Budget Amendment ID: FY2025-S4-181

ECO 181

3A Multi-family zoning-MBTA Communities appeal

Messrs. Tarr, O'Connor and Fattman moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section _ the following section:-

"SECTION_. Section 18 of Chapter 358 of the Acts of 2020 is hereby amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: -

(d) The Executive office of housing and livable communities shall develop and promulgate regulations to allow a municipality affected by the zoning provisions of this section to appeal for relief from such provisions based on one or more of the following:

1. The inability to meet the drinking water supply requirements necessary to support the housing units authorized by such provisions

2. The inability to meet the wastewater treatment requirements necessary to support such units

3. The inability of municipal transportation infrastructure to safely accommodate increased population attributable to housing development pursuant to such provisions

4. Any adverse environmental impacts attributable to the developments of housing units pursuant to such provisions."