The Fall River Planning Board convened on July 13, 2022, at 5:30 PM. The meeting began with a discussion regarding the proper procedure for public comment under the open meeting law, with City Planner Dan Aggia agreeing to provide the correct verbiage for future meetings. The board then proceeded to approve three Form A applications for endorsement of plans not requiring approval. The first application, file #22-1538 for Army Linda Joseph at 53 Harvard Street, involved subdividing a parcel into three lots, each exceeding the minimum zoning requirements; this was approved unanimously. The second, file #22-1539 for Dream Homes LLC at 145 Hanover Street, proposed demolishing an existing dwelling and subdividing the land into three parcels, also exceeding zoning requirements, and was approved with Gloria Pacheco abstaining. The third, file #22-1540 for Contractors Landing LLC at SS Summit Street, sought to subdivide a parcel into two lots, both significantly exceeding the R4 district's requirements, and was approved with John Ferreira abstaining. Additionally, the board reviewed and placed on file correspondence from Trans Systems concerning the Brightman Street Bridge demolition project (number 610 701). Dan Aggia provided an update, explaining that this initial phase involves permitting for the removal of the bridge's superstructure to address safety hazards, with no current plans for future landward development. This item was approved unanimously to be placed on file. Finally, the minutes from the June 8, 2022, meeting were approved, with Gloria Pacheco abstaining due to her absence from that meeting. There was no citizen input, and the meeting was adjourned.
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that's great it's 5 30 5 30 and it's the meeting of the florida planning board july 13th 2022 it's 5 30 and pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such records or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed
0:36acknowledged and permissible and at the meeting today we have elizabeth andre president mario luciola president john ferreira yeah gloria pacheco i'm cynthia cevigna we also have our city planner dan aggia and our recording clerk nina haybo and also nina kruger we have from the fall river government tv craig salvador everybody here okay and so item number one we have new business we have form a application for
1:22endorsement of plea and believe not to require approval file number 22-1538 have a look on this applicant army linda joseph property location 5300 street assesses map s-05-0037 madam chairman before we take that and i'm sorry if i wasn't paying attention did you read the um public comment section of the open meeting law designation like if they have comments to sign up do you have that or did you
2:03no i don't have that okay all right that's some so normally at any public hearing um if it's not pertaining to a specific item if it's just to address the board in general uh anybody that's in the audience although we don't have many um if it's to a specific item you'll have the ability to talk but if it's into planning bought issues in general then you would sign up on a sign up sheet and
2:24you could speak at the end of the meeting so we just have to make sure all the time that we have that process in place the other boards do that's why i just didn't remember okay so is there a specific um verbiage of what should be said yes i'll make sure you have that for the next meeting i appreciate that we'll just copy it from the other boards so sounds good thank you thanks okay so on
2:44item one a yeah okay so i can give a quick um report on this this this is the first a r endorsement that you have before you which is for 53 harvard street um the petition was submitted for a anr we reviewed it we did have them make one or two changes on it just to have the zoning table correct this is zoning in the g district but they're required
3:11to have 50 feet of frontage and 5 000 square feet of area so you see on the plan submitted all three lots have a minimum of 50 feet of frontage and they actually exceed the minimum area requirement of 5 000 square feet each lot would contain 6 500 square feet the existing structure 53 and the existing garage would be raised so rather straightforward it does meet the the requirements for a r and
3:36endorsement and i would recommend that that the plan be endorsed if you have any questions i'd be glad to answer like members there's too many questions do i have a motion do you want to see if anybody in the public anywhere you want to speak on this issue is there a particular issue you're here for no i'm just here to kind of view the whole process thank you okay i make a motion that we approve this
4:10uh this format as presented my second motion all in favor item approved item number two we have an additional foam egg application for endorsement of plan believe not to require approval file number 22-1539 and the owner applicant is dream homes llc the property location is at 145 hanover street assesses map m 16-0 48 i'll have to abstain from this one i'm going to leave the room or can i stay here okay
5:01so board members similar to the last petition um actually almost identical we have a large parcel of land that currently has an existing dwelling on it number 145 so the proposed home is to be demolished existing patio to be demolished existing garage to be demolished and the parcel of land is being subdivided into three parcels each again containing 50 feet of frontage minimum that would be along maple street and
5:28each lot being an exceedance of the 5 000 square feet required for the g general residence district so again this plan meets the requirements for a r endorsement and i would recommend the endorsement of the plan any comments from the board i'll make a motion to approve the file 22-1539 second all in favor all right and we will note that uh gloria pacheco has abstained from this item and the motion cam fast
6:01and we have pawn a which is size number three an application for endorsement plan you need not to require approval file number 22-1540 owner applicant is contractors landing llc property location is at ss summit street because this map b-02-0021 ma'am jamming abstain from this one as well okay board members this is the subdivision of an existing parcel of land located on the north side of summit
6:40street which is just off of south main street at the very very south end of the city of fall river this falls in in our four district which requires 75 feet of frontage and 6 000 square feet of land you'll see the two proposed lots being lot one and two lot one has 167 feet of frontage lot 2 has 97 feet of frontage and both far exceed the requirements of the six thousand square feet
7:07so again a very straightforward anr plan it meets the requirements for a r endorsement as they meet the requisite front engine area requirement for the district so i would recommend endorsement of the plan and it comes from the support now do i have a motion promotion do i have a second one second all in favor aye and again we will note that john ferreira has abstained from this item and item number four
7:42review and discussion of the brighton street bridge demolition project number 610 701 and we have a correspondence from trans system uh do you want me to read the entire correspondence i think i can give you a summary of this guy because i've actually been involved in this beyond just the the planning aspect of it so trans systems is the company that's working with uh with mass
8:12department of transportation the highway division regarding the demolition of the existing or the previously existing brightman street bridge of course that you have know it's been left open in the positions that it's in so we've been working with them for the last three or four months we had met with them back in march to discuss the project and and what they would be doing so the process that they're going
8:33through now is the permitting to remove all of the what you see is the superstructure so all of the metal structure that you see and the the columns that go down into the water that is all being removed so this is the very first the first phase which is to to get rid of the safety hazard of having these metal structures up in the air so that will all be removed at this time there
8:56is no um commitment or part of the project to do anything moving forward the city would have the ability at a later time and also the town of somerset to do whatever they would want to do on the landward sides of where these bridge abutments used to be so if somebody wants to go through and do a fishing pier or do a little park or do something that's beyond the scope of
9:18this so this is just notification of where they're at what their proposal is and they'll be starting that permitting process which would be to take down basically everything that you visually see that that's made of metal concrete asphalt the center supporting structure and they would be getting rid of that just below the seabed to make sure that there would be no uh no obstructions so this this is really just an
9:42informational thing that they send out to all the different boards just alerting them to the fact of the project any comments from the board so we just receive and place this item on file yeah all in favor all right can we get emotional a second please make a motion and we place this uh correspondence on file i'll second that roll call vote death here i
10:24my mind was on concentration big thing i think you concentrate now the second emotion okay your second half was right i did we're good we're all set with that now nina yes okay perfect approval of the june 8th 2022 meeting had a chance to review them no questions do i have a motion yeah no i wasn't here oh that's right she's going to abstain i make a motion that we approve the minutes as uh presented i
11:01second the motion all in favor hi hi and that's the substance of that item the next item citizen's input and we no no input tonight okay good and so we do i have a motion to adjourn i'll make a motion to adjourn second second okay all in favor with the smile with a smile thank you all very much thank you