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City 360 is not a City of Cambridge service, political party or election campaign.

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About City 360 Cambridge

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

City 360 is not a City of Cambridge service, political party or election campaign.

A residential street in Cambridge, Massachusetts: clapboard houses, parked cars and a brick sidewalk under autumn trees.

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

How this started

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

City Council — Public authority & reviewCity CouncilCity Manager — Public authority & reviewCity ManagerHousing Department — Public authority & reviewHousing DepartmentCDD — Public authority & reviewCDDISD — Public authority & reviewISDPlanning Board — Public authority & reviewPlanning BoardBZA — Public authority & reviewBZAAffordable Housing Trust — Public authority & reviewAffordable Housing TrustHistorical Commission — Public authority & reviewHistorical CommissionFire — Public authority & reviewFireDPW / Water — Public authority & reviewDPW / WaterHuman Services — Public authority & reviewHuman ServicesCambridge Redevelopment Authority — Public authority & reviewCambridge Redevelopment AuthorityCambridge Housing Authority* — Public authority & reviewCambridge Housing Authority*A Better Cambridge — Resident & neighborhood voiceCambridge Residents Alliance — Resident & neighborhood voiceCambridge Citizens Coalition — Resident & neighborhood voiceEast Cambridge Planning Team — Resident & neighborhood voiceCambridgeport — Resident & neighborhood voiceMid Cambridge — Resident & neighborhood voiceNeighborhood Nine — Resident & neighborhood voiceAgassiz / Baldwin — Resident & neighborhood voicetenant, youth, disability, elder and immigrant voices — Resident & neighborhood voiceJust A Start — Housing & support networkHomeowner’s Rehab — Housing & support networkCASCAP — Housing & support networkCEOC — Housing & support networkDe Novo — Housing & support networkTransition House — Housing & support networkHeading Home — Housing & support networkSomerville-Cambridge Elder Services — Housing & support networkYWCA Cambridge — Housing & support networkFood For Free — Housing & support networkhousing counselors and legal services — Housing & support networkCambridge Community Foundation — Community, culture & mediaCambridge Community Center — Community, culture & mediaMargaret Fuller Neighborhood House — Community, culture & mediaCambridge Public Library — Community, culture & mediaCambridge Community Television — Community, culture & mediaHistory Cambridge — Community, culture & mediaCambridge Arts — Community, culture & mediafaith and mutual-aid networks — Community, culture & mediaHarvard — Institutions, employers & businessMIT — Institutions, employers & businessLesley — Institutions, employers & businessCambridge Health Alliance — Institutions, employers & businessCambridge Public Schools — Institutions, employers & businessKendall Square Association — Institutions, employers & businessCentral Square BID — Institutions, employers & businessHarvard Square Business Association — Institutions, employers & businessCambridge Chamber — Institutions, employers & businessCambridge Local First — Institutions, employers & businessNonprofit and private developers — Land, capital & constructionlandowners — Land, capital & constructionarchitects — Land, capital & constructionengineers — Land, capital & constructioncontractors — Land, capital & constructiontrades and labor — Land, capital & constructionlenders / CDFIs — Land, capital & constructionphilanthropy — Land, capital & constructioncommunity land trusts — Land, capital & constructionproperty managers — Land, capital & constructionWhole city62 orgsP14Public authority & reviewR9Resident & neighborhood voiceH11Housing & support networkC8Community, culture & mediaI10Institutions, employers & businessD10Land, capital & construction
Public authority & review

Holds formal power. Decides, permits, reviews or owns.

AuthoritativeThese bodies hold statutory power, so the grouping is a matter of fact.

  • City Council
  • City Manager
  • Housing Department
  • CDD
  • ISD
  • Planning Board
  • BZA
  • Affordable Housing Trust
  • Historical Commission
  • Fire
  • DPW / Water
  • Human Services
  • Cambridge Redevelopment Authority
  • Cambridge Housing Authority*

*Cambridge Housing Authority is an independent public agency. Placement is functional and provisional; many organizations work across several roles. This is a representative starter pack, deliberately expandable rather than a claim to be an exhaustive registry.

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All join

All join.All work together.

Two ways in, and they are different things. Joining us is free and takes a minute. Membership funds the work and buys no influence over what the record says.

Join usLog in as a member

Members sign in to the CIVIC FORUM portal.