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Home My WebLink About2003-04-08 Miscellaneous Publicity SPR i 71 f d deal d... Ma :ed T� � E ®� i'Continued om Pa a 11 h g part The'airport,which:hes an • « a€ukual budget of28Q,000 €s self If that s what that'need to have sustaining:A plan proposed four..:. the comfort leVe1 to vote,we ll get i them the answers they need,"said years ago would have sold the sur- ;Myles ;Burka, ch€ef bf .staff::ta Plus Iand,generatfng nothing for; id Lawrenice Mayor M€chael Su.11€ the airport, .... van.°I#won't Se the city attorney ... compromise reached ip Janu- ... ... ......... who holds this up, art'calls for the sale of two pieces:: '. Airport Manager M€chael, P. °f to°d, and the Xeasing of two d�1 �` i. I. 'Miller said that he had. been fol- Pieces This plan generates money I i lowing federal guidelines but had fog�wrence and the airport from ' ! neglected state gtudelines Feder theleased land,and sometaxrev- PU al requirements call Far an enues far North Andover from the I appraisal of the land,value,as 30B sale of the land, does, but do not require public The plan must also meet 'edar ; ` By Chawlle Russo aatice, he said, The land°.ttias al AViation Adam€nistrat€on stuf writer aPpraised at$575,p00 in Qctober requirements State and federal " NQR'I`H°ANDOVER -- The by RKG'Assooiates totaling$L7'm€ll€an;are at Lawrence Municipal Airport ' The airport, off Route 12S site stake Coats to davelap the land Cmm�ussion has postponed a vote ' on 53S acres in NnrthN€€daver, and upgrade €nfrastructure #o -. on a pgopoaal to,lease and sell por that are owned by Lawrence support the industrial park are ttons of surplus land to create ...a i. Forty eight acres in the industrial estima#ed at$2 6 million The i uidustrlal park Airport Commission will next p k propose!have been deemed E The commission wants #a wait eurplus;land, meet a#6:30;'p m.;ran June 19 at the far a.legal decision an whether the ' Airport and Lawrence ofilcials airport conference room transactso€€must be put out to..bid have long favored laasurig land to Massachusetts general law 30B generate.rent mone for the air 5tc "4Vnter EtiuYn 1'~arman con. y trrbuted to thisstary th ci and e p quaut to bid before�itican tse leased or sold ' "Na riction w€I1 be taken on the. a ; proposal until;we cae ba Sure€t will be compliant with',30B,"said Airport Cominissinn:.Chairinan Charles Kolafoles. "Shame on us, far not knowing.. I Thelcommia's€on'dtd vote Iast;', night to send out a reques#fax pro posals, if reaiired by the legal decision North Andover Town Manager Mark Rees told the commission ! that the proposal might qualify for r' certafn exemptions to 3(lB Trans ', actions between municipal bodies 3 are sarnetunes exempt,he said A ruling ig expected saran from Lawrence city attorney Peter 51ipp. Ptease see mr.0 tT,Pagel 'y 7 t 5 4.11 / r Ls 4�67(1 ZVI a �" 1 AM h b z This is an artist's rendering of what the business office center at the Lawrence Municipal Airport in North Andover would look like. 11%Xd Busme bo. S spe'Llal eirmit JL Continued from Page I Lawrence. in the fall. But he conceded that us better informed as to what's Selectmen Chairman Rosemary "it's not a had-looking facility" going on," day spa,sprinkler-head manufac- C. Smedile deferred to planning and said the tasteful design, Woods said no neighbors raised Curer and software company have 'officials on whether the business including green awnings and concerns during the.Planning expressed interest in the business center should receive town cherry trees,is"much more posi- Board's hearing on the.proposal. center,he said. approval, but said the new jobs tine than what we've.seen from Cyrier,sporting an orange.polo The retired Hewlett-Packard there would help boost the local the rest of the airport,"such as the shirt and khaki shorts, called the executive would not speculate on economy. storage company now under con- project a retirement hobby. Cyri how many jobs the center could "Those people need to go some struction'near his street. er pilots his single-engine passes generate,but said it would be no place for lunch;" she 'said. Another Wood Avenue neigh- ger plane from the airport,and is more than 114 —the number of "Whether.they're dropping off at bor,Stephen P. Shannon,said the a past president of the.Lawrence parking spaces planned. the dry cleaners or the grocery traffic the new businesses could Airport Advocates Association. If he receives approval,he said store, they're building the eco- bring doesn't'concern him. "I could have bought a new air he hgpes to start construction this nomic base of the town," "Sutton Street is a busy street. plane for what I've spent so Far on summer and complete it in four to The new business would also Everybody knows it is," he said, this project,"he said,"but I would six months, help provide a much-needed boost "If there's businesses going in' really like tddo more commercial Town Planner J. Justin Woods to the tovm's tax base she said. more toward(the)China Blossom. development." said the business center "fits in Dennis Card who lives on near- (restaurant), I think our take is, nicely" with the industrial park by Wood Avenue, said he and hey, there's businesses up there Staff writer Grace Rubenstein proposed for 48 acres of the air- Other neighbors raised concerns anyWays." But Shannon, who can be contacted by calling(978) ;. port-land. The airport sits on over traffic, runoff and landscap- learned about the project yester- 946-2000 or,by a wiling gruben- about 535 acres in North Andover ing when the Zoning Board of day from a reporter, said, "Hon- stein@eagletribune.com. but is owned by the city t of Appeals considered-the proposal estly, I do wish they would keep t[ P' o o 7 r�'�+ 7 ��17 a�.�, o w e•o 4 Q* i3p iNy 13 f`Cr' �jp W � Qk7 �Fln � wp�Pr�� ID �Op�0-1 ,� O�' r+. p fp Vi r, 7 CS �„'ff (C py c►1•� p7 1•Q s� to p o H'C pCD t �nprt �co `y C 'Goo �'a K �� rn,�,Y.q �;Cf � � o N ~ � o c a idd etaj ' y Zi5* o i3:h Er z CD 40 M.PSI o '? co Qv w :4 P. Ert3 I i