No. No. That's that's fine. Perfect.
Test one, two, three. Everybody, we're just waiting on one more commission member. He he's a couple minutes out, so we should get started in the next five minutes or so. Get going. Alright.
You wanna turn your mics on everybody? And make sure you speak into them when you talk.
Okay. Good, good afternoon. Good evening. We are going to call to order this meeting of the Providence City Plan Commission. It is Tuesday, May 16.
It is 04:56PM. We start we're sorry about the the late start, but we do need a quorum. So we're gonna take a roll call. We're gonna start off going around. This person announced your name signifying your attendance.
Will Sherry. Miguel Kasane, my apologies for being the one to hold up
the meeting. No problem. You're here.
Shaiyan, manager of our DPD staff.
Sharon Gunnar, legal counsel.
And I'm Michael Gasdaco, chair. So the first thing that we will do, is the approval of the minutes from the 04/18/2023 meeting. You all should have received them in advance, and, hopefully, you've had a chance to take a look at them. I reviewed them. I didn't see any errors or omissions.
If anyone has any edits, they should say so now, or we would accept a motion to approve the minutes from the April 18 meeting.
We can move them to approve the minutes from the April 18 meetings. Wonderful. We have a motion. Do we
have a second? Second. Great. We have a second. We'll just do aye or nay.
Aye. All all in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Any, opposed?
Abstentions? Okay. The minutes carry. We'll go right into the director's report.
K. Thank you, mister chair and members of the commission. Couple things to bring up today. First, I wanna say that our long standing member, Harry Billodeau, has, resigned from the commission, after about twenty two years of of service. So I just wanna recognize for the record his contribution to the commission and to the city, and we, we wish him well.
We have a new member, the mayor's designee, Will Sherry, is here. Thank you for joining us tonight. And, finally, I just wanna mention that we are, just about to launch officially the comp, comprehensive planning process. Look for a save the date email coming out soon. It's gonna be, early June.
We are, going to do a press conference, and then, we're gonna have a citywide launch event. So this is, we're still sort of nailing down the details, but it looks like it's gonna be in the first week of June. And then, following that, there will be multiple opportunities for community engagement in person and online, And and we will be updating you at each meeting as we move through this, and I suspect we will probably do some special meetings a lot about the comprehensive plan for the city planning commission to sort of work through, the the content as it's developed. So we have that to look forward to.
Okay. Thank you, mister Azar. Before we kick off the meeting officially, we do have a few changes to the agenda. We have, item four has officially requested to withdraw. That's Johnson and Wales University.
So you will not be hearing that agenda item this evening. And then we have a couple changes to the order. We're going to take them in the following order. We're gonna hear agenda item number one, number three, then go back to number two. Item four was withdrawn.
Then we're going to hear item six, five, and seven remains as seven. So just a slight change. So if you if you get lost, we'll be naming the agenda item number, the address of the project as we introduce each item. But just a a heads up that there is a slight order change to the agenda that was posted. So with that, let's, let's get right into the first agenda item.
It is, agenda item number one, case number 21Dash018MI. It's 18 Marcello and 25 Piedmont Street. Looks like the applicant is requesting a second one year extension.
Unfortunately, that's Right
over there. Alright. Great.
Good evening. I'm gonna commit to that. My name is Andrew Blade. I'm here on behalf of the applicant g p three. We're requesting an additional extension of one year for a for our preliminary plan approval.
In this situation, we had six conditions. We've been working and actually making progress towards those conditions. We were able to get the administrative subdivision completed, and it is now reported. That was the second condition. Condition four required us to receive a zone change from the city council, and that's really what took up our majority portion of the last year during those extensions, obviously, getting before the
order is gonna be, which is always a challenge.
And we're working on the final remaining conditions, one of which is working on canopy coverage. We my clients talk to or reach out to the city of Forrester about that as well. We anticipate all the conditions will be met relatively shortly and that we'll be able to come before the board on a small matter. It I believe that's for a condition a design condition. That was the first commission for this application on its approval.
And then because final plan is delegated to the staff, we expect to be able to proceed towards that within the
next month or so. K. Alright. Commissioners, do you have any questions for the applicant?
You know, the name change for the development?
I I noticed that as well. The the agenda notes the applicant as Piedmont Properties. My apologies. The applicant on the approval is listed as g p three realty and the owner's Piedmont Properties.
That doesn't create any issue. Don't think it should. Okay. So you you think this you'll be wrapped up in short order?
Yeah. We're working towards that right now. I we we
should be on our way. Alright.
Will they be back here? Are they all ready?
Well, they they said they they're coming back for for something design related. It was a mural in Yeah. There was a mural There's there's a there's
a blank wall issue. You you requested that they that they come back prior to getting final sign off. Okay. So Great. Yep.
as far as I'm concerned, we look forward to seeing you back Exactly. With all of your conditions met. Do do we need public comment on this one?
No. Okay. We just need a motion and
a vote. Alright. There's anyone who would care to entertain a motion on this. Need a motion that the applicant's extension be approved for another year. K.
Do we have a second? Second. Alright. We'll go around. Noel?
Aye. Will? Aye. Miguel? Aye.
And I vote aye. Thank you very much. We look forward to seeing you back. Alright. Again, we are jumping to agenda item number three next, which is a minor subdivision.
