A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Wednesday, June 27, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
Vice President Lori Wilshire presided; Deputy City Clerk Judith Boileau recorded.
Prayer was offered by Deputy City Clerk Judith Boileau; Alderman Patricia Klee led in the Pledge to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 11 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron,
Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman McCarthy were recorded absent. Alderman Lopez arrived after roll call.
PUBLIC HEARING
Street Re-Number Petition
(Impacting Properties at 3 Dawn Street and 7 Dawn Street
Chairman Wilshire
Tonight’s Special Board of Aldermen meeting is for a Public Hearing on the Street Re-Number Petition
impacting properties at 3 Dawn and 7 Dawn Street; Alderman O’Brien would you give us a little bit of
background on this?
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you Madam President, | would be happy to. As you know, the City is basically getting to the point that
we are getting all built up. That being said, properties that did have extra-sized lots and everything now are
being repurposed in a situation that is called in-fill. What they are doing is putting up another house on that lot.
Everything that is going to be basically in-filled still has to meet all the City’s requirements as far as the Building
Code in order to build these structures, so they have to go through the process with planning and the Building
Department and everything else.
What happens here in this in-fill, and | also want to say the in-fill is very important because we have enough
homes that are within the $500,000.00 to $800,000.00 range. These are traditionally going to be smaller type
of homes that are meant for single family occupancy which is really quality single family housing is really what
we need in the City and a little bit more. So this is a phenomenon that is occurring now in the City and it is
really much needed. The trouble is, you have an occupant that usually developing that property, he is going to
redevelop it and put in the new houses. What happens is that the existing people on the street who have been
there for, in some cases, we have heard of a person on New Searles Road and we also heard from this person
in particular on Dawn Street, they have been at their address for over 30 years.
Now to come in at this stage in the game and to change their address, and this case that is before us this
evening, the developer made the request to have them change their number from #7 to 9. Now we have all
moved, sometimes it is a pain, but there are a lot of particulars that need to be done. You have to notify the
banks, change your deed, get a new checking account, all the different things. If you take somebody who has
been at their address for 30 years you can see maybe they are perhaps a little bit up there, they are more
senior type residents. That’s a little bit of a handful.
So let’s look at throughout the whole City and the crunching of the numbers, there are areas, we had a great
fire in the 30’s in the Crown Hill neighborhood and there is a lot of numbering in that area that doesn’t really fit
in sequential. And since the influx of the E 911 system, they really want street numbering to go into sequence.
That is a E 911 guideline.
The authority to have this changed comes to this particular board. First it gets heard in Infrastructure as to
what the petition that is before us this evening to check to see if there is opposition in favor or against. But
basically it comes up and Infrastructure will make a recommendation and it will go to the full Board at that time
to change it. The one that is before us now is a dead end street, it is Dawn Street, it is off Blue Hill Ave. and
