Profiles of development projects that are subject to Section 22.20 – Green Building Requirements of the Zoning Ordinance. Green Building Requirements ensures that major new projects and substantially rehabilitated buildings are planned, designed and constructed using environmentally sustainable and energy-efficient practices. The green building ordinance uses sustainable building rating systems as a technical framework to ensure that buildings throughout the City achieve a higher level in building energy use and efficiency, sustainability, and resiliency but does not require certification.

The Development Log provides a record of large-scale development projects occurring in the City of Cambridge. The Log, updated on a quarterly basis, is distributed to City departments and the public to keep them posted about development progress, from permitting through construction to completion. A separate Development Log table includes general project information, such as development status and statistics related to the entire project.

The MapLot Table provides location information used by the Cambridge Assessing Department for all developments found in the last published edition of the Log, whose status range from In Permitting to Complete in the current calendar year, as well as any completed since 2011.

For more information concerning current projects see https://data.cambridgema.gov/Planning/Development-Log-Current-Edition/wjwg-93qh For completed projects found here see https://data.cambridgema.gov/Planning/Development-Log-Historical-Projects-Additional-Det/5432-hmix

Data for condominium parcels in the City of Cambridge for fiscal year 2016, including sales and building information. File includes both residential and commercial condominiums. For descriptions of the data fields see the Assessing Data Description attachment.

The Development Log provides a record of large-scale development projects occurring in the City of Cambridge. The Log, updated on a quarterly basis, is distributed to City departments and the public to keep them posted about development progress, from permitting through construction to completion. The Detailed Historical Projects table include information about projects completed from 2011 to 2022. In addition to the general project information found in the Historical Projects table, more detailed data is available such as the number of affordable housing units and parking spaces.

Since a project may include more than one use, data on each specific use found within a project is found in the associated Project Use table found here:https://data.cambridgema.gov/Planning/Development-Log-Historical-Projects-Use-Data/r5mv-isth.

The data incorporates information on building permits, certificates of occupancy, lodging houses, and university owned housing, as well as Community Development Department information on the development pipeline. To assure equivalent treatment across the city, all apartment-style graduate student housing operated by local universities is included in the housing and property counts. These figures used here are a snap shot of the housing stock as of June 30, 2023.

This table includes residential building permits issued from 1996 through June 30, 2023. Each listing includes the permitted address, map-lot parcel identification number, Cambridge neighborhood, prior use, permitted use, number of permitted units, and number of units lost or gained,

The date reflects the year during which a building permit was first issued for a development project. This is not an indication of the date of completion. This list only includes projects that removed an existing building, constructed a new building or combined or split units within an existing structure. Major rehabilitation projects that did not change a structures unit count are not included here. All data is subject to revision.

Data sources include the Cambridge Assessing Department, the Cambridge Development Log, and the Cambridge Inspection Services Department.

Residential data for the 2015 fiscal year, including sales, land and building information. File includes data for single family, two family, three family and vacant land parcels. For descriptions of the data fields see the Assessing Data Description attachment.

The Development Log provides a record of large-scale development projects occurring in the City of Cambridge. The Log, updated on a quarterly basis, is distributed to City departments and the public to keep them posted about development progress, from permitting through construction to completion. The table includes general project information, such as development status and statistics related to the entire project. The Current Edition table lists all developments found in the last published edition of the Log, whose status range from In permitting to Complete in the then current calendar year. For projects completed in earlier calendar years see https://data.cambridgema.gov/Planning/Development-Log-Historical-Projects-Use-Data/r5mv-isth

Since a project may include more than one use, data on each specific use found within a project is found in the associated Development Log Project Use table. Found here: https://data.cambridgema.gov/Planning/Development-Log-Current-Edition-Project-Use-Data/5nqm-2ns2

Data from the 1980 through 2020 decennial censuses recompiled to align with neighborhood boundaries. Include data for total population, race and Hispanic ethnicity.

OBSOLETE - to be deleted September 2024

This dataset has been deprecated and replaced by two new building permit datasets:

Building Permits: Addition/Alteration
https://data.cambridgema.gov/Inspectional-Services/Building-Permits-Addition-Alteration/qu2z-8suj/data

New Building Permits
https://data.cambridgema.gov/Inspectional-Services/New-Building-Permits/9qm7-wbdc/data

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Description for Deprecated Dataset:

Approved building permits for commercial buildings and multifamily homes. The PLANNUMBER column uses "BLDC" to indicate commercial buildings and "BLDM" to indicate multifamily homes. Building permits are issued to licensed construction supervisors and enable recipients to construct, alter, or demolish a structure or install a sign. The building permit must be obtained from Cambridge's Inspectional Services Department before the start of any work and must be prominently posted at the job site. This dataset includes building permits for the construction of renovation of commercial buildings.