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Meeting Name: Land Use Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 9/18/2025 6:30 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Virtual
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
Meeting video:  
Attachments: Land Use - 2025-09-18 Memo (with 25-0246), Land Use - 2025-09-18 Gilman Square TOD Upzoning Updates (with 25-0085), Land Use 2025-09-18 Mass Timber Presentation (with 25-0246).pdf
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25-1402 11.Committee MinutesApproval of the Minutes of the Land Use Committee Meeting of September 4, 2025.AcceptedPass Action details Not available
25-0338 12.OrderThat the Director of Planning, Preservation and Zoning provide the Committee on Land Use with an opinion as to whether the City Council may dictate standards and materials used for outdoor bike facilities.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
25-0246 13.OrderThat the Director of Inspectional Services and the Director of Planning, Preservation and Zoning discuss with this Council, Type IV heavy timber construction now permitted in the 10th edition of Massachusetts State Building Code 780 and potential impacts on inspections, development, and the Zoning Ordinance.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
25-0200 14.Public Communication15 registered voters requesting a Zoning Text Amendment to amend the Zoning Ordinance sections 3.1.8c, 3.1.9c, 3.1.10c, 3.1.13k, 3.1.13l, 3.2.12l. and 3.2.12m.Recommended to be placed on file  Action details Not available
25-0085 15.OrderThat the Director of Planning, Preservation and Zoning draft an amendment to the Zoning Ordinances for transit oriented height and density bonuses for additional affordable housing and other enumerated community benefits.Kept in committee  Action details Not available