REVISED AGENDA

1. PUBLIC HEARING on a COMMUNICATION/DEMOLITION, New Bedford Historical Commission to City Council RE: BUILDING DEMOLITION REVIEW - 1 REAR COFFIN AVENUE (Map 100/Lot 117) a Circa 1902 masonry mill building, the building is architecturally and historically significant and is a contributing resource within the Whitman Mills National Register District, it has associations with the City’s cotton textile industry as well with internationally known mill architect/engineer Charles R. Makepeace, notable contractor Benjamin F. Smith and leading textile manufacturer and commission agent William Whitman; a 2019 Board of Survey report drafted by a licensed structural engineer, documented substantial roof structural system collapse and declared the building unsafe and dangerous per the provisions of the State Building Code, the building is structurally compromised and beyond feasible rehabilitation to the extent that it presents as a public hazard; the City and the Massachusetts Historical Commission, with the NBHC as a concurring party, will be entering into a Memorandum of Agreement with stipulations to photo document the building in order to mitigate the adverse effect to historic resources, “in light of these findings, the New Bedford Historical Commission has determined that the building at 1 Rear Coffin Avenue is a Historically Significant but not Preferably Preserved historic building”. (Ref’d 06/23/2022) (Advertised in The Standard-Times on Friday, July 01, 2022.)

2. COMMUNICATION/DEMOLITION, Anne Louro, Preservation Planner, to City Council, re: BUILDING DEMOLITION REVIEW – 40 EDISON STREET (Map 107/Lot 109) a circa 1910 two story masonry boiler room and pump house; the structure is not located in a National Register Historic District; the structure is the Boiler Room and Pump House of the Nield Manufacturing Company; the structure has experienced deferred maintenance, resulting in the structure being structurally compromised and beyond feasible rehabilitation; this demolition request DOES NOT include the adjacent smoke stack, “in light of these findings, the Preservation Planner has determined that the Boiler Room and Pump House at 40 Edison Street is neither a Historically Significant nor a Preferably Preserved Building.” (Ref’d 06/09/2022)

3. COMMUNICATION, Mayor Mitchell, to City Council, requesting that the City of New Bedford, as Grantee of Foreign Trade Zone #28 (FTZ 28), be authorized to apply to the United States Foreign Trade Zones Board and applicable federal agencies to reorganize FTZ 28 to an Alternative Site Framework (ASF); and that the Mayor be authorized to execute all necessary paperwork for the application and any subsequent administrative actions for FTZ 28. (Ref’d 02/24/2022)

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