6+ hour, 53+ min ago   (908+ words) The Middletown Planning Board granted variances allowing 60.6% lot coverage and legalized five hotel rooms the applicant said operated without zoning approval for years. Every vote was split. A Wave Avenue hotel can build a pool and deck with more than…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (740+ words) The Harbor Management Commission asked Jamestown to set aside five free, year-round trailer spaces at Fort Getty Park for aquaculture tenants. The council sent it back to staff instead, citing fairness, lost fee revenue and an undefined "ground maintenance" use....

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (661+ words) Jamestown's council funded a $275,000 renovation of the Fort Getty lower bathroom, approved $192,695 for court repairs and tabled a $40,000 netting project. Fort Getty's lower bathroom is slated for a full interior rebuild; the Lawn Avenue tennis and basketball courts get a…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1199+ words) With Rhode Island rents up more than 30% in four years, a new national report on corporate landlords in Phoenix offers a cautionary tale for state lawmakers. While institutional investors own a tiny fraction of local housing today, proposals to restrict…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (341+ words) The Narragansett Town Council met privately Tuesday to discuss the possible purchase or lease of real property on Kingstown Road, then voted to seal the minutes of that closed session before returning to open session and adjourning to its regular…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (549+ words) Planning Board members told the consultant drafting New Shoreham's comprehensive plan that federal census figures showing no four- or five-person households, and only 3 percent of residents under 17, do not match the island they live on. The demographic figures under dispute…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (594+ words) The Cranston Ordinance Committee advanced an ordinance restricting paid rentals of home pools and outdoor spaces, sponsored by Council President Daniel Wall and Frank J. Ritz Jr., after years of neighbor complaints. Members noted it carries only the code's default fine,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (299+ words) The council waived local fees for the O'Brien property housing project — minus any costs the town itself pays — set two zoning hearings for October 5th, and shifted water company funds into a money market account. Local permit fees are waived for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (341+ words) A 12-unit cottage development proposed at 425 Hope Road drew objections from more than a dozen residents over traffic, wetlands and school crowding. No vote was taken, and one of the owners said afterward the team may take "a different direction....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (320+ words) Commissioners voted negative recommendations on two Gladstone Street unmerger applications, citing a lot line drawn flush against an existing house and parking placed on what would become a separate owner's land. Two proposed Gladstone Street lots — one keeping an existing…...