Wow! Development issues are sure a popping in your neck of the woods. Yes, we feel your pain, and can tell you from experience not to let any grass grow under your feet.
That plan proposed for South Wayne? Well hey now, allow that to be built and charming Wayne will look like a cheap resort town, won't it? (that rendering we saw on the front page of the Suburban and Wayne Times was frightening)
Does Wayne need this plan? Can't that library get a new building or more space any other way? And a pass through post office? As in go through a door to the library? Is that safe? Hmmm, we're not saying we don't love libraries, but hey now, isn't this a steep price to pay? Isn't this near your historic Saturday Club and lovely Victorian homes? Why do you need to sacrifice your town for the post office and library? Shouldn't the post office and library folks be more community sensitive? Will all of this be able to occur without, say, eminent domain? Why should it occur? Is it like new math and we just don't get it?
Thanks for sharing this with all of us in Lower Merion, though, because if we say, saw a plan like that in Bryn Mawr, well we'd be appalled, souldn't we? (Notice we didn't mention Ardmore? LOL, we don't know what will happen in Ardmore.)
And hey now, we thought you should know that the developement up there where y'all live that is almost finished? That Pembroke North? Why does it look like an institutional building? How are those units selling? Is the building sold out? Is it "LEEDING the Way"?
And then there is Garrett Hill. What's up with that? Do you like any of that proposal at all?
And what's up with that Public Storage proposal in North Wayne? Does that go with any of this grand planning?
We love your town of Wayne, and well, it used to inspire us. Now we're frightened for you.
Love,
Your pals in Ardmore
Posted on Tue, Mar 4, 2008
Developer gets rough reception
Company reps for South Wayne project say it's just the beginning.
By Sam Strike
The Radnorshire room of the Radnor Township municipal building was chock full of people Saturday morning for the presentation of a mixed-use development concept plan on South Wayne Avenue.At times, the room broke out in laughter, applause, and whispers.
The laughter came when the would-be developers said their 11-story residential building in Clarendon, Va., did not dwarf the adjacent historic post office.
The applause was aimed at comments like, "We don't need more housing in Wayne We don't need a huge project to manage a new library."
And the whispers were in response to being told that the 100 or so proposed flats, lofts and town-houses would start in the $600,000 range.
Representatives of the Keating Development Company told the crowd that their concept plan for the less-than-three-acre block in South Wayne between Runnymede and West Wayne avenues was just that – a rough draft, a "beginning."
It has been more than three years that the company, which contracts with the United States Postal Service to develop the government entity's parcels, has been talking to the township. It has also met with reps from the Radnor Memorial Library and the Wayne Senior Center and two private property owners.
As it stood Saturday, the plan included a new and bigger library and senior center, a retail post office sans the truck-filled distribution center, a public park, a relocated war memorial, some roofed public parking and 100 to 120 living units (with a parking lot underground for them).
Posted on Thu, Mar 6, 2008
Garrett Hill tackling vision, priorities
Hillians hesitating on relocating R-100 station, making part of Garrett Avenue one-way
By Sam Strike
In February, two consultants came to the stakeholders of Garrett Hill armed with options.
The residents and business owners of the small community in Radnor Township were charged with responding to the ideas presented to them as part of a township-led “master planning” process.
A group of Garrett Hill locals has been working closely with consultants Marian Hull and Jim Campbell to craft the future of the historic and tight-knit neighborhood. To be sure, most people want to keep many things the same there.
But to keep things as they are while ensuring that they will improve, changes need to be made to the codes and ordinances that govern the area, according to Hull, of URS Corp.
Why is it that municipalities seems to waste so much money on unrealistic, unwanted plans?
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