The Fall River Planning Board convened on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. Board members Gloria Pico, Beth Andre, Mario Luciola, and John Ferum were present, while Mike Farias was absent. The board addressed three main items on its agenda, all of which were approved. The first item involved a Form A application from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Fall River and James Wearing to subdivide a 7-foot by 83-foot piece of St. Patrick's Cemetery land at 2233 Robeson Street, 0 Robeson Street, and 420 Valentine Street. This piece of land was to be conveyed to the owners of Lot 5 on Valentine Street. Assistant Planner Chris Perino recommended endorsement, and the board unanimously approved the motion with a 4-0 vote. The second item was the review and discussion of the 2024 Planning Board meeting schedule, which maintained the standard second Wednesday of the month schedule. This was also unanimously approved with a 4-0 vote. Finally, the board approved the minutes from the October 11, 2023, meeting with a 3-0 vote, with John Ferum abstaining as he was not present at that meeting. There was no citizen input, and the meeting adjourned.
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like to welcome everybody to the Wednesday night November 8th 2023 uh meeting of the planning board pursu to the open meeting by law open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any media attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or Transmissions are being made where the perceived or un perceived by those
0:26present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible the city Charter section 9 through 18 mandates that all multiple member bodies develop and adopt rules or policy for public comment we have adopted such a policy which in short provides for citizen input on a planning board specific matters at the end of the meeting there's a signup sheet that is located in the back of the room do uh attendant Gloria Pico present
0:56Beth Andre present Mario luciola present Mike farias absent and I John ferum here also we have Nina Krueger the administrative clerk uh Chris Perino the assistant planner and from for TV we have Mike Ferrera and right to the agenda under new business first item form a applicant application for endorsement of plan believed not to require approval and up plan of land file number 23-1
1:331563 owner Roman Catholic bishop of Fall River and James wearing applicant Roman Catholic bishop of Far River Property location 2233 Robison Street zero Robison Street and 420 Valentine street cessor map u-13 d005 and you -4- 00003 also u-15 d001 we'll go toh Chris for a detail on this so the plan before you is from the Catholic dases we are subdividing a piece of cemetery St Patrick's Cemetery about
2:28approximately a 7 Foot by 83t piece of land um and then conveying that to the owners of uh lot five on Valentine Street um that's really all they're doing it meets all of the requirements for an anr plan so we recommend endorsement okay so basically they're just cutting off a piece and uh and the folks over on Valentine Street have taken it over y okay do I have a a motion to approve do I have any
3:04comment do I have a motion to approve I no comment that I can make because I really don't know what meets all the accredit it it it meets all the requirements they're taking a small piece of land from there over it's over by the cemetery on top of robon Street St Patrick St Patrick yeah okay they're taking a piece of land and giving it to or working it out with the
3:26people next door that want extra land I make MO to approve motion made by Mario I second second by Beth all in favor I I I opposed none two on the agenda discussion review and discuss 2024 planning board meeting schedule everyone has the schedule I think it's pretty much the same thing yep standard Wednesday second Wednesday of the month uh advertising deadline four weeks before the meeting meeting in
4:00the anr deadline or form a deadline rather one week before the meeting do I have a motion to uh approve next year's meeting schedule make a motion to approve the meeting schedule motion by Gloria second I'll second Mario second all in favor I I opposed okay finally we have the approval of the minutes of meeting for October 11th 2023 I was not here so I will not vote but do I have uh I know everyone else
4:32was here do I have a vote to approve the meetings a minutes of the meeting a motion to approve the minutes Beth made a motion to approve second I second lauia all in favor I I and I abstain uh we have no citizens input do I have a motion to adjourn I'll make that motion motion by Mario second second Beth with this Modio in favor I I opposed none have a good night