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The Cape Henlopen school board has offered a compromise to the City of Rehoboth Beach regarding the city’s proposal to rezone the 25-acre Rehoboth Elementary School tract.
The city seeks to rezone the land from educational to educational/residential, which would limit future development. The board wants to retain the equity it has in the property in case it might, in the future, sell the property.
The school board proposes to retain 25 percent of the land, with the condition that it be rezoned to R-2, which would allow multifamily housing. That would enable the district to retain equity it could use to purchase land elsewhere, said board member Camilla Conlon. The 75 percent left to the city would be kept as open space.
The board also wants to use land in the educational/residential zone for any educational use, not just as an elementary school. The board also wants the 25 percent it retains to be on the east side of the property, near Silver Lake, Conlon said.
Board member Allan Redden said that under the compromise the six acres retained by the district should provide sufficient value for the board to purchase land elsewhere, should it need to.
Redden said avoiding litigation over the matter is something both sides are interested in.
If the city approves the compromise, it will be returned to the school board for final approval, said Conlon.
Rehoboth commissioners were expected to discuss the proposal Monday, April 21.
Contact Leah Hoenen at leah@capegazette.com.
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