The Fall River Traffic Board convened on January 17, 2024, starting with a roll call and approval of the minutes from December 13, 2023. The board then addressed a curve cut application for 1975 Pleasant Street and Fielden Street, which was accepted. Following this, several tabled handicap parking requests were reviewed. The request for 808 Slade Street was dropped, while requests for 120 Oregon Street and 207 Oliver Street were accepted, with signs expected within 12 weeks. New handicap parking requests for 148 Sunset Hill, 300 Madison, and 189 Hamlet Street were all tabled for future discussion. A request for 746 North Underwood was denied due to the property having existing off-street parking, which is an automatic disqualifier for a public handicap spot. Conversely, requests for 219 Garfield Street, 157 Earl, and 622 Woodman were accepted, with the board clarifying that public handicap spots are first-come, first-served, not assigned to specific individuals. The meeting concluded with the board approving the rescinding of handicap spots at ten different addresses across the city.
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we get started pursuing uh to the open law open meeting law any person may make any audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or Transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible start off with a roll call Stephanie MacArthur recording
0:28secretary I said we go oh Natalie Melo John point do for please I'll do approval of uh minutes for December 13th 2023 motion to approve have a second second P see none F uh is there anyone here for citizen input something that's not on the agenda or do we all have paperwork that was previously submitted okay we'll Circle back to that I guess um starting off we have curve cut application location 1975 Pleasant
1:14Street and fielden Street engineer Department reviewed the application found no issues motion to accept motion to accept second second opposed none pass tabled request from last month we have 808 Slade Street 808 Slade anybody okay uh that has already been tabled so we'll go ahead and drop that I need I have any motion to drop motion to drop second second any oppos none we'll drop that one aesome tables
2:04from last month we have 120 Oregon Street okay just give us a second we'll review your packet
2:28okay
2:37let's see no issues with this does anybody have anything to discuss I haven't got a I haven't
2:53got it's not in your packet you got it yeah we haven't got our hey here you go or does drive has a valid plet registered vehicle um no access to off street parking motion to accept a second second any opposed no seeing none all set uh within the next 12 weeks um you should have your signs in place okay awesome okay um my question is do you get Pi they just put them up
3:32it'll be put up closest to the entrance of that property okay okay any other questions long it's are free to go or you can stay and enjoy the rest of the meeting if you'd like sounds good 207 Oliver okay
4:28Jesus
4:55so at the time of this I noticed you have your uh print out here about the off street parking it would be made available to you to rent once it became available it's still not available at this time okay anyone have any questions no a motion on this one see no issue motion accept have a second second any oppos see none all set ma'am same deal in the next 12 weeks it should be all
5:27set okay got it all right new ones 148 Sunset Hill 148 Sunset Hill seeing none motion to table second John H don't they have parking they have um they have parking spaces but you could still apply for handicap on which will put you directly closest to your unit see um so that's what they're obviously going for there it might be it might be right in the middle right right in the middle so CHR Charles any opposed
6:11table in this saying none table this one for next month 300 Madison 300 Madison motion to table mtion table table second second any opposed see none Madison will be T 189 Hamlet 189 Hamlet Street motion the table motion to table seconded and any opposed none table 7:46 North Underwood okay oh yeah all right want to take a look at this packet
7:23please miss Foria okay um so couple of things when we start talking about issuance of handicap spaces on the on the public Street okay uh there's a couple of pre disqualifiers okay which means if you don't meet these specific standards it's an automatic no it has nothing to do with this board these are are rules that are already set in place okay one of these rules that are set in place for
7:50an automatic disqualifier is if you are the homeowner and you have access to off street parking okay your property does have have the driveway I understand what it is you're going for you want to utilize the front entrance to the house was a shorter distance I completely understand that but the problem we have is your property has off street parking to the left of the property I yep stair yep my back is coming home
8:25withs up those stair already F down stair black ice neighbor
8:45Street have the entrance to come in because my back is sh withs I 100% understand where you were trying to go with by the pictures you provided and it would make perfect sense I again I'm not disputing that um and if you do have a deal worked out with your neighbor and that's the route you guys want to go that's awesome hopefully it all works out the fact of the matter is
9:08we cannot place a handicapped sign which would take up space on the public way in front of a residence that does have a driveway so the best I could tell you would be I mean talk to your neighbor and if you guys can work that out and it's no harm no foul you'd be good to go you know what I mean but to say that nobody else would ever be able to take
9:30that spot would be a jump ball you know what I'm saying again this isn't the decision of of this panel these are already pre-established um disqualifiers any questions what was the prose to come here today well because you have to apply for the handicap spot and we don't review it until your packet put in front of us okay thank you okay I apologize uh 219 Garfield Street motion we need a
10:06motion I'm sorry before before we get uh motion to deny uh Underwood or approve anybody have anything regarding Underwood motion for deny deny have a second second second any opposed all right uh North Underwood will be denied uh 219 Garfield it 219 or 19 219 I have Garfield uh oh yep it's another clerical error by the secretary here we just we just put that on record 19 no no you're good you're good
10:40it's it's it's not you it's me all right 19
10:52Darfield can't use a driveway
11:08are you the homeowner are you the homeowner no oh you're a tenant and no access to no access to the off street parking well I you know I get there a girl downstairs has a handicap and I go but use handicap she gets mad you know and I have no other place no no you have the ability to park in the driveway no you don't okay no that's all I was saying oh oh okay the
11:42sh because there's a there's a driveway linked to the property so I just got to make sure you don't have access to yeah that you know landlords lives on the first floor yep she doesn't have access either no she doesn't have access for the driveway either that she has a handicap I I had put in a while ago a long time ago I put in it I said it like
12:07a letter from my landlord here I don't know got it I see no issues here do we have a motion motion have a second second second any opposed all said ma'am again 12 weeks what they'll end up doing is they'll take that closest one and probably end up being double wide yep they'll put another um space in front of it okay yeah in front of it you know yep and
12:36you'd have access to either one it would be a first come first Ser you know because if she's not there exactly you know I can always tell her you know like if I took her SP you won't have to tell her anything because when the second one is there first come first serve it don't matter it's not her spot I don't like friction and I don't want to be evct man
12:58if that yeah if you choose not to utilize the one that's in place now that is your decision I'm telling you now you can utilize as long as your placard is in place and if she utilizes the other one still good to go no no one time I did take her spot you know and I it's not her spot it's not her spot it's not her spot and she got upset and I said
13:21and so I instead of friction and I don't want to be affied or anything sure oh I get it you did the right thing applied for a second spot well okay you applied for a second spot the common misconception is people think that when they come here and apply for one it becomes their parking spot it's not it's still all my parking spots that I I that's how I look at it but you know
13:44some people don't look at it like that couple of weeks it'll be all set for you all right oh okay thank you 157 Earl hello um let's take corrected I corrected it okay I just didn't correct n
14:27yeah is this the one which is had the registration of the that was my one ma'am how long have you been living on uh uh I moved in November you moved this last November so two months
14:57ago you had one where you moved before well I have a hadap like I go to the store but I used to par inside right on the other house yeah that's but now was changed or do we not not really not all right um anybody have anything on this one see no issues to accept second second any opposed none all s man same deal okay give it about 12 weeks okay thank you so
15:47much God bless you you as well bless 622 Woodman
16:27f seven he's number
16:44seven your wife does Drive sir yeah and she utilizes your vehicle yes does anybody have anything regarding this one so you have no no you have
17:07okay see no issues do you have a motion motion motion accept John seconds any oppos none all set 12 weeks okay thank you absolutely they like when they come are they going to call or no they'll just be out there they're going to go so the way they do it is they go close to the front entrance of that property and they'll measure out um the handicap space you'll see them prepping for the
17:34signs and they'll be out there and just install signs door they go the closest to that front door okay okay thank you all right we move into the resending handicap spots I'll just run through all the addresses and we'll take a motion to accept these uh 252 Sunset Hill 129 County 24 Sunset Hill 35 Hamley 218 pelum 128 18 Street 222 John Street 129 swindell's 73 northwalk 383 grenell
18:11motion to accept a second second second opposed see none all of these shall be resented motion to adjourn got a letter here that was a text that was the miscellaneous one yeah that person's not here that was a we actually denied that one because that was the second time that to good work