Auburn is looking for a new location for the Lake Street School. They were unable to procure enough property to satisfy their needs in the present location. The desired land should total eight acres.
They looked at four other possibilities and have picked Park Avenue, Davis and Orchard streets location.
Abutting neighbors are being violated. Violated in that we are unwilling or unwanting; but the morality of the school commission is such that they go forward.
The neighbors’ concern involves traffic at peak hours. Now that we have become a shortcut to shopping, college and other schools, many inconsiderate drivers exceed 50 and 60 miles per hour passing on a town street.
Then there is the expense of land preparation, $1.5 million according to the architect. I’ll bet that’s a conservative number.
I’m sure by now you’ve figured out that I’m one of those neighbors. To be more specific, an abutter who doesn’t want the noise, traffic for school or all the “after activities” and property devaluation. It’s not much different than putting a strip mall on the property. And who knows, this is Auburn, and that could happen.
What really would have been acceptable would be six or eight $200,000 houses.
When you lose the previous fight, you pull out all the stops when the next one is before you.
Murray Lothrop, Auburn
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