The Fall River Planning Board convened on October 17, 2022, at 5:30 p.m. The meeting began with a roll call, noting the presence of Elizabeth Andrew Cousin Mario Lucio, Gloria Pacheco, and Cynthia Sevigny, with John Ferreira absent. City Planner Dan Aguir and Craig Salvatore from Government TV were also present. The board addressed four Form A applications for endorsement or adjustment of plans, all of which were unanimously approved or tabled. One application from Jeremy P. Corobo and Amy M. Kruger for 146 Elizabeth Street to merge two lots was endorsed. Another application from The MD Companies LLC for Zero Innovation Way was tabled to the next meeting due to a needed plan revision. D N N Dubois Realty LLC's application for 112 Bullock Street to subdivide a lot was endorsed, as was the application from Evelina Costa, Emmanuel Furtado, and Ian M Properties LLC for 162 and 170 French Street to modify an existing lot line. The board also reviewed and discussed a waterways license application for a Marina reconfiguration at 600 Devoe Street, the City Pier property. This project, involving floating docks for transient boat usage, was presented by the Fall River Redevelopment Authority and had already gone through Conservation Commission permitting. The board decided to accept the correspondence and place the matter on file. Finally, the minutes from the August 10, 2022, meeting were unanimously approved, and with no citizens present for input, the meeting was adjourned.
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okay okay this is the meaning of the father of a planning board October 17th 2022 it's 5 p.m 5 30.
0:19pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting on May transmit the meeting through any media attendees are there for advised that such recordings or Transmissions are being me with a proceed during proceed by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible the city Charter sections 9 to 18 mandates that all multiple body members
0:55develop and adopt rules or policy for public comment we have adopted such a policy which in short provides for Citizens import planning board specific matters at the end of the meeting is a sign up sheet that's located in the back of the room and tonight we have uh we'll do a roll call Elizabeth Andrew cousin Mario Lucio yeah Gloria Pacheco on the present I'm Cynthia Sevigny I'm present and John
1:40Ferreira is absent of this meeting we also have with us Dan aguir who's our city planner and Florida for government TV Craig Salvatore is um also present okay and item number one which is the form a an application for endorsement of plan believe not to require approval file number 22-1541 own an applicant Jeremy p corobo and Amy M Kruger location at 146 Elizabeth Street assess this map k-16-0107 and 0013 okay
2:45board members if I may this plan before you is um is afforded endorsement for an anr plan this this submission actually combines two lots previously it was a two separate Lots one fronting on Elizabeth Street and one fronting on Monarch Street and some additions that the applicant wanted to make for one of the homes in order to win some building setbacks and they was only going to
3:11leave it required them to merge the Lots removing the existing lot line in between the two of them so they'll there will be no additional Lots created and there will be one merged larger lot that meets the area in front of requirements so with that the plan uh meets the requirements for foreign
4:07all in favor okay and we have item number two which is also a form a an application for adjustment of plan not police natural approval the owner is before River Redevelopment Authority the applicant is the MD companies LLC and the property location is at zero Innovation Way assess this map w-19-0185 and oh one eight nine so again for the board members the applicant has asked if this item be
4:48tabled uh to the next meeting there was a plan revision that they needed to make so I would uh this uh item that died next meeting a second all in favor aye look at that motion test we have a form a again an application for endorsement of planably not to require approval and the owner applicant is DNN Dubois Realty LLC the property location is 112 Bullock Street and the cesus map is p-24 -0019
5:38again for the board the application before you is to subdivide the parcel located at 112 Bullock Street this is a through lot that had 100 feet of Frontage on Bullock Street and then continuing through to David Street this this petition will subdivide this large parcel through the dividing line between Bullock and David Street in accordance with a variance that was granted in March 17th of 2022
6:06with that note being on the plan this plan has afforded the ability to be endorsed as an A R any comments from the board do I have a motion a motion to endorse one second all in favor hi hi motions cast and we have the fourth form a again an application for adjustment plan believe not to require approval and file number 22-1544 applicant Evelina Costa Emmanuel Furtado and Ian M Properties LLC
6:52property location is 162 and 170 French Street assess this map oh yes 04-0018057
7:07again board members the the petition before you is to modify the existing between the two dwellings at 162 French and 170 Rock Street there was an encroachment very odd shaped lot that the applicants went through the zoning board of appeals process to remove and change the interior lot line You'll see behind lot 170 there's a little square that's labeled old lot line so it was an odd little L shape of a lot that
7:38actually ran the law of 162 ran behind 170 so this variance which is referenced on the plan as granted in September of 2022 will eliminate what that old lot line was and just extend the lot line straight that's all so with that variance note on the plan and having received that relief the plan is afforded the ability of winning at our endorsement to accept the second emotion file 22 1544 I'll second the motion
8:18all in favor all right all right and that was approved and item number five we have a receipt of Correspondence and we have a review and discussion of waterways license applications for Marina reconfiguration Zone located at 600 Devoe Street and so what this is um this is the City Pier property and the the state and their Fall River Redevelopment Authority has been working on the
8:54construction of a peer system floating docks that wrap around the outside of the City Pier that's gone through the conservation permitting process this is now takes it to a chapter 91 license with the state and through that process they send out notification to the planning board Conservation Commission and other agencies so that the planning board has the ability to make comment on what the
9:18proposal Is So the plan that they've submitted just illustrates that they will be wrapping the existing Pier with a series of floating docks and piles you could review it make comments if you chose to or just not respond and place the matter on file
9:40I don't know a question this is a state or city plan well it's it's the city permitting through through the state so it's the Fall River Redevelopment Authority who was not the city okay it's a quasi-government agency they own the pier so this is their permit that they've applied to the state for and then they send the state sends it to us for comment this has already been through permitting through the
10:07Conservation Commission process so it has had some review and approval already but normally where this is not although it's a Fall River Redevelopment Authority which is a quasi-government agency you would get this if it was John Smith putting a duck you know in the middle of the watapa pond as well but this is a project that that myself and the city knows well but by all means you
10:33do have the ability to review this uh if you would wish to make out any comment so the notification date was October 7th I believe you have 30 days from the date of the no of the notification date so technically you have till the 6th of November which we won't have another meeting until then so if you would like to review this at all and ask any questions or comments if you look at
10:56sheet three of the plan set that you have to see that the hatched out area that wraps around the pier and again the pier is the one that they had just newly constructed with all of the sidewalks and Landscaping all of the new railing which is just North of a Cove Restaurant so what this will do is allow for transient duckage what that means is that you can you can pull your
11:19boat up there for the day you have to be out by 4 30 or 5 o'clock so this is not this is not a marina where you can lease dock space this is for people coming to the city to be able to tie up and then go go throughout the city that the restaurants and things of that nature so this is not a marina this is just uh floating docks for the ability to tie up
11:45they're going to be permanent right then it's not something that they come out they will come out every winter yeah they'll put in a number of piles almost like you see around the perimeter let's say the south side of the Cove you see there's one long floating dock that runs along that side where people can tie up right exactly like that not the other side of the Cove where you see boats
12:07there all of the time those are at least dock spaces so what you see on the left side is if you wanted to go to The Cove you can pull up tie up there and then go to The Cove when you're done you unwrap and you go similar exactly to what you see on that southerly side of the cove and this will wrap around that H shape of the City Pier along with people is
12:27there a daily charge on as of right now I from what I understand know that that would be in the Redevelopment Authority's point of view if they did choose to do that okay any more comments from the board no did this particular which I think is late beyond the construction should be finished this is great I would not interfere anything with the 79 by no nothing nothing to do with that okay great
12:55I'm I'm fine great I think that's a motion to accept it yeah you know just place on file thank you I'll make a motion to accept it
13:14uh item number six is the approval of the minutes about August 10th 2022 meeting everyone's had copies and time to review um yeah well epic motion to accept it to pass it my second motion all in favor all right and then we have item seven which would be citizens input and I see uh no one here for that we'll talk about it now you want your 15 minutes he took us three minutes at the beginning
13:57all right so now we need a vote to adjourn motion to adjourn I'll motion to adjourn the meeting one second all in favor all right thank you all for coming out on a special meeting there were a number of real estate closings