Providence City Plan Commission, December 13, 2022

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Alright. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We'd like to call this, Providence City Plan Commission regular meeting of Tuesday, December 13 to order at 04:48PM. Let's start by taking a roll call. Noel Sanchez?

Noel Sanchez.

Harry Belando. Nicole Verdi. Cheyenne, manager card, DPD staff.

Lisa Denerman, legal counsel.

Bob Eisner, staff. And I'm Michael Gazzako, chair. We will, look to the board for approval of the November 15 meeting minutes. You all got those in advance. Hope you had a chance to look them over.

There are no edits or revisions. We'd accept the motion to approve those minutes.

So moved.

Do have a motion? Do we have a second? Second. Alright. I'll go around.

Noel? Aye. Harry? Aye. Nicole?

Aye.

And I vote aye. But we just have to continue to date sensitive. Right? Because the

time is not long enough to be uncertain, but it doesn't what we want to afford everybody.

Okay. The second matter of business is the approval of the twenty twenty three annual meeting calendar. We were just talking about one revision, but we're not going to make that.

Oh, you know, actually, you could you could try to push it until the twenty third. I wouldn't go I wouldn't go earlier, but you might wanna go later.

Happy to do that. The twenty fourth, you mean? The twenty fourth. Okay. I have a conflict with the January 17 proposed meeting date.

Wondering if the, the commission would be opposed to moving that out one week to January 24.

Your objection.

Perfect.

Any other dates of concern for board members, or we could take a motion to approve the meeting schedule and filing deadlines for the 2023 calendar year.

I'm gonna make the motion to hold Wait.

Wait. Hang on. Hang on. Hold on one second. One question.

Yeah. Yes. The yes. Number three.

Okay. And what I was gonna say, we'll

we'll note that. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. We we will have cake. Yes.

Oh, okay.

Okay. Alright. So we do need to have cake at the January meeting. There's a birthday, and the only way we have our solicitors' attendance is if we have a cake. So that's that's going to be a requirement, Choyan.

I expect that to be provided. We'll all pitch in.

Alright. You give me a cake, Michael.

Not for me.

Good joke. You want cake or you mean cake?

Alright. Any other Yes. We could do. Revisions?

Yes.

Alright. Then now we will take a motion.

K. Well, I will make a motion to approve the Providence City Plan Commission two thousand twenty three meeting scheduled with the change that January 24 is the first meeting.

Wonderful. Alright. We have a motion.

Do we have a second? Second.

We have a second. Noel. Aye. Harry. Aye.

Nicole. Aye. And I vote aye. Alright. Director's report.

Okay. Just briefly, I thought I would kinda sum up the year for you. It's been a busy one, and and I wanna thank you for, your dedication. So this is CPC 2022 by the numbers. Mhmm.

15 meetings. We had three special meetings in addition to our 12 regular meetings. You reviewed 10 minor subdivisions, five of those with unified development review, projects that would have had to go to the zoning board otherwise. Seven minor land development projects, seven major land development projects, one of those with unified development review. You had 33 council referrals.

Overwhelming majority of those were zoning changes, 24 map changes, and five text changes. I'm happy to say that the most recent text changes that we submitted were signed by the mayor in the last couple of days. That's really gonna move the needle on on some of our our housing policy with respect to lot merger or the r four zone and and things like that. That was a big lift for all of us, so I wanna note that. You had four street abandonments, four institutional master plan reviews, and everybody knows that that housing is the the big issue statewide, and it continues to be here.

And I'm I'm happy to say that that together, you have we have been involved in the approval of 523 dwelling units in in in 2022. I'm not presuming anything, but if you approve the 160 that are on the docket tonight, that would bring the number to 683 for the year Wow. With many more in the pipeline. So once again, thank you for your service this year. We really appreciate everything you do, and this really is a critical board and and is gonna continue to be so.

Alright. I'd also like to take that opportunity to to thank the staff, you and Choi An who do most of the heavy lifting before it gets to us because it wouldn't be, as smooth or clean when when we hear these matters if it weren't for your work ahead of time. So we do appreciate it. Anything else on from the director?

That's it.

Alright. Then with that, we will roll right into the first agenda item. We're going to do the first three a little bit out of order. We're gonna hear the first one, then we're gonna go to the third one, agenda item number three, and then we're gonna go back to number two. So the first one is a minor subdivision, a request for extension.

It's case number 21Dash048MI. It's 56 Pratt Street, and, it's the right ahead, sir. State state your name and your address for the record before you kick off.

Alfred Slaney. 56 Pratt Street, Providence, Rhode Island. Thank you, sir. 906.