The Fall River City Council Committee on Regulations convened on August 13, 2024. The meeting commenced with a roll call and the approval of the minutes from April 29, 2024. The primary item of business was a communication concerning Auto Repair Shop License Number 329, held by Timothy Pinto at 193 Oev, requesting amendments to its existing restrictions. The committee first addressed restriction number six, which required a privacy fence installation by March 11, 2024; a motion was made by Council Kilby and seconded by Council Ponty to amend this restriction to state that the existing fence shall remain in place, which passed. Next, Mr. Pinto sought to remove restriction number two, which prohibited auto sales. After discussion, a motion by Council Pony, seconded by Council Kilby, to remove this restriction and allow auto sales with a 20-car limit (for sales or repair) was approved. Finally, restriction number five, mandating tow truck drop-offs offsite, was unanimously removed following a motion by Council Kilby and a second by Council Ponte, as it was deemed impractical for an auto repair business. The police department confirmed no calls for service at the business since 2014. A minor correction to the license name had already been handled by the clerk's office. The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn.
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1:21permissible first item on the agenda is assist and input is there anybody who's would like to speak seeing none item number two is the minutes from April 29th 29th 2024 motion to approve the minutes Mr chairman second uh there's a motion made and second in all those in favor I opposed so voted motion carries item number three is a communication regarding order repair shop license number 329 with
1:47requested amendments to license restrictions this was referred uh to the committee on July 16th of 2024 um the applicant do you want to come down uh so the committee members do have a letter from the applicant and you want to come uh essentially the restrictions that are listed um Mr Pinto is looking to have item number two removed which uh would remove the uh restriction of no Auto Sales permitted uh the applicant
2:20has received the O A variant to be allowed to operate an auto sale on the property uh with no opposition from the surrounding of Butters so I'll I'll open it up the committee members if they have any questions I'll wait to the police speak so I actually did a query of our calls for service to this business and we haven't had any calls for service for noise complaints or anything of that
2:45nature probably since 2014 so we have absolutely no no issues with the license moving forward okay and so the license is before you there are six restrictions so I I believe the applicant if you can just state your name for the record just so we have it Timothy Pinto perfect and address uh business address is fine uh 193 oev thank you uh so item number two there shall be no order sales item
3:10number six um just talking to the clerk states that equality matching privacy fence shall be installed 60 days from March 11th 2024 uh the fence is up so I I think the we should amend that to uh state that the fencing shall remain in place as opposed to yeah yeah so motion was made by Council Kilby is there second second by Council Ponty discussion on that all those in favor I opposed so voted motion carries
3:38so that takes care of number six is there any concerns about the auto sales it shows no Auto Mr chairman there's no Auto Sales permitted correct right so is it he's he's looking to get that removed he's looking to get that item removed that and one other I don't know if it was the correction the correction cor but it says on the license that I can't have vehicles toor onto the property and I'm a repair shop
4:02which makes no sense whatsoever that was the other one I wanted to bring up we can since we're doing it uh we can do one at a time if that's okay for clarity um I'll make a motion to remove um the ab uh give them the ability to per to have sales at the at the uh business address so the motion is to remove the Restriction of no order sales to allow the uh applicant to be
4:29able to sell should is there a limit on cars or is that even should be considered just a question so in the licensing meeting they told me um because I do repair and sales they gave me 20 cars to go either way for sale or for repair because sometimes both uh a vehicle will fall into both categories I'll buy it because it needs a repair Council B motion uh there was
4:53motion made by Council Pony second by Council Kilby discussion seeing none all those in favor I posted so voted motion carries and then the third issue is the tow truck yeah the towing I item number five Alto truck drop offs shall take place offsite and you don't have an offsite location the street I mean if you got a car that's that's dead in the water now I got to find somebody to help me push
5:17the car up the street and I'm not going to lie we've had cars dropped off since I've been there in the parking lot and no complaints or anything so goe how many complaintants have have we hear because it was a complaint by a neighbor or that wanted these restri restrictions this yeah so from my understanding this was a restriction that was put in like 2014 because of a previous business that
5:40was there I guess there were lots of complaints from noise issues from that business a motion to lift uh that from there to allow uh Vehicles be into I don't think anyone would couldn't operate in auto repair shop without fing C to the place so that's my motion motion made by Council Kilby is there a second second second by councel Ponte discussion yeah restriction y remove the
6:07restriction on that seeing no discussion all those in favor I post so voted motion carries unanimously it any other concerns issues I think there was also a correction to the name is that what it was yeah yeah but that that was already done by the clerk's office yeah so we're we're good with that okay great so much thank you uh seeing no other business before us there a motion to adjourn second motion
6:31was man second all those in favor oppos so voted Mees efficient