17, the panel will discuss potential uses for the Lincoln school site. The former James Buchanan, Mary Devine and Ralph Waldo Emerson schools already have been demolished. John Bartholomai, president of the Bristol Township Girls Softball League, said his organization already maintains those fields. "There comes a point when you have to think about the community, not your pocketbooks," said Ardyss Van Horn, of the Stoneybrook section, who worried about where neighborhood children will play when all the former school properties are sold.īut township Council President Craig Bowen, who attended the meeting, said that potential developers may not need all the land at each school property, so the district may be able to retain some of the acreage.Īt the meeting in the Bristol School District Administration Building, residents said they'd like to see the Maple Shade school site in the township's Croydon section be developed for age-restricted housing, the Lafayette Elementary School near Lower Bucks Hospital become a nursing facility and the George Washington Elementary School site in the Crabtree section be used for recreation for children.Īt a previous meeting, the committee recommended that some land at the former John Fitch Elementary School be saved for ball fields. And they stressed they want to see some of the land saved for play areas for children. While the redevelopment authority views several different functions as viable for the buildings - including professional offices and daycare centers - members of the district's redevelopment committee and area residents discussed more specific goals for three of the buildings at its meeting Wednesday night. When the Bucks County Redevelopment Authority soon starts to advertise eight former Bristol Township elementary school properties for sale, township residents have a wish list of what they'd like to see the sites become.
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