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but my four kids are at, like, an outdoor camp. There's no Which one? Camp Ramsbottom. There's no
delay. No respite. Can they jump in the water or
something? They do have a pool. They get a swimming shake. Yeah.
Well, yeah, my wife and daughter were at the beach today. It's my wife's birthday. So she plays she plays But I really yeah. Oh, wow. So Wow.
Cancers. Yeah. They yeah. We play companies from board with.
It's too nice not to have. K.
Going ready? Yep. Alright. Good evening. We will call this, regular meeting of the city plan commission to order.
Today is Tuesday, July 16. It is 04:47PM. Let's, start off with a roll call going around for Will. Will Sherry? Dave Caldwell.
Michelle Yann, manager card, DPD staff. Bob Azar, DPD staff.
Megan DeSanto, legal counsel to the CPC.
And I am Michael Gazzdaco, chair. We will roll right into the approval of the minutes. We have three sets of minutes that have been circulated prior to this meeting. Let's start with the May 21. I guess we have three sets of minutes.
May 21, May 29, and June 18 meetings. Do we need to accept our votes for all of it? Okay. Does anyone I hope you have all read the minutes. I I didn't see anything that needed to be addressed.
So if there are no comments, we could take a vote to approve all the minutes, the May 21, May 29 Mhmm. And June 18 together. But if you have any edits, revisions, or additions, we can also take those. So entertain a motion to approve the May 21, May 29, and June 18 minutes as circulated. Second.
You guys say so wrong. So Then we'll take a second. Second. Alright. And then we'll just do a voice vote.
All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? All abstentions?
Stop. Director's report. The only thing to report today is about the, comprehensive plan, which which was approved by this body at last month's meeting. It has been forwarded on to the council, and I will be meeting shortly with council leadership to discuss the next steps. But it will be heard by the ordinances committee,
and, we expect that that,
that will probably start sometime in September. So stay tuned on that. K.
With that, we have we have full agenda this evening. We're back to our regular meeting business, of the city plan commission. And, we had a request from, an applicant, due to a scheduling conflict to be moved up on the agenda. So we are going to take agenda item number five, case number 23Dash030 M a 108 to 110 Waterman Street out of order as the first item, then and we're going to continue through the rest of the agenda as it's labeled. One, two, three, four, and then six.
So, I guess we'll roll right into agenda item number five. It's a major land development project for the case number 23Dash030MA108To110WatermanAvenue. The applicant is Walter Braunard.
Sure. Thanks, mister Chen. A quick introduction. This is the request for preliminary plan approval of a master plan that you saw last year. So this is a building at 108 To 110 Waterman Street.
The applicant is proposing to construct a mixed use building with commercial use on the 1st Floor and 35 welding units throughout the rest of the building. And you had requested the applicant to make some changes between master and preliminary plan, and they will be telling you about that as well as how they've come into conformance with anything that has been required from that stage. So the applicant is here, and they can tell you more.
Mister chairman, thank you very much. Thank you for
the courtesy. I'm a believer in myself. Is it on?
John, press the press the button and hold it till you see the red light. And then, Bill, am I making you a panelist? Or are you
Yeah. You're good, John. Go ahead.
Thank you. And and thank you for the courtesy. Both, Ms. Lavey and myself had a conflict in Pawtucket, so thank you very much for the courtesy. We'll try to be very quick with our presentation.
So, mister chairman, members of the commission, again, I'm John Garrick. Mister Lavery is here as the project manager. We'll present a presentation. This is fundamentally the same project that you saw for master plan, several months ago, 108110 Waterman Street. The only change essentially is an increase in the units from 26 to 35.
As you may recall, there's a commercial unit on the on the 1st Floor. And as a result of the mixed use nature of the building, we requested an adjustment of height of one story as a result of the commercial use on the 1st Floor, and you granted that at master plan level. So we're not seeking that at master plan level. You may also recall at master plan level, we showed a rooftop rooftop patio, which you did not approve. We've eliminated that from the from the project.
So it's gonna look very much like it did at master plan level. We had asked for for a waiver for state approvals till final plan as part of this this presentation. Those are generally Narragansett Bay Commission in general, those types of things. And so we're seeking that waiver as well at this stage. Mister Lavery is the project manager.
I'll have him make the presentation, and Oscar is here as the architect on the project and will make the presentation as well. Thank you very much.
Thank you, everyone, mister chairman, members of the commission, Bill Lavery, project manager, Joe Casale, engineering. Just quickly gonna walk through the presentation for the project. 108110 Waterman Street. Just finding our way to the project site. We we're confined by, Fair Street, Brook Street, Waterman Street, and Phones Alley.
Our project site consists of two parcels,
80 Excuse me, mister chair. I'm sorry, Bill. I need just a minute. Yeah.
gonna I'm gonna explain for everybody what's going on here. So this was, filed last year under a different state law. The state law has changed. And what happened was it used to be the case that master plan was called a public informational meeting, and preliminary plan was called a public hearing. Under the new rules, the public hearing happens at the master plan stage.
So there was conceivably a situation where a project filed before the beginning of the year with master plan being heard by the by the commission and then preliminary plan coming after the first of the year. If you go by the new rules, it wouldn't require a public hearing. We felt out of an abundance of caution that because the state law seems to indicate that a public hearing is required for all major land development projects, that this should be a public hearing. It was mister Garahee agreed. It was noticed as such with a butter notice, newspaper notice.
