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Revere subcommittee hears housing production plan, rebukes an anonymous flyer; HPP tabled for further review
Summary
Planner Tom Skowrowski presented Revere’s five-year Housing Production Plan on Dec. 16, answering council and resident questions and disputing claims from an anonymous flyer. Public comment largely supported the plan; the committee voted to table the HPP for further review and neighborhood outreach.
Revere City’s Committee of the Whole Subcommittee met Dec. 16 to consider a proposed five-year Housing Production Plan designed to guide production of dwelling units across income levels and to satisfy state affordable-housing goals. Tom Skowrowski, a city planner, presented the plan and spent much of the meeting responding to an anonymous flyer that he and several councilors said mischaracterized the proposal.
Skowrowski described the plan as a “road map” and a toolbox created over 18 months with a 12-person working group, two public meetings and an online survey of nearly 300 Revere residents. He said adoption would demonstrate a good-faith effort to meet Chapter 40B-related targets and could provide safe harbor from comprehensive-permit challenges while the plan is certified in later years. “This plan does not dismantle our zoning ordinance,” Skowrowski told the subcommittee, and he repeatedly said that any zoning changes or tax measures would require…
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