Jan Devereux – CITY COUNCILLOR

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Some may recall the brief kerfuffle during the summer of 2018 when Bird dropped about 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 feather in both City Halls, and they asked to leave after a few […]
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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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