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Good afternoon. Today is Wednesday, June 17th, 2026. Um pursuant to the open meeting law, any person make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium.

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Attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made, whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged or and permissible. Uh traffic board agenda

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This meeting will be held in Fall River in will be held in Fall River City Council Hearing Room, first floor, on Government Center at 4:00 p.m. This meeting will be open to the public as well as being available for viewing on Comcast Channel 18

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website fallrivergov television www.frgtv.us/live. Facebook >> Facebook live. >> www.facebook.com/frgtv/live live stream h h t t p s semicolon backslash

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livestream.com/accounts/12896038. First up on the agenda is citizen input. Seeing no citizen input. Uh motion to move on to Second is approval of minutes from last month, May 20th, 2026 meeting. >> Motion approved.

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>> Second. >> Next on the agenda, curb cuts. Applicant and owner, Joshua Rodriguez 840 Rodman Street Fall River, Mass. Location, 840 Rodman Street on the curb cut. Uh engineering department review the

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application as well as the location found no issues. There are no objections to this request for a curb cut. Excuse me. >> Is it in the back? >> Present? >> Yes. >> All right. >> Motion to approve. >> Second.

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>> Motion approved. Next, location for >> You're all set. >> Thank you. >> No problem. Have a good night. >> Location of curb cut for Glenn Hathaway at 46 Bowen Street, Fall River, Mass.

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Location of curb removal, 46 Bowen Street. Engineering department review the application as well as the location found no issues. There are no objections to request for a curb cut per city engineer. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Motion

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Present? Motion approved. Next curb cut location is for Timothy Long, 1343 New Hall Street, Fall River, Mass. Location of curb cut is 677 Meridian

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Street. Engineering department review the application as well as the location and found no issues. There are no There are no objections to the request for the curb cut per city engineer. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> I'll wait for

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>> He's present. >> Applicant present? Motion approved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Second. >> Motion approved. >> All right. >> All right. >> Nothing on miscellaneous table requests.

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>> No table requests. >> Miscellaneous request. There was a request here for stop sign at Hope Street and Fountain Street and Hope Street at Eagle due to speeding down Hope Street to Broadway. In attendance, the applicant or the

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complainant? >> Motion to table. >> Motion to table? >> Motion to table. >> Second. >> Request to make Field Street a one-way from a one-way from Stafford Road to Lapham Street due to congestion with cars

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parked on both sides of the street during drop-off and pick-up at Holy Trinity School. Motion >> Notify present. >> Notify present? >> Mr. Have you tried that [clears throat] out already? >> Say again? >> Uh Stephanie, have you checked that out?

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>> So because this is a request first time, we have to contact the abutters and the fire department as well. So we would recommend a tabled. >> So we table. >> Mhm. >> Motion to table. >> Second. >> So if you want to come up, you can come and discuss it, but >> If you wanted Do you [clears throat]

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want to come up and discuss it? >> I'll have to go check it out, right? >> Well, right now it's going to go through fire and >> So fire department, police department, EMS department, along with department of community maintenance, they'll go out, check it out. Police department will do a study on it, and we also have to

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contact all the abutters. So all the abutters will be contacted and in attendance hopefully for the next meeting for the discussion. But if you would like to come up and just express your concern, you can absolutely do so. >> The school is out now. >> Okay. >> That's crazy. But I just want to check the church

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and fire engines and ambulances go down that way. >> Mhm. >> It's full work. So motion to table? >> Motion to table. >> I already have John motioned that I can take it. Okay, so you will you will be contacted

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for the next month's meeting, okay? >> [clears throat] >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Request to make Oliver Street a one-way from Broadway to South Beach due to the street being narrow. Complainant in attendance? >> Motion to table.

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>> Motion to table. >> Motion to table. >> All right. Ready to move on to any other All right. Handicap space table requests. First request uh from resident at 159 St. Mary Street

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for handicap parking space. Okay. >> It's over here. >> Oh, I got it. I got it. I signed it. >> Yes, so this request uh was tabled last month. Uh we were just awaiting a letter from the property owner just informing the board that the tenant did not have access to the driveway, which we have

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received. It's attached to the application. >> I know as a department when we went out, we found no no reason not to approve that. I'm speaking to the officer that went out there. >> She has that document. >> Correct. >> So there is there is no issues, right?

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>> No. >> Okay. Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Oh. Oh, excuse me. What went wrong? >> So that table >> So you're all set. It'll take about 12 weeks. Uh you'll see maintenance go out there. They're going to do some measurements. This still needs to go to

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ordinance and council, um but once it we get full approval, the signage will go up. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you. >> All right. Request for handicap parking spaces uh in the request for resident of 293

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Washington Street for handicap parking space. Applicant does have Applicant does drive and has a valid placard and registration given. Applicant is a homeowner. There is a driveway with a lot in the back. Homeowner states the driveway has

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a steep has to has too steep of a hill and unsafe. Applicant in >> Sure, might be. >> Sorry. Yes, um this I believe you were at my house yesterday. >> Yes. >> I don't know if you noticed when you

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walked down the the driveway, it's very steep and it's very unsteady. So, it's like not the the ground is definitely not steady. The back there is parking, but before I started I moved back into that home in the first floor, I had leases already

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with the tenants. They were occupied, but since my father passed uh in 2024, I moved in with my mom so I can provide her care. Um so, I'm her personal care assistant herself. I have uh neuropathy, severe neuropathy in my

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feet, which I can't feel anything from my shins down to my feet. So, I'm very like prone to like falling and I last year during the winter time was horrible cuz I couldn't find a parking spot. Somebody parked in the handicap like in the front where it was before

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and I had to park in the back. Uh and when I was trying to walk up, I did fall even though how much salt I put but I have not me, my tenants. I had my tenants cuz they know that I can't physically do it myself, but they've been very helpful to put the the salt out there. They've been able to like uh

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shovel, but with me going back there and my mother and myself, like her she's an elderly, she's got a multiple like uh medical conditions, which is Chiari malformation, which is imbalance that she can't she tips over, she loses balance very easily. She has severe asthma. She had a hard time just from

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the front door to get to the car. So, imagine if she has to go to the back. So, I'm really having a hard time. In the last couple of years, I don't know, I've had no issues finding a parking spot in front. I don't know what's happened in the last

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year or so, but there's between right now, if you look right now, between the hours of 2:00 until the next day in the morning, it's completely full. And one of my tenants is actually parked two blocks away because they can't find any parking

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spot. I'm glad people are working, so that makes it fine that people are not home, so they're working. But, at the same time, I can't find any parking spot when I get home from work. >> This This board has fundamental guidelines, and one of the fundamental

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guidelines that automatically disqualifies you for that approval or to go any further is the fact that you have access to a driveway at your residence, especially you being the homeowner. So, just with that baseline guideline that we start and build off of

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when we drive when we when we investigate these, that would disqualify you for an approval for a handicap spot. >> Even if the the driveway is very steep and it's very unsafe, especially during the winter time. >> I mean,

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it's your driveway. And I was in your driveway yesterday, and I agree with you, it's very steep, it's very rough it's very pitted, it's it but it's also poorly made, but it's your driveway that you have access to that you can control that you can level out that you can

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change. And the people who come to this board don't have that ability to make to those options, and that's why we created that as a baseline to start from. >> Motion to deny. >> Second. >> Thank you.

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>> You're welcome. Thank you. All right. Sorry. Next is a request from resident of 111 June Street for handicap parking space. Applicant does have a does drive and has a valid placard and registration given.

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Applicant is a homeowner. There there is a driveway with a large lot in back. Homeowner states distance from assigned spot to front door is too far and cannot safely navigate the incline. 111 June Street applicant?

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>> I am. Yes. >> You are the applicant? >> Yeah. >> When you say applicant is home You're the homeowner? You own this house? >> I own the I own the condo complex. >> Okay. >> And yeah, the my spot is not only behind, it's furthest in the back.

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>> I was in there I was there yesterday. >> there? >> Yeah, I was there yesterday. Um my >> Do you want my opinion? >> Yeah. So my opinion out? >> Yes, of course. >> Um the first discrepancy I saw with this was it says that there the lot has an incline. Where did I put my note? Um

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the incline in the in the driveway. Um that incline in that driveway is either borderline maybe a 2% grade. DOT doesn't even start classifying a steep incline I think until we get to the sevens or eights.

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>> It's hard for me to walk at all. >> That I understand, but the next thing that I found while I was in the driveway in that driveway yesterday is the width. There could be spots created along that fence line and there's plenty of room that there could be something negotiated or figured out through your tenant

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association or condo association to create an opportunity for you there. Um just given my what I seen yesterday, I feel like if people got together or however you everybody communicates in that building, there could be something figured out.

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June Street is already an incredible street difficulty for parking, and which I understand your your issue there. But, um uh that's my opinion of this request. >> Motion to deny. >> Second. >> Over

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>> Thank >> Sorry. >> No problem. >> All right, request from resident of 76 Trip Street for handicap space. Applicant does drive and has a valid placard and registration. Given applicant is a tenant, letter from homeowner, tenant does not have access

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to driveway. Uh resident of 76 Trip Street? >> Hi. >> Hi. Uh >> I'm not sure. >> Hi. >> [laughter] >> Um I there right now there's nothing that the police department finds a reason to say that there a reason to

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deny this application. >> Did you just recently move? Did you just recently move? >> Yes. >> Okay. Have you changed your address with the Registry of Motor Vehicles? >> Yes. >> Yes, 76 Trip is extremely difficult on this place, it seems. Just have a good coffee.

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Yeah, so this is a medical coffee, isn't it? >> No, it does not. >> Motion Motion approved. >> Motion approved. >> Motion approved. >> Second. >> Approved. Approved. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So, you're all set, as we explained to the previous tenant

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previous As we explained to the previous applicant that was approved will take about 12 weeks. Okay? >> Thank you very much. >> Have a great day. >> Good day. >> You too. Have a good night. >> Thank you. >> Request from resident of 511 Cherry

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Street for handicap space. Applicant Here we go. Um applicant does drive and has a valid placard and registration given. The applicant is a tenant. Letter from landlord does not have access to driveway.

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Police department finds no issues with this applicant. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> So you're all set, okay? >> my right out of that. Thank you. >> Have a good night. >> Um request from resident of 102 Palmer

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Street. Uh applicant present. Applicant does drive and has a valid placard and registration given. Applicant is a tenant. Letter from landlord letter from homeowner tenant does not access does not have

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access to driveway. Uh police department finds no issues with this. Motion to approve. >> Second. Second. >> Approved. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Request from resident at 65 Plain Street

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for handicap space. Applicant does drive. >> It's for my grandmother. >> It's for your grandmother. Okay. Applicant does drive and has a valid placard and registration given. Applicant is a tenant. Letter from home homeowner

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tenant does not have access to driveway. Police department sees no issues with this. Motion to approve. >> Approved. >> Thank you. >> That's the I believe that would be 511 Cherry Street.

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That's what it was. Thank you. All right. Um rescinded handicap spots. All right, request from traffic department to have the following handicap spaces rescinded due to individuals no longer utilizing the space because they have either moved or

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no longer drive or have passed away. First address, Washington Street, October 25th, 2007. Whipple Street, August 19th, 2010. Mason Street, October 28th, 2024. Hunter

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Street, April 30th, 2025. Third Street, January 30th, 2012. South Beach Street, July 13th, 2021. South Beacon Street,

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um October 8th, 2020. Pine Street, September 6th, 2018. Motion to approve rescind. Motion to a Second. Motion to adjourn. >> Motion to adjourn.

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>> I have a second on the adjourn. >> Is this the record? >> Second on the adjourn. >> Second. >> Second on the adjourn. >> Thank you. Officer Taglia.