By Kate Bramson
PROVIDENCE -- Now that the Route 195 Redevelopment District Commission owns about 27 acres of former highway land, Chairman Colin P. Kane has coined the phrase "shadow parking" to describe a new headache the land panel must tackle.
"If people can access the parcel, they're parking on it," Kane told the commission Monday night at its regular meeting. "I'm guilty myself."
Commissioners talked of snow fences and other possible options to keep people off the land, including those tempted to walk on or play Frisbee on the wide-open expanse now available for development in the capital city. At least the commission has liability insurance, Kane said after the meeting.