1+ week, 1+ day ago   (708+ words) The New Shoreham Zoning Board set October and November hearings on three special use permits, including coastal bluff erosion work on Spring Street, and gave a long-stalled variance case a final continuance. Three New Shoreham properties — on West Side Road,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (691+ words) New Shoreham has scheduled an October 5 public hearing on two zoning amendments that would reclassify accessory dwelling units, accessory structures and adaptive reuse across Block Island's zoning districts. The proposals would change the regulatory pathway for adding housing units and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (299+ words) The council waived local fees for the O'Brien property housing project — minus any costs the town itself pays — set two zoning hearings for October 5th, and shifted water company funds into a money market account. Local permit fees are waived for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (320+ words) Commissioners voted negative recommendations on two Gladstone Street unmerger applications, citing a lot line drawn flush against an existing house and parking placed on what would become a separate owner's land. Two proposed Gladstone Street lots — one keeping an existing…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (752+ words) After the applicant's attorney warned an appeal was "highly likely" and would seek the original 7.3-acre field layout, North Smithfield's solicitor said the zoning ordinance takes priority — and the board dropped its recreational-field condition, approving Rankin Estates 4-0. Phase one of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (430+ words) Four speakers, three of them members of Rhode Islanders for Personal Privacy, urged Cumberland's council to adopt a proposed zoning ordinance restricting data centers. The measure was referred to subcommittee ahead of a future public hearing. A proposed Cumberland zoning…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (488+ words) Little Compton's council adopted an inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring an affordable lot in subdivisions of five or more — including splits totaling five lots over 20 years — over objections that it will catch families dividing land among their children. Little Compton landowners…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (606+ words) Smithfield's Planning Board backed a rewritten historic ordinance creating a two-building district, after debate over what happens if it ever expands to private homes. No private property is included in the proposed Smithfield historic district — only two town-owned buildings. Any…...