Friday, October 28, 2011
Residents packed council chambers for the public hearing and final vote.
After nearly a year of debate in Little Compton about a Planning Board zoning proposal, called a conservation development, aimed to give developers an option to situate house lots differently with a percentage reserved for open space, was denied by the Town Council Thursday night. The council voted 4-1 in favor of rejecting the proposal, with President Robert Mushen voting “no” to the motion. Ultimately, all agreed the town needs to revisit the flaws of its current zoning regulations in the comprehensive plan before approaching any other ideas. About 50 residents packed the council chambers Thursday night for the long-awaited joint public hearing hosted by the council and Planning Board. Councilor Charles Appleton, Jr. said he received “…
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Little Compton Planning Board Chairman Mike Steers submits a letter to the editor to clarify some points about the proposed conservation zoning ordinance.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
It appears there may be some misunderstanding of the draft proposal for Conservation Development. Under current zoning regulations, any landowner who wishes to subdivide his property today has to submit an application to the Planning Board. There are some basic requirements regardless of whether it is a minor subdivision (4 or less lots) or a major subdivision (5 or more lots). There must be a minimum of 2 acres of land for every lot exclusive of roads. There must be an identified location for an individual septic system that has been designated suitable and approved by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM). If the property contains wetlands, the building location has to be 100 feet from the wetland edge. There has …
Little Compton resident Mimi Karlsson writes a letter to the editor in strong opposition against the Planning Board's conservation development proposal for the town's zoning and subdivision regulations.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
To the editor: Profoundly Disappointed ...with the Little Compton Planning Board. How a board, charged with designing the town's growth so that it is protective of the public's health, safety and welfare, can instead champion 3/4-acre house lots surrounded by 1 1/4 acres of "conserved land," 50 percent of which can be wetlands, in its new, so called, "conservation development" scheme, is beyond belief. In 1982, Rhode Island Statewide Planning Division, in response to the mandates of the 208 Program of the Clean Water Act to prevent non-point source pollution of groundwater resources, conducted a review of all Rhode Island towns' zoning and published a report. While many towns needed to increase their house lot zoning size, the report …
Friday, August 19, 2011
The Town Council would then vote on whether to bring the matter to a public hearing.
The Little Compton Town Council unanimously voted on Thursday night in support to have the Planning Board submit a final written recommendation of the controversial proposed changes to the town's zoning and subdivision regulations. Once received, the council will review the final wording of the proposed changes and vote to determine whether the matter would be brought to a public hearing. "There's been so much inconsistency and it's hindered progress," said Council President Robert Mushen. "This will get rid of all the hypothetical 'we could do this or we could do that' type scenarios and enable us to make a decision based on a single concrete proposal." A public workshop was held last Thursday, Aug. 11 on the matter, leading to last night…
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