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Attorney General argues for denial of Champlin's marina expansion pact


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 ....

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Former CRMC director says he rejected mediation with Champlin's Marina


The council did not respond when asked to comment on Fugate s statement.
In her February 2020 decision, Rodgers ruled that the council acted appropriately and rationally in rejecting the marina’s expansion in Great Salt Pond in 2011, and again in 2013 when it was forced to revisit the proposal amid allegations that it had treated Champlin’s unfairly.
“Champlin’s rights have not been prejudiced by any constitutional violations, error of law, or arbitrary or capricious conduct on the part of CRMC,” Rodgers wrote.
At the time, opponents of the hotly disputed project celebrated the decision as the end to a saga that by then had dragged on for 17 years and involved questions about navigational safety, use of public trust waters for private enterprise and environmental harm from expanded development. ....

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