{"id":166,"date":"2008-09-28T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/28\/waterfront-charrette-follow-up-meeting-wrap-up\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:25","slug":"waterfront-charrette-follow-up-meeting-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/28\/waterfront-charrette-follow-up-meeting-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterfront Charrette Follow-Up Meeting Wrap Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past Wednesday at the Roger Williams Park Casino, the Providence Planning Department held a follow-up to the city’s 4-day June Waterfront Charrette<\/a>.\u00a0 About 100 people attended the meeting to view a final presentation of the city’s waterfront study and to voice their opinions during question and answer and breakout sessions.<\/p>\n

As during June’s charrette, participants expressed almost unanimous support for maintaining industrial zoning to protect Providence’s working waterfront.\u00a0 One attendee, who represents property along Allens Ave., even noted that the city’s mixed-use vision for the area has scared away industrial businesses that have wanted to locate here.\u00a0 From the Providence Journal’s<\/em> coverage<\/a> of the meeting:<\/p>\n

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However it turns out, this debate has already cost the city business, said commercial real estate agent Frank Jacques, who has been trying to market the 12-acre lot at 434 Allens Ave.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He said that in the last year, he had two businesses lined up \u2014 “written offers, with deposits” \u2014 looking to use the property, before they both pulled out.<\/em><\/p>\n

The zoning debate is what made them run, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The comments we received, unsolicited, is that they didn’t want to get embroiled in the debate we’re having right now \u2014 rezoning.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

South Side community organization DARE also released a resolution<\/a> expressing support for protecting area jobs by maintaining industrial zoning.<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend to support Providence\u2019s working waterfront!<\/p>\n

Media Coverage <\/strong><\/p>\n

09-26-08 “Five Questions With: Thom Deller<\/a>,” Providence Business News<\/em><\/p>\n

09-25-08 “Providence lays out options for uses of waterfront<\/a>,” Providence Journal <\/em><\/p>\n

09-24-08 “VIDEO: Tug-of-War Continues Over Plans for Providence Waterfront<\/a>,” ABC 6<\/em>
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\nFollow-Up Meeting Photos<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This past Wednesday at the Roger Williams Park Casino, the Providence Planning Department held a follow-up to the city’s 4-day June Waterfront Charrette.\u00a0 About 100 people attended the meeting to view a final presentation of the city’s waterfront study and to voice their opinions during question and answer and breakout sessions. As during June’s charrette, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}