The Fall River Traffic Board convened, beginning with a roll call and an affirmation of compliance with the open meeting law. The minutes from the January 17th meeting were approved unanimously. The board then addressed several requests, starting with a curve cut application for 425 State Road / Kilburn LLC, which was approved. A request from Resiliency Prep School at 290 Rock Street for loading zone signage on Locus Street was also approved due to delivery vehicle access issues. Several tabled handicap space requests from the previous month were reviewed. Requests for 300 Madison and 148 Sunset Hill were denied because the applicants were not present for the second time. A request for 189 Hamlet was approved. New handicap space requests followed, with approvals for 609 King Philip Street and 173 Alum. A request for 194 June Street was tabled. A request for 34 Paar Street was denied after a discussion where the board explained its policy against granting handicap spots to homeowners with off-street parking, even if the driveway is small or shared. The applicant was provided with a police contact number (extension 147) to report abandoned vehicles. The request for 746 North Underwood was also approved. Finally, the board voted to rescind existing handicap parking spots on several streets, including Freetown, Grant, Ash, Middle, Hussey, Snow, Fenner, Lafayette, and North Underwood Streets.
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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 present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible start off with a roll call Stephanie MacArthur recording secretary Natalie Melo Ellen rioo John
0:24will point and Sergeant dard follow the police department uh uh have a motion to approve the minutes from last month's meeting January 17th motion to approve second opposed seeing none pass okay is there anybody here that is not on the agenda or has not submitted an application previously to be heard today that is just here on their own accord that wants to talk to the board no
1:02okay first thing we go into is the curve Cuts we have 425 State Road Kilburn LLC uh it is going to be 379 Kilburn opening on King philli Street engineer Department reviewed and has found no issues have a motion motion to approve second any V none pass uh we have a request from the resiliency Prep School 290 Rock they are not here um down just uh the request is for 290 Rock
1:51for loading zone signage to be placed on the south side of Locus Street this is due to large Vehicles making deliveries and cannot unload on Rock Street obviously a tight area I don't see any issues with this anybody have anything to discuss on this no motion to accept a second second opposed passes all right we have a couple of tabled handicap space requests from last month 300 Madison anybody here from 300
2:28Madison this be the second time go ahead and deny this motion to deny motion tonight second by Helen any oppos 189 Hamlet right hello hi all right just stand by we'll review your application real quick
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3:39I have a motion to approve is there a second second second any oppos seeing none you were all set there uh in about 12 weeks they'll be out there probably before then thank you so much absolutely thank you come on have a great you as well 148 Sunset Hill 148 Sunset Hill here all right this is already been tabled motion to toy second second John any opposed none denied okay new requests we have 609 King
4:26Philips Street s just stand by we'll the application real
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5:23anybody have any questions regarding this application no is there motion to accept second any opposed seeing none all set sir same deal about 12 weeks it'll be all set okay 34 Paar Street Paar
5:58okay all right can um I have a couple of questions regarding this application D you applied for this uh in 2022 okay and they denied giving you the
6:26space and then your handicap blacker expired no I and oh you had a temporary placard when you applied I used to okay all right so you are the homeowner yes and you have a driveway very small and it's very very tough for
7:10and it's a dead end Street correct do you have issues parking out there what is the can you explain to me the issue with using your driveway to your residence um we have two cars and I can find the Park Street I have to go up with my very the street and Street every time like I walk I walk down the street come home with my son it's very okay um's the other
7:48driver huh you said you had two cars yeah the other driver is my boyfriend okay okay so just so you understand what how this whole process works okay these applications ask specific questions you guys fill them out you add whatever information that you think is pertinent it comes to us and we make a decision okay there are a few items that if these boxes are checked off it's an automatic um denial okay it has nothing
8:19to do with the people you see sitting here this is already established and it's just way um issuing the handicap spaces go okay a couple of those things would be if you are the homeowner and you have access to off street parking the way they look at it is if you have a spot you could put your car off the street you already have a parking spot this city is not going to take up public
8:44parking off of the I have a neighbor next to my door they have a a big driveway they have a handicap here we we like next door where I leave the driveway is way bigger than m but they have a hand is that a single family home or M single family just like mine we like this I would love to be able to know like understand what that is I don't have any of that paperwork I
9:12couldn't tell you when it was approved or anything like that there I think they they have this since last year again I mean I I I don't know the specifics on it but there could be an accessibility thing there could be the homeowner if they are the homeowner or not home owner doesn't allow access access I don't know the particulars to that property okay but for your case right what I would have to say is
9:38because you do have off street parking um and you have a handicap plet and you have issues with a handicap child then I would have to you know tell you that it would be your boyfriend's responsibility to be the one looking for parking on the street so you have access to your driveway for your friend of my house parking for wheel this car can never move every time I call they didn't do anything they just
10:05do the ticket and leave is here for more than two years but they can never move this car actually I think it's for my next to a neighbor I can expired has everything expired yeah I can give you a telephone number today and that goes directly to my unit and if that car is in fact sitting in the same spot for more than 7 2 2 hours it'll be tow off the street
10:31there than okay great and I can tell you right now like I said the way the law is at 72 hours it becomes an abandoned vehicle it would have to get towed okay and even better like you're telling me that um you believe the registration and that stuff is expired even better I won't even have to wait the 72 hours I will make sure you have the direct line to my office give it to what's that
10:54what's the number I'll go give it to uh it's regular routine line extension 147 147 yes okay on a vehicle all right um so does that do you understand what I'm saying as far as how why why we would have to rule against yours I I get you know what what's your concern is having the uh the off street parking for one car but it would have to be available to you and your boyfriend unfortunately he
11:19would have to look for the other spot okay thank no absolutely that that's the phone number and then the extension will bring you right to my office and that's what we do deal with okay so just leave your name number and address and I'll make sure guys get out there and take care of this for you absolutely uh quick Mo uh motion on this one motion to tonight second second any oppose see none 194 June
11:52Street 194 June Street Mo table motion table is there a second second opposed none 173 Alum yep
12:27hello
12:57anyone have any questions regarding no no issue have a motion motion accept second uh any opposed seeing none passes all set sir thank you yep have a good day you as well we've already discussed the uh last one on the agenda that 7:46 motion to accept this one motion to I have a second second any opposed n it's going to be 7:46 North Underwood that carries over okay all set all set yep all set y thank
13:40you so much have a nice day good day so I just had a question um I'm trying to pay off some parking tickets and I went to the guys in the front they told me that you guys might be able to help me I can't pay them online because it's too late I just wanted to paring tickets office closed at 4: all right I only um I checked online I only work 8
14:03to 4: I work 8 to 4 myself so me getting here at door is imp possible is there a way I can call it over the phone or anything like that or send it in by mail another way that I can pay these tickets other than coming here since I work so I can't accept the payment at this point but I can give you the amount due and the ticket numbers that you can pay them
14:21online yeah I actually have the ticket numbers already and everything I tried to do it online it doesn't allow me okay could be that they're already paid and it just needs to be cleared so I can look I don't know CU I I had five I paid three of them off there still two more yeah we'll go up to my go up to the second floor Room 2 34 and let me drop
14:37that okay okay thank you so much all right we're just going to finish up with the resending of these spots I'm going to read them out we have uh Fon Street Grant Street Ash Street Middle Street hus Grant snow fener lafette and North Underwood Street I'll set to um uh take these rescinded spots is there a motion to accept motion to accept second second any opposed no all right you are adjourned thank you success