By Jennifer Eisenbart
Editor
A proposed rezoning for a residence on Church Street was approved unanimously by the City Council Tuesday night, though one resident questioned a separate group home in the area.
The Burlington Area School District requested a home at 340 Church Street be rezoned from residential to institutional, to be used as the new location for the district’s Project Active Citizen home – a special education classroom from about 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day.
The district is looking to purchase the property for $185,000 and move from the Paul Street location it is currently using. District officials like the Church Street location for its additional space.
The proposal received some resistance from neighbors on Church Street originally, especially from Robert Musgrave, who was at Tuesday night’s meeting. Musgrave was concerned it would be a group home, of which there is already one on the street.
However, Musgrave didn’t object further, providing the for sale sign would disappear once the sale was complete and that the land revert to residential if the school district sells the home in the future.
The district had already agreed to that restriction the land, which City Attorney John Bjelajac confirmed.
Alderman Jon Schultz also asked why the district wasn’t using one of the institutional properties for sale in the city, pointing to Grace Church as an example.
BASD Superintendent Peter Smet said the cost – which would include a higher purchase price plus renovations to make the space ADA compliant – would be prohibitive.
Other news
- The council discussed splitting the cost to pay to pave a 75-foot by 24-foot section of asphalt between 32114 Droster Ave. and the entrance to Lois Stor-All.
Currently, the section of road is gravel. The cost to the city will be about $4,200.
- The council approved the purchase of a Mack truck with a plow and hydraulic package for $183,267, a Kenworth chassis for a wastewater treatment plant tanker truck and a task order for services with Kapur and Associates for $18,920.
All three items were discussed at the June 21 Committee of the Whole meeting.
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