[Summit] Parking-lot hearing

[Coryndon Luxmoore]

Any insight on why the union is protesting parking lots? --C


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Kerry Kohring <kerrykohring at gmail.com>wrote:

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>      The Providence City Plan Commission Tuesday night voted to slow down
> the application of LA Fitness health clubs to put a 300-space parking lot
> on North Main Street in place of the former Sears building.
>      The panel said the city “can do better from this developer” and also
> denied its request to combine master and preliminary plan hearings, which
> would have moved the project along quickly.
>       The action puts off consideration of the proposal until next month’s
> meeting so “we can work together and figure this out.” The board members
> are requesting an environmental-impact study and that the applicant make
> improvements to its parking-lot design.
>      Faced with testimony from 11 members of the community, including from
> the Summit Neighborhood Association, urging changes, and about a dozen
> members of Local 217 of the UniteHere! union holding signs protesting more
> large parking lots, the board continued the hearing.
>
>
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