State, local regulations still hampering development in R.I.

PBN Staff

10/26/2018

A WORK IN PROGRESS: Competing agencies and their often at-odds agendas continue to make development in Providence less robust than it might be.   / PBN FILE PHOTO/ PAMELA BHATIA — A WORK IN PROGRESS: Competing agencies and their often at-odds agendas continue to make development in Providence less robust than it might be. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ PAMELA BHATIA

The opening of a March 2015 PBN story, titled “Why is it so hard to build in Providence?” sounds eerily familiar to those reading the beginning of this week’s cover story, “Can city speed development?” The issue identified three and a half years ago in that story is nearly identical to what faces a developer…