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Planning board backs zoning text edits, asks city to revisit proposed paving permit
Summary
The board recommended clerical and clarifying edits to driveway/paving provisions in the city zoning ordinance but asked the city to remove the proposed new 'paving permit' for further interdepartmental study, endorsing staff edits and striking the enforcement/permit paragraph.
The Worcester Planning Board on July 23 reviewed a city-initiated zoning amendment to clarify driveway and front-yard paving rules adopted in 2020 and recommended that the City Council adopt staff-proposed text changes while striking a proposed new 'paving permit' pending further operational review.
Michelle Smith of the Planning Division summarized the petition: staff proposed new and clarified definitions (for example differentiating "driveway" from "curb cut"), restoration of inadvertently deleted language…
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