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Councilmen, Mayor Celebrate Donation of Rocky Point Avenue Land to City

CREDIT: Courtney Marciano] Mayor Scott Avedisian, City officials met with Hugh Fisher Thursday to celebrate his donation of 119 lots near Rocky Point Park to the City. Also attending were Councilmen Edgar Ladouceur and Steven Colantuono, Sen. William A. Walaska (D-Dist. 30, Warwick), Rep. Joe Solomon, Jr., Lisa Primiano, Chief of DEM's Division of Planning and Development (blue jacket), Fisher, his wife Vera and daughter Sarah.
CREDIT: Courtney Marciano] Mayor Scott Avedisian, City officials met with Hugh Fisher Thursday to celebrate his donation of 119 lots near Rocky Point Park to the City. Also attending were Councilmen Edgar Ladouceur and Steven Colantuono, Sen. William A. Walaska (D-Dist. 30, Warwick), Rep. Joe Solomon, Jr., Lisa Primiano, Chief of DEM’s Division of Planning and Development (blue jacket), Fisher, his wife Vera and daughter Sarah. Here, the group is walking from Rocky Point Blueberry Farm toward the donated land. 

[CREDIT: Courtney Marciano]
[CREDIT: Courtney Marciano]
WARWICK, RI — Mayor Scott Avedisian and city and state officials met with Hugh Fisher of h. a. Fisher Homes, LLC, and his family on Rocky Point Avenue Thursday to celebrate Fisher’s donation of 119 lots between Rocky Point Avenue and Meadowview Avenue to the city, enhancing pedestrian connections to Rocky Point Park nearby.

The donation advances goals outlined in the City’s Comprehensive Plan, including pursuing improved connectivity of parks, open space, recreation land, and water resources with neighborhood and other community destinations; protecting Warwick’s critical wildlife and wildlife habitat; protecting, preserving and enhancing natural resource areas adjacent to developed or potentially developed areas; and working to promote efforts to protect and enhance tree resources.

The meeting was also attended by Councilmen Edgar Ladouceur and Steven Colantuono, Sen. William A. Walaska (D-Dist. 30, Warwick), Rep. Joe Solomon, Jr., Lisa Primiano, Chief of DEM’s Division of Planning and Development, Fisher, his wife Vera and daughter Sarah.

[CREDIT: Courtney Marciano] Mayor Scott Avediisan and Hugh Fisher speak Thursday on Rocky Point Avenue to celebrate the donation of 119 lots to the city.
[CREDIT: Courtney Marciano] Mayor Scott Avediisan and Hugh Fisher speak Thursday at the Rocky Point Blueberry Farm on Rocky Point Avenue to celebrate the donation of 119 lots to the city.
[CREDIT: Mayor Scott Avedisian's Office] A map of the donated land (in orange) and Rocky Point Park (in green)
[CREDIT: Mayor Scott Avedisian’s Office] A map of the donated land (in orange) and Rocky Point Park (in green)
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