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2026-09-23 - Planning Board

Summary

Built from the town's posted agenda and the video captions; no minutes are filed. Auto-caption wording may contain errors, especially names and numbers. This was an extra meeting beyond the usual second-Wednesday schedule. A second stream with the same title exists; this one was confirmed to be the meeting.

  • Minutes of June 10 and August 12, 2026 were approved.
  • 1029 Charles St: the applicant amended its plan from 29 to 32 residential units, with the commercial space removed, and offered 10 percent affordable units. The board approved the master plan 4-1 (the chair voting no), asking for environmental documentation and utility impact information at the preliminary stage. See 1029 Charles Street Adaptive Reuse.
  • 114 Baird Ave: the public hearing on a 48-unit adaptive reuse (combined master and preliminary plan) heard the applicant's presentation and public comment, then was continued unanimously to October 14, 2026, with a board member asking for a phase two environmental study. See 114 Baird Avenue Adaptive Reuse.
  • 1967 Mineral Spring Ave (the 94-unit adaptive reuse) was not heard and was continued to no date certain. See Mineral Spring Avenue Adaptive Reuse and Car Wash.
  • The tree warden presented a revised tree ordinance intended to qualify the town for Tree City USA; the board continued it to October 14 and will take it first on the agenda. See Tree Ordinance.

Discussion highlights (from the video)

  • 1029 Charles St: the existing building would be converted within its current footprint into 32 one-bedroom units, with parking on the adjoining lots; board concerns included no phase two environmental study yet and no utility capacity letters.
  • 114 Baird Ave: the applicant argued the project is allowed by right and said a prior application on the property that was remanded by the Superior Court is a different application; the presentation covered parking, septic and sewer connections, wetland buffer planting, traffic and a phase one environmental assessment that recommended further testing.
  • Public comment on 114 Baird raised questions about whether the project is truly an adaptive reuse, flood zone and fill, and traffic and density.
  • Tree ordinance: proposed changes include higher fines than the current maximum, separate rules for town and private trees, and a voluntary significant-tree registry.

Agenda

Agenda posted by the town: https://opengov.sos.ri.gov/Common/DownloadMeetingFiles?FilePath=%5CNotices%5C4355%5C2026%5C567121.pdf
Additional agenda filing: https://opengov.sos.ri.gov/Common/DownloadMeetingFiles?FilePath=%5CNotices%5C4355%5C2026%5C567100.pdf
Additional agenda filing: https://opengov.sos.ri.gov/Common/DownloadMeetingFiles?FilePath=%5CNotices%5C4355%5C2026%5C567101.pdf
Additional agenda filing: https://opengov.sos.ri.gov/Common/DownloadMeetingFiles?FilePath=%5CNotices%5C4355%5C2026%5C565322.pdf

Sources

Video