Jan Devereux – CITY COUNCILLOR

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Some may recall the brief kerfuffle during the summer of 2018 when Bird dropped about a hundred of its electric scooters on Cambridge and Somerville streets without seeking permission from either city. The stealth launch got them a lot of publicity but ruffled feathers in both City Halls, and they were asked to leave after […]
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No Butt to Bite (But It May Come Back to Bite Us) On the evening of Tuesday, July 9th, the Planning Board met for the second time on the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO), and they failed to reach a consensus on how to guide the City Council in our continued deliberations on the petition. […]
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This is the second in a two-part post (read the first post). Here are my questions and suggestions for changes to the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay zoning: 1. It’s a market-based approach — the density multiples are calculated on today’s market values and construction costs. What happens when prices increase? Will we need even greater […]
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When the debate over ending rent control dominated city politics in the early 1990s I had just moved to Cambridge from Manhattan, so I was not involved in that fever-pitched battle. Now, some twenty-five years later another housing debate is roiling local politics, and as vice mayor my email inbox is overflowing with messages from […]
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