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Ordinance 2025-6 Final Publication
CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
In the Year Two Thousand and Twenty-Five
AN ORDINANCE
That the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Cambridge be amended on a Zoning Petition by the Cambridge City Council to amend the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance in Article 11.000 with the intent to amend a subsection of the Cannabis Uses standards, Section 11.800 of the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance, with the intent to remove the provision that prohibits the packaging or repackaging of cannabis products on the premises of a Cannabis Retail Store as follows:
11.803.1 Cannabis Retail Stores.
(a)
Cannabis Retail Stores shall be allowed only in those districts set forth in the Table of Use Regulations (Section 4.30 of this Zoning Ordinance) and special districts and overlay districts whose use regulations are based on those districts, subject to any limitations set forth in the regulations of those districts. In the Business A-1 district, only applicants that have been designed as Economic Empowerment Applicants or certified as eligible to participate in the Social Equity Program by the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission may be permitted and such designation or eligibility shall be maintained.
(b)
A Cannabis Retail Store shall not be permitted within one thousand and eight hundred (1,800) feet of another Cannabis Retail Store, except if the applicant has been designated as an Economic Empowerment Applicant or certified as eligible to participate in the Social Equity Program by the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission and maintains that designation and/or certification.
In City Council June 9, 2025.
Adopted by a yea and nay vote:-
Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0.
Attest:- Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk
A true copy;
ATTEST:-
Paula M. Crane
Interim City Clerk
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Planning Board of the City of Cambridge will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.
Opened on May 20, 2025 located at Remote participation on Zoom (see details below) on a Zoning Petition by Mushla Marasao, et al., to amend the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance in Sections 5.28.21, 8.22.1, 8.22.2, and Table 5.1 with the intent to Remove gross floor area (GFA) and floor area ratio (FAR) limitations for religious uses, permit conforming additions to nonconforming structures without limitation for religious uses, and permit religious uses with the same dimensional limitations as residential uses except that in a Residence C-1 district permeable open space would not be required, buildings would be permitted up to 6 stories and 74 feet above grade without meeting inclusionary housing requirements, and buildings taller than 35 feet and 3 stories above grade would not be required to notify neighbors and hold a meeting.
This hearing will be on Zoom Webinar. Go to www.cambridgema.gov/planningboard to view petition documents, send written comments before the hearing, or learn how to join the hearing online or by phone. Contact the Community Development Department at cddzoning@cambridgema.gov or 617-349-4600 with questions. Written comments received by 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the meeting will be considered by Board Members in advance of the meeting. Comments received later will be entered into the record.
LEGAL NOTICE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Notice is hereby given that a public meeting will be held on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 6:00 PM to consider the following matters under M.G.L. Ch. 40C and Ch. 2.78 of the Code of the City of Cambridge:
This meeting will be held online. The public may participate via Zoom (https://zoom.us/) from a phone, tablet or computer. To join the meeting, register at https://tinyurl.com/CHCjul2025 or call (301)715-8592. Webinar ID#: 844 2047 5000. Meeting materials at https://tinyurl.com/CHistComm. Written comments received by 5:00 P.M. the day before the meeting will be considered by commissioners in advance of meeting. Comments received later will be entered into the record. Email: histcomm@cambridgema.gov.
Public Hearing: Alterations to Designated Properties
Case 5307: 15 Mt Auburn St., by President & Fellows of Harvard College. Demolish existing building and construct a new 3-story building.
Case 5314: 1 Brattle Sq., by BCSP 9 OBS Property LLC o/b/o DISH Wireless. Install telecom antennas on penthouse roof in two concealment structures.
Chandra Harrington, Chair
Cambridge Week , 6/26/25, 7/3/25
Cases may be taken out of order and approved at the beginning of the meeting. Persons who wish to have a hearing on a case should notify the Commission in advance or be present at the beginning of the meeting when the Consent Agenda is discussed.
Ordinance 2025-5 Final Publication
CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
In the Year Two Thousand and Twenty-Five
AN ORDINANCE
In amendment to the Ordinance entitled “Cambridge Municipal Code”
That the Municipal Code of the City of Cambridge be amended in Chapter 5.50 Cannabis Business Permitting with the intent of: (1) adding a new definition for “Registered Marijuana Dispensary (RMD) or “Medical Marijuana Treatment Center (MTC)”, (2) revising the applicability of the ordinance to now apply to any proposed Cannabis Business seeking licensure from the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, (3) clarifying the timelines for the issuance of Cannabis Business permits, (4) clarifying and revising permitting requirements in order to obtain a Cannabis Business permit pursuant to the ordinance, (5) removes the annual submission requirements of an Operations and Logistics Plan for approval by the Cambridge Transportation Department and Cambridge Police Department. (6) revises packaging requirements for Cannabis Retail Stores, and (7) revising other parts of the ordinance for internal consistency.
In City Council June 9, 2025.
Adopted by a yea and nay vote:-
Yeas 9; Nays 0; Absent 0.
Attest:- Paula M. Crane, Interim City Clerk
A true copy;
ATTEST:-
Paula M. Crane
Interim City Clerk
NOTE: Pursuant to the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 32A, Tercentenary Edition, the ordinance as aforesaid which exceeds in length eight octavo pages of ordinary book print may be summarized for publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the city with the further provision that said Ordinance may be examined and obtained at the City Clerk’s Office during office hours and that any objection to its invalidity by reason of any defect in the procedure of adoption may only be made within ninety days after the posting or the second publication.
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