[Summit] Parking-lot hearing

[Martha Fraenkel]

That is correct.


On 4/23/2014 1:23 PM, Christopher Rotondo wrote:
> I believe that the union was protesting the developer of the LA 
> Fitness project, The Procaccianti Group, which also owns the Hilton 
> and Renaissance Hotels. The workers at those hotels are working with 
> Unite Here in a labor dispute with the owners.
>
> Christopher Samih-Rotondo
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Coryndon Luxmoore 
> <coryndon at luxmoore.com <mailto:coryndon at luxmoore.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto:kerrykohring at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>              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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