City Council refer the zoning petition regarding lab use to the Ordinance Committee and Planning Board for a hearing and report

ARTICLE 2.000 - DEFINITIONS

Technical office for research and development, laboratory & research facility. Any laboratory engaged in research, experimental and testing, including but not limited to the fields of biology, chemistry, electronics, engineering, geology, medicine, and physics, including activities that requires additional air exchanges over and above a regular office use, or requires the use of chemical hoods, biosafety cabinets, regulated chemicals, or dangerous substances. This definition does not include innovation spaces, maker spaces, or other similar uses, or any purely software based activities. 2. Restrict the lab use in the following districts Amend the table of uses in Section 4.30 as follows:

4.30 - TABLE OF USE REGULATION

Ope n Spa ce A 1& B

C, C- C- 1A , 2, 2A , 2B , 3, 3A , 3B Off 1, 2A, 2, 3, 3A Bus

A-1, A-

2, A-3 1

Bus

A, A-4

Bus B,

B-1, B-

Bus C

A- A-

A

B- B- B 4.34

Office and Laboratory Use

f. Technica l office for research and develop ment, laborator y & research facility, subject to the restrictio ns in Section 4.21m No o o o9 Yes 10

3. Explicitly allow existing lab use to continue in all districts Insert footnotes 62 and 63 into Section 4.40 as follows:

4.40 - FOOTNOTES TO THE TABLE OF USE REGULATIONS

62. Any pre-existing technical office for research and development, laboratory & research facility permitted prior to January 1, 2023 in a Business or Office District shall be considered a conforming use for the purposes of making modifications to the building, until January 1, 2050. 63.

The technical office for research and development, laboratory & research facility use shall be allowed in any PUD, AOD, SD, MXD or other special zoning district that already effectively allowed this use prior to January 1, 2023, notwithstanding the base zoning restrictions.

Specifically, this base zoning restriction shall not apply to any existing PUD, AOD, SD, MXD or other existing special zoning districts in or near Kendall Square, Alewife or Cambridge Port, but will apply in regular overlay districts including Harvard Square and Central Square.

In City Council October 3, 2022. Adopted by a yea and nay vote:- Yeas 8; Nays 1; Absent 0. Attest:- Diane P. LeBlanc, City Clerk

A true copy;

ATTEST:-

Diane P. LeBlanc,

City Clerk

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