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Malden council rejects text amendment to OD zoning after neighborhood opposition
Summary
A proposed text amendment to Malden's Office/Professional (OD) zoning district that would have expanded allowable uses, including indoor swim instruction, failed to pass on first reading after extensive public comment from Meadowood residents and a 4-3 council vote that fell short of the five-vote supermajority required.
The Malden City Council on Aug. 18 declined to adopt a text amendment to the city’s OD (office/professional) zoning district after lengthy public comment and a 4-3 vote that did not meet the five-vote supermajority required to pass.
The proposal, described by staff as an update to “standards and allowed uses in the OD Zoning District,” would have explicitly allowed a broader range of commercial and institutional uses in OD, including educational and certain health-related uses. City Administrator Tucker and planning staff presented the draft amendment at the meeting as a citywide text change, not a rezoning of a single parcel.
The item drew more than a dozen public speakers, many from the Meadowood neighborhood, who asked the council to preserve the existing OD limits. “This has never been about the business,”…
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