[MassHistPres] COVID-19 Order No. 42, re extended Permitting Deadlines

[Sullivan, Charles M.]

The City of Cambridge adopted this legislation last spring and thereby paused all applications for licenses, variances, special permits, building permits, certificates of appropriateness and the like. While the governor's state of emergency is still in effect, Cambridge began to issue permits administratively in June and to hold public hearings of the License Commission, Planning Board, BZA, and Historical Commission beginning in July to review backlogged applications.

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Charles Sullivan, Executive Director
Cambridge Historical Commission
831 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Mass.  02139

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Subject: [MassHistPres] COVID-19 Order No. 42, re extended Permitting Deadlines

I have just become aware of an emergency powers act that would appear to give local Commissions the right to delay decisions, possibly including demo related (and one wonders 40B related?) until 45 days after the end of the Covid emergency.

See
https://www.mcgregorlegere.com/component/k2/item/68-appy-not-apply-permit-applicants-covid-19-emergency-laws-massachusetts<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcgregorlegere.com%2Fcomponent%2Fk2%2Fitem%2F68-appy-not-apply-permit-applicants-covid-19-emergency-laws-massachusetts&data=02%7C01%7Ccsullivan%40cambridgema.gov%7Cbd87cae1232f48b7b96408d840adade7%7Cc06a8be784794d73b35193bc9ba8295c%7C0%7C1%7C637330462014548970&sdata=%2ByWw1%2FoV3kn3zdltPXrA1PdMWzVCr0lEFOf37dxhw0Q%3D&reserved=0>

I am wondering if any Commissions have invoked it or consulted with the office of their Town Counsel or city equivalent about it?

Dennis De Witt
Brookline
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