REVISED AGENDA

1. PUBLIC HEARING on a WRITTEN MOTION, Councillor Lima, requesting that 183 Washington Street (Plot 36/Lot 378) be rezoned from Residential “B” to MIXED-USE BUSINESS in its entirety. (To be Referred to the Committee on Ordinances and the Planning Board.) (Ref’d 8/15/19) (Duly advertised in The Standard-Times on Monday, September 2, 2019 and Monday, September 9, 2019.) 

1a. COMMUNICATION, Tabitha Harkin, City Planner, to Councillor Hugh Dunn, Chairman, Committee on Ordinances, advising that the Planning Board held a public hearing on September  4, 2019 to discuss the proposed request for the rezoning of 183 Washington Street, Plot 36/Lot 378 from Residential B (RB) zone to Mixed-Use Business (MUB) zone; the Planning Board voted to send an UNFAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION, recommending the City Council deny the rezoning request for the above-mentioned parcel. (Ref’d from Committee 9/5/19)

2. COMMUNICATION/ORDINANCE, Council President Morad, submitting AN ORDINANCE, amending Chapter 24, Section 24-16 RELATIVE TO VEHICLES FOR HIRE. (To be Referred to the Committee on Ordinances.) (Ref’d 3/28/19)

3. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillor Lopes requesting that the Committee on Ordinances begin the process of drafting and approving an Ordinance that would require multi-state and national chain stores that are 10,000 square feet or larger begin phasing out the use of single-use plastic bags in the City of New Bedford; said Ordinance would require multi-state and national chain stores that are 10,000 square feet or larger adhere to the proposed Ordinance that prohibit from providing lightweight, single-use plastic bags to customers in the city of New Bedford by December 31, 2019. (Ref’d 2/14/19) (7/9/19-tabled 30 days)

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