Woburn City Council

Meeting Agenda

1. Roll Call.

2. Reading of Previous Meetings Journal.

3. Communications from His Honor the Mayor:

A.  Presentation relative to proposed Cedar Street on-ramp.

4. New Petitions:

A. Woburn Friends of Hospice/VNA Care for Special Event Permit to allow road race and health walk at Horn Pond and area streets on October 6, 2019.

B. Request to approve and request Mayor to execute the Montvale Land LLC proposed Development Agreement.

5. Public Hearings:

A. Tidd Home LLC for a special permit to allow conversion of a Significant Historic Building to allow for: 1. Fourteen (14) dwelling units; 2. Reduction in parking spaces from 28 to 15; 3. Relief from design and screening requirements for parking spaces and parking lot; and 4. Alteration of nonconforming use and nonconforming structure, at 74 Elm Street. [Request to continue filed]

B. Alderman Gaffney and Alderman Tedesco to amend the 1985 Woburn Zoning Ordinances by adding a new Section 31 entitled “Railway Overlay (ROD) District”.

C. Alderman Gaffney and Alderman Tedesco to amend the Zoning Map of the City of Woburn by establishing the ROD Zoning District over the properties in the S-1 District between Green Street and High Street that abut the abandoned Boston & Maine Railroad Line located on Main Street, Green Street and High Street.

6. Unfinished Business from Previous Meetings:

A. Order to grant easement to Leo Realty Holdings LLC at 375 Main Street.

B. Notice of intent by Alderman Tedesco to move for reconsideration of vote denying petition by Arista Development, LLC for special permits as follows: 1. to allow for an exception to area and landscaping requirements, 2. to allow a loading door in place of a loading bay, and 3. for alteration of nonconforming structure to allow for retail pharmacy at 506 Main Street.

7. Committee Reports: None.

8. Citizen’s Participation: None.

9. Communications and Reports:

A. Annett McDavid relative to concerns about 5G technology.

10. Appointments and Elections: None.

11. Motions, Orders and Resolutions:

A. Order for Home Rule Petition to allow additional liquor licenses at Woburn Mall Smart Growth Overlay District and at 428 Main Street.

B. Order to amend Woburn Municipal Code Sec. 6-2 relative to dog park or dog exercise area.

C. Order to establish a Clapp Park at Fleming Field gift account.

D. Order for public hearing for the purposes of determining whether the building at 52 Garfield Avenue is nuisance as that term is used in Mass. General Laws Ch. 139, Sec. 1, et. seq.

Revised notice posted September 17, 2019 at 3:10 p.m.; revised notice posted September 12, 2019 at 5:32 p.m.; original notice posted September 12, 2019 at 1:13 p.m.