Residents dispute lot clearing on Green Hill Beach Road

August 20, 2014

SOUTH KINGSTOWN - Residents of Green Hill are once again dealing with the possibility that their pond-front view and natural landscape will be tarnished by the development of a two-bedroom house - this time one that appears to be being built on the wrong lot. The lots in question are the Briggs Lots on Green Hill Beach Road, which, explained South Kingstown Planning Director Vincent Murray, have a file in the town planning office wider than a Manhattan phone book. According to town maps and building plans, the CRMC permitted the construction of a two-bedroom house on lot 171 (formerly lots 171, 172 and 173). Currently, an area on lot 170 is clear-cut and marked for building. One thing is clear: if you look at the town plat maps, lot 170 had been subsumed with 169 and 168, said Dan Latona, president of the Green Hill Civic Association. If that plat map is accurate, the clearing is clearly wrong. Its inappropriate - its there on the wrong lot. Briggs survey apparently shows that 168 is only partially on the original 170. I usually would have said, Jeez, OK, there was a survey done. Thats probably legal. But after the issue with the Nulman property in Narragansett, you think, Why should I trust a survey? They screw up.

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