Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Town officials say the planning phase of the project has ended. What would you like to see on the development models?
Three Aquidneck Island communities have been holding public meetings, hearings and gathering comments on how to best use roughly 175 acres of west side land parcels surplused by the Navy. On Tuesday night, Middletown Town Administrator Shawn Brown told Middletown Town Council members that by this June, the project's initial models will be completed and councilors will have decisions to make. Brown said the project has moved into the implementation phase. “We no longer talk about what we want to do, we talk about the mechanics of what we want to do with the property,” said Brown. Middletown has three potential development projects. How would you like to see these lands used? Straddling Middletown and Portsmouth, approximately 67 acres …
Monday, August 6, 2012
The Portsmouth Town Council met Monday, Aug. 6, at Town Hall.
The Portsmouth Town Council held a meeting Monday night. Featured here is a report of the actions taken during the meeting. 7 p.m. — Council votes to postpone executive session due to their attorney being late for meeting. 7:10 — Council hears from Mr. Humphrey of the Aquidneck Island Re-Use Implementing Authority, which will help work to establish the future use of the surplus Navy lands. 7:15 — Council approves the Aquidneck Island Re-Use Implementing Authority's (AIRIA) Interlocal Agreement. The council also approved the re-appointment of two members, Fred Faerber and Keith Humphreys, to AIRIA. 7:17 — Council enters executive session. 8:30 — Council returns from executive session. Council President Joseph Robicheau reports that no …
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
A local resident says people are still dumping tires along Burma Road. Have you seen anything similar in town or around the Navy surplus land?
Local resident Dan Force says he's seen a resurgence of discarded tires along Burma road, months after first reporting the illegal dumping. Force, a Portsmouth resident, reported in December seeing piles of discarded tires and trash at certain locations on U.S. Navy land along Burma Road. Less than a couple days later, Navy personnel took action and removed the tires and trash. However, only a few months later, Force says tires are still being found discarded along the federal highway. "Well, this week I discovered a newly-dumped batch of them and again alerted the Navy base authorities," Force wrote in an e-mail. The new batch, according to Force, is located 200 to 300 yards south of the Stringham Road intersection on the west side of…
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
Employees of the Newport Naval Base took action on illegal dumping after hearing complaints.
The U.S. Navy took action earlier this week after hearing reports of illegally dumped tires off Burma Road. On Sunday, Portsmouth Patch posted an article after hearing one local resident's concern about this issue. The resident began to notice more and more trash being dumped along Burma Road, including more than a dozen illegally discarded tires. The tires have now been removed, according to a spokesperson for the Navy. However, illegal dumping continues to be an issue on the federal Navy land. The Navy is now asking for the public's assistance to help put a stop to illegal dumping. "This issue of folks illegally dumping continues to be a problem all over the place," said Naval Station Newport Public Affairs Officer Lisa Rama. "...…
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
A local resident says people are dumping tires along Burma Road. Have you seen anything similar in town or around the Navy surplus land?
Driving down Burma Road lately, there's a common site appearing on the roadside — discarded trash. Empty cardboard beer cases, plastic bags and aluminum soda cans are scattered here and there along the defense highway. Local resident Dan Force reports that he's seen piles of discarded tires and trash at certain locations on federal Navy land along Burma Road. He shared the photos above as examples of what he has witnessed. "I began noticing these large items being dumped there a few years ago, not long after the Middletown Transfer Station closed," Force said. "I've informed the Portsmouth town administrator annually about the problem. Each time, he has advised me that it is federal/Navy property and thereby not the town's responsibility…
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Navy relinquishes its legislative jurisdiction of Portsmouth land to the State of Rhode Island. What does this mean? Find out below.
Residents living in Navy housing on Aquidneck Island should no longer contact military police for help, but instead reach out to State Police or their local law agency. This past June, Governor Lincoln Chafee signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy, accepting the relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction of certain Navy land in Portsmouth, Middletown and Newport. "For lands under control of the Department of the Navy, Section 2683 of Title 10, United State Code, authorizes the Secretary to relinquish to a State all or part of its legislative jurisdiction over such lands," wrote Roger Natsuhara, principal deputy for the Navy. "The Navy currently has federal legislative jurisdiction over lands in Newport, RI, and believes it would be …
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Julie Oakley of the Aquidneck Island Reuse Planning Authority and Richard Adams, chairman of the Aquidneck Island Planning Commission, speak further after last week's meeting.
After nearly two years of tightly choreographed public meetings, hearings and comment gathering, the three Aquidneck Island communities reached a unanimous consensus Thursday on how to best use roughly 175 acres of west side land parcels surplussed by the Navy. The final vote green lights the package of five proposals to be submitted to the United States Department of Defense by Aug. 19 for final federal approvals. Perhaps no one was more relieved to see how smoothly talks and planning went upon last week's vote than Julie Oakley, the Aquidneck Island Reuse Planning Authority (AIRPA) Communities Planning Coordinator. Oakley worked with each of the three communities both individually and collectively to come up with the five separate plans…
Friday, July 15, 2011
Final public comments and endorsements from all three Aquidneck Island communities were received Thursday night, as AIRPA voted to submit its plan for five Navy surplus land to the federal government.
Two years of planning that included about 20 town meetings and public hearings across Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth culminated Thursday night at CCRI-Newport with unanimous community endorsements on how to best put nearly 200 acres of Navy surplus land to use. The Aquidneck Island Reuse Planning Authority (AIRPA) board that's comprised of representatives from all three municipalities also formally voted to submit the finalized proposal to the federal government for the conveyance of five Navy surplus land parcels. "We really are very lucky and blessed that this process has gone so smoothly," said Julie Oakley, AIRPA's Property Reuse Coordinator, who has seen federal-to-local land conveyance processes in other communities encounter …
Bill Carson
11:31 am on Thursday, February 21, 2013
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