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Planning board endorses five Form A plans, elects officers and approves minutes
Summary
At its Feb. 12 meeting, the Fall River Planning Board endorsed five Form A submissions for lot mergers and subdivisions, approved meeting minutes and voted to elect John Farrell chair and Michael Farias vice chair. Endorsements clear the way for building-permit applications tied to those lots.
The Fall River Planning Board on Feb. 12 endorsed five Form A plans — filings that the board considered not to require subdivision approval — allowing several lot mergers and subdivisions to proceed toward permitting.
File number 25-1611 (owners: George Shaker; applicant: Kevin Carstine) concerns the merger of two lots at about 775–807 Pleasant Street to accommodate an Enterprise Rent-A-Car expansion; staff said both lots already conform to zoning and merging will simplify the permit process. The board voted to endorse the plan by roll call (Gloria Pacheco, Mario Luciola, Beth Andree, Michael Farias and Chair John Farrell all voted yes).
File number 25-1612 (owner: Madison Properties; applicant: DDL Realty) will transfer approximately 7,000 square feet to create Parcel B at 594 Airport Road to allow an expansion and parking reconfiguration for Corporate Image Apparel; the board endorsed the plan unanimously after staff confirmed no new lots were being created.
File number 25-1613 (applicants: Roger P. and Natalie L. Gamache) proposes subdividing an approximately 39,000-square-foot parcel on Newhall Street to create a roughly 10,000-square-foot lot that meets R-8 zoning frontage and area requirements; the board endorsed the submission.
File number 25-1614 (owner: GRK Investment Trust) reconfigures parcels at 1298 and 1313 Rodman Street to create two conforming lots in a multi-family zoning district; the board endorsed the plan.
File number 25-1615 (owner/applicant: Anchor Holdings LLC) is a subdivision of a parcel that contains two multi-family dwellings and notes the prior zoning relief and recorded special permits on the plan; the board endorsed the submission, as staff indicated the plan conforms to the approved zoning special permit.
The board also handled routine administrative business: it elected John Farrell as chair and Michael (Mike) Farias as vice chair after a motion and unanimous assent; it approved minutes from its Dec. 11 and Jan. 8 meetings by roll-call votes. Staff and board members requested that future plan submissions include a succinct statement of purpose on the face of the plan (for example: "purpose: combine two lots") to make the board's review easier and to clarify whether a plan is a merger rather than a subdivision.
The endorsements are administrative approvals that allow applicants to proceed with building permit or site-plan tasks tied to the altered lot lines; specific building permits or zoning variances still require separate approvals where noted on individual plans.
