Comments on: Council Gives Final OK to Turn Old School into Apartments

By: Kathleen Mullen

Kathleen Mullen — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:36:37 +0000

Wow! I’ve just moved here and this story is quite disturbing. There is no cohesive vision between Town Council and the people it has a responsibility to serve. This does not bode well for the Town of Cape Charles. I ask God to show all of us the truth in this matter and pray that everyone involved will have a servant’s heart toward their fellow citizens. United we stand, divided we fall.

By: Deborah Bender

Deborah Bender — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:21:00 +0000

The worst part about all of this is that the town bargained in secret for 6 months before they ever even let the public know what was happening. Then they turned down three proposals from Old School Cape Charles LLC — two proposals to buy the school for far more money and one proposal to lease the school. The town council is wrong for what they are doing and the way they have done it. They have taken away the basketball court, the building and the parking lot, a parking lot that serves the playground and the town’s own park. All of this so that a developer can use federal and state tax credits to refurbish the building! Then in 5 years the developer is free to sell the building and laugh all the way to the bank. The developer will make loads of money on the taxpayers’ backs. It’s a sad day when the town turns its back on local citizens that have been living in this area for far more years than most of the people on the town council including the less than honorable mayor. A sad day indeed.

By: Regina Aleksiewicz

Regina Aleksiewicz — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:39:59 +0000

Regarding the sale of Old Cape Charles School to Echelon, I am so sorry to hear that we will give away the property for $10 without having Echelon move the playground equipment and basketball court to another location. We may have given away too much.

By: Sarah Morgan

Sarah Morgan — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:57:15 +0000

I just don’t get the benefits to the Town for agreeing to the development of the school. Presumably, the reason for all the support from the Town Council has SOME basis in reality; as an outsider (but a close one, on the other side of the peninsula in Oyster), I have failed to grasp what is so compelling about this project that the stewards of the Town (the Council) are so adamant that it proceed. I feel the public trust in this body needs to be examined and that the specific reasoning for the action needs to be restated, given the demonstrated intensity of the lack of support for it by the public.