Providence City Plan Commission, September 15, 2026 CPC meeting

September 16, 2026

Call to Order, Roll Call, and Approval of Minutes

01:46 - 03:36

The City Plan Commission called the regular meeting to order and completed roll call of members and staff. The commission then reviewed and unanimously voted to approve the minutes from the previous meeting.

Case 23-053MI: 885 Westminster Street Extension Request

03:36 - 09:05

The applicant requested a one-year extension for preliminary plan approval on a mixed-use residential infill project at 885 Westminster Street to finalize remaining utility permits and lot merging. Following brief commissioner questions, the commission unanimously approved the one-year extension request.

Case 26-070MA: 31 Dyke Street Master Plan Public Hearing

09:05 - 01:47:00

The commission held a public hearing for a proposed six-story mixed-use building featuring mass timber construction, ground-floor parking, rooftop commercial space, and 28 residential units. Following presentations from the project architect and land use expert, along with public feedback and staff review, the commission approved the design waiver, dimensional adjustment, and master plan approval with conditions.

Adjournment

01:47:00 - 01:47:15

Having concluded all scheduled business on the agenda, the commission entertained motions to adjourn. The meeting was adjourned upon unanimous approval.

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Microphones. Hey. Microphones work. Are we on Zooms? Yep.

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ahead.

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We're ready to go? Yep. Alright. Okay.

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Join. We have to join the meeting. Right?

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Okay.

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I think we're good. Yeah.

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We're good?

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Yeah. Go ahead.

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Alright. Good afternoon. We will call this regular meeting of the city plan commission to order. Today is Tuesday, September 15. It is 04:51PM.

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We'll go around and do a roll call. Noel Sanchez, Dave Caldwell.

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Rachel Dodson.

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Charlotte Lipchitz.

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Shayan Manjergar, DPD staff.

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Megan DeSanto, legal counsel.

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Bob Azar, DPD staff. And I'm

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Michael Gadsdaco, chair. We're gonna go into the approval of the minutes of the 08/18/2026 meeting. You all should have received the minutes prior to this and had a chance to review, hopefully. There are no revisions, modifications, or additions. We would look for a motion to approve as drafted, or you can state the edits at this time.

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Motion to approve.

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I'll second. Alright. We have a motion. We have a second. All in favor of approving the minutes as drafted, say aye.

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Aye. Any opposed? Any extensions? The minutes pass. And we will roll right into the first agenda item.

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The first agenda item is a request for extension. It's case number 23Dash053MIL885WestminsterStreet.

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Shall I introduce this person?

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Sure. Commissioner, this is a request for an extension to a project at 885 Westminster Street. Some of you all may remember this from last year. It was a mixed use building with commercial on the Ground Floor, apartments above as well as internal parking. And they received preliminary approval, and the applicant's looking for an extension of that approval.

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I can say that during this time, the applicant has been in touch with us with versions of the plan that we are reviewing, but I understand there's still some additional items that the applicant needs before they can be completely ready for final approval. So, Vincent, let you take it away.

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Thanks for that. Is the mic on? No. It is.

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Yes. So we're here requesting an extension for $88.05 investments for three.

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Speak right into

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it. Alright. You're getting better now?

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A little bit. Is it? Is the volume not on file?

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Start talking.

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Yeah. You're good. Yes. I'll talk right into it, I guess. Okay.

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there are some items required for final plan approval. In addition, the approval has some conditions imposed. So some of those were to, yeah, say, permits, for approval. The applicant has received a permit from DEM. They're in the process of getting approval from NBC.

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They've been a little fluctuating in terms of how long they take to, review their applications. We've given a hopeful timeline of fifteen to thirty days with NBC. Other conditions are were to get approval from the city of Forrester on planting of city trees that has been granted. And I think really what's to be left is to get the administrative modification through the thousand condition of the removal and to merge the two lots. This is my understanding.

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Those are

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the two remaining things. Those should be submitted within the next week, and then I think that would allow us to be hopefully within that, thirty day time frame that NEC gave for their review period. So our goal is to have everything ready so that way, you know, we can get doubles on the ground during the build season. I'm very hopeful that this can have all approval done within the calendar year, but we're just being cautious and asking for, we officially ask for a year extension, which, you know, like I said, just being cautious. Don't

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think we'll need it, but that's what we're asking for.

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Commissioners, this is the, the reliable jewelry building right on Westminster. Any questions of the applicant?

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This is the project they're adding the second floor over the

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They're add they're keeping the building and adding the residential. Yes. Mhmm. So you're still moving forward with the project. You just need more time to tighten everything up.

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Okay.

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And there's been no substantial changes from when we saw it last?

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No. What it's it would just be the preliminary plan approval and whatever conditions you would ask for Okay. Regarding, you know, ornamentation on

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the walls and things like that. Okay.

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K. It's a it's a public input common period on the project power.

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Well, they'd be a period of this long past. Like, in