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Ordinance Committee hears broad pushback as Planning Board seeks to simplify Holyoke zoning
Summary
Residents urged the Ordinance Committee to slow review of a 41-order zoning package that would consolidate districts, adopt R1A dimensional standards citywide and transfer some special-permit authority to the Planning Board. Committee continued the hearing to May 7 and agreed to provide more maps, parcel addresses and lists of proposed permit transfers.
Holyoke — The Ordinance Committee opened a public hearing on April 14 to review a Planning Board package of zoning revisions that would simplify district definitions, adopt the smaller R1A dimensional standards across R1/R1A properties and make other technical edits.
The meeting drew more than a dozen speakers who pressed the council to slow the process and demanded clearer notice and neighborhood-level outreach. “We oppose the proposed building of any commercial parking lot and car sales businesses at these properties,” said Jeanette Vecchia, who lives on Ingleside Street and identified 405 and 401 Ingleside as directly affected by a proposed RO→BG reclassification. Vecchia told the committee she and neighbors filed a petition opposing the changes and described what she said was…
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