ZONING ORDINANCE

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SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

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Published in 2010 by Order of the City Council

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Adopted September 10, 2009

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PREFACE

This volume contains the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Salem, Massachusetts, adopted September 10, 2009.

The zoning ordinance has been printed as submitted by the City and the original numbering system has been retained. Obvious misspellings and punctuation errors have been corrected without notation. Words or phrases added by the editor for purposes of clarification are enclosed in brackets.

Amendatory Legislation

A feature of this publication that is particularly useful is the table of amendments. Any amendatory legislation may be located therein by number and date of enactment, and the sections or subsections amended will be listed. In addition, the sources of any amendments to a section are listed in a parenthetical history note following the amended section. The absence of such a note indicates that the section derives unamended from the regulations as originally adopted.

Index

As part of the publication project, a comprehensive index was prepared. Each particular subject has been placed under several headings, some couched in lay phraseology and others in legal terminology. There are numerous cross references within the index which stand as guideposts to direct the user to the particular item in which he is interested.

Looseleaf Supplements

Another special feature of this volume is the supplemental service, by which the publication will be kept up to date periodically. Upon the final passage of amendments, they will be properly edited and the page or pages affected will be reprinted. These new pages will be distributed to holders of copies of the publication with instructions for the manner of inserting the pages and deleting the obsolete pages. The instruction sheet for the most current supplement should be placed in the front of the volume, and it is recommended that deleted pages be saved and filed for historical reference.

Acknowledgments

This volume is presented for the use and benefit of the citizens of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. This publication was under the direct supervision of Sarah Gwin and Rachel Moldstad, of the Municipal Code Corporation, Tallahassee, Florida. Credit is gratefully given to the other members of the publisher's staff for their sincere interest and able assistance throughout the project.

The publisher is most grateful to Cheryl LaPointe, City Clerk, and all of the city officials who participated in this project, for their cooperation and assistance during the progress of the work on this publication. It is hoped that their efforts and those of the publisher have resulted in a publication which will make the zoning ordinance of the city readily accessible to all citizens and which will be a valuable tool in the day-to-day administration of the city's zoning regulations.

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