Rhode Island’s 2026 Land Use Overhaul: What Developers, Municipalities, and Property Owners Need to Know

Rhode Island’s housing shortage has pushed the General Assembly well beyond encouraging towns to “plan” for more housing. Over the past several sessions, lawmakers have rewritten large parts of the statutory framework that governs how land gets subdivided, permitted, and built on in this state. The 2026 session added another significant round of changes to subdivision review, permitting timelines, dimensional relief, parking mandates, and more.... By: Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.