Boston Code of Ordinances § 7-2.2

Citation: Boston Code of Ordinances § 7-2.2 (B)
Parent Document: Boston Code of Ordinances § 7-2.2
Jurisdiction: Boston (municipal)
Original Source: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/boston/latest/boston_ma/0-0-0-4075 ↗

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(B)   Definitions. Except as otherwise provided in the ordinance or its regulations, the definitions of terms in this Section shall be as set forth in the Act and the Regulations. For the purpose of this Section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
      ABUTTER. The owner of any lot that is adjacent to (sharing property lines with) the project locus; the owner of any lot directly opposite on any public or private street or way; the owner of any lot within 300 feet of the property line where the activity is proposed; the owner of any of the above who may be in another municipality or across a body of water; the owner of any of the above whose mailing addresses are shown on the most recent tax assessors’ records. When work is in land under water bodies and waterways, or on a tract of land greater than 50 acres, then written notification must be given only to ABUTTERS within 300 feet of the project site.
      ACT. The Wetlands Protection Act, M.G.L. Chapter 131, Section 40 and, whenever appropriate, the Regulations thereunder, 310 CMR 10.00.
      ACTIVITY. On or in any area subject to protection by the ordinance and its regulations: any form of draining, dumping, dredging, damming, discharging, excavating, filling or grading; the erection, reconstruction or expansion of any building or structure; the driving of pilings; the construction or improvement of roads and other ways; the alteration of site hydrology or runoff characteristics; the intercepting or diverting groundwater or surface water; the installation of drainage, sewage and water systems; the discharging of pollutants; the destruction of plant life; and any other alteration of the physical characteristics of land or the physical or chemical characteristics of water. ACTIVITY shall also include any project by any public Agency or person requiring a permit issued by the city Inspectional Services Department or its successor.
      ADAPTATION. Measures designed or intended to protect resource areas from the impacts of climate change and to protect the ability of resource areas to mitigate the impacts of climate change through providing the Resource Area Values protected by the ordinance.
      AGENT. Any Conservation Commissioner or City staff who is appointed Agent by a majority vote of the Conservation Commission at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Conservation Commission, and upon written approval of the Mayor. (M.G.L. Chapter 40, Section 8C).
      ALTER. To change the condition(s) of any area subject to protection by the ordinance and shall include but not be limited to one or more of the following actions undertaken to, upon, within, under or affecting the resource areas protected by this Section:

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