Planning and zoning subcommittee votes to advertise shrinking of Central Business District to meet MBTA-related compliance

Framingham planning and zoning subcommittee members voted to ask the City Council to advertise an amendment that trims the city’s Central Business (CB) District, a move members said is intended to preserve the city’s conditional compliance with state MBTA-related requirements.

The vote came after roughly 90 minutes of discussion about acreage, counting units already built or permitted in the district, and whether the city should submit related reports to the state before or after advertising a zoning amendment. Christine (Subcommittee member) said the city has not yet resubmitted the revised district map to the state and that her immediate priority is completing an affordability study the mayor asked the city to file. “I have not submitted this proposal to the state. I have not done that yet,” Christine said.

The nut graf: Committee members said the trimmed district still meets the state’s acreage and proximity requirements for MBTA-related compliance and that the revised map relies in part on units already constructed…