Kingston planners to begin review of Uptown condo proposal

By Paul Kirby, Freeman staff Daily Freeman February 13, 2006

KINGSTON - The city's Planning Board is expected to seek lead status today in the environmental review of a New Jersey developer's proposal to demolish the Uptown parking garage and build a 214-unit condominium complex in its place.
The board is scheduled meet at 6 p.m. at City Hall to officially begin its review of the project, which was unveiled by The Teicher Organization last spring, City Planner Suzanne Cahill said.
Cahill said board members are expected to agree to lead the environmental review decide on whether to require the developer to undertake a detailed environmental impact study.
The developer, she said, is expected to lay out its plans for the board, complete with a computer-generated animation of how the project would look to a motorist driving through Uptown Kingston.
"We have asked that certain members of their consulting team give a presentation of the project," Cahill said.
While the meeting will not include an official public hearing on the Teicher proposal, the Planning Board does offer time at the outset of each meeting for people to comment on any matters involving planning.
In January, representatives of The Teicher Organization, including its founder, Fred Teicher, appeared before the Planning Board to update the five-member panel on its proposal and to show them the computer animation.
Teicher had said the digital movie gives viewers a real-life perspective of what the project looks like in the surrounding neighborhood of Wall, North Front, and Fair streets and from Schwenk Drive.
Besides the condominiums, the project will also include a new 600-space parking, with 300 spaces set aside for the city for public use.
Financing details of the plan are still being ironed out, including what kind of offer the city will extend to the developers for the parking garage.

©Daily Freeman 2006

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