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Revere Planning Board approves Richard Street extension to serve one new home, ties drainage to Walnut Street
Summary
The board approved a privately built extension of Richard Street — a 40-foot right-of-way and roughly 25-foot extension to connect with Walnut Street — after site-plan review signoffs from the fire department, city engineer and DPW; the extension will be built to city standards and may be accepted by the City Council later.
The Revere Planning Board on May 20 approved a plan to extend Richard Street to provide vehicular access to a single-family house and to connect the extension to Walnut Street.
Engineer Rick Salvo of Engineering Alliance presented the plan and told the board the extension is a 40-foot right-of-way that will extend the pavement roughly 25 feet to meet Walnut Street. The road design was revised at the city engineer’s request from an initial 24-foot pavement to a 30-foot-wide road to match surrounding standards. The project calls for concrete sidewalks on the house side, and two deep-sump, ported catch basins that will tie into an existing manhole and the city's drainage system. Water and sewer service for the new house will connect at Walnut Street.
Salvo said the site-plan review committee, the Department of Public Works superintendent, the city engineer and the fire department reviewed and signed off on the plan. The fire department requested a connection rather than a turnaround after determining that a full cul-de-sac was impractical given the distance of the building from the nearest intersection. Salvo said minimal grading is expected because the area has already been largely graded.
Board members asked whether the stretch will remain private and who is responsible for future repairs; staff and the engineer said the extension will be constructed as a private way. If the developer later petitions the City Council and the council accepts the street, maintenance responsibility would shift to the city. Members also asked how many houses the extension could serve; Salvo said the plan directly serves one new house but that there is an additional small lot that could potentially accommodate another dwelling, depending on lot-buildability determinations.
A public speaker in favor said the extension improves emergency and service access and creates a useful loop for the water system. Planning Board member Mrs. Donipolis moved to approve the street-extension plan; the motion was seconded and approved by roll call vote. The board recorded an affirmative vote and ordered the plan approved. Construction may proceed subject to the applicant meeting the conditions and obtaining any necessary council acceptance to convert the private way to a public street in the future.
The plan includes no city-funded construction; responsibility for building the extension rests with the applicant until and unless the City Council accepts the street.
