Preservation Haddonfield

The HPC is advisory to the Planning Board in Haddonfield. Many of the neighbors and Preservation Haddonfield have requested that the size and scale of the proposed development be reduced. These requests have been ignored by Brandywine, a “for profit” multi billion dollar corporation based in Toledo Ohio.

Stay tuned to PH for details and support the neighbors of Warwick & Moore Lane tonight at the Planning Board meeting!

http://haddonfield.patch.com/articles/brandywine-expansion-plan-rejected-by-historic-preservation-commission?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001

Preservation Haddonfield now has lawn signs available, please call 856-616-7017 if you are interested in displaying a “Think outside the Brandywine “box” bigger is not better” sign on your property.

Site plan Brandywine

The Borough’s parking requirements are 70 spaces, Brandywine’s plan calls for 25

HPC application:

Brandywine written HPC application

• Large massing and scale of the new proposed Building.
• Misrepresentation of the current building size- Brandywine has claimed in public meetings, and the local papers, that the current building is 25,000 sq. feet, it is really app. 18,000 sq. ft. not including the Historic building in the front of the property.
• The new building will be over 34,000 sq. ft. not including the court yard in the middle and the basement area below the building, some of which is finished living space.
• Destruction of the “Park like” setting behind and around the property bordering residential properties.
• Destruction of many heirloom plantings and trees including the 75ft. tall Purple European Beech Tree, that some have estimated maybe 100 yrs old or older.
• Traffic and parking concerns which have not been addressed by Brandywine.
• Water run off and containment.
• Building heights, and lighting.
• Some independent living units in the assisted facility will be 690 sq. ft., about one-third the size of an average home (US census Bureau lists the average home size at 2,392 sqft.)

http://sj.sunne.ws/2012/04/13/the-haddonfield-home-may-be-expanding/

Brandywine Senior Living, a “for profit” corporation, recently purchased the Assisted Living facility located at 132 Warwick Rd. in Haddonfield from Spring Point Senior Living in November 2011. They recently held an open house for the neighbors at the facility on April 4, 2012 to let them know of their plans for the assisted living facility. Here are some of the neighbors & Preservation Haddonfield’s  concerns:

“Low Lights” (132 Warwick Assisted Living Expansion Plan)

• 40,900 sq. feet addition (two floors) is as big as most Walmart planned stores, the average Walmart is 42,000 thousand square feet. This square footage does not include the Historic home remaining in the front of the property.

• The addition would mean the destruction of Historic Heirloom trees & bushes, including a 75 ft/ tall Southern Magnolia tree & a 80 ft. high Elm tree.

• 155 ft. of straight wall runs on two sides, and 140 ft. runs of walls on two sides.

• The addition of a 9 space parking lot on the front lawn of the property bordering homes on Warwick Rd. & additional parking on Moore Lane just feet away from a residential home.

• The destruction of the green “park like” setting behind the buildings bordering residential properties.

• Hardscaping or a “fire lane” around all 4 sides of the building.

Some independent units in the assisted living facility will be 690 sq. feet, about one-third the size of a average home in the United States. (Average size home according to the U.S Sensus Bureau 2010 survey was 2,392 sq. feet)

64 beds where 52 exists today. Some units will be 2 bedrooms.

Please let your Historic Preservation Committee members, Planning & Zoning Boards know this large scale addition in a truly residential neighborhood is not appropriate.

Stay tuned to Preservation Haddonfield for more details and meeting dates.

Stay tuned & in touch  with Preservation Haddonfield, become a member, or donate, go to Preservationhaddonfield.org today!

Or call Dave Gottardi 856-616 7017