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APP 2023-12
A citizens’ petition to amend the Zoning Ordinance
Zoning petitionfiled by residentsMGL c.40A §5
How it started
Mar 20, 2023 · Filed by Michael Monestime 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 20, 2023 · ↪ Referred. Sent to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board, as §5 requires. (Referred to committee, unanimous)
Voted yes (9), unanimous
Burhan Azeem
Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Paul F. Toner
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui
What’s next
📖 Ordained as ORD 2023 #1: passed to be ordained, 8–0.
Referred to committee, unanimousMar 20, 2023
The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works
The document the petition text · 7 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 (2)
2 written comments received (2023-04-03). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.