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FEBRUARY 10, 2025  6:45 P.M.

NORTH SMITHFIELD TOWN COUNCIL
SPECIAL MEETING - WORKSHOP
83 GREENE STREET, NORTH SMITHFIELD, RI 02896


The meeting will also be livestream. Please join the meeting (viewing only) from your computer, tablet, or smartphone by clicking on this link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFgw5KxL950ZgZ_DKz8B-MQ
or go to the North Smithfield YouTube page - North Smithfield Town Meetings
*If technical difficulties occur during the livestream the above specified meetings will resume as scheduled.
Documents related to the meeting will be posted on the Town Council’s page of the Town’s website on Monday, February 10, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., see link here: https://www.nsmithfieldri.org/

FOR BOARDS/COMMISSIONS VACANCIES: https://onboard.nsmithfieldri.org/

FOR ONLINE APPLICATIONS:
https://www.nsmithfieldri.org/FormCenter/Boards-Commissions-5/Application-for-Board-Commission-46

I. OPEN MEETING – PRAYER – PLEDGE
II. ROLL CALL
III. PRESENTATION BY POUND HILL REALTY, LLC, APPLICANT FOLLOWED BY QUESTIONS & ANSWERS WITH INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS
        A. Petition/Application for an Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance Pursuant to R.I. Gen.
Laws §§ 45-24-50 and 45-24-51 - 45-24-53 as follows: Petition/Application for Amendment to Zoning Ordinance filed by Pound Hill Realty, LLC, c/o 618 Greenville Road, North Smithfield, RI 02896, the owner of the parcel of land situated off Old Oxford Road, Pound Hill Road and Pine Hill Road in the Town of North Smithfield, more particularly described as Town of North Smithfield Tax Assessor’s Plat 7, lot 38, consisting of 89.44 acres (subject property). Petition/ Application attached. Text amendment and a zoning map amendment to the Zoning Ordinance of the Town of North Smithfield (the “Zoning Ordinance”). The proposed zoning amendment will create a new zoning district “Industrial Special Management District 1 Overlay,” the intent of the district is to allow mining, quarrying, sand and gravel extraction, loam stripping, stone cutting operations, crushing, washing, and/or processing of materials. The zoning map amendment proposes to amend the zoning designation of the parcel of land located at 14 Pine Hill Road in the Town of North Smithfield, more specifically described as Assessor’s Plat: 7, Lot: 38 (the “Property”) from Rural Agricultural (RA) & Rural Estate Agricultural (REA) to Industrial Special Management District 1 Overlay. Proposed text amendment and map attached.
IV. ADJOURNMENT

Individuals requesting special assistance should contact the Town Clerk’s Office at 767-2200, ext. 504 seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the meeting date.
Agenda posted February 5, 2025

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