The East Providence Planning Board meeting of August 19, 2024, began with the welcoming of a new board member, Bob Gagman. The board, with members Miller, Crook, Lo, and Grant present, established a quorum and proceeded to unanimously approve the minutes from their July 8, 2024 meeting. The sole item of new business was a public hearing to consider a recommendation to the City Council for the adoption of the new 2024 East Providence Comprehensive Plan. This new plan is a complete update to the previous 2010 version and covers a wide range of topics including housing, economic development, transportation, natural resources, and land use. Staff explained that the city had hired the firm Horsley Witten to prepare the plan, and a representative, Chris Morris, was present to give a presentation. The process for adoption was outlined: the Planning Board would first vote on a recommendation, which would then be sent to the City Council for a separate public hearing and final adoption. The transcript ends before the presentation or any board deliberation on the plan.
AI-generated summary. May contain errors. Watch the video to verify.
Public / Other
you're to go over okay thank you
0:48impression
1:10o' on uh August 19th we'll call the E Pro planning board meeting to order please United States of America stand Nation
1:37before we get our of business tonight I'll that we have a new member of the planning board we'll extend a welcome to Bob gagman um look forward to working with you Bob I'll also note for the record that Mr Miller is present Mr crook is present Miss Lo is present Mr Grant's present and I am present and therefore we I'll recognize that we have a quum um we have the minutes of the July
2:048th 2024 planning board meeting in our packets is there any discussion or motion regard to those minutes Mr chairman I make a motion to approve the July 8th 2024 I'll second vot by Mr Grant seconded by Mr crook all those in favor please say I I guys have it now jumping into our new business we have uh the only item is a public to consider a recommendation to the city council on the proposed
2:36adoption of the new 20124 East Providence comprehensive plan the preparation revision and Adoption of this 2024 comprehensive plan are considered in accordance with the provisions of R Island general laws chapter 22.2 the r Island comprehensive planning and land use regulation act proposed plan under consideration will update in its entirety the prior 2010 comprehensive plan including the
3:03following chapters housing Economic Development city services and Facilities transportation and connectivity Recreation natural resources natural hazards and climate change history culture and the Arts sustainability Waterfront District land use and implementation uh clearly a great deal of work has gone into this and very excited to uh to to be considering this substantively tonight Keith you want to
3:34address the staff's recommendation in this regard or tell us where we're going tonight sure um you know this has been years in the in the making here um you know the the department mostly before I was here worked really hard in uh putting this together um having a lot of public input a that during during was difficult to do so um we this city hired hor Whit and uh Chris
4:05Mor is here tonight to give a brief presentation on um on the comprehens plan they're The Firm that really put the put the plan together did a lot of leg work on that um as far as the process of this the plan um planning works the whole hearing what you're doing tonight um planning board has to vote on approving the comprehensive plan um after that it's a city council who holds their own public hearing and
4:43they're the ones that officially adopt the plan for City use so have they adopted um planning board and the rest of the city can officially start using the plan as a guidance document for it's land use regulations and other other decisions um after the city council approves it it's referred
5:28to
5:58e
6:28e
6:58e
7:28e
7:58e
8:28e
8:58e
9:28e
9:58e
10:28e
10:58e
11:28e
11:58e e