In preparing to give a seminar on environmental issues in real estate and business transactions at the upcoming Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting, I decided I had to…
Some time ago I was walking a development project with the chief surveyor for a large engineering company, showing him the unit boundaries I wanted established for a client’s…
The Cape Wind project to construct 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound was recently approved by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Salazar over the objections of two Native American…
Whether or not one agrees with Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision this week to remove the last federal regulatory barrier to the permitting of the Cape Wind Project, there should be…
Given that Rhode Island is the Ocean State, and recreational fishing is extremely popular, I have been following the concern of recreational anglers that a Presidential Task Force may…
Prospective purchasers and owners of investment rental property, including condominium developers renting units they can’t sell, may not often think of minimum housing standards, but perhaps they should. Rhode…
This is the last in a four-part series on the Rhode Island Supreme Court’s decision in the Champlin’s Marina decision, where the court affirmed in part and reversed in part…
In a recent talk to a regional conference of planners held in Connecticut, that is how I described a trial court’s findings that a coastal permitting agency failed to…
That in effect was one of the questions facing the Rhode Island Supreme Court in its recent Champlin’s Marina decision. Does a quasi-judicial hearing officer receive only a limited scope of…
If there is a weakness in the Supreme Court’s thoughtful decision in the Champlin’s Marina case, in my judgment it is in the remedy imposed by a divided Court. See…