Upzoning presentation Slide Deck (PSNA 11.21.24)

Linked below is the slide deck on the proposed Cambridge up-zoning proposal presented at the Porter Square Neighborhood Association. 

Slidedeck PSNA Upzoning Presentation 11.21.24)

One resident, writes to the PSNA listserve about the data presented here:

​Great slide presentation (see attached) providing comprehensive background material to serve as context for discussion of the proposed upzoning ordinance.  Wish I had been there to hear presentation!  To give an example of what I learned just glancing through the slides, apparently almost 2/3 of my fellow condo dwellers in Cambridge (62%) actually rent their units.  Since moving to my current home in 2019, I wondered why my building was so transient?  Now I know why! 
 
A 2nd example of what I learned reviewing these slides: there are roughly 72,000 people working in the Cambridge biotech sector -- just imagine the impacts that this workforce exerts on the local housing market!  In 1998, I published a paper (based on my dissertation) speculating as to what would happen to biotechnology as a potential replacement industry in the Boston area for high tech sectors active in the 1980s (i.e., minicomputers during the 'Mass. Miracle').  In the mid-nineties, as I recall, there were about 10,000 workers in the regional biotech industry.  What a difference a quarter century has made!  
 
In addition, Suzanne Blier has also recently produced an excellent blog that speculates (comprehensively) on the potential impacts that the incoming Trump administration could conceivably exert on local initiatives in cities like Cambridge.  It is also highly relevant viewing for community activists worried about what 2025 may bring our way!