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Zoning subcommittee recommends Revere Housing Production Plan to full council
Summary
The Revere City Zoning Subcommittee voted 4–1 to forward the Housing Production Plan (as amended) with a favorable recommendation to the full City Council. The plan provides a “toolbox” for future affordable-housing measures and does not itself change zoning rules or create a tax surcharge without further votes and, where required, referendum.
The Revere City Zoning Subcommittee voted 4–1 on Feb. 3 to forward the city’s Housing Production Plan (as amended) with a favorable recommendation to the full City Council.
The plan, presented by Tom Skrowski, Revere Chief of Planning and Community Development, would be adopted as a guiding “toolbox” that the city can use in future actions. Skrowski said an adoption by the council would create a state “safe harbor” against certain Chapter 40B developer appeals when the city can show it is actively pursuing a 10% deed-restricted affordability goal under state guidance.
The plan itself does not immediately change zoning or levy new taxes. Skrowski told the committee that individual tools in the plan — including zoning changes, use of tax-title properties and possible ballot measures such as the Community Preservation Act surcharge — would return to the Planning Board and City Council for…
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