Community meeting for new development project is June 26
Rendering of Lightbridge Academy
June 25. By Dave Vieser. Should zoning be changed to permit an early childcare center and preschool to be built on a vacant plot at the intersection of West Catawba and Edinburgh Square Drive? Residents will have the opportunity to make their feelings known at a community meeting set for 6 pm Wednesday June 26 at Cornelius Town Hall.
First Hartford Realty Co. of Manchester, CT has applied to the town for a rezoning which would permit them to build and operate Lightbridge Academy at that site. The 1.32 acre property is currently zoned village center, which would permit commercial/office buildings.
County tax records show the owner of the Lightbridge property to be “FC on WC LLC” with a Cornelius Post Office address. The assessed value is currently $833,000 with annual property taxes of $5,382.
Cornelius based Irvin Law Firm is representing First Hartford Realty.
In their application to the town, Steve Irvin states that “the current zoning at that site would permit two commercial buildings with 93 parking spaces, while the school application calls for one building with 45 spaces.”
What is the rezoning process meeting schedule?
The community meeting is a required step when an applicant seeks conditional zoning in Cornelius. A report including comments from those attending the meeting will accompany the application as it is processed by the town. The next step after the community meeting will be on Monday July 15 when the proposal will be informally presented to the Town Board. No decisions will be made that evening, as it it must still go before the Planning Board, and then back to the Town Board for a final decision. Comments from the public are permitted and encouraged at all of these meetings.
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Try making a turn from Edinburgh Square Drive on to Catawba presently. It is next to impossible now. What do you think it will be like with the heavy traffic in/out a day care? But who cares? Let’s just keep approving everything!
As a resident of Edinburgh Square for 18 years, I am finding it increasingly more difficult to get onto W. Catawba. It’s almost impossible to make a left turn any time of the day, and making a right turn typically depends on someone nice enough to let you in. And that doesn’t happen very often, unfortunately. More traffic from Edinburgh Square trying to get on W. Catawba is ludicrous! I hope our residents will speak up and protest this as the highest and best use of this property. I think it has the potential for many accidents with tragic consequences to families with young children.
Sandy B.
Until it severely impacts the residents on Jetton, they will be allowed to rubber stamp. It is the same in every town I covered as a reporter. Nothing becomes a problem to administration until affects those who have political influence or the money to buy it. Don’t be thinking Cornelius is any different.