NORTH PROVIDENCE – Town officials are looking to change the local zoning ordinance and amend the town’s comprehensive plan to make them consistent and close loopholes that are allowing developers
NORTH PROVIDENCE – The Zoning Board last week denied a request for a 1-foot variance allowing a 25-foot-wide home to be built on an undersized lot on High Service Avenue.
But the owner of the lot at Zero High Service Ave., Bukky Olukoga, could still choose to build a 24-foot-wide home without a variance, a move her attorney, John Garrahy, told The North Providence Breeze on Monday that he plans to recommend to her.
“I have to have that conversation with her. It’s probably what she should do,” he said, adding that he was surprised by the Zoning Board’s decision after the Planning Board voted 5-0 after a “very vigorous hearing” to recommend granting the relief needed.
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.