Craig Kelley
1. I would have voted for the Carlson petition. I can’t say if I would have voted for the compromise—I would have had to been at the table to know that.
2. The biggest issue hasn’t changed: How will Harvard grow in Riverside and in the rest of Cambridge? It’s a big issue, and we will continue to dance around it.
3. I think that the whole PILOT program needs to be reinvestigated and reevaluated. People talk about $1.5 million, but that doesn’t seem like a lot of money. We need to investigate what it costs the city to have Harvard here, and what Harvard gives back to the city...I can’t throw out a number.
4. I’m going to vote against it. It’s a very problematic petition, and I have many issues with it. Affordable housing is a serious problem here in Cambridge, but this petition is not the solution.
5. The city needs a comprehensive plan to deal with affordable housing.
6. We need to get the police out of their police cars, and onto the street, out and talking with people. I’ve been here for a long time, walki
g around, and still wouldn’t recognize one police officer. They don’t interact with you. The only interaction you have with the police is by calling 911. That needs to change.
7. It needs to review the study that was done, that showed how terribly bloated school administrations are. The city council needs to send a unanimous message to the board based on the current budget. Cambridge is spending way too much on administration staff.
8. No. I think it was overkill. If you’re truly concerned about public safety, you would stop smoking in homes in front of kids. We’d start with the 4-year-old stuck in the front seat of the car while their mom or dad is chainsmoking in the driver’s seat—I see that all the time...But I won’t work to repeal the ban, and as a nonsmoker, I can say that I love being able to go places and not always be in smoke.”
9. I don’t think I’d do anything [about the late-night eateries]. I used to live near one, and what happens is that at 2:30 in the morning you go to get food, and even if you’re not drunk, things like slamming car doors are very noisy for a silent sleeping street.
10. Darwin’s after church with his boys.
11. Bike around Cambridge with wife and boys.
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