Medford Mayor And City Council Reach Zoning Project Agreement

MEDFORD, MA — The City Council and Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn agreed on a new Zoning Updates Project for Medford during the Council's meeting Tuesday night.

Lungo-Koehn and the Office of Planning, Development, and Sustainability are now slated to appropriate money to fund a contract with Innes Land Group to conduct zoning work in Medford Square, Tufts University, and Boston Avenue between now and May 2026.

When that work is completed, city leadership will then release a Request for Proposal to bidders to do zoning work in the areas of Main Street, Broadway, Wellington, Mystic Valley Parkway, Mystic Avenue, and West Medford Square. That portion of the project is expected to begin in May 2026 and take approximately two years.

One other notable portion of the revised project is the reclassification of the intersection of Salem Street and Park Street from MX-2 to MX-1. Areas zoned as MX-2 allow buildings up to four stories by right or up to six with incentivized zoning, whereas MX-1 limits construction to three. Lungo-Koehn originally requested the Council change the designation during the summer, and that the decision would hinge on the zoning project moving forward. However the council pushed back on approving her amendment for months citing a mayoral lack of authority.

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