City of Pawtucket, RI Article VA Mill Building Reuse District

[Added 8-21-2008 by Ch. No. 2896]

§ 410-43.1 Purpose and objectives.

A. The purpose of a MBRD is to allow the redevelopment of industrial sites for mixed use development through careful site planning.

B. This article is intended to accomplish the following objectives:

(1) Promote the appropriate reuse of the mill structures in the City built before 1950;

(2) Provide for expanded economic redevelopment of the mill structures in the City; and

(3) Promote mixed use of the mill complexes remaining in the City to ensure their viability.

C. Any MBRD District may contain one or more manufacturing and/or commercial structures, accessory buildings, common areas, open space and roadways.

§ 410-43.2 Establishment of district; permitted uses; additional criteria; review of projects.

[Amended 8-20-2009 by Ch. No. 2928; 10-12-2023 by Ch. No. 3280; 12-20-2023 by Ch. No. 3287]

A. Establishment. A reuse development may be established upon development plan review or land development project approval in accordance with Article IIIA of this chapter for any mill listed in the Pawtucket Mill Building Survey dated 1995 and on file in the Department of Planning and Redevelopment, in any MB or MO Zone in which the proposed use of each building is permitted in accordance with Table of Use Regulations[1] of this chapter and Article VA.

[1] Editor's Note: The Table of Use Regulations is included at the end of this chapter.

B. Permitted uses. Uses permitted by right in the MB or MO Zone and the following uses, listed by Table of Use Regulations category, are permitted in a Mill Building Reuse District:

Use Table Reference Number	Use
1.	Residential uses: D, L and O;
6.	Neighborhood commercial uses; A, B, and C;
7.	General commercial uses: A, B, and F
8.	Personal services: A, E, F, and G;
10.	Offices uses: A, B and C.

C. Conditional uses. Uses permitted by special use permit in the MB or MO Zone and the following uses, listed by Table of Use Regulations category, are permitted in a Mill Building Reuse District:

Use Table Reference Number	Use
5.	Public, semipublic, education and recreation uses: C, N, O, P, Q, and R;
7.	General commercial uses: D

D. Additional criteria for approval. The approval of a reuse development shall be based upon the criteria set forth in § 410-15.1I, and in addition:

(1) That the reuse development is not displacing an active manufacturing and or industrial use and that there is no reasonable expectation that manufacturing will continue at the site.

(2) The reuse development will not create a serious conflict with adjacent manufacturing and or industrial businesses in the MO and MB Zones.

(3) The developer has a plan to notify all tenants and owners of the buildings and units in the reuse development that they are in a MO or MB Zone and that allowed industrial zone uses that may be perceived as a nuisance or otherwise obnoxious shall give them no cause for action against such industrial and or manufacturing activity.

(4) The plans for the reuse do not include the demolition of more than 25% of the existing structures.

E. Review by the Pawtucket Historic District Commission.

(1) Proposed mill building reuse projects which are not participating in the federal or the Rhode Island Historic Tax Credit Program shall be reviewed by the Pawtucket Historic District Commission prior to a development plan review application being considered complete.

(2) Scope of review. The review by the Historic District Commission shall be advisory only to the permitting authority. Such advisory opinion shall be in writing and shall comply with all requirements of the regulations, including those for filing of records and decisions. The permitting authority may reject the advisory opinion of the Historic District Commission when considering the application before it or may incorporate the Historic District Commission's recommendations as conditions of the establishment of the Mill Building Reuse District.