The Fall River Conservation Commission voted on March 3 to issue a partial certificate of compliance that removes Lot 2 from a previously issued order of conditions for an industrial site, and then approved an amended order of conditions for the remaining lots.

Tracy Duarte, director of engineering with MBL Land Development, spoke for BMD Companies LLC and described the request as primarily administrative. "It's really more of a paperwork exercise we're going through," Duarte said, explaining that Lot 2 had been sold and has no wetlands or buffer zones, so the project team sought to exclude Lot 2 from the original order.

Duarte told commissioners that the project had been permitted as a group of industrial buildings in 2022, then recorded under an order of conditions; the owner has asked to have Lot 2 removed via a partial certificate of compliance and then to reissue an amended order of conditions covering lots 1, 3 and 4. Commissioners asked no substantive questions about site changes and approved the partial certificate and the amended order of conditions by roll call.

The commission recorded the motions to (1) grant a partial certificate of compliance to relieve Lot 2 from the order of conditions and (2) issue an amended order of conditions for lots 1, 3 and 4. Staff will prepare the amended order paperwork reflecting the new lot configuration and return it to the commission for filing and recordation.

The votes occurred during the agenda item titled "request for certificate of compliance" and were procedural approvals rather than new permitting decisions.