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Meeting Name: Land Use Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 9/4/2025 6:30 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Virtual
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
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Attachments: Land Use - 2025-09-04 Presentation TOD Upzoning Gilman Square (with 25-0085)
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25-1150 11.Committee MinutesApproval of the Minutes of the Land Use Committee Meeting of June 17, 2025.AcceptedPass Action details Not available
25-0976 12.Public CommunicationBill Valetta submitting comments re: item #25-0085, an Order regarding zoning for bonuses for additional affordable housing and other enumerated community benefits.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
25-0975 13.Public CommunicationSublime Systems submitting comments re: items #24-1460, #25-0128, #25-0129, and #25-0131, amendments to the Zoning Ordinance for laboratory, research and development, and arts uses.Recommended to be marked work completed  Action details Not available
25-0338 14.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.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
25-0246 15.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.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
25-0200 16.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.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
25-0085 17.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