Developers for the Patton Crossing project in the State College area submitted a sketch plan for public comment on Wednesday.
In the proposed plan, the Patton Crossing project will have a main entrance on North Atherton street. Three one-story commercial buildings will face the busy road.
The hotel, which was originally placed on the south side of the project, has been brought to the center of the 28-arce lot, farther from the Park Forest neighborhood.
The sketch plan features an asymmetrical design, with about a dozen more buildings for both commercial and residential use. There will be an open activity space across from the hotel, which will take up about one acre.
Developers proposed the access road, which connects the project to Park Forest Avenue, will be gated and only for CATA buses and emergency vehicles.
Residents provided mostly positive comments on the changes. Many said they appreciate the new location for the hotel and the gated access road. Both issues were hotly debated during a prolonged public hearing period last year.
Developer Bob Poole said the redesign is based on new zoning code requirements and ideas from the community. Next, developers will create a master plan with a traffic impact study.
“It’ll be a lot of details – details like the bicycle path, benches, trees – everything that’s in that mixed use ordinance that was created from this process, we’ll be showing that on the plan,” Poole said.
The master plan will have to be approved through a public hearing. Poole said he hopes to achieve that by this September.
