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Votes at a glance: Revere zoning subcommittee forwards three special permits and two food-truck ordinances; one zoning change not recommended
Summary
At its June 2, 2025 meeting the Revere Zoning Subcommittee forwarded favorable recommendations for three special permits and two food-truck ordinances, and declined to recommend an ordinance shifting parking-variance authority from the Zoning Board of Appeals to the City Council.
The Revere Zoning Subcommittee voted on multiple zoning items at its June 2, 2025 meeting and issued the following actions and recommendations to the full City Council:
- 350 Squire Road (New York Capital Investment Group LLC): Favorable recommendation for a special permit to allow a car wash at 350 Squire Road. Vote: Councilors Argencio, Greeno Sawaya, Jaramillo and Novoselski voted yes; Chairman Zambuto recused. The subcommittee attached multiple site-plan and infrastructure conditions (see separate article for details).
- 250 Lee Burbank Highway (250 Lee Burbank Highway LLC / Capital Waste operations): Favorable recommendation for a special permit to reconstruct the existing building as a new two-story commercial structure with 26 parking spaces. Site plan review conditions read into the record require removal of on-site dumpsters and storage during demolition, DPW sewer and water permits, fire-department review, abandonment and capping of on-site utilities, and final design and landscaping approval by site plan review. Vote: unanimous among present members (recorded yes votes by Councilors Argencio, Greeno Sawaya, Jaramillo, Novoselski and Chairman Zambuto).
- 195 American Legion Highway (Natalia Maria Catano Gomez): Favorable recommendation for a special permit to allow a Class 2 used-car sales operation on the property. Conditions: license subject to license commission review, cap of 20 vehicles on site, parking layout to be approved by fire department and site plan review, and prohibition on parking that encroaches travel aisles or entrances. Vote: unanimous among present members.
- Zoning ordinance establishing a definition and use for food trucks (Title 17 amendment): Favorable recommendation. The proposed zoning language would allow food trucks in selected districts (PDD 1/Suffolk Downs, HB, TED, and RC-2 along the beach) and the administration discussed notification and license procedures. Vote: unanimous among present members.
- Ordinance amending Title 5 relative to food trucks (licensing): Favorable recommendation. Vote: unanimous among present members.
- Zoning ordinance to shift parking-variance authority from Zoning Board of Appeals to City Council: Not recommended (subcommittee voted no on issuing a favorable recommendation). Several councilors argued the Zoning Board of Appeals should remain a nonpolitical forum for variances.
Each favorable recommendation forwards the item and the record of conditions to the full City Council for final action. The subcommittee's roll-call votes were recorded by the clerk and entered into the hearing record.
