Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The proposal would bring a mixed-use development to Frenchtown Road, bisecting the NK and EG town lines.
A proposal to build a large, mixed-use development on the East Greenwich–North Kingstown town line off Frenchtown Road is back up for discussion at Tuesday night's North Kingstown Planning Commission meeting. The 33-acre retail shopping center, with about 10 acres in East Greenwich and the remaining in North Kingstown, would include a big box store. Initial plans included a residential component and movie theater, but both have been scrapped by developers. The town line cuts through the L-shaped development, with the big box store sitting on the North Kingstown side. In the project's pre-application, the big box store was listed at 137,450 sq. ft. but has now been scaled back to 132,580 sq. ft. The new plan has the store moved to the …
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 …
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
If passed, it would have established a new fee on developers of commercial real estate, much like the fee imposed on residential development.
The plan to impose impact fees on commercial development met with opposition at Monday night's Town Council meeting, with members approving an ordinace that changed the impact fee structure but did not expand it to include commercial development. Councilman Mark Gee was alone in supporting the Planning Department's full proposal. Impact fees on development are imposed to help offset additional spending on services that will result as a consequence of the development. They can be used for such things as road improvements, open space and park construction. Planning Director Lisa Bourbonnais outlined the proposed changes to the impact fee ordinance. In the new fee structure, developers building much-coveted affordable housing units would not…
James R
12:26 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
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