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Ordinance Committee closes hearing on short-term rental draft and directs refile to meet state/timing requirements
Summary
The committee reopened a Planning Board–recommended short-term rental zoning draft, discussed new state guidance and statutory timing under Massachusetts General Law c.40A, and voted to close the hearing and refer the matter back to full council for re-filing so planning board hearings and statutory timelines are correct.
The Ordinance Committee took up a Planning Board–recommended draft short-term rental (STR) zoning ordinance that would create license categories, caps and a licensing regime intended to limit short-term, nightly rentals and preserve long-term housing stock.
Planning Board members said they had formed a working group and produced a complex legal draft after months of research. Mimi, a Planning Board representative, said the board consulted building and permitting staff and…
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