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Currently, a developer on the East Side is trying to crowd 4 new buildings on the same lot of an historic home in an historic district. No backyards allowed any more it appears.*
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Originally Posted by Hollytree
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*The Providence Group (Dustin Dezube, Managing Partner) has preliminary plans to subdivide the 29,961 square-foot lot at 64 Angell Street into five parcels, leaving the historic Captain George Benson House (1794) where it is, and adding four additional single-family residences at the corners of the large lot (by right the lot can be subdivided as long as each property is at least 5,000 square feet).
The property is in the city’s College Hill Local Historic District and the federally designated College Hill National Register District.
"This winter, Dezube proposed a 58-unit project in the Mount Hope section of Providence. That project drew fierce neighborhood criticism, and Dezube withdrew the proposed development."
^ This is the micro apartments project that we discussed a few months ago.
Thank you for actually expressing that idea! Of course, too many forces at work to keep building large buildings and increasing density (the latest fad from the architecture schools).
Currently, a developer on the East Side is trying to crowd 4 new buildings on the same lot of an historic home in an historic district. No backyards allowed any more it appears.*
Big and ever growing seems to be the only acceptable mantra. Aesthetics, livability, and ease of getting around are way down the list.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of places in other parts of the city that can and should be improved- the developers aren't interested in those areas of course because those don't attract the big money buyers and renters. It's not about providing people nice places to live folks, it's just about making big profit, often by destroying the historic character of neighborhoods.
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*The Providence Group (Dustin Dezube, Managing Partner) has preliminary plans to subdivide the 29,961 square-foot lot at 64 Angell Street into five parcels, leaving the historic Captain George Benson House (1794) where it is, and adding four additional single-family residences at the corners of the large lot (by right the lot can be subdivided as long as each property is at least 5,000 square feet).
The property is in the city’s College Hill Local Historic District and the federally designated College Hill National Register District.
Once again, I don't recall you ever being OK with any kind of development in ANY shape or form. I keep asking you and you have failed to provide one example of a proposal you would be OK with, or even a somewhat recent project from another city that would work in Providence. All you ever do is say no.
Face it Holly, the only thing acceptable to you is for Providence to remain stuck in neutral forever (which of course in reality is a long term decline). The classic NIMBY.
I was recently reading the Maine forum and a comment was made by someone who had just moved there from NYC and was complaining about the lack of Chinese restaurants in Maine.
Yeah there are some amusing comments over there, like some clueless poster from Oregon who clearly doesn't appreciate or understand local variations in food.
Now with all the empty parking lots in Providence... are there plans to cover those?
I love Providence, but on my last visit it seems like the city has not kept up development wise and it was an uneasy feeling.
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