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APP 2021-41
A citizens’ petition to amend the Zoning Ordinance
Zoning petitionfiled by residentsMGL c.40A §5
How it started
Sep 13, 2021 · Filed by Francis Donovan 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
Sep 13, 2021 · ↪ Referred. Sent to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board, as §5 requires. (unanimous)
Voted yes (9), unanimous
Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan
What’s next
🗂 In committee. Referred onward; the committee reports back to the Council.
Referred, unanimousSep 13, 2021
The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works
The document the petition text · 6 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. (A searchable OCR text layer exists behind the full reader view; treat it as search-and-skim only.)
Public Comment (3)
3 written comments received (2021-09-13). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.