Warrington fire site March, 2016 site.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
We recently learned that the lawsuit brought by the Warrington Hotel lawyer, aimed at forcing the Township to give back the pre-fire permissions for a boutique hotel, had been dismissed.
The judge evidently ruled that the Township was correct in insisting on only a single family house at that location.
Since then, no work has been done at the Warrington Hotel site–now just a foundation. (see below)
Here is a report of what is happening now after the fire, spreading voraciously along Seaview Avenue, destroyed several homes.
One of the cottages that vanished at the western edge of the fire, adjacent to the historic yellow house at Founder’s Park, will not be rebuilt because the lot has been purchased by the yellow house owner who wants the location as a buffer.
Continuing to move eastward along Seaview Avenue, there is construction underway at one lot.
One of the cottages that was consumed in the conflagration, fronting on Seaview Avenue, is now being built from scratch, with framing now to two stories. The previous Warrington Hotel had a 3 foot easement there out to Seaview Ave., but that easement is now gone and unavailable.
That leaves the most eastward cottage on Seaview Ave. that was destroyed. Evidently, the owner of the Warrington wants to buy that property which would give him an easement from the Warrington location out to Seaview. Evidently the owner refused to sell, but we’re not sure where that story is now.
As for the hotel site itself, even though the zoning allows a single family home, land use law says that nothing can be built there without access to Seaview Ave., because you can’t build on a land-locked lot. Lake Avenue is not a street.
These circumstances suggests that the owner of the Warrington property may not even be allowed to go single family, in which case the lot may now be useless.
And, by the way, we still don’t know if the feds finished the arson investigation or if the Warrington owner has appealed the court case.
ROBERT GOULET
“On a Clear Day.”