The Fall River Planning Board convened on April 13, 2022, addressing several land use and infrastructure matters. The meeting began with a discussion and vote on the street acceptance of Glendale Street, which the board recommended to the City Council for approval as a public way. This decision was made despite the street not meeting current minimum standards for new roadways, with the understanding that it would be added to the city's list for future improvements. The board then approved two Form A applications for endorsement of plans not requiring approval: one for Sibo at LLC concerning 350 Mariano Bishop Boulevard, and another for Hutchins Holden regarding Innovation Way, which involved adjusting parcel boundaries. Further business included the endorsement of the definitive subdivision plan for King Philip Estates at 386 Kilburn Street and Dwelling Street, which had been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pending issuance of an Order of Conditions from the Conservation Commission. The board also received and placed on file correspondence regarding a Chapter 91 waterways license for the Route 79 project, which involves work in the Taunton River. A second correspondence concerning the MassDOT project for the Jefferson Street Bridge over Sucker Brook was tabled to the next meeting for more information, following a board member's observation about the bridge's condition and safety concerns. Finally, the minutes from the February 9, 2022, meeting were approved. The board also discussed the requirement for one member to complete Open Meeting Law compliance training, with Caitlin Young, City Planner, offering to provide more information on available webinars. The meeting concluded with a brief mention of a correspondence about Eversource Energy and National Grid work, which was received for informational purposes.
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0:21good it's down here how are we doing good ready when you are good um okay in about two hours we'll stop okay we are forever planning board and i'm meeting tonight april the 7th no april the 13th good thing it's not a friday pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting let me transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that
1:11such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible and tonight we have joining us board members elizabeth andre president marielle lucille rosa gloria pacheco president i'm cynthia cevigne i'm president john ferreira is absent this evening we also have caitlin young a city planner here with us and nina
1:47hey bo i'm recording clerk and from former government tv craig item number one okay we have the street acceptance glendale street request of glendale street extending from north main street to a dead end this has been referred by the city council on november 30th 2021 and we have the correspondence date march 9th 2022 from daniel aggia our city engineer to the board regarding the glendale street i'll read it
2:49i'm in receipt of a petition requesting the city to accept that portion of glendale street from north main street to its westerly terminus it's my understanding that in 2019 some commitment may have been made to the petitioners with regard to the repaving of glendale street for informational purposes glendale street is approximately 185 feet in length and provides vehicle access to four residential properties
3:24the paved surface as it exists today would not meet the minimum standard required for a new roadway upon acceptance the city would have the physical ability to make the required improvements the city currently has a long list of streets requiring attention and the street would be added to that list no commitment of time to complete or financial ability to complete is intended if the city council ultimately voted not
4:01to accept the street it would remain private and the onus of the private way would be responsible for any improvements to be made if they so desire we have a picture of that we also have can i speak on that for a moment absolutely so per the procedure for laying out and accepting streets um interesting enough it's supposed to go from the petition being filed by the city clerk to the city clerk ordering
4:35plans to be prepared by engineer um then it's submitted to city council and they refer back to the planning board so actually this should technically occur after we vote but it happened beforehand which is okay because they'll do that after we do this so so that while they did recommend to the city engineer that they prepared the plans technically that happens a little later in the um in the procedure
5:03just so you're aware okay so now we refer it back to them yep so this would be um not a reference would be like a vote to recommend acceptance so it would be more of a vote to recommend um either acceptance or lack of acceptance to the city council okay and so just to the board any questions not that i understand this i went by that street too but i couldn't find it because
5:35with a blank and i i was a mile away because they're so shocked yeah it's tiny again um if we approve is the city completely responsible for that streak so if we were to um recommend this and then the city council accepted it what would happen is we would have ownership of that right-of-way um and then what would happen is uh the city's got like a payment management plan so they
6:04would review the current status of this and in that prioritization plan it would be added in for some day being repaired you know it's not as though it would necessarily have to be repaired right away but it would be added into the list the inventory of current streets here in fall river that are under the authority of the city and therefore would be added to that um that management list so you
6:26know maybe someday eventually work would have to be done but i don't know when that would occur because i'm not i don't know where it would fit within that prioritization plan so it would be prioritized based on the other the other we don't know what kind of lag time there is on that do we i i don't know unfortunately i know it's not your department yeah i think without having the engine
6:46like an engineer for like you know almost a year i think they're trying to catch up on all that and get that going right now plus funding yeah and that's that that's the kind of list where it's constantly changing like there could be something that's you know midway that goes up or down depending on the um the condition of the other streets in the city so okay i'd like to make the motion that we
7:12recommend that the city council approve glendale street become a public way our second devotion all in favor all right motion has passed thank you we have item number two which is a form a application for endorsement of plan belief not to require approval file number 22-15-30 the owner applicant is sibo at llc joseph bermudez property location is at 350 mariano bishop boulevard necessary is c cash
8:07so um after reviewing this it does appear that both lots have the appropriate area they have the appropriate frontage and the pre-existing structure on what's labeled as parcel one on this plan does have the appropriate side setback of 11 feet the requirement there is 10 feet so it appears that this does meet the requirements of the zoning ordinance
8:53an item number tonight has passed item number three form a another application for endorsement of plan believe not to require approval this is file number 22 1531.
9:07the owner applicant is hutchins holden in the sig property locations innovation way on assess this map w 19-0-1-9-0 okay so this one is a little hard to make out on the plan because there's a lot of um additional information including um you know some bio or sorry uh conservation restriction area um i kind of did a little highlight here to show you so um this used to be one part or this is
9:39one parcel and what they want to do is cut out the back area following the line of that um conservation restriction and add this to this parcel you show the camera too yes um so the intent is to add this to this which um you know that's already a um an appropriate parcel for the zoning so we're just attacking that onto that and that's per the um redevelopment authority
10:07once they do that is this still going to be a piece of blood yes that will be a peaceful law okay any other questions from the board meets all the quotations so yes
10:33there's no approval required correct the funny thing about it yeah okay do i have an acceptance to that motion i'll emotionally okay and now we have item number four it's a definitive subdivision this is file number 19-209 the owner applicant is rgk realty trust property location is 386 kilburn street and dwelling street and assess this map is b17-0 endorsement of the subdivision plan for
11:18the king philip estates subdivision which was approved on september 24 2019 and i don't have anything i've got a i've got a it was in here i made copies of it today apologies also i'm sorry for the weird white outfit i was gonna fight with someone so i started uh doodling because i do that sometimes but all right so no one has a copy of i this more than enough okay yes yes yep
11:44tonight i got two measures here okay so do you want me to read this or you want to take it over from here um i can summarize it um so basically back in 2019 um you guys the planning board issued a decision approving the form c subdivision for what's known as the kingfield estates which is along kilburn street and dwelling street within that decision um there was a condition that the plan
12:14not be endorsed until the order of conditions was issued by the conservation commission that was issued in let me see here let me double check my date that was issued on january 6 2020 and then covet happened and there was a big old delay and as you guys are aware normally you have to act within two years upon a subdivision but during the state of emergency the governor actually paused tolling on
12:43permitting so within this memo it outlines what the new finish date for that project would be which would be december let me see which would be december 29th 2022.
13:01so basically during that period of a little over a year um the tolling on things like subdivision plans uh special permits variances orders of conditions through the conservation commission they had a pause because it was understood that it was kind of difficult to move forward with these things at that time so dan the memo that at the time this was this was actually submitted back on
13:23october but unfortunately it for some reason just didn't make it onto an agenda um and that's why it's actually from our current engineer back from when he was working for cec um but it outlines um how the tolling is impacted so at this point you know the order of conditions has been issued and the um applicant is requesting that those plans be endorsed so that work can begin um granted you know he's probably gonna
13:50have to get an extension towards the end of the year um i'm not i'm not sure how easily for him to finish by that december deadline but we can approach that when or we can deal with that when that comes to us okay so i have a question we don't have it so i know the plan was not endorsed pending the epa but we don't have a copy of it here of the of the order
14:16conditions of the um of the plan i do have the mylar so yeah i do have the mylar okay and i just wanted to make sure that existed yeah yeah so it actually like disappeared during covid so they had to bring a new one in this past fall and going through by i'm still going through the office since moving into it and i came across this and called the developer and now we're on track again
14:42because really we should have probably acted upon it when it was submitted to us so but that's okay we're doing it now okay so we do have the mylar yep we have the method and we now have epa uh there's the conditions yep orders of conditions have been issued and recorded great thank you very much you're very welcome so i make a motion when you endorse um the subdivision plane second machine on paper hi
15:12motion is fast great just before everyone goes we'll just get that out so you can all sign it i think cynthia has uh four forum c's as well well i'm not sure oh i don't know i
15:32possibly back in 2019 when this was first started um i wasn't the only signing at that point so i think just just for neatness is sake like four to five we'll sign yeah okay okay and so now we have a receipt of a correspondence um and it's a review and discussion of waterways license chapter 91 for route 79. so kind of similar to i don't think it was the last video i think it was the
16:07meeting before we have correspondents when um what you can do when you've got like a longer list of correspondence you can actually make a um motion to take it as a consent agenda item so you can actually approve you can vote to do to group them together and then vote to approve all of them granted there's only two here but i wanted you guys to know in case in the next coming months we have some longer
16:29lists of correspondence because there's a lot of work happening in the city and planning to happen in the city that is involves things such as chapter 91 waterways licenses but regarding item 5 that is just um the waterways license for some of that the work occurring under the mean tidal area within the taunton river associated with the route 79 project which includes some changes to stormwater outfalls the
17:01elimination of cso out falls and some of that work is occurring under the water body itself so that's why it required a chapter 91 license okay so this item just has to be placed how far it i think yeah so emote to place it on file i'll motion for both text and on file one second okay all in favor and the next as you just was referring to it's a receipt of a correspondence a
17:32review and discussion of masked out project number 609 434 jefferson street bridge over sucker brook so yeah go ahead so this um is just once again another piece of correspondence saying that you know they're the states looking at potentially um making or repairing um that bridge over sucker brook and it's just letting foot letting us know the city know and it was also sent to the cons comm and the
18:02zoning board that this is occurring and if there's any feedback to give them feedback um it's just another receipt of correspondence i went to look at this today actually and where the water comes to go under the bridge i don't see it going out have you seen that i haven't been there recently but i'll have to go check it out and see what's we didn't know if it was piped at some point it might be i'm
18:31not quite sure i can get that answer for you though yeah just curious my husband used to go fishing down in that area probably a big safety problem because there's no railing you could
18:55real habit my husband used to go fishing down there but i brought my dog and there is no real life and i have to be very careful of uh no one i'll ask some questions around city hall and see what the deal is with that sounds good take a ride out there it might be interesting to say okay now this item just needs to be received and placed on file okay
19:20here what i hear i will recommend to do a table to the next meeting get more information on it i second that motion
19:35you just gotta make sure it's on the next agenda i'm going to vote on the tabling motion to table motion to table yes yes second yes and second all in favor all right okay and approval of the minutes of the february 9 2022 meeting i was there i'll make a motion to approve the february 9th meeting um do i have a second second all in favor all right that matters proof
20:19and see if there's anything i don't think there's anything no citizen input anything else caitlin i see a memo on the open meeting compliance training yes but so that has passed testament well there's didn't we did we ask from that meeting the last meeting which wasn't last month the month before because we didn't have a meeting last month we had shared that um there's some open meeting and ethics
20:51training and one person from the planning board does need to take an open meeting law training that's like a little longer than the normal like packet so if someone wants to take that plea or someone has to on the board so someone wants to volunteer for that that would be lovely do i have a volunteer i'm sorry i don't mind volunteering but my only question is i was wondering if the chair
21:18should be the one because she runs the meeting so we weren't given any directive on that yeah the one to be like well pursuant to xyz if cynthia is the one holding yeah so it's it's up to you it's up to you guys who wants to do it so if if you think it's more appropriate for the chair to do it and she agrees then when is the next meeting on this the next meeting on the
21:46planning board now the open meeting no we have to check they've got i think they've got like webinars that are recorded on there but i think it says before me first is your your yes yeah which this was sent around i think a couple months ago but because we didn't have the meeting last month we weren't able to go back all right well um give us some more information on when the next
22:08i can send an email out i can get more information on how it actually is functioning and let you guys know because i really i think that there are some like like a pre-recorded webinar on it that you can just watch i'd like to do with my own edification yeah but i don't want to step on yeah and more than one more than one point you could all take that's so sweet thank
22:27you but do you know what i mean i'd like to check it out and if we both do it well it would be great okay because there's no limit to how many people can't do it
22:53and uh this correspondence which i got from the web was this sent to the planning board or well i'm not even quite sure but it was somewhat tucked in with the stuff that went through the planning boy okay so if what my oh you know what this came in after we got the agenda out that's why we're going to place on the next one granted okay it also has a mentions made
23:25yeah it's just it's interesting yeah it's kind of an fyi on um the eversource energy and national grid work and there's going to be a public meeting on it on zoom if anyone wants to go on april 25th um but it looks like they're doing most of the work in the pre-existing um electrical right away so i don't see it having any major impact i haven't reviewed it very
23:49you know in great detail but it seems to me like it's going to be in the pre-existing um uh utility run so okay so just for our information yep perfect and so that complete now meeting motion to adjourn anyone see that i'm naughty man here should i make it yeah sure portion that's a lucky man that's right
24:25thank you guys so much