Developer submits plans for school condo project
The Township of Clearview has received an application to amend the zoning of the old school annex building on Caroline Street West to allow for a residential development.
The proposal by Fennelwood Corp principal James Massie is to convert the existing school building into 11 condominium units and create four single-detached residential lots on the 1.8 acre property.
The purpose of the application is to amend the zoning from an institutional zone to allow for low- and high-density residential, including exceptions relating to setbacks.
The school opened in 1917 and housed Creemore Public School on the ground floor and Creemore Continuation School (high school) on the second floor. When it closed in 2014 it was used as the junior site for Nottawasaga and Creemore Public School (NCPS). Grades JK-8 now attend one site just up the road.
According to planning documents filed with the township by planner Celeste Phillips, the majority of the front wall of the existing two-storey building will be preserved. The bell tower will also remain as part of the neighbourhood’s character (although the bell has been moved to NCPS.)
The front yard of the building will become landscaped open space and parking would be located at the back, with two parking spaces for each unit. Driveway access would be on the east side of the building.
The height of the one-storey addition on the west side of the building will be increased to two storeys and major restoration of the interior of the school building will be required due to asbestos removal, reports Phillips.
The condo units will range in size from about 700-2,800 square feet, and will have one to three bedrooms, and the building will be fully accessible.
As a result of flood mapping adjustments, supporting documents appear to satisfy criteria for safe access and egress in the “flood fringe” as defined by the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority, which has indicated it is in acceptance of the updated floodway and flood fringe delineation.
A date for a public meeting has not yet been scheduled. Attempts to contact the developer and the planner continue to go unanswered.
Interesting that this was a no go when local people wanted to do the same. NVCA is too obstictive to small town developers it seems