Where Community Housing can be with Plan B, and what it might look like

The proposed location for Community Housing in Cape Elizabeth is on the land that was left to the town in 1825 by Revolutionary War veteran Thomas Jordan for the purpose of providing a place to live for citizens in need.

The land left by Jordan is approximately 236 acres identified on the Town of Cape Elizabeth tax map R5 Lot 10 and Lot 11, located on the east and west sides of Spurwink Avenue. See Consent Judgment dated December 8, 1993, Michael Carpenter v. Town of Cape Eliz., Cumberland County Superior Court Docket Numbers CV-91-1183, 1243

Tax Map R5 Lot 11, the 150 acres of the west side of Spurwink Ave., is now protected as the Town Farm District and not developable for housing. Like having a belt and suspenders, the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust also has a conservation easement on the Tax Map R5 Lot 11. See Cape Elizabeth Zoning Map and Tax Map R5 Lot 11

Tax Map R5 Lot 10 contains 64 acres of the Thomas Jordan land that merged with 113 acres that the town bought in 1998 to create the Gull Crest parcel. The proposed location for Community Housing is that part of Gull Crest that was the Jordan land. What better place for affordable housing? See “Gull Crest Trails Master Plan”, July 2002, page 2 .

The proposed location of Community Housing is not on the part of Gull Crest that the town purchased in 1998 where the athletic fields, public gardens, trails — or where the proposed new ice arena hopes to be.

This map depicts the 113 acre lot that was merged with the Jordan land when Gull Crest was created. It does NOT show where Community Housing is intended to be located. This map of 113 acres being circulated by opponents of Community Housing shows the Gull Crest parcel EXCLUDING the Jordan land. See original maps prepared by Oest Associates, October 1998 “Standard Boundary Survey for Town of Cape Elizabeth Former “Leavitt” Property