BERLIN – Town officials want to know what the public thinks about a townhouse development proposed in the area of routes 818 and 50.
A developer met with the Berlin Planning Commission this week to talk about plans for a 176-unit townhouse community at the northwest intersection of Route 818 and Route 50 westbound. Commission members said they wanted to hear from the community before weighing in on the project.
“Is this what the town wants?” commission member Ron Cascio said. “That’s the question.”
Developer Chris Carbaugh and attorney Mark Cropper met with the commission Wednesday to review the latest proposal for 24 acres along Route 50 westbound. The land was rezoned last year, at Carbaugh’s request, from industrial to B-2 business. Now, however, Carbaugh wants to have it rezoned to R-4 residential. He wants to see the site developed with a 176-unit townhouse community. Carbaugh said the pandemic affected the commercial plans for the property.
“A lot of those users put their growth plans on hold,” he said. “Since that time there’s been substantial interest in residential development in town of Berlin so we wanted to go back and try to see if there was a way to incorporate the residential into this project and create more of a mixed use.”
The schools already have trailers for classrooms. Buckingham Elementary, and Berlin Intermediate need to be updated.
That’s a good place for it.