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Alright. Good afternoon. We will call this regular meeting of the city plan commission to order. Today is Tuesday, 04/28/2026. It is 04:46PM.
Let's start by going around with a roll call.
Charlotte Lipcheth. Rachel Dobson. Ben McGinnock.
Sharon Gardner, legal counsel.
Joyon, manager, car, deputy staff.
And I am Michael Gazdako, the chair. You all should have received the minutes from the 03/31/2026 meeting to review prior to this meeting. The only question I had, and it was mainly for Charlotte, is that did you read the condition in the last item about the facade, and is that what we agreed upon?
You're good. Thank you. I thought it looks okay. But
I thought I couldn't remember if that was exactly how we worded it, and that would be that was the only thing that I wanted to make sure of.
Do have a copy of those minutes? I do not.
Or if you wanna if we wanna take a look at it and can we just use the multi to the end of the Yeah.
You wanna we'll we'll move that to the end of the meeting, and we will look at that again. Yeah. Director's report, I'm assuming since Bob is not present, We don't have a director's report this month. Yeah. We can just send.
Okay. Alright. Then we'll go right into the first agenda item, which is a city council referral. It's referral number 3612 Eddy Street, Bay Street, O'Connell Street, and Sherburne Street rezoning. I guess we should have the, the applicant come up and, Tryon, you can introduce the item.
Sure. Thanks, mister chair. And this is a case where the petitioner is requesting a rezoning of the subject lots from MMU 75 to M 1. The lots in question are used for business industrial uses, including contractor storage yard with some other uses as well. So they are requesting this rezoning in order to allow for for those uses to be able to continue by right.
And in conjunction with this, they are also requesting a text change to section 12 o two dot h dot four of the ordinance pertaining to contractor storage yard to allow for storage containers to be used for permanent storage on-site site, but without stacking. So applicants here, and they can tell you more.
K. Before you start, make sure that microphone works, and you're gonna have to talk directly into it because otherwise, no one in the virtual room will be able to hear you. Okay. We little closer. There you go.
We recently found out we're in violation of our zone, MMU 75. So that's when we took the direction to change the zone and add Okay. Can you introduce yourself first and who you're representing? Jack Saudet with JC one thirty one and e w Audensons. Thank you.
My father is Jeff Audet. He's over there. So like I said, one of our neighbors got in trouble for not sure what exactly what it was, but, we were just a ripple effect. So we were told that we were in, the wrong zone. So what we did was went to the city of Providence and said, okay.
What do we need to do? They said you should change your zone to this based off what your business needs are. And then they said, well, you have storage containers, and they said there's not really a zone that allows for this. So their recommendation was to add the following clause regarding storage containers. It's pretty pretty simple.
Okay. Commissioners, do you have questions of the applicant? Are storage containers a part of the this your business or the other surrounding businesses?
Because it's a it's not prohibit it's not allowed as a permanent storage as I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, Troy, throughout the city. So this would be a text change to allow we allow for temporary storage and storage containers, like, in crates like that. Is that correct, Choyan?
Yeah. They're not allowed permanent storage. This would apply to the contractor storage yard.
apply to in the m 1 zone and only to contractor storage. Is that correct? Correct. Yep. Yeah.
It's definitely a necessity. Mean, what would you define temporary in terms of a storage container? That's that's the the zoning definition as of now is a is a temporary use. It's not a permanent use, and I believe it's probably defined.
Yeah. We'd have to look that up, but temporary would be something that you move you know, essentially move away. Okay. Store store materials, move them to another place rather than have them in perpetuity. Okay.
I mean, I do what is your readiness? What are what are
We're an electrical contractor, so we do pretty much everything commercial electrical work. So buildings, we have some work down in Newport Docks. So it's storage of, say, equipment or tools that are being stored in the storage container for a month or two and then going to a job. And then say when we slow down, it's back or it could be storing wire or material or anything. So anything to allow us to do business.
Do those containers move to
the job site then? Some do. Yes. Some don't. So we have both.
We have some containers that might be there for a week, and then once the job gets going, it moves out. And then we have some that will will never move. It'll be permanent. Are
the containers on a permeable or impermeable surface? Are we
They're on concrete slab or granite. And
the zoning change that we're they're reflecting in. Well, I don't know. It's just like the.
And then use 75 and M one. M 1 is the the more Industrial. Industrial of the the uses. Because it doesn't really help. And this is an industrial area, so I I understand that.
The zone change doesn't bring me any pause. It's it's more just the the text change that I wanna make sure we're intentional about it. It seems like the city supports it. But
I mean, no matter what recommendation we we make or or not, the city council will do what what they feel appropriate. Any other questions to the applicant? Maybe we should open up to public comment.
Actually, have a question. How long have you been operating on all of these logs?
