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We are going to call this meeting of the city plan commission to order. Today is Tuesday, March 19. It is 04:51PM. We'll start with a roll call. Go around Noel Noel Sanchez.
Noel Sanchez. Will Sherry. Dave
Caldwell. Choyan, manager card, DPD staff. Bob Azar, DPD staff.
Sharon Garner, legal counsel.
And I'm Michael Gadsdaco, chair. We will roll into the approval of the minutes from the 02/20/2024 meeting. You all should have received them prior to this meeting. Hopefully, you had a chance to review. If anyone has any edits, please share them now.
If not, we'll take a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Second. Alright. All in favor, say aye.
Aye. Aye. All opposed? Abstentions? The minutes carry.
Well, as you can, see on the agenda, we've got the, land use section of comprehensive plan that we'll be discussing tonight. So there will be a lot of information from staff a little
just move on with the agenda. Wonderful.
With that, we'll roll into the first item on the agenda. It's a request for extension case number 23 Dash 006 UDR 797 Academy Avenue.
Thanks, mister chair. And the applicant is requesting a one year extension of the validity of this plan in order to complete some actions that were required for final plan approval.
Thank you, Chuan. Thank you, chair, members of the board. My name is Julissa for those who who do not know me yet. I'm here on behalf of the applicant. As you know, the applicant is actually the mother of a of a local developer, Luis Lucioso.
He's he's been before you guys numerous times. I just wanna give that context. So what's happening here is, unfortunately, his father passed away recently, and so it's been very difficult to to pursue certain permits and and to actually get those conditions going of converting the, existing property into a single family, which is one of the conditions of the preliminary approval. And so we've been in and out of of Dominican Republic to to address those family matters. So, we're just asking for that one year extension, so that we can go ahead and meet those conditions.
So this was a subdivision that didn't quite match quite meet the the 10,000 square foot, and you need to demolish a garage and a single family. Is that is that am I remembering it correctly?
I do not recall having to, demolish the garage.
Yeah. They needed to convert a two family and all one family. Into one family. Oh, okay. Right.
Yep. And he and to my knowledge, he has pulled, a permit or two. Do I recall, to what extent he has been able to do any completion with that? I don't believe it's to that point yet, but he is doing what he needs to do in order in order to get the ball rolling on this. And so, that is why we're asking for that consent.
Yeah. Commissioners, any questions for the applicant?
Let's hear the staff. There there's no staff report.
Yeah. We just recommend that you grant the extension for validity for one year.
It's a public, public meeting, so we'll take public comment on this agenda item. We don't have to. We don't need to. Okay. Then perfect.
We won't take public comment on this one. I anyone care to make a motion?
We'll make a motion that we grant the one year extension.
Second. Alright. We'll go around with the with the voice vote. Noel? Aye.
And I vote aye. Tell him best of luck.
Thank you. We'll go right into the second item on the agenda. It's a city council referrals. Referral number 3573239 oh, sorry. 239 Cranston Street.
Sure. Thanks, mister chair. And this is a request to rezone the subject block from R 3 to C 2. The subject building is located in the R 3 zone but has operated as a medical facility for a number of years. So the applicant is here, is seeking the zone change in order to make that use conforming and also to allow for its expansion.
So applicants are here, and they can tell us more.
Hello. Chair, members of the board, my name is Jennifer Serbanca, and I'm counsel to the Providence Community Healthcare Centers. I'm here with, our VP of site operations, Ralph Chartier, and, I'm also here with our project engineer, Prashay. I was told that I should sign into a Zoom to put up our plans. And I
You don't have It's not necessary.
Yeah. Why don't you why don't you why don't you just go ahead and describe it, and I can Sure. Can probably project something up on the screen that'll help.
So we're at 239 Cranston Street, and, we refer to this as the PCHC Central. It's one of 12 locations throughout the city. It's an existing, medical office building. It's been there since we believe the mid nineteen seventies. It's in an r three zone, so it's nonconforming by zone.
We would like to have it changed to a commercial two zone, which is a general commercial. It's in a mixed use area. So there's to the east and to the south, it's surrounded by c two zone. Is that correct? And then to the north and to the west, it's a residential zone.
So it's kind of right in the middle of that transition area, if you will. But, again, it's an existing commercial use that's been there since the nineteen seventies. And we are seeking this change, because we'd like to do a, small expansion to the east of the building, and it's about 3,300 square feet. It would consist of is it about 10 at about 10 exam rooms? 10 exam rooms.
There would be additional landscaping improvement of the sidewalk along is it Brigham Street? And it would basically go in where you see all those cars parked. It would replace that parking lot area. And then off the back of that, so towards the north, there would be six parking spaces put in that would face the expanded building. As part of the overall project, the cars that line up along the northern residential border, that would be eliminated.
That would be a two way zone. I don't need to take over all your yeah. But I'm just kinda generally describing what we wanna do. And the we we went for our DPR committee review in October of last year, we got a conditional approval, and the condition being that we would get the, zone change. And, the belief was that it was a positive thing because, it would become a more conforming both by use, and dimension of property.
So the use would then be appropriate for general commercial zone. And I think on the dimensions, I'll have, Chris address that a little bit, but, it's a build out and then, more transparencies with the 1st Floor. I'm gonna just pass that to you to describe those
