Page 20 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, ApRil 29, 2022 AG Healey secures workers’ comp insurance rate decrease, saving Mass. businesses $80M M assachusetts businesses will save approximately $80 million under a settlement Attorney General Maura Healey reached with the State Rating Bureau (SRB) and the Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau (WCRIB). The settlement, which follows an intervention by the AG’s Office in an administrative rate hearing at the state Division of Insurance, results in an average rollback of about 3.5 percent on workers’ compensation insurance rates. The new rates are set to go into effect on July 1. Massachusetts businesses are required to purchase workers’ compensation insurance to provide coverage for workers injured on the job, ~ LEGAL NOTICE ~ CITY OF EVERETT ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS 484 BROADWAY, ROOM 24 EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS 02149 617-394-2498 To Whom It May Concern: This notice is to inform you that a public hearing will be held on Monday May 16, 2022 at 6:00 PM, Everett City Hall, 3rd Floor George Keverian Hearing Room. All interested parties may attend and opinions will be heard regarding the following petition. Whereas a petition has been presented by: Property Address: 535 Second Street Map/Lot: K0-01-000099 Property Owner: Jam Realty 530 Second Street Everett, MA 02149 Applicant: Mr. Zachary Richards PE Bohler Engineering 45 Franklin Street 5th Floor Boston, MA 02110 PROPOSAL: The applicant seeks to demolish the existing structure and construct a Four (4) Story Sixty foot high 27-unit apartment building. Permit was denied in accordance to the City of Everett Zoning Ordinance Appendix A as follows: Violations: • The Front Yard in the Apartment District on the provided plot plan indicates a distant of Seven (7) feet with only Seven (7) of landscaping • The Rear Yard on the provided plot plan indicates a Seven (7) foot rear yard • The minimum lot in the Apartment District shall be 22,500 square feet and the plot plan indicates only 13,684 square feet • The Floor Area Ratio is shown to be 2.2 in the Apartment District and the Business District • The fence acting as the barrier between the abutting properties is shown to be Eight (8) feet in height. • The Parking is non-compliant and be handled by the TDM Zoning: • Section 5 Apartment District: Line 5. Front Yard: a. Twenty (20) feet minimum of which ten (10) feet shall be used for landscaping • Section 5 Apartment District Rear Yard Rear Yard: Twenty-five, (25) feet minimum. (Ord. of 6-29-87) and Section 6 Business District Rear Yard 6. Rear Yard: Twenty-five (25) feet minimum unless the lot extends from one (1) street to another street, in which case no rear yard is required, except for any residential use which shall require a ten foot minimum. (Ord. of 6-29-87) • Section 5 Dimensional Requirements (1) Residential dwelling units, except one- or two-family units, which will be subject to Section 4, Dimensional requirements. b. Four thousand (4,000) square feet plus one thousand (1,000) square feet per unit up to a total of ten (10) units, then five hundred (500) square feet per unit for all units in excess of ten (10) units. (Ord of 6-29-87) • Section 5 Line 2 All other residential: Floor area ratio, 1 to 1 maximum (Ord. of 6-29-87) Section 17 paragraph L line 2 L. All properties which abut such parking lots shall be protected from headlight glare by either: 2. A wall, barrier, of fence of uniform appearance at least five (5) feet high, but not more than six (6) feet above finish grade, or above the roof level if on a roof. Such wall, barrier or fence may be opaque or perforated, provided that not more than fifty (50) percent of the face open. • Section 17 Off-Street Parking: line 2 Multi-Family Dwellings –2 Spaces per Dwelling Unit {See Section 35 for the Transportation Demand Management Ordinance} Mary Gerace - Chairman Roberta Suppa - Clerk Board of Appeals April 29 & May 6, 2022 including medical costs and a portion of their lost wages. “This settlement will save millions of dollars for Massachusetts businesses – many of whom are still struggling to recover from the pandemic,” said Healey. “Not only does lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates help small businesses, allowing them to invest in higher wages and growth, but it also helps protect workers.” Workers’ compensation insurance rates are set periodically in administrative rate hearings before the Division of Insurance. The state’s insurance companies generally work together to prepare a single joint filing and submit that for approval to the Commissioner. The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office can intervene in these proceedings and litigate against the proposal to protect the public interest. In December 2021, the industry sought an overall statewide average rate increase of 2.7 percent, and the Attorney General’s Office intervened in the rate proceeding, seeking a rate rollback for Massachusetts ratepayers. The industry agreed not only to abandon its request to increase rates, but also to apply an average rate rollback of 3.5 percent for policyholders starting in July. The Attorney General’s Office has also previously been successful in achieving workers’ compensation rate reductions. After Healey intervened in the rate hearings in 2020, insurers agreed to roll back rates by an average of 6.8 percent, saving Massachusetts customers about $80 million. In 2018 the Attorney General’s Office successfully secured a 12.9 percent average rate rollback on workers’ compensation insurance in the state, saving approximately $150 million for businesses. During the past 10 years, the Attorney General’s Office has saved employers and small businesses hundreds of millions of dollars by intervening in workers’ compensation insurance administrative rate cases. These savings translate into more jobs for workers in the state. The Attorney General’s Office’s Insurance and Financial Services Division represents the public interest and litigates administrative rate cases to ensure that rates are fair for Massachusetts policyholders. The Office has worked collaboratively with the SRB to achieve the rate reduction in the present workers’ compensation insurance rate case.
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