The Fall River Traffic Board convened on May 25, 2022. The meeting began with the reading of the Open Meeting Law and a roll call, confirming the presence of Helen Rigo, Natalie Mello, Sergeant Dolan, and Officer Varis. The minutes from the April 20th meeting were unanimously approved. There was no general citizen input, as the only citizen present was for a specific curb cut request. The board then proceeded to review and approve five separate curb cut requests, all by unanimous vote. These included a request from South Coast Hospitals Group to expand a driveway on Hanover Street, a new 30-foot curb opening for a single-family dwelling at 655 President Avenue, a new 16-foot curb opening at 31 Williams Street to create eight off-street parking spaces, a new 16-foot curb opening along Wheeler Street frontage for 44 Bayview Street, and a new 14-foot curb opening along the street frontage for 102 Laurel Street. Each approval included conditions for the applicant to install new concrete driveway aprons and repair affected sidewalks and curbing. The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn, which was also unanimously approved.
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this is the may 25th meeting of the fall river traffic board prior to the meeting i'm going to read the open meeting law 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 recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those
0:25present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible um well let's do let's do uh attendance please helen rigo yeah natalie mello yes sergeant yes present okay everybody's present today um just to make me safe let's approve the minutes of the previous meeting the april 20th meeting you receive those in your initial packet i make a motion to approve the meeting minute from last month's meeting second
1:02officer faris seconds anyone opposed to improving those minutes uh madam clark can you roll call please helen rigo yes natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes and officer varys yes okay the meeting minutes are approved uh next we'll do the citizen input is that why you're here no she's here for a curb cut okay there are no citizens present aside from the curb cut request for citizen input so we'll move on
1:33to the first curb cut which is south coast hospitals group i did leave a message with them because they had a phone number if they wanted to attend but we had told them basically they didn't have to because with the engineer what had a meeting with them regarding the whole project so all right um so i'll read uh a summary of the of the paragraph on the bottom here the existing driveway at the street line is
2:04approximately 16 feet in width and is located at the easterly side of hanover street this driveway currently serves as a parking facility that is owned by south coast hospitals group incorporated the applicant is proposing to expand the existing driveway to a total of 22 feet so it's six additional feet this expansion will greatly improve vehicular movement into and out of the busy parking facility
2:30in conjunction with this project the applicant will be closing approximately 37 feet of curb opening on the budding parcel along the same roadway the project is currently in the site plan review process so they're going to net 31 more feet of curbing when this plan is all done which will add uh street parking for at least two additional cars so i make a motion that we approve the curb cut for our hanover street for
3:01the south coast hospital group helen seconds it anyone opposed to it madam clerk can you do a roll call please um i'm sorry such um okay now this is only because what's happened in the past and during my time during an issue i had so when this when this building closes up let's say they have they're no longer going to be a facility for south coast or whatever who's responsible to put up to put that curb
3:30back if they if it's a business that comes and they want that curb up you know i'm saying it becomes an issue this is this is actually chocolate memorial hospital though so oh it is oh all right yeah all right i don't think so it is okay but you know what i'm saying how many times there's curbs left well i mean going forward if that were the case for another business
3:52the new business figures out the way they'd like their driveway and entrances and they they you know they have to pay for it they move the curving accordingly as long as it doesn't impact the neighbor's parking ability because that's happened in the past where people continue to park and where there was once a crib car and have gotten tickets and that's not being used yeah because that person didn't put a
4:13back do you know what i'm saying yeah i think i'm making sense that's what's going to deal with it on a case-by-case basis but i mean in this case this is charlton i don't see them all right i got you um madam claire can you do one call please no it didn't for hannover no you didn't do it no we got it yes natalie yes sergeant joey yes yes okay the curb cup for hanover street has
4:38been approved next is 655 president avenue it's a new house that they just did they built a new house yep at the corner of highland and plymouth avenue yeah they're waiting for approval because lal did the whole sidewalk part so they're just waiting okay there is currently no driveway there the applicant is currently constructing a new single-family dwelling along the south side of president avenue and is
5:06proposing a 30-foot curb opening to increase off street parking and to improve vehicular movement on this busy steep street if allowed the applicant shall install an entirely new concrete driveway apron within the right-of-way with appropriate ramps on each side the applicant shall also repair any and all sidewalk roadway curbing affected by this construction activity does this take away any parking
5:31right now there's no parking this is on the south side of president the south end side of president avenue toward charlton coincidentally so there there's no parking there right now anyway so so it doesn't affect cars abilities in the park there yeah there is parking on the south side of president avenue but not in this area this is right after this is already above um highland uh above highland avenue
5:57uh-uh this is right um after after belmont so you're going up president avenue you pass belmont it's the third house at their building it's before that address didn't didn't jive with uh yeah okay the reason why i know is because i i see the house going up so it's the third house right after belmont um and there is parking but it's not because all those houses up there have driveways so
6:22it's not and this will allow many more cars to park in the driveway than on the street um so i make a motion that we approve the curb cut at 655 president avenue anyone's second second officer faris seconds anyone opposed to that okay madame clark leave your roll call please helen rigo yes yes sergeant dolan yes yes okay the curb cut for 655 president avedo has been approved next is a curb cut request
7:01for 31 williams street the existing dwelling is serviced by a 16-foot curb opening along a driveway on williams street that accesses an existing garage the applicant is proposing a new 16-foot curb opening slash driveway that will provide access to eight new off-street parking spaces the applicant has received the appropriate zoning and site plan review approvals if granted the applicant shall install
7:30an entirely new concrete driveway apron within the right-of-way with appropriate ramps on each side the applicant shall also be required to repair any and all sideway sidewalk roadway curving affected by this construction activity is that where the garages are there's there's only one garage yeah but they're going to build a driveway a parking lot basically there so they'll probably knock down that
8:00garage and just do it make it all flat so they're adding eight new off-street parking spaces which will relieve parking issues and that that's a tough neighborhood to park in as it is i make a motion that we approve uh the curb cuff for 31 william anyone care a second second natalie seconds anyone opposed madame clark can you roll call please sure helen rigo yes natalie melo yes sergeant doleman yes and officer yes
8:38okay 31 williams street is approved next on the agenda is 44 bayview street um the existing dwelling is serviced by a 44 foot curb opening slash driveway on bayview street being a corner lot the owner is proposing a new 16-foot curb opening slash driveway along the wheeler street frontage if allowed the applicant shall install an entirely new concrete driveway apron within the right-of-way
9:11and appropriate ramps on each side the applicant shall also be required to repair any and all sidewalk slash roadway slash curbing affected by this construction activity and in my notes i have that all the neighbors have off-street parking so it does not affect parking at all in the neighborhood i make a motion that we approve the curb cut for 44 bayview street natalie seconds it anyone opposed
9:42madame clark can you do roll call please helen rigo yes natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes yes okay the curb cut at 44 bayview street has been approved 102 laurel street the existing dwelling is serviced by a 16-foot curb opening slash driveway on laurel street being a corner lot the owner is proposing a new 14-foot curb opening slash driveway along the street frontage if allowed the applicant shall install
10:17an entirely new concrete driveway apron with the right-of-way with appropriate ramps on each side the applicant shall also be required to repair any and all sidewalk slash roadways slash curbing affected by this construction activity and um you have no neighbors on that industry correct uh the front one has a driveway but it's not where it's supposed to be my driveway but they're not they are not
10:46front right they're gonna be right on their fronts yeah there are no houses that so you're gonna go in one street and out the other yes tree is a very busy street and it doesn't come in the driveway that's in there when i bought it doesn't come into the lot it's only a driveway a very short driveway and i do have a bus stop right there it's very hard for me to
11:12do something there so because of that we want to do a side driveway i make a motion that we approve it motion tube oh bossafaris wins the race you know one second though but so where is the side where's the curb cut going to go on yesterday i don't know an etna stream but there's wheeler street no no you flip the next page wheeler is bayview oh okay so past that one okay never mind i'm good
11:45well you i think you should have had it today okay uh i made the motion officer ferris seconded it is anyone opposed to it madam clerk need to roll call please helen rigo yes natalie mel yes sergeant dolan yes yes okay it's been approved thank you very much you're welcome now again i don't have the full agenda in front of me that's it for the agenda yes sir okay so that they can get things all right
12:20because the other one was easy enough
12:35any other business to discuss the meeting i make a motion that we adjourn this meeting second is that helen yes it was alan's second meeting a second promotion anyone opposed
13:00yes this meeting is adjourned