[Summit] Trucking Center on Providence/Pawtucket Line

[Forrest Snyder]

Karen,

It is NOT to late! There are many regulatory hoops the developer has to negotiate at this point. I’m not opposed to a trucking center on this site - not excited about it, but I understand the attraction given the size and proximity to 95. HOWEVER, the trucking center should be well planned and NOT take green space away from the neighborhood kids and move contaminated soil, let alone pave a 5 acre parking lot. 

Forrest


> On Aug 9, 2022, at 1:36 PM, Karen Klingon <kklingon at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Forrest,
> 
> I really don’t understand why Pawtucket would choose to shoehorn such a gigantic, busy facility, and all the vehicles that will use it, into this particular site, when there's loads of open space for such a project across from the entrance to McCoy Stadium. I fear it’s too late to stop this project, though. 
> 
> Maybe Providence is entitled to some input, since the city line is not far from the site. It can’t hurt that it’s an election year. What do our mayoral candidates have to say about this planned development, I wonder?
> 
> Karen Klingon (spouse of Jerry Middleton)
> 
>> On Aug 9, 2022, at 1:17 PM, Forrest Snyder <forrest at forrestsnyder.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Okay, the proposed trucking center just of Main Street is way worse than I had imagined! Not only are they hoping to build a trucking center with inadequate infrastructure changes, now I learn they are moving contaminated soil and trying to close and sell the only park in the city district. 
>> 
>> https://ecori.org/pawtucket-has-plans-to-make-two-environmental-justice-neighborhoods-green-free/
>> 
>> I’ll be contacting anyone and everyone I can think of to have this project reviewed, planned, and executed properly. 
>> 
>> Please, if you’re concerned, contact anyone you can think of to get this thing slowed down (at a minimum).
>> 
>> Forrest
>> 
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>>> Hopefully, someone in Pawtucket can discourage this proposed project.  Bradley VanDerStad has been working to make neighborhood residents aware of the situation, and he started a petition.  The city of Providence is finally taking an interest in North Main St; the report is available at https://www.providenceri.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NMS-Final-Report-20220615.pdf
>>> 
>>> Rod Burkett
>> 
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