Show your support for Rhode Island’s working waterfronts by attending tomorrow’s Senate Housing & Municipal Government Committee hearing on the “Rhode Island Working Waterfronts Protection Act.” This legislation would protect our working waterfronts and water-dependent businesses from incompatible residential and commercial development.
SENATE HOUSING & MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE TO HEAR “RHODE ISLAND WORKING WATERFRONTS PROTECTION ACT”
Legislation would preserve and protect Rhode Island’s working waterfronts from incompatible residential and commercial development
WHAT:
Senate Housing & Municipal Government Committee bill hearing on S-0758, the “Rhode Island Working Waterfronts Protection Act.” Legislation would empower the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) to preserve and protect Rhode Island’s working waterfronts and water-dependent uses including commercial fishing, shipping, passenger transportation, boat building and repair, marinas, and other marine related businesses which must have access to the water to operate.
WHEN: Thursday, May 21st at 4:30pm
WHERE: State House, Room 310