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APP 2023-51
A citizens’ petition to amend the Zoning Ordinance
Zoning petitionfiled by residentsMGL c.40A §5
How it started
Oct 2, 2023 · Filed by Allene R. Pierson 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
Oct 2, 2023 · ↪ Referred. Sent to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board, as §5 requires. (Referred to committee, unanimous) The Planning Board held its hearing November 21; the Ordinance Committee heard it November 29.
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
⏳ No action taken: the city’s own zoning tracker lists this among past amendments not adopted. Under MGL c.40A §5, a petition the Council does not adopt within 90 days of its hearing lapses; adoption would have needed a two-thirds vote (6 of 9).
Referred to committee, unanimousOct 2, 2023
The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works
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.