Votes at a glance: Fall River Zoning Board of Appeals, June 26, 2025

The Zoning Board of Appeals took the following formal actions at its June 26, 2025 meeting (short summaries and key conditions):

- Rockview LLC (Old Business, O3) — Motion to table the petition to the July 17, 2025 meeting. Applicant paid tabling fee; matter will be first on the July agenda. (Outcome: tabled.)

- High Development LLC (Old Business, O4, Slade Street) — Applicant withdrew the petition without prejudice; new petition is re-noticed for July. (Outcome: withdrawn without prejudice.)

- Kyra O'Connell (O1) — Special permit approved for seasonal bar and single food truck at 180 River St. Conditions include hours/seasonality, maintenance of on-site permanent and overflow parking shown on plan, single controlled entrance, granite barrier, and building- and licensing-department sign-offs prior to operation. (Outcome: approved; see separate article.)

- Brad T. Turner (O2, 0 Saucier St.) — Variance and special-permit requests denied by roll call; board cited emergency-access, fire-safety and parking impacts. (Outcome: denied; see separate article.)

- Applicant: Oswaldo Palkar Moroco (Item O4 previously listed) — Petition withdrawn without prejudice. (Outcome: withdrawn.)

- Anton Benevides (after-the-fact variance, App item 1, 38 Judge St.) — Board approved an after-the-fact variance to legalize enclosed porch, with a condition that there be no additional expansion (no second-floor addition) beyond what was approved. (Outcome: variance approved with condition.)

- Imogen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Item: 927 Current Rd.) — Board approved a special permit to reduce parking setback from 20 feet to 5 feet to construct additional employee parking at the site in the IP district, subject to compliance with the building inspector’s determination and site details. (Outcome: special permit approved.)

- Maria Fatima Benson (Item 3, 452 S. Main St.) — Board reestablished previously granted relief to convert an existing structure into a five-unit residential building and approved a special permit for eight parking spaces in lieu of ten required. (Outcome: reapproval/grant.)

- Little Tiger Capital LLC (Item 5, Cherry & Webb, 139 S. Main) — Variance and special permits granted to allow first-floor residential where otherwise restricted (conditioned) and to continue use of nonconforming structure. Board required that South Main Street frontage remain commercial and that the applicant secure 70 off-street parking spaces prior to occupancy. (Outcome: approved with conditions; see separate article.)

- Louisy Flores (Item 6, 275 Dickinson St.) — Special permit granted to alter and expand a front porch and bump-out on an existing two-family structure (not substantially more detrimental). (Outcome: approved.)

- Baystate Realty Investments LLC (Item 7, Ross St.) — Variance application to demolish a garage and construct a duplex failed to obtain required votes for approval (supermajority not achieved). (Outcome: denied/not approved.)

- Lucas Munoz Kudo (Item 8, 1179 S. Main St.) — Applicant asked to be tabled to the next hearing while exploring whether a basement one-bedroom could be permitted as an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) under state guidance; the board granted a table to the next meeting. (Outcome: tabled pending ADU review.)

Several items will require additional municipal reviews (site-plan review, building permits, licensing, conservation and potential City Council actions for on-street parking changes). Where the board conditioned approvals on off-site or off-street parking, applicants must provide contracts or evidence of secured spaces before occupancy.