ORD 2017 # 7 · Agenda item attachment · Apr 24 2017

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 nonconforning 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) _, 2017 (the date of months after such fire, explosion, catastrophe, public taking, or 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 1