While Notos Group developer Tom O’Connell says he doesn’t know exactly what he wants to build on land up for rezoning at the Jan. 16 Special Town Meeting, he knows whatever it is will be big.
O’Connell hopes that the proposed “Economic Opportunity District,” which he claims will “invite incredible opportunities for the future,” will receive the ⅔ vote needed to pass at Town Meeting. Critics have decried the overlay district’s large size, a lack of clarity within the proposal, and the ties to the Wareham Park casino proposal, which O’Connell has not sworn off.
Right now, he said, the only legally permissible use for the 275-acre parcel of land on Glen Charlie Road in East Wareham, abutting Route 25 is housing. If the zoning change passes, O’Connell said, he will sit down with his team and discuss what it “wants to be.”