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APP 2023-50
A citizens’ petition to amend the Zoning Ordinance
Zoning petitionfiled by residentsMGL c.40A §5
How it started
Sep 11, 2023 · Filed by the City Council 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 11, 2023 · ↪ Referred. Sent to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board, as §5 requires. (Referred to committee, unanimous) The Ordinance Committee heard it October 10.
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
Entered the Zoning Ordinance: the city’s zoning tracker records it adopted as November 20, 2023 Ordinance #2023-9.
The document the petition text · 4 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.