By CHRIS BARRETT

Developers plan to unveil new conceptual plans for the former Rocky Point Amusement Park at a City Hall meeting tomorrow night.

Joseph Shekarchi, an attorney for Vanderbilt LLC, said the company is working with developer Toll Brothers to gather comments from residents about a proposal to build 395 units on Rocky Point Beach and the former Rocky Point Amusement Park.

Shekarchi said the companies have not filed any plans with the city but are seeking comments as part of a broader initiative to keep residents involved in the process.

“This is just another one of our community meetings,” he said. “It’s not an unveiling of anything completely new. There’s constant revision to the plan to help Toll Brothers understand what the issues are and the community to understand what the scale and scope is.”

Shekarchi said developers would be showing a plan that includes six three-story multi-family buildings on the land of the former amusement park that closed in 1996 after financial problems.

“Those buildings are designed in a coastal Rhode Island-style—brick with dormer roofs, some Victorian and New England-style shingling,” Shekarchi said. “They wouldn’t look institutional. They’ll look residential, something like the mansions in Newport.”

Shekarchi said Toll Brothers has retained Boston-based CBT Architects to design the buildings that would house about 44 units each and prepare proposals for condominiums at the nearby Rocky Point Beach area.

“The remaining units [at Rocky Point Beach] will be carriage house or townhouse style condominiums with two or three attached units,” Shekarchi said.

Under the terms of an agreement between the beach association and the Small Business Administration, the current landowner, beach residents will have to leave their homes by Nov. 30, 2006 to make way for the project.

Combined, both sites are about 125 acres and Shekarchi said that under the current proposal half, or 62.5 acres, would remain open space.

“There’s a lot of open space in this project that could be developed but we're trying to maximize open space and in order to do that we're going to have to continue to discuss how to fund [the project],” Shekarchi said.

He added that designers have also made efforts to maintain public access to the beach – an issue residents raised when the city first discussed proposals for the land’s use.

“This project anticipates, and we’ll have on the submitted plans, multiple public trails to the water,” Shekarchi said.

Shekarchi said plans also call for constructing a public parking lot near the former park entrance and cleaning up environmental hazards, including a former landfill.

“We’re not anticipating any major [environmental] impact other than positive,” Shekarchi said. “The notion is to improve the quality of the environment there, which remember, that property has been beaten up pretty badly both from the Rocky Point Amusement Park and from neglect over the years.”

Sue Baker, spokeswoman for Mayor Scott Avedisian, said the mayor had not seen the proposal and thus could not comment. However, she said the mayor would “need to discuss” Toll Brother’s proposal to build 395 units.

Under a purchase and sales agreement with the SBA, Vanderbilt can build at least 350 units. While the agreement does not specifically prohibit more units, an increase would most likely need to be negotiated with the city, which has final approval over the site’s plans.

SBA Regional Director Mark Hayward said the agency had not seen the plans and directed questions to the mayor’s office.

Wednesday’s meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at Warwick City Hall.