Cosentini is ready to start building homes for customers.
It’s a huge amount of cost,” said Cosentini.īut finally, the perseverance has paid off. Getting a subdivision isn’t like the 1950s where the municipalities help. I don’t have a big financial partner in this and I’ve been funding it out of pocket. I’m still running my construction company ( Cosentini Construction). So getting that passed was a task, that was a year and a half.” No one had done one of those (here), like ever. That entire system was brand new for everyone – engineering, planning, town board. “The houses will have a gravity system to the pump which will lift it back to the road. For that, a legal entity was set up purely to own and maintain the on-site sewer system. The land is lower than the connection by the road, and it has to be pumped up to the town’s sewer line. Perhaps the biggest issue was that the Town of Ithaca wasn’t willing to take the sewer system because it’s inverted. Now those houses and the common courtyard will have that exposure.”Īlso, infrastructure installation, like power, water and stormwater facilities, takes time - in some cases, a lot of time. That was a self-inflicted wound, but I felt it was necessary in order to allow every house to really enjoy the location. I rearranged the houses and that set me back quite a bit with redoing the pre-development work.
The first iterations had the houses in little groups, and their backs would be to the sun, and I couldn’t stand the idea of some of the front porches not experiencing it. One of those is that I live on the site in the old farmhouse, and after living there for a little bit, I discovered how amazing the light is there. “The long incubation period has multiple causes. Some of it was beyond her control, and some of it was changes in her own thinking. 4.5 years is a long time, and it’s been a time-consuming process, something Cosentini readily acknowledges when asked about the holdup. However, a lot has changed since plans were first shared with the Voice in December 2015. The project calls for 30 for-sale homes in the town of Ithaca’s Inlet Valley corridor at 619 Five Mile Drive. Call it a “long incubation.” After years of delays and challenges, New Earth Living’s Sue Cosentini is finally launching her 30-home Amabel “pocket neighborhood”.
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