Monday, March 11, 2013
Your guide for life in East Greenwich today, March 11.
Town Council meeting: On the agenda is a recognition of Town Manager Bill Sequino’s 25 years on the job. Also, there will also be a joint public hearing with the Planning Board on the still in process revised Comprehensive Plan. NOTE: The meeting takes place at Swift Community Center . It starts at 7 p.m. Main Street vet opens: The Hill & Harbour Veterinary Center sign has been in place since last summer and today it opens for business. New patients welcome, says veterinary doctor and surgeon Keith Schoen. Hill & Harbour Veterinary Center, visit their website here, email here, call (401) 398-7808, or stop by – it’s right next to Back to Basics at 500 Main Street. Statewide READ of Is Your Hair Made Of Donuts? EG’s Joy Feldman, author and …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Your guide for life in East Greenwich today, Jan. 23.
Trash pickup delayed one day: Because of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday, trash is delayed one day this week. So, if your trash is usually picked up on Wednesday, it will be picked up on Thursday this week. Joint Town Council–Planning Board meeting: The two panels meet to discuss the Comprehensive Plan. The purpose of that meeting will be to further discuss the Town's Draft Comprehensive Community Plan. The complete Draft Plan was first presented on Dec. 10, in a required public hearing. That hearing will continue in the Town Council's regular session on Feb. 11. The Plan is likely to be revised based on comments received between now and then. Bundle Up: If you didn't quite get the message ... it's COLD outside today. Make sure …
Thursday, January 17, 2013
The town sought a "user-friendly plan"; the state says the plan must adhere more closely to state's own goals and policies.
The town's comprehensive plan is a document few residents ever see, but is something meant to guide the town's actions in a variety of areas, from land use and open space to economic development and community services. A regularly updated plan is also something the state requires. East Greenwich embarked on drafting a new "comp plan," as it is known, three years ago. With the finish line clearly in sight, however, the plan hit up against a state review that presented a variety of objections, most significantly that the information needed to be presently differently. For Town Planner Lisa Bourbonnais, the process has been very frustrating. In explaining the state's complaints to the Planning Board during a meeting Wednesday night, she …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Town Councilors express concern that some aspects of the long-range plan could force the town’s hand.
Just how binding is a town's Comprehensive Plan? That was the main question at a meeting Monday with the Town Council and the Planning Board. The Comp Plan (as it is known) was drawn up over the past two years and addresses every aspect of life in East Greenwich – natural resources, open space and recreation, cultural resources, housing, economic development, community services, transportation, natural hazards, and land use. Not surprisingly, the plan is big, just shy of 200 pages. The state – which must grant final approval – has looked at the draft plan and submitted its comments. The Town Council, which has met with the Planning Board from time to time over the past two years to discuss the plan’s progress, was looking at a completed …
Monday, December 10, 2012
Your guide for life in East Greenwich today, Dec. 10.
Town Council–Planning Board meeting: Discussion of the town's new Comprehensive Plan. To learn more, check out this preview story. Town Council meeting: On the agenda of the regular Town Council meeting is discussion of the EG Fire District merger and a vote on the motion to direct the Town Manager and Town Solicitor to work with the Fire District to prepare legislation for a fire district merger. EG Housing Authority meeting: On the agenda is an update of the smoke-free implementation, roof replacement on Queen Street and status update on a site on Duke Street. Patch’s ‘Deck the House’ contest: The weekend is over and if your house is looking spiffy with holiday decorations, consider showing it off beyond the drive-bys. We’re looking …
Friday, December 7, 2012
Hot-button issues include protecting the Hunt River Aquifer, placement of the Transfer Station, and support for a commuter rail station.
Monday night, the Town Council and Planning Board will meet to review the town's latest version of its Comprehensive Plan, a document meant to shine a light forward on future development of the town. Residents are encouraged to attend. The state-mandated Comp Plan, as it's known, looks at every aspect of life in East Greenwich, from housing and economic development to open space and recreation with this question in mind: How do we want to handle X going forward? Answers can be found in the 200-page draft plan linked here (it takes a minute or two to load but is worth the wait – it's much more user friendly than past comp plans). According to language in the plan, the town must make amendments to the EG Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map …
jim halsband
12:23 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Congratulations Mr. Sequino, 25 years of service to this community, very cool! Had you been Mayor of EG for even half that period, can you imagine how much more that could have achieved for the community? The TC works extremely hard to always do the right thing, but the structure of it needs to restructure itself to meet more demanding times, a Mayor will have the necessary autonomy to advance … more ›