The Fall River Planning Board convened on January 12, 2022, primarily to address several Form A applications for endorsement of plans not requiring approval, mostly involving property subdivisions and lot line adjustments. Eight such applications were reviewed. For the application concerning 316 Bank Street, board member John Ferreira voiced strong opposition due to a proposed five-foot frontage for a rear structure, refusing to vote. Assistant Planner Caitlyn Young clarified that without a board vote, the plan would be approved by default after 21 days. All other Form A applications, including those for 154-160 Brighton Street, 697 and 7-Eleven, 104 Anawan Street, 1321 Globe Street, 1205 Pleasant Street, 783 and 795 Rock Street, and 44 Downing Street, were unanimously approved by the board members present, typically with a motion from John Ferreira and a second from Mario Luciola. Many of these applications involved variances or special permits waiving dimensional requirements, which the board acknowledged. The board also unanimously approved the minutes from its October 13, 2021, and December 8, 2021, meetings. No public input was received, and the meeting was adjourned.
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uh this is the mean of the four river planning board january 12 2022 and pursuant to the open meeting law any person may just an audio or video recording of the public meeting normally transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible
0:34and we have with us today john ferreira mario luciola yeah i'm cynthia cevigne we also have caitlyn young the assistant planner is with us nina pavo a recording clerk for river government tv we have michael ferreira absent from today's meeting is elizabeth android and gloria pacheco i get it all let's hope i got it all okay and we have new business form a application for endorsement of
1:26planned belief not to require approval file number 21 1519 own applicant 316 bank street llc property location is 316 bank street and the assessor's map is n dash 04-0016 and go thank you so what we have before us is a proposal to subdivide this property there are currently two existing structures on it what they have what they would like to do is subdivide it so that each of the individual structures its own parcel
2:10also a special permit has been granted waiving the dimensional requirements by the zba in order to allow the division of properties that's kind of the if you want any more detail but that kind of sums it up okay and uh do we have any comments yes john well i'm gonna voice my concern everybody knows where i stand on uh subdividing such properties as this would only only leaving the back house
2:37with five foot of frontage um it's something that i you know it doesn't require my approval i am not going to vote on this um as i have it in the past it's just i mean i just don't agree with this five foot of frontage uh something happens to the back building burns down and so on uh there's no way anybody's gonna get a permit to build something back there with five foot of frontage
3:00the city will end up holding it taking it over because the person will get will get paid off the replacement cost as i have already spoken to insurance companies and they say they'll give them the check for replacement whatever they do after that it's up to them so most likely then if they can't build on it they're just going to let it sit the city takes it over the city has to be
3:18responsible for the loss of taxes and also now has to insure it because if anybody gets hurt on it and it's the city the city's liable so i am not going to vote on this one okay well now caitlyn i have a question if he's not voting on it and just mario and i uh you don't have a majority yeah we don't and i've never been in this situation before this is interesting um so
3:42it'll be a 21 day it would be 21 day taken by the board so it would become approved after 21 days okay that would be fine mario i'll be fine with me yeah that's why it's a r approval not requested we couldn't we didn't even have to have this meeting and all of these would have been would have been approved in 21 days yeah yeah thank you so no no movement no motion taken on that great
4:10okay and so
4:27a an application for endorsement of plan believe not to require approval file number 21 15 20.
4:36owner applicant d-e-t-y-g-a llc property locate shin at 154 160 brighton street map s16-0039 all right so another situation where a variance has been granted to allow the subdivision of the parcel um you've got a parcel with three existing structures on it they would like to divide it so each uh each structure has its own parcel so they the variance waived the dimensional requirements any comment by the board
5:19yes john uh on this one here obviously this is totally different something never happened to one of these properties there's plenty of frontage on either street okay they're kind of close to the property line three and a half feet but i mean that's probably what the zoning waves as far as dimensional requirements but any of these three lots if something happened it wouldn't be an issue putting
5:37another project on there a property on there so i would uh endorse this one okay so i'll make a motion i'll make uh a second also all and item number three is an application for endorsement a plan believe not to require approval file number 21-15-21 owner applicant is david and antonio pavo property location at 697 and 7-eleven accessories map ko4-0014 and ko4-0015 okay okay i'll find my notes on this one so
6:24another situation a variance has been granted um to allow the modification of the lot line um to eliminate the building encroachment um basically they waived the dimensional requirements once again okay comments yes john again this is another property where they should have any problem if something ever happened uh as far as reuse on uh of another structure and again the setback was probably the uh what was
6:55waived which is not an issue uh i make a motion that we uh approve this one as well a second all in favor all right all right and now we have another form a file number 21-15-22 owner applicant shane landing llc property location 104 anawan street assesses map and 12-003 all right so um this one is one of the two on our agenda that did not has not received any variance or special permit
7:32um so this one um looking at it it's a similar situation they're trying to divide it's a parcel with two um sorry it's a parcel with the two structures on it it's changing the lot lines allowing um you know there to be the one building and then the second building um and it does um fall within the appropriate frontage and the appropriate area so any comment by board members john i just
8:10i'm almost positive that that's a private way going down into the back there so um i mean i don't have a problem with that i don't have a problem with the size of the structure i know exactly where it is it's over by that smoke stack in the back on analog um there is okay that's obviously a good easement access to that i have no problem with it i make emotionally accepted on a second
8:37i'm in favor hi hi motion passes and now we have uh form a item number five file number 21 1523 owner applicant r h r holding llc property location is 1321 glove street assesses map f 23.017 all right so 0017.
9:15seven you said once okay sorry i just wanted to make sure it was raised okay so um uh basically a special permit was granted allowing the subdivision of the one lot with uh the two separate multi-family three family dwellings on it to be divided into two lots so they're no longer on one law so a variance has been granted
9:42common bed board this one here is another one that that's kind of borderline with me it is 10 foot which is you know it's a little a little different than the 5 feet um it's not particularly what we'd like to see but i mean this is and we understand why people are doing this i mean with the cost of properties everybody's trying to see if they can get more for them you know for their dollar
10:11and by subdividing these two if you know they're three families three families in florida will go for 500 000 each so there's 500 500 there's a million dollars so you know i understand what people are trying to do i don't want to anybody to think that i'm i'm against it trust me i own property as well but the uh you know the 10 foot you know that's not as bad as five feet
10:31with that i would i would prove this one a second all in favor all right
10:48and then number six is an additional form a uh and it's file number 21 1524 owner applicant vieira auto mario m and maria de los silva property location is 1205 pleasant street harrison street and 1174 pleasant story and assess this map okay 13-0043 okay 13-0 7-0 and k-13-0045 all right so we have here uh there has been no special permit no variants granted on this one um and what we have
11:36is there were three lots and they're being changed so there are going to be two lots and it all falls within the required frontage and the requirements for uh parcel size okay okay i agree this this is a much better configuration compared to what was there all chopped up little entrances and this is just a much better um subdivision some dividing these properties is much better this way
12:08this is a commercial lot right now but with that i would make a motion to improve this one as well a second i'm in favor all right okay and we have item number seven an additional form a on an applicant daniel crone and catherine stop michael martins and remus camelo junior property locations at 783 and 795 rock street assessors map
12:500-0004-0022 and zero dash zero zero four dash zero zero two three so what we have here is another situation a variance was granted to allow the division of the proper or sorry not the division of property wrong one um allowing the lot line to be changed to deal with the encroachment of the garage from one property to the next and a variance was granted allowing it to occur waving the dimensional requirements yeah
13:26no we're just changing the lot line correct yep just changing how did that garage get there how would you build a garage in the middle of your half in your neighborhood half in your yard i'm not quite sure what i've seen is sometimes like pre-subdivision law there was a lot of dividing of properties without proper surveying and i know rock street is all old old yeah buildings up there a lot of it's just
13:52this is gonna this is again we spoke about this before this is a heck of a so i wouldn't want to be the surveyor trying to figure out that squiggly line though yeah right it does it does could fall i would make a motion okay a second all in favor
14:2926 owner applicant joseph pacheco care of dream homes llc property location 44 downing street assessors map l-04-043 and l-044-0044 all right so a variance was granted um waiving dimensional requirements in order to allow um the property be subdivided in for the construction of a single-family home on what is referred on the plan as parcel one
15:15from the board um i mean reviewing this one this again this it's got 44 foot of frontage which you know you could put a 30 a 30 foot wide home on there i'll go front to back uh with it so it would end up being uh the setbacks um for that lot uh probably make a motion to approve this one
15:51now we have item number nine approval of the minutes and we have the october 13 2021 uh meeting and at that meeting john was absent so he will not vote on this but uh mario and i'll make a motion to approve okay and i will uh second that and uh we will put that into the record and our office feels that we do not need a majority on this correct
16:37well are you all are you not all voting on it john was absent so you're still able to vote on this i could vote on this okay it's up to you know there's an acceptance of what was of what happened at that meeting okay uh so we have um mario john and myself voting in favor of approving the minutes of the october 13 2021 now we have the planning board minutes of the december 8th 2021
17:16and this is uh similar but um mario was absent at that particular meeting however uh he can still approve the minutes uh so do i have a i make a motion to approve the december 2021 uh minutes on the planning board meeting i'm going to second that yes and so we have um john myself and mario vote in favor of approving the minutes of december 8th 2021 and we do not have anyone here for public input
18:00and so you need a motion to adjourn i'll make a motion to adjourn a second when i even eat my you don't need glasses for that one okay