Residents Protest Rezoning Proposal
A plan to rezone the closed Crest View School to allow a commercial development drew more than 80 opponents to a recent City Council meeting.
Residents carried placards that read “Save Crest View” and presented the council with two petitions containing about 500 signatures from people against the proposal for the site, owned by Ocean View School District.
District officials have said that the commercial development could bring in much-needed revenue, as much as $600,000 a year.
But residents opposed to the plan say it would mean a loss of open space and increases in traffic, noise and crime.
“If we rezone it, it’s gone forever,” longtime resident Dorothy Jenkins told the council. “You have the power to not let that happen.”
Opponents also passed a donation can through the audience to raise money to fight the rezoning of the 14-acre school site off Talbert Avenue near Beach Boulevard.
Donations will cover the cost of mailing information to residents, signs and other materials, said Debbie Josephson, who with her husband, Marvin, and resident Robert Cronk have been leading the opposition.
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