AGENDA
Semi-Monthly Meeting – Full Council
Tuesday, April 26, 2016; 6:00 p.m.
Administration Building, Conference Room A
One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting – March 22, 2016

Subcommittee Reports

Staff Reports

Report – Deepwater Wind, LLC -- update from Ted Hofbauer, CVA presentation on the FIR 2015 and FDR 2016

Rhode Island Superior Court Remand:

The Court has ordered the CRMC to provide additional Findings of Fact on the record regarding its previous decision in the matter of:

A2009-09-100 PAUL and CAROL MERCURIO – Construct and maintain a 20’ x 32’ residential dwelling and permeable driveway with municipal water and sewer connections. Located at Plat L, Lot 178; Glenwood Avenue, Narragansett, RI.

Applications before the Council for Review:

2015-11-007 TOWN OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Reconstruction of revetment. Located at plat 92-2, lot 4 and 92-3, lot 1; 855 and 883 Matunuck Beach Road, South Kingstown, RI.

Applications requiring Public Hearing for Special Exception before the Full Council for Council Decision:

2016-02-090 TOWN OF NEW SHOREHAM -- A riprap revetment to protect the shoreline-side slope of the Town’s closed landfill to help protect the landfill from shoreline erosion. A public access pathway will be provided up and over the landfill to provide/maintain lateral public access along the shoreline. The project requires a Special Exception pursuant to RICRMP Section 300.7.D.1 which prohibits the construction of structural shoreline protection bordering Type 1 waters. The project is located at plat 2, lots 39, 40, and 48-1; West Beach Road (seaward terminus), New Shoreham, RI.

2016-03-020 RI DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT -- Construct and maintain a new public access pathway/steps utilizing existing shoreline boulders at the base (seaward terminus) of the existing Mohegan Bluffs timber stairway owned by the State of Rhode Island. Equipment access will be provided along the East side of the stream channel which flows from Mohegan Trail to the coastal beach at the base of the existing timber stairway. The project requires a Special Exception pursuant to the RICRMP Section 300.2.C.1 & 3 which prohibit filling, removing, and grading on coastal beaches and bluffs bordering Type 1 waters and prohibits the use of on-site beach materials for construction materials. The project is located at plat 8, lot 183; Mohegan Trail (Mohegan Bluffs), New Shoreham, RI.

Public Hearing on Program Changes: Summary of Proposed Amendment to CRMC Shoreline Change Maps

The CRMC intends to adopt revised Shoreline Change Maps for the Washington County communities of Westerly, Charlestown, South Kingstown, Narragansett and North Kingstown. The purpose of the amendment is to replace older 2003 and 2004 maps that were adopted by the CRMC in 2008 with 45 newly updated maps based on 2014 orthophoto aerial images that have been prepared as part of the CRMC Shoreline Change Special Area Management Plan, also referred to as the Beach SAMP. Due to the very high image resolution and extremely large files sizes (294MB in total) the individual maps are not being uploaded to the Secretary of State’s website. The 45 new maps are publically accessible on the CRMC website at: http://www.crmc.ri.gov/maps/maps_shorechange.html as PDF files and are listed under Washington County (2016).

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