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FOW 2019 Inspection Cruise


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If you care about the Newport Waterfront
Please plan to attend
City of Newport Planning Board Meeting
Monday, April 3, 2017
City Hall 6:30 pm
Proposed 20 Room Howard Wharf Hotel –
Now amended to ONLY 15 Rooms
300% allotment over current city ordinance!

  • Click Here for Howard Wharf Inn Map

35 years later and some things seem the same! We Must Stay Ever Vigilant

  • Proposed 20 Room ‘Boutique’ Hotel Planned for Howard Wharf
  • Howard Wharf Hotel Hits Snag
  • Google Map of Howard Wharf

FOW Letter sent to CRMC in support of public access to move private fence

  • Hearing Set For Controversial Fence

2016 Year in Review

  • FOW 2016 Year in Review

2016 Seminar – Keeping History Above Water

  • Historical Waterfront Preservation – Resilient Newport

Disposal and Reuse of Surplus Property at Naval Station (NAVSTA) Newport

  • Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Aannouncements

Dinghy Planters – Article from Newport This Week, April 7, 2016

  • Dinghy Planters Article

Mary Ferrazolli – Founder of Friends of The Waterfront

  • Mary Ferrazolli Information

Newport City Manager Memo re Status of Navy Hospital Land, June, 2014

  • Newport Navy Property Memo 2014

“Abandonment Statute Is the Only Method by Which a Municipality May Abandon a Public Highway.” April, 2012

  • RI Supreme Court Ruling on Newport’s Washington St. Extension

Newport City Council Workshop Slideshow Presentation from Sea Grant and FXM Associates — Nov. 9, 2010

  • Newport RI Waterfront Economic Study by Sea Grant and FXM Associates.

FXM Associates Summary Report “The Contribution of Waterfront Land Uses to Municipal Revenues in Newport”

  • FXM Study 2010

What Will Newport’s Waterfront Look Like in 2030. A Summary Report June 11, 2008.

  • Newport 2030

At a Harbor Walk backgound meeting several years ago three slide shows were presented and each summarized in a PDF file.
[These are LARGE pdf files and may take a while to download.]
While audio is not available the photos and illustrations are informative:

  • Garman History of Newport RI Waterfront
  • Taylor & Partners 2004 Urban Design for Central Newport, RI
  • Warner Presentation

Sea Grant Guide to Public Access in RI including coverage of Newport starting on pdf page 84.

  • Access to the Rhode Island Coast

Detailed history of the legal development of one section of Newport’s Waterfront Walk at Wellington Resort with FoW input:

  • Wellington’s Victory by Blair Gollihur 1999

Detailed RI Supreme Court Ruling on Streets and Rights of Way in Regard to Newport’s Scott’s Wharf, North Commercial and South Commerical Wharfs

  • RI Supreme Court Ruling on Newport’s Scott’s Wharf, July, 2005
  • Providence Journal’s Summary of the Scott’s Wharf Ruling
  • Salve Regina U. Study Report on the Southern Thames St. Neighborhood History 2004.

Proposal for a Comprehensive Management Plan for Newport’s Cliff Walk — 1987

  • Newport, RI Cliff Walk: a User Profile

One of the Original RI Historical Preservation Reports on Newport, RI Waterfront Used by FoW in the 1980s.
[this is a 70MB pdf]

  • Newport, RI Southern Thames St. Neighborhood Early History

Miscellaneous Documents

  • 1784 Map of Newport
  • History of Goat Island

Links of Interest

  • What is CRMC
  • CRMC GIS Mapping of Public RoWs in RI +in to see Newport’s 23
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