The Fall River Planning Board convened on Wednesday, February 8th, 2023. The board addressed several items, beginning with old business concerning the roadway reconstruction plan for Wood Street Extension, section 66-185. This matter was unanimously tabled due to the applicant and their engineer still needing to submit revised plans for review. Moving to new business, the board unanimously approved the substantial completion of the first phase of the Highland Farms definitive subdivision, which included the release of the associated letter of credit surety. Two Form A applications for endorsement of plans not requiring approval were also unanimously approved. The first, for RD Holdings LLC at 53 Hafford Street (file number 23-1550), involved re-subdividing lots two and three to reorient their frontage from Hafford Street to Stow, ensuring compliance with G District zoning requirements. The second, for River Trail Condominium LLC at 644 Rodman Street (file number 23-1550), proposed subdividing an existing parcel with two warehouses into three distinct lots, all meeting district requirements. Finally, the minutes from the previous meeting were unanimously accepted, and the meeting was adjourned.
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welcome to the Wednesday February 8th uh meeting of the floor of a planning board pursuant to the open media law any person may make an audio audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any media attendees are therefore advised and starts recording or Transmissions are being made when the perceived are unperceived by those present and our team acknowledged and permissible
0:27the city Charter section 9-18 mandates at all Municipal member bodies develop and adopt rules or policy for public comment we have adopted such a policy which inshore provides for citizen input on planning board specific matters at the end of the meeting there's a sign up sheet that is located in the back of the room going to do attendance Gloria pachico president Mario Lucio he made it
1:00Beth Andre present and I John Ferreira present I also want to acknowledge Dan agya being with us tonight city engineer also assistant planner Chris Perino and Nina Kruger the administrative Clerk and would fall river government TV we have Craig Salazar agenda for tonight we're going to start with old business roadway reconstruction on Wood Street section 66-185 city ordinance considering the
1:33roadway reconstruction plan and profile of the Wood Street Extension um this is a report we're still waiting for revised plans to come in from the applicant and their engineer so I would recommend we just table the matter until we've got plans and have had time to review them we have a motion to table the uh my motion by Beth second my second on the new business sub uh definitive
2:07subdivision Highland Farms discussion of subdivision construction completion of the island farms definitive subdivision so what we have before you today is as you know the Highland Farms subdivision up at the St Vincent's home the first phase of that subdivision is now complete they've gone through all of their inspections submitted all of their as builts set all the roadway monumentation and they are now looking
2:33for us to you to vote that the subdivision is complete in accordance with the approved plans and that they have responded to all their obligations with regards to the surety that they posted which was a letter of credit so there is in your in the package you'll see a copy of the document that records uh that vote so I would ask that one of you make a motion to uh to handle those two items
3:02together one that the board determined that the construction is complete with the accordance of the approved plans and that Surety can be released any questions by the board do I have a motion to make a motion to approve to approve the substantial completion of the project and make a motion to sign oh I need a second oh first second I also make a motion we signed the release of performance Gloria made a motion second
3:35one second Mario second we'll call vote Gloria yes Mario yes yes um and you guys didn't vote on uh the table the first one I guess Wood Street yes we did a second Oh Oh wrong just a roll call vote on the old business on the road Wood Street reconstruction um Gloria Pacheco yes Mario I'm sorry on the road the Wood Street the table of Wood Street won first the first we just
4:14didn't vote yeah we tabled that one yes yeah by John Ferrero yes sorry about that that's okay first meeting jitters okay next uh we have a formang application application for endorsement of plan believe not to require approval and our plan of land file number 23-1550 owner applicant Rd Holdings LLC probably location 53 Hafford Street assessors map s-05-0037 so what this is a grease subdivision of
4:53a subdivision plan that you had just endorsed back in July I believe so they are taking what was lots two and three that had Frontage on Harvard Street you'll see the existing property line where the dashed line is and rotating those lots 90 degrees so that their Frontage will be off of Stow both of the lots have the required Frontage and area for the zoning District G District plans of order today
5:31any questions by the board do we have a motion to approve the anr presented right now for Harvard Street okay motion made by Gloria II and by Beth roll call Gloria yes Mario yes Beth yes and I John ferrarios number three form a application for endorsement of play I believe not to require approval and I plan of land file number 23-1550 owner applicant River Trail condominium LLC property location 644 Rodman Street
6:16census map I-20 -0007 so what you have here is an anr proposal to subdivide this existing fossil that houses two warehouses this is at the corner of Rodman Street in Lawrence McKenzie Winslow building they're subdividing it into three Parcels leaving an existing Warehouse on lot one an existing Warehouse on Lot 2 and a vacant parcel lot three each of the Apostles exceed the frontage
6:49generator requirements for the district and they have met the side yard setbacks for all new proposed lot lines to the existing structures so they are also afforded a a r endorsement okay any questions by the board motion to approve the Ani is presented information to approve motion by Mario second Gloria roll call Gloria yes Mario yes Beth yes and I'm John Ferreira also will yes
7:25next we have the minutes of the meeting which I believe everybody has a copy everybody was present who have a motion to accept amends in a meeting motion by Beth second my second Mario second roll call Gloria yes Mario yes yes and I myself gone forever oh yes as well we don't have any citizens input I don't believe no that's kind of like yourself with that do I have a motion to adjourn
8:04my motion to adjourn Gloria motion to adjour in second second by Beth roll call yeah yes Mario yes Beth yes and I John Ferrero yes as well this meeting is adjourned thanks