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RiverCog issues zoning consultant RFP, committee approves minutes and elects officers
Summary
RiverCog announced an RFP for a zoning consultant (responses due Feb. 2) to help towns meet July 1 zoning changes required by the new housing law; the committee also approved the December minutes and voted to elect Pat Bands as chair, Merrick Kozakowski as vice chair and Daniel Smith as secretary.
Eliza Lopresti, RiverCog staff who convened the meeting, told participants RiverCog has issued an RFP for a zoning consultant to assist municipalities with the rapid zoning changes required by the new housing law and with regulation templates towns can adapt. "We have an RFP out now, which is due back, soon on February 2 for a zoning consultant to help our municipalities change some of those zoning regulations that need to be done by July," Lopresti said, noting the work will be a "pretty fast ask" and that RiverCog hopes for at least regulation templates for towns.
Lopresti also explained a provision in the law affecting parking: after July 1 towns can no longer reject housing developments of 16 units and under solely on parking requirements, though municipalities can create conservation and traffic mitigation districts to regulate parking in limited circumstances. Members asked clarifying questions about enforcement on state roads versus municipal roads; John Guskowski and other participants noted that enforcement of on-street parking depends on road ownership and respective authorities (municipal traffic authorities for local roads, DOT for state roads).
In routine business, the committee voted to approve the December minutes. A member moved and another seconded the motion; a voice vote was recorded and the motion was approved. Later, the committee considered a slate of officers and voted to appoint Pat Bands as chairperson, Merrick Kozakowski as vice chairperson and Daniel Smith as secretary. The slate was presented and a vote authorized the appointments; the transcript records "Aye" votes and the chair confirmed the motion was approved. The meeting then discussed meeting cadence (keep meetings to one hour, consider quarterly in-person workshops) and upcoming training opportunities, and adjourned at 03:11.
The transcript does not provide a full roll-call tally or a verbatim, unambiguous mover/second attribution for each procedural motion in the text; where the transcript did not clearly link a mover or seconder to a name, this article reports the motion and outcome and notes the transcript ambiguity rather than assigning a likely mover.
