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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">New Bedford will advertise in-person for April. Our ZBA never went back to remote after the first order expired so it’s been 50/50 anyway. I’m not even sure the PB will go back,
but maybe a couple months with poster boards and the lovely acoustics of the community center will get them to consider virtual. I joined in 2020 so I’ve never really known another way!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Good luck all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Mike McCarthy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Asst. City Planner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">New Bedford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> MassPlanners <massplanners-bounces@masscptc.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kristina Johnson via MassPlanners<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 26, 2025 12:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> MassPlanners@masscptc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Massplanners] Guidance on Preparing Legal Ads/Remote Meeting Provisions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Hello Planning Friends and Colleagues, As you all know, the latest extension to allow for remote/hybrid meetings will sunset on March 31st. While there is pending
legislation to permanently codify the ability to hold remote and hybrid meeting,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Hello Planning Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">As you all know, the latest extension to allow for remote/hybrid meetings will sunset on March 31<sup>st</sup>. While there is pending legislation to permanently codify the ability
to hold remote and hybrid meeting, it’s highly doubtful ( my personal glass half empty opinion) that anything will be signed into law prior to next month.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Because of the noticing requirement in Chapter 40A and the lack of local “newspapers in circulation”, the deadline for submitting a legal ad for publication is often one month
out. So for those of you who staff Boards that operate fully remote or hybrid, how have you been directed to structure your legal ads?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Hope for this best and assume that there will be action on remote meeting prior to March 31<sup>st</sup> . Although this
puts you in jeopardy of having to re-advertise and notice if there are no provisions in place for remote or hybrid meetings .<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">A legal ad that has an “either fully-remote/hybrid or physical location”
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Or the most conservative approach, having the legal ad state a physical location only for the meeting. And then subsequent
meetings after the initial opening of the public hearing can move back to fully-remote.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">I hope by some “Festivus Miracle” that this email is rendered moot in the next week, and we don’t have to be consumed with thinking about how to prepare a legal notice.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Kristina
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting"">Kristina Johnson</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"">,</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">AICP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Director of Planning and Community Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Town of Hudson, Massachusetts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">978-562-2989<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><a href="mailto:kjohnson@townofhudson.org">kjohnson@townofhudson.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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