2026-10-14 - Committee on Ordinance
Summary
Built from the city's posted agenda only; the minutes were not found and the item packets were not read.
- The agenda has 67 items. Public hearings include the zone change for Crescent St (see Crescent Street Treatment Facility Rezoning and Variance), Red Barn Growers and Diablo Man (see Cannabis Hours Pilot and Permits), the native-plantings zoning order and the comprehensive-plan zoning package (see Zoning Overhaul and Comprehensive Plan).
- Councilor Vacon's item 44 asks to withdraw the 41 zoning amendments in the Planning Board chair's February 12 letter. See Zoning Overhaul and Comprehensive Plan.
- Items on recording all board meetings and requiring in-person or hybrid access (Magrath-Smith and Devine; Purcell and Thalheimer). See Open Government and Public Access.
- A Rivera order for a Community Response Division and Purcell orders for a Citizens Police Review Board and an Office of Tenants' Rights. See Police Technology and Oversight and Housing and Redevelopment.
Agenda
Agenda posted on the city's meeting page; see Sources.
Sources
- City meeting page and index: https://www.holyoke.org/departments/public-meetings/
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwggghwiKU4 (Holyoke Media YouTube channel)
- A Spanish-interpreted version of the same meeting is also posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrY8qDkx_ss
