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Cranston planners hear neighbor outcry over Lake Street subdivision; variance vote ties, application continued
Summary
Neighbors told the City Plan Commission that repeated flooding, narrow streets and parking shortages make 33–35 Lake Street unsuitable for adding another house. Staff recommended approval with conditions; the commission deadlocked 3–3 on the zoning variance and voted to continue the application to March 3 while requesting additional stormwater and engineering materials.
The Cranston City Plan Commission on a winter evening heard more than an hour of testimony from neighbors who said chronic flooding, narrow streets and parking shortages make a proposed subdivision at 33–35 Lake Street a poor fit for more housing.
Seddik Davies, the applicant and owner of the Davies Group, asked the commission to reconfigure three existing parcels into two lots so an existing two-family would remain on one 4,800-square-foot lot and a new single-family house could be built on the other. Davies said the combined properties total about 9,600 square feet and that the site is not within a FEMA floodplain; he proposed a rain garden to limit added runoff.
Planning staff recommended approval, noting that the two proposed 4,800-square-foot lots would “mirror the existing use, density, and character of the development in this neighborhood” and that the proposal is generally consistent with the 2024 comprehensive plan and the future land-use map. Staff’s packet stated the resulting subdivision density would be 13.64 units…
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