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Stop Rustin High School Subdivision

Stop Rustin High School Subdivision

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Started by Joe Yesulaitis 12 years, 10 months ago

The West Chester Area School District is seeking to sell some of its acreage on the Rustin High School campus to a developer to build 50 houses. The property is located at 1100 Shiloh Road, West Chester PA.

We, the undersigned, oppose the subdivision and ultimate sale and development of the Rustin High School property for the above stated purpose. The density proposed will put up to 4 homes on each acre (houses averaging 3500 to 3800 square feet), when other homes in the area have one acre and in many cases more than an acre. This out of scale development will completely change the character of this neighborhood.

We are in favor of helping to preserve community character and open space and preventing out-of-scale development on Shiloh Road in Westtown.

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November 16, 2013

The school board thinks they can just bulldoze our community for a quick buck, but our momentum is proving them wrong. They are watching these numbers and realizing they cannot ignore our outrage any longer.

Reached 100 supporters

November 16, 2013

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David Crowe
12 years ago Featured

Westtown Township, apart from one or two notable private holdings, has next-to-no protected public open space. Sharing land with the high school, the acreage in question creates a large open area that is accessible to residents, makes possible existing nature/recreational trails, allows for native habitat and creates a natural filter to unabated rainwater runoff into the adjacent stream. This is not a private land sale but the selloff of a publicly acquired property and should be halted by Westtown's supervisors.

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kathy bates
12 years ago Featured

This would be a major mistake. The Rustin Campus is a major draw for people who live here and send teir kids to school. The property is used for races, safe places for the sports teams to run, etc. Our kids need to grow upwith open spaces. Farmer jones enhances the neighborhood by farming this land.I move here from DE County because I didn't want to livewhere there were no open spaces. This will detract from what makes this area so special.

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Marc Della Porta
12 years ago Featured

This proposed plan reeks of greed. If the 50 acres were zoned the same as the houses across the street in Plumbly, 1 Acre+ per house. It would be acceptable. But 3-4 houses / acre would DESTROY the fabric of the existing place we tax paying citizens call home. Before the Rustin was built, there was another company that wanted to do the same thing as proposed. We sued them and fought them at every level of the political system in place. They failed. We are very proud of this area. We cannot allow it to be tainted with suburban blight.

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jerry meyers
12 years ago Featured

Selling off the land on the campus of Rustin High School to a developer is completely wrong. Open space today is very important to our community and what can be more important to have it attached to educational facility. Besides we no longer need GREED in the home building industry.

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Anonymous
12 years ago Featured

As a long time residents of Westtown, we have seen increasing traffic density in the area. The number of houses proposed will negatively impact rush hour on Rt. 926, Rt. 352, Rt. 3 and Rt. 202 which are already congested roads with daily accidents. What happened to Westtown's lot size minimum of 1 acres per house?

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Karen Bradley
12 years ago Featured

It is surprising to me that so many houses being built closer to Rustin then any current ones are being considered. There seems to be so many restrictions on the use of the property already (lights, speakers, no music pre-game, number of night games, band practices etc..) as compared to other schools both in and our of the district that this would seem to lead to even more restrictions in the future. Second, I am always impressed when I am over at Rustin how there is so much use by the community on the walking trails I can't comprehend why this would be reversed.

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Cynthia Coffman
12 years ago

I live nearby Rustin and agree this is an out of scale neighborhood. All developments in Westtown should be a minimum of 1 acre per house.

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Elizabeth Sullivan
12 years ago

KEEP THE OPEN SPACE! It will be too much traffic on that road, more accidents and not good for the school kids to have a development there!

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