Avenue in Cambridge port. She is a member of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund board. She urged the city council to act quickly on the passage of the Affordable Housing overlay. She asked the council to pass this ordinance in substantially the same form as its been presented tonight. She reminded the council that the planning board reviewed the affordable housing Overlay and sent its approval of the ordinance to the council. Last year, there was a poll where a majority of respondents were in favor of the affordable housing overlay.
Dan Eisner, 6 Bristol Street. The city's zoning is a quintessential example of systemic racism. Exclusionary zoning was established about a century ago to ensure that certain neighborhoods would remain exclusive, wealthy and racially homogenous. To this very day, Cambridge is highly segregated because these laws demand it. It leads to highly disparate life outcomes. The affordable housing overlay is a step toward rectifying these injustices and fixing this historical wrong. It has become nearly impossible to build affordable housing in Cambridge, due to not only restrictive zoning, but also because of the high cost of acquiring land, the overlay will make building affordable housing much more financially feasible. This is why it is essential that the overlay not be amended further, and why it must be passed as is.
Cathleen Higgins, 345 Norfolk Street in Cambridge. She spoke in support of the affordable housing Overlay. The AHO is about righting the wrongs of racist zoning policies that have resulted in racially segregated neighborhoods in Cambridge.
Bill Boehm, 18 Laurel Street. Spoke in favor of passing the affordable housing overlay. Nearly all public justifications of zoning rests on the constitutionally permissible goals of protecting the health safety, morals and general welfare. But zones established into these goals have become more restrictive without substantial justification of the health or safety benefits of lower density. And across Cambridge's history, the most restrictive zones have unfailingly remained the whitest and wealthiest in the city. The affordable housing overlay is a modest step in the right direction. It will produce additional units of affordable housing while beginning to redress a systematic, systemic racist structure.
Gabe Colombo, 16 Chauncy Street, architecture graduate student at Harvard. Strongly supports the ordination of the affordable housing loan overlay and much more action to encourage and increase the amount of affordable housing citywide. Segregation was never an accident; single family zoning and apartment bans began as racist tools to deny African Americans and other people of color access to housing and create exclusive white enclaves. The areas of Cambridge that have the most restrictive apartment bans have the lowest number of affordable housing units and these also happened to be the places that have been historically zoned most restrictive and have the fewest black residents in the city. He supports passing the AHO. He asked the council to consider lowering the 80% AMI cap for affordable housing occupancy in at least some instances.
Jonathan Behrens, 115 Hampshire Street. Strongly supports the affordable housing overlay. November's election gave a clear mandate in support of the AHO. He urged the council to pass the affordable housing overlay rapidly and without compromising it with amendments.
Alexander Roederer, 119 Harvard Street. The committee should quickly pass the affordable housing overlay as a modest first step toward creating more affordable housing in our city. Rent in Cambridge is really high. Some people have decided to leave Massachusetts altogether and relocate. The affordable housing overlay is a good first step and it should be passed as quickly as possible without more amendments. This is an issue of fairness, of environmental prudence and it just makes good economic sense for Cambridge.
Lori Thomas, 111 Magazine Street. Urged the council to pass the affordable housing overlay as quickly as possible without further amendment.
Luis Mejias, 18 Plymouth Street. The barriers put in place that perpetuate the inequities and racism of redlining need to be done away with; single family zoning or rather bans on multifamily housing is just another form of redlining both racial and economic. Urged committee to move the affordable housing overlay forward.
Pawel Latawiec, 2 Earhart Street. Spoke in support of the affordable housing overlay. A key component will be to reduce the soft costs of affordable housing construction. According to the linkage Nexus study, these make up over 22% of total development costs a good portion of these costs, which the AHO can diminish, go toward lawyers, consultants and banks.
Charles Franklin, 162 Hampshire Street. Urged committee to move the affordable housing overlay forward to the council with a favorable recommendation. Cambridge does not need more luxury single family homes in the heart of the city. He would also like to see the income range expanded both up and down and with mixed income requirements so that everyone can afford to live here.
Richard Krushnic, 20 Oak Street. He stated that the AHO is the best possible next step that the city can take to create more affordable housing. He recommended adding a 20% requirement for homeownership units. He recommended a 20% requirement for three-bedroom units or larger.
Suzanne Blier, 5 Fuller Place. Sher strongly supports ending zoning for single family homes throughout the city. She stated that the city needs to fund people to be able to buy their homes.
Tina Alu, 113 and a half pleasant Street. She spoke in support of the affordable housing overlay. One definition of equity is described as fairness in procedures, processes and the distribution of resources. Equity exists when disparities in the outcomes experienced by historically underrepresented populations have been eliminated. Current zoning laws make housing more segregated and less affordable. Although prohibiting multifamily and townhouse development in certain areas of the city and inflexible standards regarding height, setbacks and parking don't explicitly discriminate by race. They effectively exclude families of colors and those with low in mind incomes from entire neighborhoods in the city. Areas that were zoned the most restrictively in Cambridge is 1943 rezoning have dramatically fewer black residents than the rest of the city today. The neighborhoods which have the least restrictive bans on new housing continue to be the most racially diverse. The overlay would be an important step in achieving equity.
Jim Stockard, 141 Oxford Street, is a member of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. A primary goal for the city is to increase the number of homes for people of modest means. The housing authority has a waiting list of thousands of people. The most recent affordable housing development had ten applications for every apartment available. The affordable housing overlay is a very good next step. Affordable housing developers have a very hard time acquiring property on which to provide these homes. He strongly urged the committee to pass the affordable housing overlay.
George Metzger, 90 Antrim Street. The affordable housing overlay petition corrects patterns of development that denied lower income people and people of color from choice and where they are not able to live in Cambridge. A pattern of racial and economic alignment has denied black and brown people an equal opportunity to live in a neighborhood of their choice. As a community, we need this council to adopt this overlay.
Jessica Schmidt, a resident of Cambridge for over 15 years and lives at 17 Laurel Street. Making housing more accessible to people can only benefit the community. She is in favor of affordable housing.
Burhan Azeem, 35 Speridakis Terrace. We are now looking at a time when perhaps a third of renters are not able to pay rent. We have massive unemployment and perhaps are heading into a great depression and certainly a great recession. Now is not the time to take slow action. Over this year City Hall has passed many bills that have been difficult to pass, but we know we needed to get them done. This is another bill that we need to get done and we need to get it done soon.
Jessica Sheehan, 99 Norfolk Street. She spoke in support of passage of the affordable housing overlay. The overlay will not solve the housing crisis. The crisis extends well beyond Cambridge and was over a half century in the making from the racist redlining maps that still look uncomfortably similar to our city's current zoning. No one piece of legislation is going to undo that damage and certainly not overnight. The overlay is a modest step in the right direction.
Aaron Rosenthal, 88 Hancock Street. Affordable housing is one of the most important issues facing the city. He wants the city to pass the affordable housing overlay as a first step to addressing the housing crisis in Cambridge. Housing is a fundamental problem in the city, which exacerbates issues our community is facing discrimination, inequality, homelessness, education and climate change just to name a few. Currently, the price of housing largely restricts Cambridge to the wealthiest individuals. The affordable housing overlay would help to build more apartment buildings.
Nancy Alach, 346 concord avenue in West Cambridge. Spoke in favor of the affordable housing overlay. The overlay is an important next step to starting to address the affordable housing crisis in Cambridge.
Lauren Curry, 3 Concord Avenue. Spoke in favor of the overlay in order to provide housing for many waiting families.
Jean Hannon, 7 Woodrow Wilson Court, spoke in support of the affordable housing overlay zoning petition. She was born and raised in Cambridge but can only afford to live here because she found an affordable unit.
Josh Cohen, 276 Huron Avenue, is a developer of affordable housing across the Northeast. He explained that affordable aousing is driven by the requirements of his funders. Affordable housing meets a need that the conventional real estate markets do not meet. Because below market, affordable rents do not satisfy the economic return needs of investors affordable developers need public funding. The AHO will unleash innovation and transfer tremendous power to the City of Cambridge to guide affordable housing through its funding mechanisms. With the AHO local affordable housing developers will be pursuing exciting, innovative, socially conscious, environmentally forward-thinking developments in every neighborhood across the city.
Teresa Cardosi, 7 Woodrow Wilson Court. A lot of time was already put into negotiations for the modifications to the original 100% affordable housing overlay plan. And as no plan is ever perfect, there will most likely be more requests for changes to the hundred percent affordable house Housing overlay. We cannot afford to wait any longer during this period of COVID-19, in which many people are without income, more and more residents will be displaced once the eviction moratorium is lifted. without additional affordable housing the rate of income equal inequality, which is already high will surge because only those with higher incomes will be able to afford to live in Cambridge.
Florrie Darwin, 7 Follen Street, and I'm a member of the Affordable Housing trusts and I've been working on affordable housing issues in Cambridge for over 25 years. And I really thrilled to hear all the support that my co Kenta bridges have been calling in and voicing for the affordable housing overlay. I agree with the all the important reasons for passing it and for passing it very quickly. It's been hanging around and it's been massaged and tweaked for a long time and it's in good shape now. The affordable housing is always at the top of the list of major concerns for the City of Cambridge. And although we can't change the real estate market and the direction that it's heading in, we can there there's many leavers at our desk. buzzle to make it possible to develop more affordable housing. And we've done a huge job on that so far in Cambridge, and this will be a very important lever to continue making progress in that direction.
Kavish Gandhi, 115 Hampshire Street, spoke in favor of the affordable housing overlay. These changes to zoning standards and the permitting process will allow nonprofit affordable developers to be much more competitive for new properties. He supports bolder, faster action for much, much more than just the affordable housing overlay. It is shameful that Massachusetts homeless population has increased by over 30% in the last 10 years and similarly that Cambridge point in population has increased by almost 15% since 2012. And study after study has shown that rising housing prices are the strongest drivers of this change. With the threat of hundreds or thousands or hundreds of 10s of thousands of evictions looming due to the financial burden of the pandemic. This is the time for strong action to build more affordable housing and to embrace housing for solutions. We cannot continue to remain complacent and treat the disgrace of homelessness and rent burdened ship as the status quo.
Noah Sawyer,1035 Cambridge Street, real estate for Just-A-Start, one of Cambridge's nonprofit affordable housing developers. Spoke in support for the overlay. There have been several properties over the last few years where that Just-A-Start made what they thought were aggressive offers on and were outbid by developers looking to build luxury housing.
Gilberte Houbart, 51 Chilton Street in Cambridge. The city has lost about 18% of the tree canopy in the past 10 years. Trees in the cities are critical to health, both physical and mental. Tree protection should never be left to the discretion of the developers as is the case in the current proposal. When you look at an aerial view of Cambridge, it is very clear that West Cambridge has most of the canopy in the City.
Justin Saif, 259 Hurley Street. Spoke in support of the affordable housing overlay. The affordable housing overlay is a great first step to address the housing crisis in Cambridge. Housing prices have risen astronomically in recent years, forcing many Cambridge residents to move elsewhere. Survey data shows that the housing crisis is by far the number one concern of Cambridge residents and we have done far too little to address that concern. It will provide for opportunities to build affordable housing in all parts of Cambridge, including parts of Cambridge, where there is little to no affordable housing. The affordable housing overlay does not go far enough and should allow larger buildings in the current limits, particularly if any of these additional limits are adopted.
Fritz Donovan, 42 Irving Street. The key to quick housing for a lot of people is density. Density now is lethal. Even an elevator in a high rise is lethal. We have a huge responsibility on the shoulders of our nine councillors to put together an affordable housing overlay that serves all the key points.
Saul Tannenbaum, 16 Cottage Street. Spoke in support of the affordable housing overlay. This ordinance does not go far enough to undo the legacy of race and class that underlies the land use patterns that define Cambridge. While passing this ordinance will be an achievement of which the city should be proud, it is only a first step.
Aaron Homer, 90 Grozier Road. This is a chance to make progress on two of the most critical problems of our time; climate change and ongoing racial inequities and housing. Urged the council to pass the overlay quickly and without amendments.
Jacquelyn Fahey Sandell, 8 Clinton Street in Cambridge. She supports affordable housing but want developers to abide by current height and setback rules. The pictures that were shown of the unit on Bigelow and the Auburn court, are great examples of affordable housing that can work within the city and within the neighborhoods and keep the feel of the neighborhood. The proposed regulation allows many buildings to go up by 20 feet or more, which is extremely high, and not just a story here and there.
Kathleen Moore, 9 Doane Street, asked council to move forward quickly with the affordable housing Overlay.
Councillor Marc McGovern moved to close public comment and recess this meeting to a date to be announced.
Councillor Dennis Carlone requested that community development does a drawing of what the impact will be in a district a since the focus is seems to be West Cambridge.
Councillor McGovern’s motion to close public comment passed by the following roll call vote:
Yeas: Councillor Carlone, Councillor Mallon, Councillor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Simmons, Councillor Sobrinho- Wheeler and Councillor Zondervan
Absent: Councillor Toomey
Councillor McGovern withdrew his motion to recess the meeting.
Vice Mayor Mallon requested that the community development department provide some illustrations. She has questions about the dimensional standards. She wanted visual explanation of the difference between a parcel line versus a district line.
Councillor Nolan asked the CDD provide a best estimate of the number of units that the AHO will provide city wide and how they would be distributed across neighborhoods. She was also interested in examples of projects that the city has lost in the past.
Councillor Marc McGovern pointed out that the council debated over 60 Amendments last term, of which 46 were adopted. There will not be one hundred percent agreement on everything in the ordinance.
Councillor E. Dennis Simmons requested that the Committee set a deadline for councillors to submit their questions about the AHO ahead of the next meeting.
Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui stated that the housing liaison would be meeting through the summer on the overlapping issue of housing instability.
Councillor Dennis Carlone stated that if any councillor have question that they would like answered by CDD to please send them by email to the chair and the clerk by July 17th at 5:00 PM.
A motion by Councillor Marc McGovern to recess the meeting passed by the following roll call vote:
Yeas: Councillor Carlone, Councillor Mallon, Councillor McGovern, Councillor Nolan, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Simmons, Councillor Sobrinho- Wheeler and Councillor Zondervan
Absent: Councillor Toomey
1. 100% Affordable Housing Overlay Zoning Petition 2020. REFERRED TO ORDINANCE COMMITTEE IN COUNCIL JUNE 10, 2020
RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN Next: 8/19/2020 5:00 PM
2. A presentation was received from Councillor McGovern regarding the Affordable Housing Ordinance.
RESULT: PLACED ON FILE
3. A presentation was received from the Community Development Department regarding the Affordable Housing Ordinance.
RESULT: PLACED ON FILE