Asks the City Manager to direct the Community Development Department and the Planning Board to begin testing strategies to enhance such engagement at the earliest opportunity by methods such as requiring developers to hold a public meeting in the neighborhood and provide a report along with the permit application describing public input and changes to the project as a result of such input and to suggest changes to the Planning Board rules, which could be adopted by the Planning Board and/or Zoning Ordinance, which could be enacted by the City Council to codify successful community engagement strategies. Charter Right exercised by Councillor McGovern on Order Number Six of September 22, 2014. Placed on the Table on the motion of Councillor McGovern on September 29, 2014

What happened

The clerk's record shows no vote or disposition against this item. Some are received and filed without one, and a roundtable takes no votes at all. If the city's record shows otherwise, that is exactly what an audit should catch.

🏛 The city's agenda for this meeting: Sep 22, 2014the city publishes no page for a single item: this one is a row on that agenda