Sudden power outage delays hearing on two Warren developments

By Ethan Hartley
Posted 12/18/23

About a minute before the scheduled meeting of the Warren Planning Board on Monday night was set to begin, the lights went off.

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Sudden power outage delays hearing on two Warren developments

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Two developments under the microscope of the local Warren community were delayed another two weeks on Monday night from any kind of decision after a power outage beset Town Hall.

The Warren Planning Board was literally just a minute or two away from convening to discuss the proposed development from the East Bay Community Development Corporation (East Bay CDC) called Penny Lane, located at 581 Child St., where 40 affordable rental housing units would be constructed and dispersed among about a dozen town houses.

Second on the agenda was the ongoing discussion regarding the Liberty Street School development, where local developers John Lannan and Ron Louro were set to present a revised plan that appeared by submitted documents to have shrunk the development in size and reduced the total number of units from 25 to 20 units; which had been a unanimous request among residents and members of the Planning Board in prior hearings.

But with the lights out seemingly elsewhere in the town, and no lights coming back on after a half hour wait, Chairman Frederick Massie officially called the meeting off, and said the two teams would have to reconvene on Wednesday, Jan. 3 in the New Year.

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