CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — When Joe Brokaw bought his new home with a view six months ago in northwest Cedar Rapids, he was unaware of plans to construct a larger school close to his property on the same grounds as Hoover Elementary.
“They are literally putting that school in my backyard,” Brokaw told the City Planning Commission at their meeting earlier this month.
He and other neighbors of the school, at 4141 Johnson Ave. NW, asked the commission to deny the Cedar Rapids Community School District’s application to rezone the Hoover site from S-RL1, Suburban Residential Low Single Unit, to P-IN, Public Institutional…