Johnston Mayor Joe Polisena, Jr. said that the town had acquired a plot of land originally meant to hold a low-income housing development via eminent domain. Polisena said in January that the plot would now be used for a new public safety complex.

The fight over a property slated for affordable housing is now heading to court. Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena Jr. said the town has secured what it needs to take the property off George Waterman Road by eminent domain and plans to bring it to Providence Superior Court on Wednesday.

The developers of a proposed affordable housing project in Johnston are suing over the town's efforts to stop it.

Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena, Jr. is facing a lawsuit from a family that owns the 31-acre land plot that the mayor had hoped to use as the site for a to build a new public safety complex.