Legislative proposal stirs up shoreline dispute

A special legislative commission recently reached a consensus on a potential solution to a decadeslong conflict over shoreline access in Rhode Island, but a group of coastal homeowners argues that the proposal represents a taking of private land that will end up in a court battle with an “astronomical” cost to state taxpayers. The commission’s

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