PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island Supreme Court is deciding the fate of a $1.8 million house in Narragansett that was built, apparently by mistake, entirely on public park land.
The Providence Journal reports (https://bit.ly/1ode6vD ) lawyers for the developer this week asked the court to allow him to pay for the land in Rose Nulman Park or trade it for other waterfront property.
A lawyer for the Nulman Foundation, argued that it would amount to a “private eminent domain” for the court to force the the foundation to sell the land. He asked the court to order the removal of the 2,400-square foot house with its roof-top hot tub.
The developer, Robert Lamoureux, has said he was surprised to find the house was sited incorrectly and the lot had not been properly surveyed.
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Information from: The Providence Journal, https://www.providencejournal.com
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