Newport Daily News
Editor s note: With the unofficial start of summer on the horizon, The Daily News is examining issues related to Aquidneck Island s beaches. This is the third in a four-part series to get you ready for the season.
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority plans to run a beach shuttle from the North End of the city to Easton’s Beach in Newport and Sachuest Beach in Middletown on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays between June 19 to Aug. 22.
While the service is being welcomed by Newport officials, the same cannot be said of the reception it has received from some members of the Middletown Town Council.
NEWPORT The Carpionato Group of Cranston has not given up on its goal of redeveloping the former Newport Grand site with a $100 million investment.
Both Kelly MacArthur Coates, president of the Carpionato, and Patricia Reynolds, the city’s director of planning and economic development, confirmed to The Daily News on Monday discussions soon will begin between city planning staff and Carpionato planners and engineers.
“We will meet with the community and figure out what they want us to do,” Coates said. “We’ve met with neighbors and abutting property owners and toured their properties. They’ve shared with us their concerns. Now it’s a process of us getting the city’s vision. It’s always difficult to line up so many viewpoints.”
Some may surmise all these businesses seem useless. After all, most people only have
one storage unit (if any), and car washes are mainly frequented by a minority of folks devoted to sparkly rims.
But local planning experts say the proliferation of these businesses is not unique to Wilmington. It’s a national trend linked to a growing demand for multi-family housing across the country.
Perhaps residents are so conscious of the establishments because they are located alongside busy roads. This preference to stay in drivers’ view is a strategy to keep customers coming in.
Rather than targeting or limiting these types of businesses that are obviously in demand, local governments are looking largely at their roadside standards to combat complaints about the establishments.
By Kitty Merrill Does the Lewis Road housing and golf course proposal in East Quogue meet the standards of the Long Island Pine Barrens Act and its Comprehensive Land Use Plan? That’s the question members of the Central Pine Barrens Commission were
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