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Boston City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 40

APPENDICES

APPENDIX B to ARTICLE 40 - Definitions

For the purposes of this article only, the following words and phrases, when capitalized, shall have the meanings indicated.

[Development Plan]. Deleted on May 9, 1996 by Text Amendment No. 228.

South Station Economic Development Area Plan means the comprehensive plan, adopted by the Boston Redevelopment Authority pursuant to Chapter 652 of the Acts of 1960, Section 3 of Chapter 4 of the Ordinances of 1952, and Section 27D-18 of this code, which sets forth the planning policies, development controls, and design guidelines for the South Station Economic Development Area.

South Station Economic Development Area means the area depicted on Map 1C of this code.

(As amended on July 31, 1997.)

Street Wall means the exterior wall or portion of the exterior wall of a Proposed Project that faces a street on which such Proposed Project is located, and is below the Street Wall Height, determined pursuant to Section 40-13.

Substantial Accord means, with respect to building height, that the vertical distance from grade to the top of the structure of the last occupied floor of a Proposed Project shall not exceed the specified height limit for the applicable district or subdistrict by more than fifteen (15) feet.

(Text Amd. No. 463, ยง 16, 8-16-2023)