BLINN BOARD EXPECTED TO HEAR OPPONENTS TO COLLEGE STATION EXPANSION

  

The Blinn College Board of Trustees can expect a contingent of property owners from College Station to speak up in opposition to the College’s proposed expansion into their neighborhood when they meet next Tuesday.

Residents have been gathering signatures for a petition to keep the Brazos County Blinn Campus from expanding in land the College purchased in the Lynntech Science Park of state highway 6.  The proposal has drawn the ire of homeowners in the surrounding neighborhood of Raintree, Emerald Forest, Windwood, Carter’s Crossing and Carter’s Cove, who are concerned about increased traffic, homes being turned into student rental properties, noise and decreased property values.

The Blinn Board will likely hear from these residents when they hold their regular meeting next Tuesday in Brenham.

The Blinn Board has approved the $24.5 million purchase of the 180,000 square foot Lynntech building and the surrounding 53.8 acres located along the 2500 block of the Earl Rudder Freeway.  The sale was contingent upon a 60 day feasibility study started in late April.

New Blinn campus
The site of the new Blinn College Station campus, the current Lynntech facility.

Some concerned citizens have approached the College Station city council but one city staffer said they cannot stop the deal.

The Lynntech property is zoned as light industrial, but that ultimately does not matter because the college is exempted from city zoning requirements.  If the college were to sell off pieces of the property to retail or restaurants, the city would have to consider a rezoning requests.

The largest campus in the Blinn College system is in Bryan.  Brazos County Campus president Sylvia McMullen said the college has  no plans to allow  restaurants to locate to the property or to extend Appamattox Drive, which was another concern for the property owners.

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  1. We put so much financial and physical effort into our home in the Carter’s Crossing subdivision. To think that it would be compromised by a college campus laid in between family neighborhoods is simply disappointing to say the least. I never dreamed the Lynntech facility could become a college campus.

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