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APP 2020-1
A citizens’ petition to amend the Zoning Ordinance
Zoning petitionfiled by residentsMGL c.40A §5
How it started
Jan 13, 2020 · Filed by Christopher Schmidt and fellow residents: state law (MGL c.40A §5) lets ten registered voters put a proposed zoning change before the Council, which must process it on statutory clocks.
What happened
Jan 13, 2020 · ↪ Referred. Sent to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board, as §5 requires.
What’s next
🗂 In committee. Referred onward; the committee reports back to the Council.
The document the petition text · 3 pages
Amendment documents are shown only as the original PDF: the proposal’s meaning lives in its markup (struck-through deletions and underlined insertions), which a text rendering can’t carry.
Public Comment (1)
1 written comment received (2020-01-27). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.