AGENDA
LAND USE COMMITTEE MEETING
FEBRUARY 13, 2003
COUNCIL CHAMBER
Convened: 5:37 p.m.
Adjourned: 7:29 p.m.
Present were: Chairperson Councillor Stephen T. Patton
Councillor Joseph M. Petty
Councillor Paul P. Clancy, Jr.
Councillor Philip P. Palmieri
Councillor Barbara G. Haller
Also: Chief Development Officer Phillip J. Niddrie
Code Commissioner Jill Dagilias
Code Assistant Commissioner David Holden
Regulatory Services Staffperson Jodi Kennedy Valade
Regulatory Services Staffperson Kathleen Donovan
DPW Staffperson Paul Moosey
Director of Housing Scott Hayman
Deputy City Solicitor Michael Traynor
Director of Planning Joel Fontaine
City Clerk David J. Rushford, clerk
Code Commissioner Jill Dagilis provided the Committee with an overview of the updated text of the proposed new zoning ordinance, a copy of which is attached herewith.
1. Communication of the City Manager transmitting communication relative to Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.
#6A CM January 28, 2003
Recommend Hold
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report explaining
why an overnight limit of eight (8) nights is included in the section
referencing bed and breakfasts in the updated text of the proposed new zoning
ordinance.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report on the 80%
median income referenced in the definitions section of the updated text of the
proposed new zoning ordinance.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with copies of the texts of
zoning ordinances concerning yard sales in other urban communities.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with language that would
specifically address the issue of businesses in residential districts.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report concerning
changing language in table 4.1, lines 12, 14 and 16 across four zones.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report concerning a
change in language to table 4.1, line 8 concerning lodging houses.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report a zoning
definition of the term community garden.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report concerning
changing language in table 4.1, line 3, 9 and 12 concerning clinics and
sanitariums.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report concerning
changing language in table 4.1, line 9 in all residential districts.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report concerning
requiring playgrounds to be constructed in the process of granting sub-division
approval.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report concerning
changing language removing the exemption allowed sub-divisions as defined on
page 59, in section 5, section 1 (1) (b) of the proposed new zoning ordinance.
Chairman’s Order
request the Administration provide the City Council with a report explaining
how the City may handle complaints under sub-division and public ways jointly.
Chairman’s Order
request the Planning Board review their Rules and Regulations concerning requiring
shade trees in sub-divisions and report
their opinions to the City Council.
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE
CITY MANAGER
2. Relative to Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.
#7D CM June 11, 2002
In Committee October 10, 2002 - Held
In Committee October 24, 2002 - Held
In Committee November 14, 2002 - Held
3. Relative
to Law Concerning Unrelated Persons Occupying Premises.
#16D CM June 25, 2002
Recommend Hold
4. Relative
to “Item for Sale” Lawn Signs in a Residential Area/Yard Sales in a Residential
Area.
#15A CM
July 16, 2002
Recommend
Hold
5. Relative
to Seasonal Sidewalk Sales and Yard Sales.
#15B CM
September 3, 2002
Recommend Hold
6. Relative to Discussion Points from the Chairman of the Planning Board Regarding the Zoning Ordinance.
#8C CM October 15, 2002
Recommend Hold
7. Relative
to Manufacturing Zones.
#7F CM
September 24, 2002
8. Relative
to Developers Compliance with Subdivision Requirements.
#23F CM
September 24, 2002
Recommend Hold
9. Relative
to Protocol for Maintaining Dumpsters Located on Private Property.
#21B CM
October 15, 2002
Recommend
Hold
10. Relative
to Copies of State Building Code – Pertaining to Group Residences and Group
Dwelling Units.
#6A CM October 29, 2002
11. Relative
to identifying social service and state non-profit agencies taken from the list
identifying all of the City of Worcester’s non-taxable properties.
#18A CM
February 26, 2002
Recommend
Hold
12. Relative to Community Preservation Act.
#17A CM
February 27, 2001
In Committee November 28, 2001 – held
In Committee April 2, 2002 – held
13. Relative
to Community Preservation Act, Borrowing – Inside or Outside of Debt Limit.
#26A CM
April 13, 2001
In Committee November 28, 2001 – held
Recommend Hold
14. Relative
to Minimum Allowable Percentage that may be adopted for the Community
Preservation Act.
#26B CM
June 12, 2001
In Committee November 28, 2001 – held
Recommend Hold
15. Relative
to Real Estate Taxes under Various Surcharges of the Community Preservation Act
including Exemptions.
#4A CM
June 19, 2001
In Committee November 28, 2001 – held
Recommend
Hold
16. Relative
to the List of the Annual Revenue Lost from acquisition of taxable properties
by exempt organizations.
#4A CM
March 19, 2002
Recommend
Hold
17. Relative
to a letter sent to Worcester’s college presidents and hospital CEOs regarding
that they keep any new property acquired on the City tax rolls.
#29C CM
March 19, 2002
Recommend
Hold
18. Relative
to Exempt Properties 1991 to 2001, also New Construction on Exempt Properties.
#4A CM
April 23, 2002
Recommend
Hold
19. Relative
to the Amount of Revenue Collected Through the Worcester District Registry of
Deeds. (Community Preservation Act)
#26C CM
April 23, 2002
20. Relative
to $5,008,260.00 in Surcharges Collected by the Worcester Registry of Deeds.
#26A CM
May 28, 2002
Recommend
Hold
21. Relative
to Tax Exempt Comparison to other Cities.
#4E CM
June 11, 2002
Recommend
Hold
22. Relative to Group Homes – Neighborhood
Notification.
#16C CM
April 23, 2002
Recommend
Hold
23. Relative to the property located at 380
Lake Ave.
#18F CM
April 2, 2002
24. Request
adoption of the order transferring the jurisdiction of and authorizing the
disposition of the foreclosed property at 380 Lake Ave.
#33 CC
April 2, 2002
Recommend
Hold
25. Relative
to Main South CDC Properties. (amount of real estate taxes paid)
#4C CM
June 11, 2002
Recommend
Hold
26. Relative
to Taxable Properties Purchased by UMass Memorial.
#4H CM
June 11, 2002
Recommend
Hold
27. Relative
to Indian Hill School Sale – Remaining Land.
#16C CM
June 11, 2002
Recommend Hold
28. Relative
to Definition of Group Homes.
#16A CM
November 12, 2002
Recommend Hold
29. Relative
to Number of Unrelated Individuals Living in a Housing Unit.
#16C CM
November 12, 2002
Recommend Hold
30. Relative
to Zoning Ordinance Amendment – Floodplain Overlay District.
#6B CM
January 7, 2003
Recommend
Approval
31. Relative
to an opinion whether a proposed zoning amendment which would prohibit Single
Family semi-detached Dwelling Units in RS-7 and RS-10 Districts is applicable
to the subdivision development known as Roda Estates.
#16D CM
January 14, 2003
Recommend Hold
32. The
Report of the Committee on Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization Upon the
Communication of the City Manager relative to Article VII – Inclusionary Zoning
and Density Bonuses to Promote Affordable Housing.
#58 CC
February 5, 2002
Recommend Hold
33. The Report of the Planning Board Upon the Order of Councillor Stephen T. Patton requesting the Zoning Ordinance be amended so that Table 4.1, line 12 is changed so that semi-detached dwellings known as duplexes are no longer “allowed by Special Permit” in RS-10 and RS-7 zones and are instead designated as “not allowed”.
#106 CC
June 25, 2002
34. Chairman’s Resolution that the City Council and it’s Land Use Committee begin review of the Zoning Map.
#63 CC November 26, 2002