After The Westminster Schools dropped a controversial lacrosse field from its proposed campus master plan, a neighborhood planning group overwhelmingly endorsed the proposal.
Neighborhood Planning Unit A voted 42-0 with two abstentions during a meeting Dec. 6 to back Westminster’s proposed plan for its 178-acre Buckhead campus.
Harold Buckley, a lawyer for Westminster, told members of the NPU that the school had dropped the lacrosse field from its plan. Neighbors had worried that games at the proposed field would increase traffic on nearby streets.
“We’re going to let it be for now,” Buckley said after the standing-room-only meeting at the Atlanta Speech School on Northside Parkway. “At some point in the future, we may go back to the neighbors and start the dialog [over the field]. The school thought it would be better to be a good neighbor.”
The master plan calls for future construction of a 10,000-square-foot academic building, future expansion of a gym, a band and choral performance building and an arts and drama facility and addition of two tennis courts to the 10 now on campus. Buckley said projects would be undertaken as funds were available to pay for them.
