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APP 2024-10
A citizens’ petition to amend the Zoning Ordinance
Zoning petitionfiled by residentsMGL c.40A §5
How it started
Mar 25, 2024 · Filed by Khalida Griffin-Sheperd 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 25, 2024 · ↪ Referred. Sent to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board, as §5 requires. (Referred to committee, unanimous) The Planning Board held its hearing May 7; the Ordinance Committee heard it May 21.
Voted yes (9), unanimous
Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Joan Pickett
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
E. Denise Simmons
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, unanimousMar 25, 2024
The item's path through the council, every recorded step. How the request pipeline works
The document the petition text · 15 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 (1)
1 written comment received (2024-04-01). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.