17+ hour, 29+ min ago   (593+ words) Cumberland's Planning Board takes up four properties on September 24, including a five-home subdivision off Diamond Hill Road with five waiver requests and a proposed commercial rezoning on Albion Road. The September 24 hearing is the point at which Cumberland residents can…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1234+ words) Barrington will host a public workshop on September 28 to explore how local zoning rules affect housing production and affordability. The town currently stands well below the state's 10% affordable housing benchmark at 3.70%. With Barrington's median home price at $755,000 and affordable housing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (708+ words) The New Shoreham Zoning Board set October and November hearings on three special use permits, including coastal bluff erosion work on Spring Street, and gave a long-stalled variance case a final continuance. Three New Shoreham properties — on West Side Road,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (691+ words) New Shoreham has scheduled an October 5 public hearing on two zoning amendments that would reclassify accessory dwelling units, accessory structures and adaptive reuse across Block Island's zoning districts. The proposals would change the regulatory pathway for adding housing units and…...

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   (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…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (752+ words) After the applicant's attorney warned an appeal was "highly likely" and would seek the original 7.3-acre field layout, North Smithfield's solicitor said the zoning ordinance takes priority — and the board dropped its recreational-field condition, approving Rankin Estates 4-0. Phase one of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (472+ words) As national builders test factory-constructed manufactured homes in suburban subdivisions, Rhode Island laws enacted in 2024 have already cleared a legal pathway for qualifying units on single-family lots. Rhode Island law allows qualifying manufactured homes on single-family zoned lots and credits…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (430+ words) Four speakers, three of them members of Rhode Islanders for Personal Privacy, urged Cumberland's council to adopt a proposed zoning ordinance restricting data centers. The measure was referred to subcommittee ahead of a future public hearing. A proposed Cumberland zoning…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (488+ words) Little Compton's council adopted an inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring an affordable lot in subdivisions of five or more — including splits totaling five lots over 20 years — over objections that it will catch families dividing land among their children. Little Compton landowners…...