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  • 1/7/2025

    Key Information on Multifamily Housing Zoning

    Looking to learn more about multifamily housing and zoning? Visit the Community Development Department's dedicated website to review important information, past presentations, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), find upcoming meetings, and sign up for updates to proposed changes.

  • 1/6/2025

    Doing Business with the City Workshop Series

    As part of the City’s Supplier Diversity Program, the Community Development and Purchasing Departments are hosting a three-part workshop series for business owners who are interested in learning more about the City’s procurement process. Workshops are aimed at demystifying the procurement process for business owners in three sections – small contracts, invitations to bid and written quotes, and request for proposals. Businesses are encouraged to come to one or all the workshops.

  • 1/2/2025

    Cambridge Awards $1 Million in ARPA Funds for Solar Panel Installation on Affordable Housing

    Cambridge has announced that two local affordable housing organizations have been awarded grant funding in support of the installation of solar panels on affordable housing in the City.

  • 12/20/2024

    Acquisition of Roseland and Frost Properties Announced; To Be Designated for New Affordable Housing

    The approximately one-acre parcel adjacent to Frost Terrace will be designated for new affordable housing.

  • 12/17/2024

    Cambridge Extends Historic Renewable Energy Opportunity to Residents, Businesses

    As a result of a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA), a new solar farm is being built in Illinois and Cambridge will receive credits for making new renewable energy available to the grid.

  • 12/11/2024

    Community Development Department Leadership Update

    Iram Farooq, Assistant City Manager of Community Development, is leaving the City to become the Managing Director of Campus Planning at Harvard University.

  • 12/11/2024

    Annual Housing Stock Update 2024

    CDD has completed its annual update to the stock of affordable housing units in the city.  There are now 8,931 affordable housing units in the city, a net increase of 340 affordable units from the 2023 total of 8,591 units. 

  • 11/27/2024

    Mass Ave Planning Study Working Group Meeting

    The next Working Group meeting for the Mass Ave Planning Study will focus on zoning for Mass Ave, specifically the areas of North Mass Ave and South of Porter Square. Additionally, the group will discuss the format and content of upcoming community meetings in January focused on design and planning for Porter Square.

  • 11/25/2024

    Cambridge Climate Committee Vacancy

    The Climate Committee is a volunteer group of community members who work together to provide feedback and ideas to the City on topics related to climate change.

  • 11/22/2024

    City of Cambridge Operations To Go Green

    Thanks to an innovative partnership among multiple local institutions and a new wind power project in North Dakota, all of the electricity used by Cambridge city buildings, schools and operations will be 100% carbon neutral starting in 2026.

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