{"id":200,"date":"2009-03-21T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T19:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/21\/port-study-commission-hearing\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:33:25","slug":"port-study-commission-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/21\/port-study-commission-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Port study commission hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, March 19th, the General Assembly&#8217;s port development study commission held its first hearing where researchers from the University of Rhode Island&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crc.uri.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coastal Resources Center<\/a> presented preliminary results from their <a href=\"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/waterfrontcommission031909_current_all.pdf\" title=\"Rhode Island Commercial Ports and Harbors inventory study\">Rhode Island Commercial Ports and Harbors inventory study<\/a>.  The most striking finding from the inventory study:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In all of Rhode Island, there are only 62 parcels, representing 756 total acres, that are available and properly zoned for marine industrial growth.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This finding shows that Rhode Island has very little space left for marine industrial growth and that we must protect the few remaining port areas we have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/news\/content\/BZ_PORT_STUDY_03-20-09_OLDO6B7_v21.30aba0b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read <\/a>the <em>Providence Journal&#8217;s<\/em> coverage of the hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, March 19th, the General Assembly&#8217;s port development study commission held its first hearing where researchers from the University of Rhode Island&#8217;s Coastal Resources Center presented preliminary results from their Rhode Island Commercial Ports and Harbors inventory study. The most striking finding from the inventory study: In all of Rhode Island, there are only [&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-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providenceworkingwaterfront.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}