Rochester Management has posted new plans for Cobbs Hill Village, the senior affordable-housing complex
on Norris Drive, in an advance of a public meeting tonight.
The firm wants to replace the current single-story buildings
with new, larger ones, and that brought objections from some neighborhood
residents and environmentalists when the plan was released a year ago. A major
problem: the housing is within Cobbs Hill Park, on
property leased to Rochester Management. Critics have said that multi-story
buildings won’t be compatible with the park.
Last year’s plan called for 104
apartment units in four-story buildings; the new plan reduces that to 98 units
in two- and three-story buildings. There would also be a small fitness room, a
computer lab, and an indoor community space.
Current residents would be able to live in one of the new
apartments for the same rent.
A Rochester Management press release says that the changes
are a result of input from the neighbors, other community groups, current
residents, and city officials. The changes, the press release says, have led to
a $2.5 million increase in the project’s cost.
Tonight’s meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at New Life
Presbyterian Church, 243 Rosedale Street.
This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2017.
