NORTH PROVIDENCE – The Zoning Board has scheduled a meeting this week to consider making way for a new home on an undersized lot on High Service Avenue.
The Planning Board last month unanimously recommended that the Zoning Board approve a left side variance of 10 feet and right side variance of 5 feet (smaller spaces to lot lines) for the home on 3,800 square feet of land at 0 High Service Ave., prompting criticism from Council President Dino Autiello, who is drawing comparisons to a previous controversial approval of a home on North Elmore Avenue, which was later reversed.
Autiello, who lives near the property, is leading the charge with neighbors against the proposal from Bukky Olukoga, of 57 High Service Ave., which is on the agenda for this Thursday, Feb. 18, at 6:30 p.m.
2/2/2021
Last phase of Geneva Mills project goes before town
Another 32 residential units are proposed in the last empty space within the Geneva Mills on Douglas Avenue in North Providence. (Breeze photo by Ethan Shorey)
NORTH PROVIDENCE – The final phase of the build-out of residential units within the Geneva Mills is set to go before the Planning Board, filling the last 24,000 square feet of space.
Developer Steven Lancia said the planned one-bedroom open loft units on the first floor of the park side of the old mill complex became possible when earlier units were built on a smaller scale.
“Things change,” he said, and he had the interior space and parking spaces available for further expansion. These new units “would fill it up,” he said.