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Water’s Edge team updates Planning Board on design simplification, partner change and affordability question
Summary
The Water’s Edge development team told the board that Vicino Group has withdrawn from the project, prompting design and subdivision simplifications; the team also said the previously planned affordable housing building may now be market-rate and the board pressed the developer to explore alternatives.
The Water’s Edge project team updated Ithaca’s Planning Board June 24 on design changes prompted by a financing partner’s withdrawal and showed revised site circulation and façade designs while answering questions about housing affordability.
Ian Hunter, speaking for the development team, said the Vicino Group — a project partner that had influenced the subdivision geometry tied to its financing — will no longer participate. Hunter said the team is working with planning staff to “simplify” the subdivision layout to reflect that change. The team’s design presentation showed a reworked internal roadway and pedestrian network, a switch from unit pavers to porous asphalt in a…
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