Woburn City Council

Meeting Agenda

The Woburn City Council is utilizing the Governor’s Emergency Executive Order which suspends certain provisions of the Open Meeting Law under current conditions.

The City Council will hold this meeting as a virtual meeting on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 7:00 pm.  

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The following is the Notice of Meeting and, at the time of posting, a listing of topics that the President reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the Regular Meeting of the City Council on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, Woburn City Hall, 10 Common Street, Woburn. The order of the matters may be amended at the meeting.

1. Roll Call.

2. Reading of Previous Meetings Journal.

3. Communications from His Honor the Mayor:

A. Order to transfer the sum of $920,000.00 from Fire/BLS Ambulance Acct to various Fire Dept Accts.

B. Order to transfer the sum of $61,000.00 from Fire/BLS Ambulance Acct to Assistance to Firefighter Grant Acct.

C. Order to appropriate the sum of $375,000.00 from Unreserved Fund Balance Acct to Planning Roadway Study Woburn Center Acct.

4. New Petitions:

A. Petition by Jackson Lumber for special permit to allow for additional drainage and parking lot and alteration of existing use in Groundwater Protection District at 36 Prospect Street.

5. Public Hearings:

A. Woburn Avalon LLC for an Inflammable License to allow 9,040 gallons of gasoline (20 gallons each in 452 automobiles) in automobile tanks parked in parking garage at 290 Mishawum Road. [request to continue filed]

B. Safelite Fulfillment Inc. d/b/a Safelite Auto Glass for a special permit to allow for 1.) The equipping of automobiles and trucks with replacement windshields and the adjusting and recalibration of the vehicle electrical system after installation of the windshield; and 2. The overnight parking of 8 box trucks and 1 van, at 195 Wildwood Avenue.

C. 25 Everett Street Realty Trust, Erik Kortz, Trustee for a special permit to allow for four (4) dwellings above first floor in a commercial structure, and 2. to substitute one (1) off-site parking space in a municipal lot, at 0 Walnut Street.

D. ECA NEMA Brightfields I LLC and ECA NEMA Brightfields II LLC for Site Plan Review to allow one 2,451 MWAC ground-mount solar photovoltaic energy generating facility and one 498 kWAC ground-mount solar photovoltaic energy generating facility at the Industri-Plex site at 134 Commerce Way, 39 Atlantic Avenue, 132 Commerce Way, four parcels off New Boston Street, 30 Atlantic Avenue and 0 New Boston Street.

E. Alderman Tedesco to amend the 1985 Woburn Zoning Ordinances, as amended, by adding a new Section 2 Definitions “Pet Recreation and Pet Day Care Facility”, new line 5.1.35b Pet Recreation and Pet Day Care Facility less than or equal to 5,000 sq. ft by right use in I-P, IP-2, I-G and B-I, new line 5.1.35c Pet Recreation and Pet Day Care Facility greater than 5,000 sq. ft. special permit use in I-P, IP-2, I-G and B-I, and new note 28 in Section 5.1 as set forth in the petition.

6. Unfinished Business from Previous Meetings:

A. Relative to a proposed Act regulating the membership of the Board of Trustees of the Woburn Public Library Corporation.

7. Committee Reports: None.

8. Citizen’s Participation: None.

9. Communications and Reports:

A. Parking Clerk report for January 2021.

B. MBTA notice of comment period relative to an Environmental Notice Form for potential reductions in service in 2021.

C. Attorney Joseph R. Tarby relative to amendment of Special Permit Petition by FRH Realty LLC, an affiliate of Fairfield Residential at 316 New Boston Street.

10. Appointments and Elections:

A. Appointment of Laurence R. Rideout and Emily A. Lipsett to Board of Trustees of Woburn Public Library Corporation.

11. Motions, Orders and Resolutions:

A. Order to determine whether the property located at 31 Elm Street is a nuisance as the terms is used in M.G.L. Ch. 139, Sec 1