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City of Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester Zoning Ordinance

Read the Zoning Ordinance Open the map The ordinance as adopted

Text current through 2026

Districts

Every district links to the map and to the sections that regulate it.

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Zoning audit

8 places where the ordinance does not agree with its own contents, its own map, or Worcester's own record of what it has amended. None of them are corrected in the text published here.

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