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CRT 2017 #18 · Communication to the City Council · Apr 3 2017
a report from Councillor Dennis J. Carlone and Councillor Leland Cheung, Co-Chairs of the Ordinance Committee, for a public hearing held on March 29, 2017 to discuss a proposed Zoning Ordinance amendment to strikeout Section 8.23 entitled “Non-conformity” and substitute in place thereof a new Section 8.23
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FIRST PUBLICATION NUMBER 3437
City of Cambridge
In the Year Two Thousand and Seventeen
AN ORDINANCE
In amendment to the Ordinance entitled “Zoning Ordinance of the City of Cambridge” be
amended as follows:
In Article 8.000 entitled “Nonconformity” by deleting Section 8.23 in its entirety and substitute in place
thereof a new Section 8.23 which reads as follows:
If a nonconforming structure or use shall have been destroyed or damaged by fire, explosion, or other
catastrophe (except one that has been determined by the City to have been caused intentionally by or on
behalf of the owner), such structure or use may be rebuilt or restored and used again as previously. If a
nonconforming structure or use shall have been destroyed, damaged, or caused to be moved as the result
of a public taking, said structure or use may be relocated or reconstructed on the lot or on an abutting lot
in the same ownership, provided that said relocation or reconstruction does not result in the enlargement
of the nonconforming use or structure. In either such case, the rebuilding, restoring, relocation, or
reconstruction shall not require a special permit provided that it commences within twenty-four (24)
months after such fire, explosion, catastrophe, public taking, or ________________, 2017 (the date of
enactment of this amendment), whichever is later, and is completed within thirty-six (36) months after
such fire, explosion, catastrophe, public taking, or ________________, 2017 (the date of enactment of
this amendment), whichever is later, and provided that the structure as rebuilt, restored, relocated, or
reconstructed shall not be greater in volume, footprint, or gross floor area, shall not further increase any
nonconformities than those of the original nonconforming structure, and shall not further violate any
dimensional requirements of the Ordinance.
Passed to a second reading as amended at the City Council
meeting held on April 3, 2017 and on or after April 17, 2017 the
question comes on passing to be ordained.
ATTEST:-
Donna P. Lopez
City Clerk