Thursday, March 21, 2013
Haddon Township's mayor tells neighbors a plan to turn a parcel on the Black Horse Pike into a bloc of affordable housing is off.
What a difference a scrapped affordable-housing plan makes. Two months ago, Haddon Township Mayor Randy Teague endured a two-hour grilling in front of about 150 angry West Collingswood Extension neighbors who had just heard about a plan being floated to build a 52-unit affordable-housing apartment building in their neighborhood. Teague had given what amounted to a thumbs up in a township commissioners meeting earlier in the month. The nascent plan was to declare a troubled auto dealership lot on the Black Horse Pike at Walnut Avenue a redevelopment zone. Then a builder who had a stalled market-rate apartment project in another part of town would swoop in and buy the sprawling car lot and build affordable housing there in hopes it would …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
A nascent plan to build affordable housing in the West Collingswood Extension section of Haddon Township appears to be dead, for now.
Who says you can't fight City Hall? Certainly not the neighbors in the West Collingswood Extension section of Haddon Township. Nearly 200 turned out for a raucous meeting with Mayor Randy Teague in late January after word of a plan to build a 52-unit affordable-housing apartment building there surfaced. The budding deal could have transformed an aging auto dealership in foreclosure on the Black Horse Pike and possibly settled a lawsuit by a local housing advocacy group, proponents hoped. But the neighbors of West Collingswood Extension were having none of it. "It's something that the group strongly opposed," Teague said Monday of the neighbors. "At this time, it does not appear it's going to go forward." Teague said he wanted to slow down …
Friday, March 15, 2013
Mayor Randy Teague plans another meeting with neighbors in West Collingswood Extension.
Haddon Township Mayor Randy Teague said he wants to "slow down" a proposal to establish a redevelopment zone near the Black Horse Pike and Walnut Avenue. Teague said he plans to meet with neighbors at the West Collingswood Extension Civic Association building on Lynne Avenue at 7:30 p.m. on March 20 to walk them through the proposal with township engineers and planners. "After walking away from the last meeting, they felt so strongly about the issue and there may have been miscommunication about the process," Teague said, referring to a tense, two-hour meeting on Jan. 30. "Some folks felt we were rushing things through and they were getting screwed, this is politics and all that." Teague stood in front of a sometimes raucous crowd of about…
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Some residents had expected the board to consider a resolution from the commissioners to establish a redevelopment zone at the Black Horse Pike Auto Complex.
Thursday's scheduled planning board meeting was canceled because the applicants postponed their hearings until April, the board administrator said Wednesday afternoon. In its February meeting, the board ordered the township engineering and planning firm, Key Engineers, to evaluate a resolution approved by township commissioners to designate an area near the Black Horse Pike and Walnut Avenue as a redevelopment zone. In January, Mayor Randy Teague told residents at a tense meeting about the redevelopment zone, and a developing plan to build an affordable-housing apartment complex, that the planning board would likely consider it at its March meeting. The redevelopment zone was expected to help the Walters Group, a builder considering …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Haddon Township Mayor Randy Teague heard complaints for more than two hours.
An overflow crowd of more than 150 squeezed into a small meeting room at the West Collingswood Extension Civic Association headquarters on Lynne Avenue Wednesday night to pepper Mayor Randy Teague with questions about a developing plan to build 52 units of affordable housing in the neighborhood. Neighbors were upset. "We're treated as a stepchild," one woman said in the meeting where few identified themselves and many spoke out of turn. "We don't feel loved by you people. We just want you to leave us alone!" Teague tried to calm the crowd, which at times badgered and heckled him. He told them the process was just starting and they would have ample opportunity to make their protest known to other commissioners and the township planning …
zach
10:55 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Francine gives some of us from Margate flashbacks to 1991-92ish when she was manager of Polo Bay in Margate(where Gables was in the 70s and where TOmatoe's is now on the corner of Washington and Amherst). Some of us on some of the Margate Facebook pages remember her and were asking for her. more ›