Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Land usage was restricted in August after homeowners protested plans for a single-story hospice in the residential neighborhood.
It's back to the drawing board for the town and Board of Selectmen after the town did not receive a single bid to build up-scale homes on undeveloped town-owned land in the Hillcrest neighborhood of Belmont Hill. The lack of interest in the five-and-a-quarter acre site – which abuts the Belmont Country Club and is accessible at the end of Woodfall Road – comes after the Selectmen restricted future use on the parcel to residential development following an August meeting where more than 80 residents voiced their displeasure that an Atlanta-based developer expressed interest in placing a single-story hospice care center on roughly one-and-a-half acres of the 229,000 square-foot site. At the Aug. 8 meeting, homeowners – who expressed concerns …
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Town still waiting for interested parties to submit application to develop the site.
It was the event of the summer. Approximately 100 Belmont Hill residents descended into Town Hall on a warm August night to protest the town's plan to accept blueprints by an Atlanta-based real estate development firm to construct a single-floor hospice in many of their backyards. Residents slid up to the microphone and told the Belmont Board of Selectmen that building the facilities on five-and-a-quarter acres of town-owned land off Woodfall Road adjacent to Belmont Country Club would be a disaster: ambulances and hearses coming down quiet residential roads filled with children, the impact of a business in the property values in this neighborhood of homes, and the possibility the commercial operation could be sold in the future to a non-…
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Draft RFP restricts offers on town-owned land to residential development.
After a well-managed and attended meeting last month before the Board of Selectmen by residents who live in and around a small town-owned parcel on Woodfall Road, the town's Office of Community Development has just reissued a draft request for proposal that will now restrict development on the 5.25 acres adjacent to the Belmont Country Club to residential construction. The draft – which is attached to this article – will come before the Board of Selectmen for approval this coming Monday, Sept. 24. An initial RFP released by the town's Planning and Economic Development Department in July would have permitted commercial development on the site zoned for four residential parcels. An Atlanta-based hospice provider had informed the town of its …
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
As opposition to a commercial project grows, town prepares draft RFP for land on Belmont Hill.
With opposition growing in the back end of Belmont Hill, the town is moving forward to sell a one-and-a-half acre parcel of land off Woodfall Road that an Atlanta firm has expressed interest in building an end-of-life facility. A draft of a request for proposal for the 229,000 square-foot town-owned parcel situated off Greenbrook Way and Woodfall abutting Belmont Country Club was presented to the Board of Selectmen at its Monday night, Aug. 6, meeting. According to the document, bids will be accepted until Wednesday, Oct. 3, for the site after the Board of Selectmen approves a final version of the draft. View the draft RFP on this website. The draft RFP – created by the Planning Department's Jay Szklut – will be discussed at the board's …
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John Bowe
9:15 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
So the land is "highly prized by home builders"? Perhaps they got a glimpse of the character of the neighborhood - or rather the neighbors - and changed their minds. The BOS blew this opportunity by caving to Tagg and the other neighborhood bullies. This will make me and other Town Meeting members much more skeptical of future development proposals and revenue opportunities driven by the … more ›