Planning Board
October 3, 2011
7 PM
1) Meeting Minutes
a) September 12, 2011
2) Chair’s Business
a) Mass Development
i) Justice Resource Institute
b) Citizen Planner Training Collaborative
3) Approval Not Required
4) Public Hearings
a) 7:30 Affordable Housing Units
Notice is hereby given that the Planning Board of the City of Marlborough will hold a PUBLIC HEARING on Monday, October 3, 2011 at 7:30 PM in Memorial Hall, 3rd floor, City Hall, 140 Main Street, Marlborough Massachusetts for a Proposed Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Marlborough Section 650-26 (A)(1)(a).
(a) Affordable Housing and Affordable Housing Units. The term “affordable housing” shall refer to “affordable housing units’. The term “affordable housing units” shall mean those units of housing that are countable in the so-called Subsidized Housing Inventory (SHI) or any subsequent housing inventory used by the Department of Housing and Community Development of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to determine the number of housing units in a community that are countable in meeting the City’s obligation to maintain at least 10% of the total number of housing units in the city as affordable pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40B sections 20-23. Any development subject to this section shall provide that at least 15% of the housing units to be constructed are
countable as affordable housing units in the SHI, or a sum not less than the amount necessary, in the opinion of the city council pursuant to the special permit process, to cause the construction of said number of affordable housing units shall be paid to the Marlborough Community Development Authority at such time as the city council shall determine.
5) Pending Subdivision Plans: Updates and Discussion
a) Update from City Engineer
b) Berlin Farms
i) Correspondence from City Engineer
c) Elm Street Valley
i) Correspondence from Attorney Norris
d) Mauro Farm
i) Lot releases research
ii) Correspondence from Attorney Pezzoni
e) Shunghnessy Estates
i) Calling of Performance Bond
ii) Correspondence from City Engineer
6) Preliminary/Open Space Submissions/ Limited Development Subdivisions
7) Definitive Subdivision Submission
8) Signs
9) Informal Discussions
10) Correspondence
11) Public Notices of other Cities & Towns
a) Town of Berlin, Zoning Board of Appeals, Public Hearing (October 12)
b) Town of Framingham, Planning Board, Public Hearing (October 6)
c) Town of Framingham, Planning Board, Notice of Decisions
d) Town of Hudson, Zoning Board of Appeals, Public Hearings (October 13, 18)
e) Town of Sudbury, Zoning Board of Appeals, Public Hearing (September 22)
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