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City of Northampton
MASSACHUSETTS
In the Year Two Thousand Twenty
Upon the Recommendation'of Mayor Da►id J. Narke►vicz and Planning & Sustainability
20.037 An Ordinance Relative to Essential Services and Municipal Facilities
An Ordinance of the City of Northampton, Massachusetts,
Providing that the Code of Ordinances. City of Northampton, Massachusetts, be amended to indicate
that within all use and dimensional tables essential services and Illllnicipal facilities do not require a
iniIlirmllll lot size, depth or frontage. This change restores the original intended dimensional
requirements and corrects all oversight that occurred in more recent table changes that inadvertently
eliminated this provision in soille districts. For more than 15 years, the zoning ordinance Made clear
that minimum lot size was not required for these type of essential services pro%-ided by the City.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City ofvorthampton, in City CoUneil assembled, by adding:
1) A footnote to Chapter 350 Attachments 4-5, 18, 24:
* No Nlininlurn Lot size, depth, or frontage required fior essential services or municipal facilities as
detirled in 2.1. Mininlu111 sctbacks for principal buildill-gs as hart of inunicipal tacilitics are the same as
Other principal uses in table above and arc the only dimensional lot requirements necessary to be met.
3) Adding a line ►withill 350 Attachment 19 shoNving municipal and essential facilities are allo►►ed by
ri+ullt.
In City Council, May 7, 2020
Passed First Reading on Roll Call Vote of 9 Yes, 0 No, 0 Absent
Attest:_ . ^ � _e�gq^ Z� tt� , Clerk of Council
In City Council, May 21, 2020
Passed Second Reading on Roll Call Vote or 8 Yes, 0 No, 1 Absent (Councilor LaBarge)
Attest:.. _ �rd , Clerk or Council
Approved: David J. Norkewlez, Mayor
Passed two readings, ordained and enrolled.
hereby certify that the above Ordinance passed the Northampton City Council on May 21, 2020
David J. Narkewicz, Mayor approved the ordinance on May 24, 2020
Attest: Clerk or Counci I