HomeMy WebLinkAbout1992-12-31 Bylaw Committee MinutesReport of the Bylaw Committee
December 31, 1992
During the past -year the town meeting voted seven zoning bylaw
amendments, five general bylaw amendments, two acceptances of general
laws and one special act of the general court.
The zoning bylaw amendments were as follows:
Amend Section 4.9 to define that a Planned Unit Development
Overlay District provide for buffering adjacent to residential areas.
Amend the zoning map to extend the Planned Unit Development
Overlay District to all remaining industrial districts in the Ash
Street/Walkers Brook Drive area.
Amend Section 2.2.13 and Section 2.2.21.1 to clarify the
definitions of frontage and lot width.
Amend Section 4.9 to allow biotechnology uses in the Planned
Unit Development Overlay District.
Amend Section 4.10 to allow greater diversity within Planned
Residential Development Districts.
Amend Section 4.2.2 to allow Planned Residential Development
Districts in certain area in the Town.
bylaws.
Amend Section 4.6 to rescind the Townhouse section of the zoning
The general bylaw amendments were as follows:
Add Section 4.1.4 to create the Capital Improvement Advisory
Committee.
Amend Section 2.1.7 to change the closing date of the Subsequent
Town Meeting to the fifth Tuesday preceding the Subsequent Town Meeting.
Amend Section 5.7.16 and section 5.7.17 to clarify the
enforcement of the Conservation Commission with regard to Conservation
Bylaws.
Added Section 3.8 to formally establish the Audit Committee.
Added Section 5.12 to regulate the number of Junk Cars in a
residential area.
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The acceptance acts were as follows:
Chapter 138, Section 126 - Acts of 1991 relative to adoption of
$40,000 as maximum qualifying gross receipts for deferral of property
taxes.
Chapter 44, Section 53F 1/2 to establish a Rubbish Collection
Enterprise Fund.
The special act concerned authorizing the transfer of control of
conservation land to the Conservation Commission for the purposes of
conveying it to the Reading Rifle and Revolver Club, Inc. in exchange
for an equal or greater amount of land to be held for conservation
purposes.
Respectfully submitted,
The Bylaw Committee
Philip B. Pacino, Chairman
Dolores S. Carroll, Clerk
Edward F. Murphy
John 0. Russell
George A. Theophanis