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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2516 FILED ON: 1/19/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2039 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Mike Connolly |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act facilitating local approval of inclusionary zoning. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Mike Connolly26th Middlesex1/19/2023Lindsay N. Sabadosa1st Hampshire1/20/2023David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf17th Worcester1/30/2023James B. EldridgeMiddlesex and Worcester2/19/2023 1 of 1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2516 FILED ON: 1/19/2023 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2039 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Connolly of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2039) of |
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| 19 | 19 | | Mike Connolly and others relative to local approval of inclusionary zoning. Municipalities and |
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| 20 | 20 | | Regional Government. |
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| 21 | 21 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 4046 OF 2021-2022.] |
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| 23 | 23 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 27 | 27 | | _______________ |
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| 28 | 28 | | An Act facilitating local approval of inclusionary zoning. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 30 | 30 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 1 Section 5 of Chapter 40A of the General Laws is amended by inserting in paragraph 5 the |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2following after “in accordance with section 3 of chapter 40R.”:- |
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| 33 | 33 | | 3 (5) an inclusionary zoning ordinance or bylaw. As used in this paragraph the term |
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| 34 | 34 | | 4“inclusionary zoning” shall mean a residential subdivision or a multi-unit residential project of a |
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| 35 | 35 | | 5size to be determined by the municipality; and provided further, that a certain percentage of such |
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| 36 | 36 | | 6subdivision or project’s dwelling units or net floor area, as determined by the municipality, shall |
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| 37 | 37 | | 7be reserved for the construction of dwelling units permanently affordable for occupancy to |
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| 38 | 38 | | 8persons whose household income does not exceed a municipally determined per cent of such |
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| 39 | 39 | | 9municipality’s area median income as such income is determined by the federal department of |
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| 40 | 40 | | 10Housing and Urban Development. |
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