The William Carter School, located by the Columbus Avenue side of the Camden footbridge, has decided to end a residence hall proposal plan with Northeastern University.

Carter School Principal Marianne Kopaczynski said after a meeting with parents of Carter School students there was a “general consensus” to stop plans with Northeastern.

The plans were initially proposed in September 2003, Kopaczynski said. They involved a project similar to the Davenport Commons; Northeastern would lease residence hall space from Trinity Financial and the Carter School would serve as a condominium in the building, Kopaczyn-ski said in a June 9 article in The News.

The development company that worked on the Davenport project, Trinity Financial, Inc., was slated to be involved with the Carter School proposal.

“Northeastern would provide 60 units of affordable housing off of the site, and Northeastern would get access to 125 student apartments,” said Vince Droser, vice president of Trinity Financial, in the June 9 article.

The proposal would include building a new Carter School on the ground floor of the building at no cost to the city, Droser said.

Kopaczynski said there are many factors in the decision of nixing the proposal, including the amount of time that has passed without the proposal getting off the ground.

“It’s taken a year and we’ve looked at various proposals,” she said. “Six hundred students would be in the [residence hall] on top of the school. We felt that 600 was a very large number of students on this small property.”

Kopaczynski said the students at the Carter School, all severely disabled, are “fragile and timid.”

“They are just learning how to walk, how to wheel their wheelchairs, learning to use the white cane [for sight],” Kopaczynski said. “With a lot of traffic and activity, that would impact [the school] negatively, and then consequently, how they could progress educationally.”

Another concern for Kopaczynski, a teacher for 33 years and principal for one, is the Carter School losing its identity after a potential partnering with the university.

Northeastern officials did not return calls.