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APP 2023-9

A citizens’ petition to amend the Zoning Ordinance

Zoning petitionfiled by residentsMGL c.40A §5
How it started
Feb 27, 2023 · Filed by Craig Kelley 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
May 3, 2023 · Heard in committee: Ordinance Committee testimony and discussion; any committee vote is in the committee's minutes
Feb 27, 2023 · ↪ Referred. Sent to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board, as §5 requires. (Referred to committee)
View the roll call

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Dennis Carlone
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Patty Nolan
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Paul F. Toner
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
Roll call of Feb 27, 2023 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
🗂 In committee. Referred onward; the committee reports back to the Council.
The document the petition text · 4 pages
🏛 This item on the city's site📄 Download original PDF
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: Feb 27, 2023