It's all good. Let's uh welcome to the May 2020 2025 meeting of the planning board. I'll make take a roll call. Uh Mr. Abrams here. Here.
Mr. Castanza absent. Miss Hoffman absent. Mr. Rivera here. Present. Miss. Simmons. Hurling here. Present. Mr. Tamatopoulos present.
Present. Mrs. Sullivan. Absent. Okay. So, the first order of business is a public hearing. This is a public hearing uh regarding an amendment to the river zoning ordinance which would establish a new definition and use of
food trucks on private property. So um the way the ordinance is written there were there are certain districts where food trucks would be allowed and all food trucks would have to be licensed by the license commission no matter where they are. Um but in the
um the districts that are allowed is the RC2 which is along Rea Beach Boulevard on private property, PDD1 which is all of Suffach Downs. um highway business which is basically
Squire Road and TEED which is basically uh Nosha Road um Lee Burbank Highway in Mahoney Circle the northern side of Mahoney
Circle and um TED is not roads Nsho road. Then it goes from where? Well, Nash Road all on the uh the west side
from a little bit past the fire station, Freeman Fire Station. Island, past Oak Island Street. Yeah. Basically where um uh where the auto body shop is there. And then you have the animal clinic.
Then you have G&J's they have something there. And then also uh where um uh uh the rental used to be rent the tool. Rent the tool
and and that's it. And that's it. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. So, it's basically a new definition putting into the ordinance definition of a food truck and regulating it in these use districts. And as I mentioned,
they're all subject to uh uh permits from the license commission, yearly licenses from the license commission in these districts. And that's it in a nutshell. It's pretty simple. So, it would be none allowed on public
ways, uh, just on private property, and there's been a couple of requests already in certain, uh, areas within the highway business district in the T in the TEED district.
So, how many food trucks do you think we're probably anticipating that will take advantage of this? I would say there's probably three already that I we we know of that would probably uh apply for a license.
Do you think it'll be seasonal or do you think it'll be year long? That's a good question. I mean, they once they get a license, it's good for a year. So, They could definitely run it for a year. These three uh food trucks, did
they have license before? Yes. Yeah. But no more licenses are being issued for food trucks. Now they they'll only be issued new licenses for within these districts.
One is uh which is a highway business is uh where do used to be right on that corner right where the liquor store dominos. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to put a food truck out there. I think they're going to apply. That's a highway business. Yeah. zone.
Yeah. Be a good spot for So what happens with restrooms? What do they do there? I know they don't have any seating. Is there going to be any convenience or probably not? No, question. You said no more on public
ways. So the ones that are historically were on public ways, that is no longer no longer. Okay. So it'll only be permitted in private property. So even um the ones at the beach, for example, at the bottom of the foot bridge. Um then that that is no longer available.
It would have to go on private property. Yeah. Okay. And um question may not necessarily be the location. Are we gonna limit the hours of operation? That's all under the control of the license commission. They have their own regulations. Yeah. And they would go by.
This would simplify the process where I believe before some had to go through MDC, some had to go through licensing. There was there was several kind of controlling entities. This would make it a sole accrediting body. Right. Right. As I mentioned, the only one would be uh
DCR uh control authority on the Review Beach Boulevard in their roadways. Would we like to open up this this hearing? Are there any proponents here to speak to this tonight? Are there any opponents here to
speak to this hearing and seeing none? Motion to close the hearing. Yes. I'd like to just make a recommendation to the to the council if it's okay. is that they consider and I think they may already
have it, but I'm not sure that when they approve a license to put a food truck on private property, even though it's private, but it is controlled by the license commission,
that they have a a decel noise uh rating and I'd suggest 45 45 dBA not to exceed 45 not to exceed
45. Yeah, I guess different generators are would produce different decibb. Okay. Uh that'll come when we open our regular meeting which is now. So uh first order of business
regular meetings approval of previous meeting minutes. All right to approve uh submit a motion to approve the meetings of the minutes. All in favor? I opposed. None. Um, second order is a vote on
recommendation to the city council with respect to the zoding amendment which would regulate the use of food trucks on private property. And Mr. Abrams, you want to offer that as a motion? Yes. I'd like to offer that as a motion and a
recommendation to the city council that they consider uh when they approve a license for a food truck that they put an ordinance there for decibels and recommend that they use the decibel limit of 45 dBA.
Okay. That'll be written into the recommendation of the planning board. Thank you. All in favor? Yes. Yes. All right. Yes. All opposed. None. Hearing none. Voted and so ordered. Next order of business is uh
request for a street extension on Richard Street. Um this plan has been before the site plan review committee a number of times for review from the DPW superintendent, city engineer, and fire
department. And um so plan has been approved and signed by uh those departments and we have uh the engineer Rick Salvo put the plan together here may want to present it to the planning
board. Thank you uh madam chairman members of the board for the record Rick Salvoth Engineering Alliance. This a pretty straightforward request. It's a 40 foot right of way. Um we're extending the road about 125 feet uh to the
intersection of Walnut Street um where it will connect. If you you drive down there and take a look at it, you can see it's already almost kind of graded to be a road. Um so there's not a significant amount of grading that's going to take place. Um we did work with um the the
city engineer. We had started out with a 24 foot wide road and he requested that get widened out to a 30- foot wide road so it' be consistent. set it in the right of way. We'll be building um cement concrete sidewalks on the proposed um house side um of the lot and
we'll be installing two deep sump hooded catch basins to a manhole that will tie into the drainage system that'll collect um the runoff um from this road. There's already a water line in this road that exists. Um the utilities for the house will connect into Walnut Street into the
water and sewer there. Um so that's essentially the request. Um, like I said, I got vetted out by fire department, um, city engineer, uh, and DPW superintendent. And so, I'd be happy to answer any questions or comments that you might have.
The the means of the request is um, there's someone has a home there and they want to have accessibility to the home through this road or that is that is correct. So, this is the proposed house. Right now, the pavement ends down here. So, we need to extend the road. Um, idea, originally we weren't going to
extend it all the way down and connect it, but because it was longer than 250 ft from the closest intersection, the fire department needed a turnaround. There wasn't really enough room there to create a full culde-sac and didn't seem to make sense to add all that pavement. Um, so we just um worked with site
review committee and thought it best just to connect the two streets. Thank you. And you mentioned that they'll tie in the drainage to the main line, correct? Um I guess looking ahead if there needs to be work done to those lines or if there's any I don't know if there's any other type of um infrastructure
underneath it. Um and the road is dug up. Who's responsible I guess for repairs? Does this fall in the city now? Is the city paying for this project? So Richard Street, this stretch of Richard Street will be a private way. It's my understanding. Should this get approved tonight at that at which point once it's
built they could go to the council and move to have the rest of Richard Street accepted. At that point, it would become the the city's responsibility. Good. Just have a question to how how you doing? Good to see you again. How many houses will be on the street on the on
the extension? Is it just one? Just just that one right there. There's nothing across the street from it. Across the street, it's already developed. Is that another I'm sorry. Is that another house across the street? There's an existing home there. So, he's on
Walnut Street, right? Correct. So, there's another lot there. There's a small little lot in between that house on the corner of Walnut and the other one on Richard. Right there. There's a lot right here. I don't know what size that lot is. I don't know if it's big enough to be buildable or what the story
with it is or who owns it, but yeah. So, there could potentially be as much as one more house built here, but that would be it. Yeah. You you know better than I do. Uh, but how many how many houses have to be on a on a street that is still considered
private? I mean, that's one, two. I'm I'm looking at possibly on Rich Street right now or the extent in the extension there'll be one, two, three, four, five. Well, Richard Street exists up to right here right now. So, there's one, two,
three, four. This house front's on Walnut, so there there could be as many as two houses that could be accessed from that extension. Again, that it's a it's a 30 foot wide paved road. There's enough room for parking on both sides of the street. It's like, you know, same as
every other public street in Re. Do the residents want to keep it a private street or do they want to make it public? But we don't know yet. Don't know yet. It's certainly going to be improvement because right now the trucks have to back out of there when they when they plow in the winter time. So at least now
they'll be able to they'll probably be able to push right straight through and the trash truck doesn't have to back down the street anymore. Now it'll be able to drive through. So there's there's a lot of lot of, you know, reasons to, you know, to do this outside of just this one single family house.
Very good point. Thank you very much. Has it been a private road all along? Well, it's an undeveloped private way, that section of it, but I think that section, right? But but the registry without the extension. Yeah. Frank, do you rec do you recall if that front part
of Richard Street was accepted? I don't I don't recall the answer to that question. No. Yeah, it it might be because um it does have the width requirement. Have to check city clerk's office.
Nonetheless, it's going to be built to all city standards. Anything else? I don't have any further questions. Does anybody else have further questions? No. No. We're good. Ask to to move the question. Is there anybody here tonight to to
speak in propo to speak in um in favor of this motion? Are there any opponents here to speak to this tonight? City plan. I'll speak in favor of it because this is something we've been wanting to do for many years. Ever since
Wallen Street was extended and this new subdivision of homes was built up there, uh it was difficult to it it number one, it provides a nice loop to our our water system and it was difficult for the fire department to get in and out up there
especially dealing with brush fires up in North Reier. This allows them uh better access to that area. No other proponents to speak tonight. Hearing and seeing none. No opponents to speak to this tonight.
Hearing and seeing none. Ready to advance to a vote. Yep. Uh have a motion. We have a motion to approve street extension plan. Motion to approve. Motion by Mrs. Topus.
Do we have a second? Second. I'll take a roll call. Uh vote on the motion to approve. Mr. Abrams, yes. Mr. Rivera, yes. Mr. Simmons Hurling, yes. And Mr. Samopoulos, yes. Okay.
Voted. So ordered. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it. Okay. Thank you. That's it. It's your home. It is. Yes. Hey, it's going to both. Thank you. I think it's going to make your neighborhood even nicer. I wish you well. Good luck.
So, it's right now, nobody knows about it, so it's really quiet. Perfect. Thank you so much. Okay. Thank you. No new business. Uh, a motion to adjurnn.
Second. Motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. All favor. All opposed.