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Public Hearing on Future of Austin Street Lot

Public Hearing on the future of the Austin Street lot

Tues. March 25th, 7:00 pm

City Hall Aldermanic Chamber (Room 222)

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Newton residents and Newtonville business owners are invited to attend a Public Hearing before the Real Property Reuse and Zoning and Planning Committees of the Board of Aldermen on the following petition to the Board of Aldermen signed by over fifty registered voters which requests that the Aldermen:

1. Review and rescind the declaration and classification of the Austin Street public parking lot as surplus municipal land.

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2. Recommend that the mayor or other municipal authority withdraw the offer to sell the land, exercising an option listed in the Request for Proposal dated February 13, 2013.

3. Rezone the Austin Street parking lot from the recently created Mixed Use 4 (MU4) zone to a zone that is more appropriate to the scale of Newtonville village: Public Use, BU1 or BU2.

Please attend this Public Hearing if you’d like your voice to be heard.

If you are unable to attend, you can email comments to: Real Property Reuse Committee Clerk Linda Finucane: lfinucane@newtonma.gov or send comments to her at Newton City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Ave.

For questions or more info contact: NewtonvilleNeighborhoodAssoc@gmail.com

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