Whatever you wish to change, if you’re before the ZBA Machine it means you want to do something that requires you to bend or break existing zoning ordinances.
...without noting that approximately everything in Somerville is in violation of the zoning ordinances as currently written, are grandfathered in, and thus require ZBA approval all the time for projects. Now, most of the article isn't about standard residential zoning kinds of things, but he sets it up as if it's only for special, out-there projects, which isn't the case at all.
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Date: 2013-07-12 10:18 pm (UTC)...without noting that approximately everything in Somerville is in violation of the zoning ordinances as currently written, are grandfathered in, and thus require ZBA approval all the time for projects. Now, most of the article isn't about standard residential zoning kinds of things, but he sets it up as if it's only for special, out-there projects, which isn't the case at all.