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Communication: Planning Board (Paper # 41-21) Amendment of ?12.12, Ch.12, Revised Ordinances of 2020, as Amended Use Regulations for Malden River Site Plan Review City Council Paper #41/2021;
Approval of the proposed amendments as submitted and with the following revisions and recommendations:
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A. Revise Section 12.12.200 B, Applicability, as follows:
i. Delete the word, "construction," and insert the phrase, "work requiring a permit."
ii. After the word "daylighted," insert the phrase, "at the time application is made under this Ordinance,"
iii. Insert the following sentence at the end of the section:
"Any permit for any work issued prior to the date of first publication of the notice of public hearing on this Ordinance shall be exempt from the provisions of this Ordinance."
B. Revise Section 12.12.200. E. Site Plan Review Committee, as follows:
i. Composition (Section E1):
a) Delete, "the City Planner or designee" and "the City Engineer or designee."
b) The Board recommends that citizen representatives be added to the Committee.
ii. Operation (Section E2):
a) Add to the end of the first sentence: City Engineer and City Planner.
b) In the fifth sentence, delete "seven" and insert, "100% of the "
C. Revise Section 12.12.200.I.3, Buffer Area, as follows:
i. Insert the following phrase at the end of subsection (a):
"with the exception of any invasive trees greater than a 4" caliper, measured by diameter breast height; and any invasive removal strategy shall include a sapling replanting strategy."
ii. insert the following sentence as a new subsection:
"The most current versions of the following shall be used as guidelines to determine invasiveness of species to be planted and removed: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service' National List of Plant Species that Occur in Wetlands: Massachusetts (Reed, 1988); and The Evaluation of Non- Native Plan Species for Invasiveness in Massachuset...
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