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The Community Development Departments collaborates with other City departments to conduct planning studies of varying scales, often with goals to rezone, solve a particular problem, or create documentation of a topic.

The Health and Environment Committee

Activities include family fun and games with live wildlife, truck climb-aboards, arts and crafts, water treatment plant open house, walks around Fresh Pond, live music, and more. Kids can become a junior ranger and all can learn about sustainability resources.

An area in Flagstaff Park is being converted to a meadow in the coming months in an attempt to allow more open areas of the City to be more natural. Adding natural areas to our parks and streetscapes will encourage a greater diversity of plant and insect species.

The Commission administers the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act (310 CMR 10.0), reviewing, permitting and inspecting projects in or adjacent to Cambridge’s wetlands, floodplains and water bodies.

Meeting minutes of the Public Planting Committee meeting held September 14, 2021

Meeting minutes of the Public Planting Committee meeting held October 19, 2022

Meeting minutes of the Public Planting Committee meeting held April 9, 2025

Meeting minutes of the Public Planting Committee meeting held September 30, 2020

The Green Ribbon Open Space Committee was appointed in 1999 to develop criteria for expanding and improving the city’s open space system.