COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A scheduled public hearing concerning the proposed conditional rezoning of the Fremont Street School property at 95 South Fremont from A-1 One Family Residential to A-3 Multi Family Residential that was on the agenda for Monday’s City Council meeting was cancelled at the request of the developers.
Plans by the NRP Group of Ohio to building a housing development on that site has been the source of a big controversy over the last three months in Coldwater.
The Coldwater Planning Commission voted 5-4 last month to give a negative recommendation to the City Council on the rezoning.
In a letter to Interim Planning Director Dean Walrack that arrived at City Hall last Friday but was dated on March 17, 2017, the NRP Group requested that the public hearing be tabled until further notice. They requested the tabling “in light of additional information we have received and more due diligence we would like to pursue.”
Coldwater Interim City Manager Keith Baker points out this does not prevent a petition from coming back before the City Council in the future but at this time the petition is not moving forward. He went on to say, “if and when a revised petition were to be submitted, the City Council or Planning Commission (depending on the nature of the change or scope of the project) would schedule a public hearing with the appropriate required public notification.”
But Mayor Tom Kramer said they did not have any information to indicate it will ever come back to the city.
