A proposal to locate an RV park at Easton's Beach is unlikely to gain Beach Commission approval.
NEWPORT, R.I. – The chairman of the Newport Beach Commission said on Friday that he doesn’t believe a proposal to consider locating a recreational vehicle (RV) park at Easton’s Beach will muster the votes to win the endorsement of the commission.
According to commission chair Herb Armstrong, the prospect that the plan moves forward this year seems rather unlikely.
Some confusion had arisen earlier this week after a report suggested that the plan had been given new life. And while the matter did appear on the agenda for the Beach Commission’s Dec. 8 meeting, not enough members turned out to constitute a quorum and no action was taken.
Under the plan, which was placed on the agenda for the purpose of discussion by Economic Development Director Jonathan Stevens, RVs would be permitted to park overnight at a designated portion of the Easton’s Beach parking lot on weekdays from June until August, and seven days a week in May and October.
The same proposal had won the endorsement of the commission last year by a slim margin, but was scuttled due to public outcry before it could reach the council for discussion. This year, Armstrong said on Friday, he doesn’t think it will make it past the commission.
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BAD idea.
Generators, drinking parties, idling engines, .Big ugly vehicles in the way of the locals who want to enjoy a quiet walk along the beach at night. NO DUMB idea.
Sincerely
Joe Cooper
I don’t know where and who your RV group is Joe but I can tell you that you need to get away from them. Funny that in 9 yrs of fulltime RVing with more than a couple of visits back to what was my hometown I never ran into places where the RVrs ran their engines, and drank to excess. If you are down on the beach (the sand) you will not likely hear the Generators up in the parking lot. Generators are much quieter for one thing and I am sure there would be quiet hours. Do you know what they are. My friends do gather around their RVs and enjoy a glass of wine or a beer or two but at their age they are not a loud noisy group and if you let yourself and others like you that do not have a clue as was evident the last go around…you would certainly enjoy their company. But typical Newporters do not trust anyone that is not Newport Family and even that may be suspect some of the time. There are some of us that will return to visit Newport, but instead of helping out the City we will pay our money to Middletown campground owners, Portsmouth town campground and the Military to stay at their campgrounds. Your loss. Newports loss. Maybe you and others will make a small donation to the city to help it have a nice beach that I grew up on far too many years ago.
Chris this is typical Newport…..why not set aside a10 day stretch in July or August with a limit on how many RVs would be welcome and test it out. These RVs now carry a price tag in 6 figures and are not party houses. Newport could set up between 10 -25 sites providing no hookups and setting levels for generator noise with hourly restrictions. Another restriction could be setting a minimum size to insure that only the more expensive units apply. No police would be needed to enforce these rules but they could respond as needed, a public works employee could handle this with little to no effort. Don’t get your hopes up because Newport will do nothing for the regular guy especially if it requires the use of common sense.
BAD IDEA, BAD IDEA….who is going to monitor these RV owners day and night? Are we putting the beach at risk without providing the proper sewage hookups? I just do not understand how naive these city officials can be. Do they really believe that people will not dump their junk all over the beach? People can’t even clean up after their dogs, never mind their RVs. BAD IDEA!!!!!!
mcbaby makes zero sense……..
These are people who have invested 6 figures in their RVs. They have the capacity to be totally self contained so there will be no need for hookups or sewers, who needs monitoring all night, do we now monitor any group all night ? Its time to become real and realize the RVers are usually retired people with a very good pension who travel and spend some of that pension everywhere they are welcome. They are not leftovers from the Folk Festivals of years gone by…….we do allow the carnival there every year and they do have some of these RVs and I have not heard of problems caused by them…….wake up to the real world and stop seeing nothing but negatives
Ok Jack. What are the RVers going to spend money on? Hotels? No. Eating out? Possibly, but with a 6 figure kitchen equipped RV, doubtful. Bars/clubs? Not according to Chris, whose friends socialize around their RVs. Maybe we can offer rides on the seaweed harvester, in addition to the carousel.
You may call it elitist, but the beach is a public resource and should not be sold to the highest bidder…if income was the goal we’d be better off selling it for condos. Right now, the RVers can haul into Fort Adams overnight for pennies, and there’s not a whole lot of use there. I doubt the 6 figure crowd is hankering for a night next to a sewage strewn beach.
And what do the passengers on the cruise ships spend their money on????? The same things the RVers do…..what sewer strewn beach are you refering to and where did the sewerage come from ?