The Future is Now Kevin Flynn, new head of the state Planning Division, addresses the Grow Smart Advisory Council on 9/27 about the state's Future Land Use Plan now nearing completion. Flynn has served on the Grow Smart Advisory Council since 1998.
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Grow Smart Board of Directors
Michael F. Ryan
Chairman of the Board
Susan Arnold
William Baldwin
S. James Busam
Joseph Caffey
Robert L. Carothers
Arnold Chace
Jen Cookke
Trudy Coxe
Peter Damon
Stephen J. Farrell
Thomas E. Freeman
J. Joseph Garrahy
John R. Gowell, Jr.
Stephen Hamblett
Robert Harding
Michael S. Hudner
Stanley J. Kanter
Howard M. Kilguss
Thomas A. Lawson
Dennis Langley
James Leach
Roger Mandle
Rev. James C. Miller
Thomas V. Moses
George Nee
B. Michael Rauh, Jr.
Gary Sasse
Richard Schartner
Deming Sherman
Merrill Sherman
Curt Spalding
James F. Twaddell
Ranne Warner
Sandra Whitehouse
Frederick C. Williamson
W. Edward Wood
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Grow Smart takes on 'Big Box' plan, MED zone law |
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Executive Director Scott Wolf suggests
alternatives for growing state's economy in a way
that protects quality of life for future
generations
Grow Smart took aim last week at a controversial
example of what is often a sprawl-inducing form of
development - the "big box" retail shopping mall. In
so doing, it also raised concerns about a 3-year old
state MED zone law that it contends may be
unintentionally subsidizing sprawl with taxpayer
dollars while hurting existing urban businesses.
The
written testimony was heard before the North
Smithfield Planning Board as it deliberated on the
application by Bucci Development to build "Dowling
Village" which would be the state's largest such retail
center spanning an area the size of more than 40
football fields in North Smithfield and Woonsocket.
One week after testimony by Wolf and many others,
the N.S. Planning Board dealt a serious setback to
the "Dowling Village" proposal (See below).
View the 10-minute testimony by clicking
below
Projo News
update: N.S. Planners deny big box expansion -
10/14
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Workshops examine housing, community land trusts |
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Fifty-eight municipal officials and staff from 18 Rhode
Island communities learned about the advantages of
housing trust funds and community housing land
trusts at three September workshops offered by
Grow Smart's Muncipal Land-Use Training
Collaborative.
Mary Brooks, Executive Director of the
Center
for Community Change's Housing Trust Fund
Project, spoke about using housing trust funds at the
state and local levels to generate new resources for
affordable housing production; Mary O'Hara
of Burlington Associates explained how
community housing land trusts can help to reduce
the cost of housing and ensure permanent
affordability; and representatives from the
Housing Network of Rhode Island described
various ways that communities can access the range
of services offered by the newly-established
Community Housing Land Trust
of Rhode Island.
More about Community Housing Land Trusts in RI
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Smarter Growth on the Suburban Fringe |
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10 Principles for Smart Growth on the
Suburban Fringe available for free on a limited
basis
With contributions from experts in the real estate
industry as well as conservationists, this 24-page
booklet from the Urban Land Institute takes
a fresh, realistic approach to suburban development,
providing guidelines to make new development more
attractive, accessible, efficient, environmentally
sensitive, livable, and profitable. [More]
Available in packets of 10 for $19.95 from the ULI bookstore.
Grow Smart Rhode Island will provide a FREE copy
to the first ten people that request one. Email
us to request a free copy.
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Need to Find Smart Growth Services? |
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Does your community need a planning consultant to
prepare an economic development strategy? A land
use attorney to craft that mixed-use ordinance
people have been asking about? What about a
developer who can turn that brownfield site into
something productive? And your firm - Does it
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really understands smart growth principles? Or
perhaps you need advice about those
historic tax credits ...
The
Smart Growth Yellow Pages is your
one-stop resource. With over 75 listings, our online
directory will connect you with others collaborating
on smart growth related business and community
development opportunities.
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Individuals
RI Senator David E. Bates
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Walter "Chet" Chomka
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Elizabeth Debbs
Stephen J. Farrell
Melissa and John Flaherty
RI Representative Gordon D. Fox
Lance Kilpatrick
Cranton Mayor Stephen P. Laffey
James Leach
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Scott and Susan Millar
Wayne and Maureen Moore
Dr. Patricia Nolan
John O'Hearne
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Michael and Jacqueline Saul
Deming Sherman
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Foundations
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Linda Wood)
Organizations
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DiPrete)
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Architects
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Heritage Corridor Commission
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Regional planning forum meets in Newport Nov. 9-10 |
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The 2005 American Planning Association Southern
New England Conference will bring together expert
planners, practitioners, municipalities, developers and
citizens to tackle a wide variety of topics that affect
the future growth and development of our
communties.
Sessions include:
- Growth Centers and Sutainable Development
- Using TDR to Manage Residential Growth &
Open Space
- Best Practices in Affordable Housing Design
- Planning for Historic Mill Reuse in your Town
- Rural / Suburban Transit-Oriented
Development
- Innovative Regulations and Form Based Codes
Conference
schedule
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RI LISC Announces First New Markets Tax Credit Deal |
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Deal paves way for financing of innovative
mixed-use redevelopment at mill complex
Rhode
Island LISC has announced its first New Markets
Tax Credit deal in Rhode Island. By acting as broker
for $710,000 in New Market Tax Credits RI LISC is
helping to make possible the transformation of one of
the most blighted sites in Olneyville. The old
Providence Dyeing, Bleaching and Calendaring
Company complex at 60 Valley Street is being
renovated by a dynamic joint venture partnership
between Struever Bros., Eccles & Rouse,
Inc. and the not-for-profit Puente.
Together they will renovate this historic mill complex
into a dual-use residential/commercial development
known as "The Plant".
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Wednesday, Oct. 19 (12:00p - 1:30p)
New DEM director Michael Sullivan will
present the "hot" topics facing his agency.
Warwick
Wednesday, Oct. 26 (8:30a - 12:30p)
Free to attend, but advance registration is
required.
Providence
Tuesday, Nov. 1 (2:00p - 7:00p)
Sponsored by URI and the RI Department of
Health
Kingston
Friday, Nov. 4 (9:30a - 12:30p)
This seminar at Roger Williams University will
provide analysis of the two cases starting with a
general introductions to takings law followed by a
discussion of the cases' implications for land use
planning in RI.
Bristol
Tuesday, Nov. 8 (7:00p - 9:00p)
This free workshop presented
by URI's Lorraine Joubert is offered to
participants in the Watershed Stewards Program,
Watershed Councils, Land Trusts and citizens
interested in getting involved with watershed
stewardship
Peace Dale
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Cable show featuring Grow Smart wins PEG Award |
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Tea with
Marie, which airs statewide on Cox Channel 13
Friday afternoons at 3:00 p.m., has earned a PEG
Award for its show featuring Grow Smart RI Executive
Director Scott Wolf.
Organized by RI public access personnel from Cox,
the Rhode Island PEG Awards recognize the best non-
professional, non-commercial public programming
produced in the state. "PEG" stands for the three
types of community-based access provided in Rhode
Island by Cox: Public,
Educational, and Government
access. The show won in the Politics/Community
Affairs category.
View the
show online
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Growth and development in the news |
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National
Statewide
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