About 360citi Cambridge
Who runs 360citi
360citi is an independent public-interest program operated by TOKUMA Foundation. 360citi is not a City of Cambridge service, political party or election campaign.
- EIN
- 93-2338361
- Registered address
- 460 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Cambridge Citywide Coalition is a named partner. It presents the Cambridge dashboard with TOKUMA Foundation. The Cambridge Redevelopment Tracker, which the dashboard maps as a dated copy with credit, is maintained by Councillor Zusy's office. TOKUMA Foundation operates 360citi and is responsible for what it publishes.
TOKUMA Foundation develops and operates the website.
How it is paid for, and what it has no power over, are two of the commitments further down this page: Funding and Outside its authority
or write to info@360citi.org
Our mission
TOKUMA strengthens the environmental, social and economic resilience of communities through education, civic participation, circular systems and the sustainable use of natural and human resources.
How this is held to account.
Six standing commitments. Each one names something the platform will not do, so a reader can check it against what the platform actually does.
- 01
The record
What goes into the shared record, how it is sourced, and when it is corrected. That is the whole of this platform’s authority.
- 02
Outside its authority
Anything about a project, a permit or a public space. Council, the boards, City management and independent agencies keep every power they hold today. Nothing here is issued and nothing is approved.
- 03
Funding
Membership and donations. No advertising, no sale of resident data, and no developer sponsorship of analysis. Any change to that is stated here first.
- 04
Conflicts
Anyone with a financial interest in a project declares it and steps out of decisions about that record. Coalition members are named; paying members are not published unless they ask to be.
- 05
Corrections
A figure that is wrong is corrected in public. Each correction carries a case reference, sits beside the original, and the old value stays visible in the history rather than quietly disappearing.
- 06
Membership
Paying buys no influence over moderation, no priority in the record, and no special access to the analysis. The analysis stays public either way.
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
How this started
- 01
The problem
Every board, every applicant and every neighbour argued from a different set of facts. The same figures were rebuilt from scratch before each meeting, and no two versions agreed.
- 02
What became clear
The records already existed. They were public, scattered across separate City systems, and nobody had put them in one place with their sources still attached.
- 03
What was built
One shared record: 12,933 parcels, 261 zoning districts and the ordinance behind them. Every figure carries where it came from, and says so when it is not held.
What this is, and what it is not
Facts remain public. Political participation remains clearly attributed.
Public website and dashboard
- Neutral presentation
- Documented facts
- Transparent calculations
- Corrections and source history
- Equal treatment of competing positions
Civic Forum
- Opinions and political positions
- Petitions and campaigns
- Community proposals
- Moderated debate
- Clearly identified sponsors and authors
You are entering the Civic Forum, where members post opinions, proposals and petitions under their own names. Moderation rules differ from the public record.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong, it should be corrected and the correction should be visible. The corrections page records what changed and when.
What it will contain
Thirteen screens, as specified. Several are already open in a simpler public form, such as the tracker pages, the calendar and the petition centre, and are linked here.
13 screens, and the order they arrive in
- Dashboard home
- City, neighborhood and precinct map
- Tree, canopy and microclimateOpen now: Tracker
- Rainfall, space and floodingOpen now: Tracker
- TRUE affordabilityOpen now: Tracker
- TRUE multifamily livingOpen now: Tracker
- Voting and representationOpen now: Tracker
- Permits and developmentOpen now: Tracker
- Complaints and process navigatorOpen now: Petition resource centre
- Calendar, weekly report and interviewsOpen now: Civic calendar
- Public project
- Civic Forum Q&A handoff
- Submit and upload, forms and process
The order it arrives in
- Release 1. Core evidence, map, existing permit and tree data.
- Release 2. Rainfall, affordability and multifamily trackers.
- Release 3. Voting official baseline, activity, report, archive and projects.
- Release 4. Process navigator, petitions and submissions.
The sequence is set; the dates are not, because none has been agreed.
