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File #: 207349    Version: 1
Type: Home Rule Petition Status: Approved
File created: 1/10/2019 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/10/2019 Final action: 1/24/2019
Enactment date: 1/24/2019 Enactment #: 207349
Title: That the enclosed Home Rule Petition pertaining to Institutional Master Plan requirements be forwarded to the MA Legislature for approval.
Sponsors: Katjana Ballantyne
Code sections: Home Rule Petition -
Attachments: 1. HRP - Institutional Master plan Approval

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That the enclosed Home Rule Petition pertaining to Institutional Master Plan requirements be forwarded to the MA Legislature for approval.

 

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SECTION 1.                     The purpose of this legislation is to promote and facilitate the coordinated and predictable development of larger-scale institutional facilities. The legislation permits the City to require the adoption of an institutional master plan, as described below in Section 2. An institutional master plan is a land-use and development plan for all land owned or used by an institution within a community, that identifies growth and development over a number of years, or in several phases. The master plan provides a tool to assure the community that strategies and development impacts are addressed through the review and adoption of the plan, while providing predictable outcomes for any planned growth of the institution.

 

SECTION 2.                     Notwithstanding G. L. c. 40A, § 3 or other applicable law, the City of Somerville is hereby authorized to adopt local legislation imposing institutional master plan review to regulate the use of land or structures for land owned, leased, or otherwise occupied by hospitals, health care institutions, colleges, universities, and non-profit educational corporations.

 

SECTION 3.                     This act shall take effect upon passage.