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New housing construction is happening across much of Cambridge. In 2025, the City Council passed a change to the zoning ordinance that allows more housing to be built, including in neighborhoods that were zoned to restrict new housing before. The goal of this change was to address the housing shortage that has led to higher housing costs in Cambridge and the surrounding area.

Application to apply for a Special [Noise] Variance. Special Variances may be granted if the applicant shows that to bring the source of noise into compliance would constitute an unreasonable hardship on the applicant, community or other persons.

Cambridge GIS is now on Bluesky

It's almost the new year – and that means it’s time to renew your Cambridge parking permit! Starting December 1, 2024, the online permit renewal process opens.

Renew Cambridge Parking Permits Online Starting December 1, 2023

It's almost the new year – and that means it’s time to renew your Cambridge parking permit! Starting December 1, 2025, the online permit renewal process opens.

As part of the City of Cambridge’s Shade Is Social Justice program, temporary public art structures are being installed to provide shade and seating across the community to further the city’s efforts to address our warming world.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy this month, the Cambridge STEAM Initiative is also celebrating the life and legacy of Bob Moses, local civil rights activist and founder of The Algebra Project. The STEAM Initiative is co-leading a Math is a Civil Right movement alongside the Cambridge Public Schools Math Department and The Young People’s Project to advance Bob Moses’s belief that math is a civil right

The City is celebrating National Women's Business Month this October to recognize the importance of women-owned businesses and to highlight the women entrepreneurs in the local Cambridge economy.

The Cambridge Public Health Department (CPHD) strongly encourages residents to get a flu vaccine this fall in addition to maintaining your healthy, safe habits of wearing a face covering, handwashing, and practicing physical distancing as a way to slow the spread of both the flu and COVID-19.