{"id":199,"date":"2009-03-13T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T19:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/13\/bill-to-protect-water-dependent-uses-from-eminent-domain-abuse\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:25","slug":"bill-to-protect-water-dependent-uses-from-eminent-domain-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/13\/bill-to-protect-water-dependent-uses-from-eminent-domain-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill To Protect Water Dependent Uses From Eminent Domain Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Providence Working Waterfront Alliance Testimony In Support Of H-5707<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Providence Working Waterfront Alliance strongly supports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rilin.state.ri.us\/BillText09\/HouseText09\/H5707.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">H-5707<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This legislation would require that any city or town seeking to acquire a water-dependent facility by eminent domain provide an alternative water-dependent site with equal acreage, equal or deeper berth draft, equal or deeper marine channel draft, and all federal, state and local site permits and zoning necessary to operate a water-dependent marine terminal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Water-dependent businesses MUST have access to the water to operate and this needs to be accounted for in Uniform Relocation Payments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There are no suitable alternative locations for most of Rhode Island\u2019s water-dependent oil terminals, cargo operations, and commercial repair ship yards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">Rhode Island\u2019s ports and water-dependent businesses are strategic state resource that must be preserved and protected.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providence Working Waterfront Alliance Testimony In Support Of H-5707 The Providence Working Waterfront Alliance strongly supports H-5707. This legislation would require that any city or town seeking to acquire a water-dependent facility by eminent domain provide an alternative water-dependent site with equal acreage, equal or deeper berth draft, equal or deeper marine channel draft, and [&hellip;]<\/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-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}