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NARRAGANSETT â The town council is re-examining a new law that would prohibit more than three college students from living together in local rental properties â a multi-faceted, decades-long issue that Narragansett has struggled with.Â
The discussion has not yet materialized in any votes or action from the council, though the body will ultimately have to make a decision to either amend the existing ordinance, leave it be or construct a new law.
Under the previous council, the town approved a new measure last year that restricts more than three college students from renting a house together, despite the Narragansett Planning Board unanimously recommending the ordinanceâs rejection, that would go into effect this September. The town, which has tried to enact similar laws in the past unsuccessfully, did so on the heels of a Rhode Island Supreme Court ruling that upheld a 2015 ordinance from the City of Providence which limited the number of students living together i
NARRAGANSETT â A controversial ordinance limiting local rentals to three students approved by the previous town council will be re-examined by the current body on Monday, Feb. 8 in back-to-back council workshops. The first session, scheduled for 6 p.m., will address litigation against the town in response to the law, which passed in September, and the second will revisit the ordinance as a whole.
âI think you probably have all gotten the same emails, people who are curious as to whatâs happening with it, and I thought it would be in the best interest of the town to see where everybody stands, what weâre going to do about the enforcement, if thereâs an appetite to talk about the four [student] versus three [student], and so the only way we could do that is publicly and talk about what we hope will happen in the next couple years,â said Narragansett Town Council President Pro Tem Susan Cicilline Buonanno.