[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Navy transfer, Portsmouth, RI

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Portsmouth rezones Navy land for sale
Previous regulations were 'too liberal'

By Jill Rodrigues
EastBayRI.com (RI)
March 17, 2010

PORTSMOUTH - As the Navy prepares to turn over about 150 acres of land 
to the private sector, the town has rezoned the area to attract 
commercial, retail, and marine-trade development.

The Portsmouth Redevelopment Agency (PRA), Economic Development 
Committee (EDC), Planning Board and town planners worked together to 
develop a redevelopment district zone for the areas known as Tank Farms 
1 and 2, located off of Stringham Road, between the Melville Marine 
District and Melville Campgrounds. Any construction proposals brought to 
the town would have to fall under one of three planned-unit development 
regulations: Corporate development, marine trade development, or 
retail/service development.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.eastbayri.com/detail/134763.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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