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Neronha slams CRMC over approval of Jamestown Boat Yard expansion
By Jim Hummel
PROVIDENCE For the second time in two months Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is questioning how the state’s Coastal Resources Management Council handled a request for a waterfront expansion, this time from a boatyard in Jamestown, saying the agency skipped required steps in the approval process.
In a strongly worded four-page letter Monday to the agency’s chairwoman, Jennifer Cervenka, Neronha said there were “inadequacies” in a draft decision, adding that the way CRMC made its decision “confused and frustrated the public’s trust in the structured and formal agency decision-making process designed to protect our environment.”
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CUMBERLAND – The long and often convoluted history of one of Cumberland’s largest proposed housing projects, now tied up in litigation with one of the town’s most well-known developers, is still taking more twists and turns than the Diamond Hill roundabouts.
Back in July 2011, The Valley Breeze reported that real estate broker John Brady, owner of 88 acres of Bear Hill, was nearing final approvals on his Gold Rush Estates, a development of 60 homes named in honor of old-time landowner David Curran and the mini-gold rush that hit Bear Hill in May 1904.
Asked back then when he expected work on his project to get started, Brady said it wouldn’t be happening soon due to the condition of the economy. A decade later, the 60-lot subdivision project, first granted preliminary plan approval in 2008 but allowed to be put on pause through state tolling statutes, still waits in limbo.
PROVIDENCE Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is urging the Rhode Island Supreme Court to reject a settlement approved by state coastal regulators that allows for the expansion of a marina on Block Island that has been the subject of heated dispute for nearly two decades.
In a motion that excoriates the state Coastal Resources Management Council, Neronha’s office argues that the memorandum of understanding agreed to by the council and the owner of Champlin’s Marina behind closed doors and without public review is invalid.
“Given the long and complicated history associated with the Champlin’s application, it is troubling that now, before this final stage of review, the CRMC, in partnership with only the applicant, has moved this Court to allow a form of the very expansion that has been at issue these past seventeen years and which has been repeatedly rejected by the CRMC after opportunities for hearings and the review of evidence in the record,” says the motion filed on