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Meeting Name: Housing and Community Development Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 2/3/2021 6:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Virtual
Somerville
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208820 3208820OrderThat the Director of Inspectional Services discuss the reasoning for and methods of enforcing the ordinance requiring landlords to post their contact information.Work completed  Action details Not available
208828 3208828ResolutionThat the Administration discuss the feasibility of including information about tax deferral programs in mailings about initiatives like lead paint abatement.Work completed  Action details Not available
208985 3208985ResolutionThat the Director of Sustainability and Environment and others in the Administration work with this Council to convene a task force to provide recommendations to eliminate the use of natural gas and other fossil fuels in new buildings.Work completed  Action details Not available
209289 3209289OrderThat the Director of Inspectional Services provide preliminary feedback on how the zoning overhaul, if passed, will affect ISD staffing needs, practices, and systems.Work completed  Action details Not available
209566 3209566ResolutionThat the SomerVision 2040 Steering Committee consider adding two additional indicators to be explicitly measured as part of Commercial Development, Business & Arts: income equality, and number of worker-owned co-ops.Work completed  Action details Not available
209649 3209649OrderThat the Director of SPCD provide this Council with a prioritized list of the various neighborhood plans that the Administration has committed to or has proposed, with a timeline and work plan.Work completed  Action details Not available
210636 3210636OrderThat the City Solicitor provide the Committee on Housing and Community Development with an opinion on whether the Tenant Notification Act could lead to a fine, indefinitely, following a first offense.Work completed  Action details Not available
210987 3210987OrderThat the Director of SPCD update this Council’s Committee on Housing and Community Development on the Encore Casino's efforts to support Somerville small businesses per their Community Agreement.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
211130 3211130ResolutionThat the team leader of the Somerville Trotter Collaborative Report discuss with this Council the findings of the report and how the study could be best used to benefit the community as a whole.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
209140 4209140OrderThat the Director of SPCD develop with the Ward 6 Councilor language in the zoning ordinance to require that developers provide affordable commercial spaces.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
209288 4209288OrderThat the City Solicitor provide guidance on whether the City can take property by eminent domain to create affordable housing.Work completed  Action details Not available
209360 6209360OrderThat the Director of SPCD provide this Council, in conjunction with its FY21 budget review, a list of upcoming commercial development, including the square footage and linkage payment projections with corresponding payment dates.Work completed  Action details Not available
210380 7210380OrderThat the Directors of SPCD, Housing Stability, and Inspectional Services discuss with the Housing and Community Development Committee the anticipated impact and possible responses when the MA Eviction Moratorium expires on August 18.Kept in committee  Action details Not available