Submitted by Due-Pickle8392 t3_117uubh in providence
i read that she is strongly against a new apartment development with plans for five stories instead of four stories at 116 Waterman. Given Providence's housing shortage, why would you be against having more new apartments?
Without any additional details, my guess is some argument about "historic character." Either that or it's more pearl clutching about parking & traffic.
I'm not a big fan of demolishing houses in general, but it's clear that the Thayer/Brook corridor is getting denser, and I can't imagine how a 5 story building would be dramatically different from a 4 story building.
I have no idea about this specific story but an extra story on a building can very easily turn next door or the other side of a street from at least a few hours if sunlight a day to forever night.
Not sure on the time in the video yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZm5hqIHt2Y
Edit: Last projo story on the project
Edit: Context for OP, is, this is up tonight at City Plan Commission.
https://www.providenceri.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/23.02.21-CPC-meeting-agenda.pdf
We had this same sort of shit over the 5 story building that went up near Joe's Meat Market on Westminster. "oh no the character of the city etc"
I'm so tired of these Nimbys man... just what the hell. Building is up now and it's fine. Load of crying over nothing just to keep housing stock low. Let our fucking city grow.
makes no sense. I think Helen Anthony is the same one who tried to ban 3 college students from living in an apartment together in pvd
Historic character of the citizens bank across the street? Total pearl clutching.
oh yea that's classic historic drive-thru-with-a-parking-lot development
Yup, same lady,
So much pearl clutching in that Projo article.. Basically it boils down to rich people not wanting to deal with college students in their neighborhood that contains 2 major universities.
That, and of course the good old HISTORIC CHARACTER®^TM argument
Story:
>PROVIDENCE – Locals packed the City Council chambers on Wednesday night, eager to sound off on a proposal that has residents divided: Whether to ban more than three college students from renting a single apartment.
>The council's Committee on Ordinances hearing saw an overflow of attendees backing up into the balcony, with about a dozen signed up to testify in support and roughly 40 to testify in opposition.
>Currently, the city already prohibits more than three college students from living in single-family homes within single-family zones, known in planning-speak as R-1, although a proposed amendment to the ordinance would expand that regulation to multi-family homes. It is sponsored by Councilwoman Helen Anthony.
It seems like part of the assumption is that this will be student housing and they're going to have rooftop sex parties every night.
You just don’t get that kind of development anymore
Brown and College Hill developers can’t do anything right in the eyes of the CHNA and Helen Anthony.
“We want fewer students in our neighborhoods!” Okay, then we’ll build a dorm on Brook Street. “No! It’s too tall!” Okay, we’ll build more apartments on Thayer(where it’s already loud as hell) to concentrate students away from your mansions. “No! Still too close!”
People want the property values that come with living near Brown without dealing with the downsides of living next to any university in America. Wonder why they moved there in the first place
Once again I’m upset I couldn’t build a roof deck on my house.
Usually people that just don’t like how it looks lol, or don’t think it “fits the city”
Cities should evolve and grow/change. Dumb to fight stuff like this
u/cowperthwaite, on the topic of more residential housing, do you know anything about what the end result will be for the property at the end of East St?
It used to be the RI International School (I've seen two different names). It overlooks India Point Park, right at the pedestrian bridge.
Now it's being rehabbed (huge sign says funding by BankRI). Awhile ago, one of the workman told me there'd be 70+ residential units?
Because the house they bought for 96k in 1982 is now worth 1.4m bc of being Ivy adjacent so f u and yours basically? And is mortgage free and probably renting to students so printing money.
Yup. Have to admit that I’m biased as a current student. Another funny thing to add is that (iirc) the CHNA fought new liquor licenses on Thayer years ago. I’ve heard that there used to be plenty of college bars on and around Thayer, but no longer. Maybe if there were bars next to campus, students wouldn’t be throwing as many house parties in the neighborhood?
That building is less than 50% full and the rents are astronomical 😂
Proof-Variation7005 t1_j9ezqkj wrote
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