{"id":7914,"date":"2014-01-25T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2014-01-25T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:29:23","slug":"controversy-newport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7914","title":{"rendered":"CONTROVERSY IN NEWPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 3\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7922\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2-3-13-162519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7922\" alt=\"THE BREAKERS IN WINTER\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2-3-13-162519-1024x722.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2-3-13-162519-1024x722.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2-3-13-162519-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2-3-13-162519.jpg 1959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE BREAKERS IN WINTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monday evening, January 27th, the Zoning Board of Review of Newport Rhode Island will review the New Historic District Commission&#8217;s decision which would not allow the visitor&#8217;s center to be built on the property of the Breakers. The Zoning Board will review the decision as to whether or not the law was applied as written.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a continuing heated issue in Newport. I cannot see how building this Visitor&#8217;s Center on the Breakers property is consistent with the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newportmansions.org\/about-us\/our-mission\"> Mission <\/a>of the Preservation Society.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a pivotal decision.<a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BREAKERS-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7918\" alt=\"BREAKERS 1\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BREAKERS-1-791x1024.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BREAKERS-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BREAKERS-1-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BREAKERS-1.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7919\" alt=\"breakers 2\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2-791x1024.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2-791x1024.jpg 791w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-2.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7920\" alt=\"breakers 3\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-3-791x1024.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-3-791x1024.jpg 791w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-3-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/breakers-3.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Monday evening, January 27th, the Zoning Board of Review of Newport Rhode Island will review the New Historic District Commission&#8217;s decision which would not allow the visitor&#8217;s center to be built on the property of the Breakers. The Zoning Board will review the decision as to whether or not the law was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CONTROVERSY IN NEWPORT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,1454,1],"tags":[1936,2418,2601,1576],"class_list":["post-7914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newport","category-preservation-society-of-newport-county","category-uncategorized","tag-historic-preservation","tag-newport-ri","tag-preservation-society-of-newport-county","tag-the-breakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}