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APP 2021-7

A citizens’ petition to amend the Zoning Ordinance

Zoning petitionfiled by residentsMGL c.40A §5
How it started
Mar 1, 2021 · Filed by Beals Associates Inc. 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
Mar 1, 2021 · ↪ Referred. Sent to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board, as §5 requires. (Referred to committee, 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
Roll call of Mar 1, 2021 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
🗂 In committee. Referred onward; the committee reports back to the Council.
Referred to committee, unanimousMar 1, 2021
Heard in committeeOrdinance CommitteeApr 29, 2021

The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works

The document the petition text · 2 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.
🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 1, 2021