At 8:40pm I got into a long conversation that distracted me from the meeting so the absence of posts in the past hour is not indicative. Sorry? They're now on the RLUIPA-focused zoning amendment permitting religious uses more expansively than before.

The Marasao zoning petition is ordained 9-0.

Now up, the Biomed / Community Benefits morass.

Apparently Biomed agrees to pay some of is benefits faster than previously agreed-to:

Toner is opposed to the Biomed deal, because he feels like the project only garnered support because of East End House and they're not getting what was originally offered and agreed to.

And there we are. The Biomed / East Cambridge Community Enhancement Overlay district zoning is ordained 8-1 (PFT against). The Council then votes to finalize it.

That's the City Manager's agenda. EDS: "Don't leave Mr. City Manager, we have other fun things."

Policy orders. Pulls:

1 and 2 having passed, here we are on the St. James church/condominium conflict.

EDS spends 5 minutes defending her PO as not being a crackdown, but she exercises her charter right and "I yield the floor." So much for #3, see you in September.