On 12 September 2019, the Salem City Council created a new section (Section 6.11) in our zoning ordinances entitled “Municipal and Religious Building Reuse.” The Mayor approved it shortly thereafter. Section 6.11 creates a special permit process allowing for the possibility of certain buildings being converted to one or more uses listed in the section. There is still some anxiety floating around Salem about Section 6.11, so we’d like to do a deep dive, especially because an earlier map-based version of this policy was the one ordinance that the LWV-Salem steering committee endorsed this year.