A controversial expansion plan for the Berkeley Carroll School won support from the Community Board 6′s land use committee yesterday despite widespread opposition from Park Slope neighbors, reports The Brooklyn Paper. The plan for a one-story building with a rooftop recreation area had drawn criticism from residents of both St. Johns Place and Lincoln Place worried about noise and other quality of life issues. We’ve lived with the noise from the school coming over the wall and permeating our lives, said John Muir, who spoke on behalf of the portion of the St. Johns Block Association that still opposes the project. It is indisputable that the noise of the new rooftop will spread to Seventh Avenue and affect those who live on Lincoln Place. But some neighbors who had fought the proposal early on ultimately came around to accept the plan when it was modified to exclude rooftop air conditioning units that had originally been proposed and to set back the play area by 15 feet. The school seems to have been compliant [with landmarks code], said community board member Betty Lester, who backed the proposal. Let’s agree to disagree. The compromise is there.
Panel Backs Berkeley Carroll Plan [Brooklyn Paper]
Berkeley Carroll Expansion Stirs Up The Neighborhood [Brownstoner]