AUBURN – Plans to relocate Lake Street Elementary School a third of a mile southwest will get an informal public hearing on Feb. 26.
School officials are backing plans to replace the aging school at 80 Lake St. with a new, much larger Park Avenue building. They’ll present a possible site design to neighbors and parents for a straw vote at 6:30 p.m. at Auburn Middle School.
On Monday, school officials showed a draft site plan to city councilors. The new building would go on roughly 10 acres south of Lothrop Drive on Park Avenue. If approved, the new school would be about a mile up Lake Street or Court Street from the current school.
Two lots make up the land, according to Business Manager Jude Cyr. The first is a 9.9-acre parcel owned by Arlyne Sacks of Auburn. Richard Smith lives on the second 1-acre lot at 151 Park Ave.
Both have said they are interested in selling their land to the city, Cyr said.
Auburn officials started looking for a place to build a new school last month after Education Commissioner Susan Gendron said the state would not help the city expand the Lake Street Elementary School because the plan was too expensive, the site was too small and the project had too many constraints.
The new site would give the school 8.4 acres of usable land to build on, Cyr said.
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