Developer seeks rezoning to construct residences near Erie airport
This story has been corrected to observe that the proposed Millcreek Township official map designates home at Wilkins and West Lake street for opportunity community use, which contains enhancement.
A community progress organization is requesting a zoning alter needed to build a multi-family members development along Wilkins Road south of West Lake Highway in Millcreek.
Neighbors are lobbying for the residence to continue to be vacant.
NLA IV Real Estate Holdings LLC of Millcreek is asking the Millcreek Township Arranging Commission to rezone the 20-acre parcel for higher-density residential advancement. High-density zoning permits backyard-fashion and superior-increase flats.
NLA builds multi-unit townhomes and residences, according to the enterprise site.
The home at the moment is zoned for medium-density household improvement, which does not allow dwellings much larger than two models. The Planning Fee will look at its rezoning request Tuesday night.
The developer obtained the house from Erie International Airport for $400,000 contingent on the home remaining rezoned, airport Government Director Derek Martin mentioned. The land is found in an airport sound abatement region.
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Neighbors are worried about the proposed development’s effect on their houses, mentioned Annette Mossburg.
“We are anxious about the tension on the sewer technique, water retention troubles, flooding, the environmental effects to the wetlands and wildlife in the space,” Mossburg said in an email to the Erie Moments-News.
A cellular residence park was previously located on the residence, which is on the east facet of Wilkins Road and is roughly bounded by Edward Avenue and Woodside Generate. It was purchased by the airport in 2001 on behalf of the Federal Aviation Administration with $2 million in federal funding. The cellular properties have been taken off simply because they could not be soundproofed, Martin said.
The FAA has because directed that the land be marketed and will acquire the sale proceeds, Martin claimed. Homes created on the assets can be soundproofed, he explained.
A previous airport government director promised that trees would be planted as a seem barrier on the property and that the land would become a community park immediately after the mobile property park was removed, Mossburg and other neighboring property entrepreneurs explained in July, when the land was shown for sale.
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Millcreek Township officials have identified property to the north, at Wilkins and West Lake streets, for potential public use, for advancement or other works by using, in a proposed official map of Millcreek Township. The map, which will be used for land-use scheduling, was offered to the general public in March and is posted on the township web page at www.millcreektownship.com for general public remark.
The map also exhibits a proposed public street via the noise abatement residence, from West Lake Street to Woodside Push, east of Wilkins Road.
The Millcreek Township Setting up Commission will consider the developer’s rezoning ask for and give initial thought to the formal township map through its regular conference Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Millcreek Township Municipal Building at 3608 W. 26th St. Attendance is restricted due to social distancing specifications. The conference also will be livestreamed on the Millcreek Township YouTube channel.
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