Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
Plans for a new 140,000-square-foot elementary school that could be built behind the current Lafayette Elementary School on Fayette Drive in Bristol Township will come before the Zoning Board Monday evening.
Project Solicitor Tim Duffy said the district will ask for variances on signage, exceeding the impervious space ordinance by 5 percent, building height, buffers and more.
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The meeting will start at 7 p.m. Monday inside the township building on Bath Road.
The zoners approved several variances in early July for the James Buchanan Elementary School on Haines Road and Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School on Mill Creek Road in Levittown, but they denied the application for the Mary Devine Elementary School site because the plan used part of the 22-acre site’s designated floodplain.
District officials went back to the drawing board and finalized plans for the Lafayette site. A community meeting was held last week at the school.
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Superintendent Dr. Samuel Lee said last week the Lafayette site was “always the second option” to Devine.
Kindergarten through second grade will be in part of the building and third through fifth grade in the other section of the facility. District officials said previously that the parking and student pick-up situation that plagues many schools is expected to improve with the new schools.
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The estimated $152.6 million district-wide facilities overhaul would close Franklin D. Roosevelt Middle School; Neil A. Armstrong Middle School and the former Benjamin Franklin School, currently home to the district administrative staff, would be renovated for middle school students. Harry S. Truman High School would not see any major work done. Clara Barton Elementary School would be re-purposed into the administration and maintenance building.
The Lee said that district is expected receive a formal written decision on why the Devine site was not approved by the end of August. He said officials will review it and see if anything can be done to utilize that site and whether it makes sense for the district to appeal it.
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