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Planning Commission approves plan for new Mobile Christian elementary facility

Posted by Dale Liesch | Nov 2, 2017 | Latest, News | 1 |

Mobile Christian School cleared a big hurdle Thursday afternoon in its attempt to build a new elementary school building.

The Mobile Planning Commission approved the school’s planned unit development application, which allows board members to move forward on the 22,700 square-foot facility on the school’s existing campus on Cottage Hill Road.

The new facility would both allow the school to consolidate its elementary campus into one building and expand its capacity, board member and engineer Scott Hardy said after the meeting.

“The new building allows us to increase the elementary campus’ capability,” he said. “It would put all the elementary students in one building.”

With the approval, board members hope to break ground on the new facility in the spring with construction starting soon after. The new building could open as early as the fall of 2019.
“We’re excited about it,” board member Mark Erwin said. “This is huge for us.”

The elementary school currently houses 230 students in three separate buildings on the campus, Headmaster David Pahman said. The new facility will be able to hold 280 students. The addition will also allow the school to create a new middle school facility.

The school is currently in the process of raising funds for the addition, Erwin said. They are $1.6 million into a roughly $2.5 million to $3 million campaign.

For residents who travel Cottage Hill regularly, Hardy said there are plans to help move traffic more efficiently around the school so as to not add to traffic complaints.

In other business, the Planning Commission approved a rezoning and a planned unit development to make way for the Meridian at the Port luxury apartment complex on Water Street. The rezoning, which was requesting by Bristol Mobile Partners LLC, out of Tennessee, would change the zoning from light industrial to general business district. The rezoning will go to the City Council for final approval.

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Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch has been a reporter at Lagniappe since February 2014. He covers all aspects of the city of Mobile, including the mayor, City Council, the Mobile Housing Board of Commissioners, GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico and others. He studied journalism at The University of Alabama and graduated in 2007. He came to Lagniappe, after several years in the newspaper industry. He achieved the position of news editor at The Alexander City Outlook before moving to Virginia and then subsequently moving back a few years later. He has a number of Alabama and Virginia Press association awards to his name. He grew up in the wilderness of Baldwin County, among several different varieties of animals including: dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, a horse and an angry goat. He now lives in the Oakleigh neighborhood of Mobile with his wife, Hillary, and daughter, Joan. The family currently has no goats, angry or otherwise, but is ruled by the whims of two very energetic dogs.

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