1. PUBLIC HEARING on a COMMUNICATION, City Clerk/Clerk of the City Council Farias, to City Council, submitting a request from Paul Vaz Construction, Inc. 93 Perry Street, New Bedford, MA to rezone SW Howard Avenue, Plot 116/Lot 29 from Mixed-Use Business to Industrial A. (To be Referred to the Committee on Ordinances and the Planning Board.) (Ref’d 08/19/2021) (Duly advertised in The Standard-Times on Thursday, October 07, 2021 and Thursday, October 14, 2021.)

1a. COMMUNICATION, Jennifer Carloni, Director, City Planning, to Councillor Hugh Dunn, Chairman, Committee on Ordinances, advising that the Planning Board held a public hearing on September 22, 2021 to discuss the request from Vaz Construction, Inc. 93 Perry Street, New Bedford, MA to rezone SW Howard Avenue, Plot 116/Lot 29 from Mixed-Use Business to INDUSTRIAL A; the Planning Board voted to send an UNFAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION, recommending that the City Council deny the request from Vaz Construction, Inc. 93 Perry Street, New Bedford, MA to rezone SW Howard Avenue, Plot 116/Lot 29 from Mixed-Use Business to INDUSTRIAL A. (Ref’d 09/24/2021)