Board of Aldermen 6-24-2020 Page 3
| am present, | am in this room alone, | can hear you and | am practicing social distancing,
President Wilshire
| am here, | am alone and | am practicing social distancing.
Susan Lovering, City Clerk
There are 12 present.
President Wilshire
Thank you very much. Tonight’s meeting is a Public Hearing and | am going to turn the meeting over to the
Chair of the Infrastructure Committee, Alderman O’Brien.
Chairman O’Brien
Thank you, Madam President. At this point, tonight’s meeting is going to be involving Public Hearings and
first on the Agenda will be Street Discontinuance on a portion of Palm Street. What we will do is what we
have done in the past, we will invite the participants to come up, give us testimony in favor and at the
conclusion of such | will then call for termination for testimony in favor and then up come up with testimony
in opposition.
| will then call for the second time and then we can call at the conclusion for testimony in opposition. If the
participants have already spoken their piece, | will allow them to speak for the second time; however, |
would like to remind them (inaudible) into the Infrastructure Meeting immediately following this public
hearing. So therefore | will allow the second testimony but only to supply the Board with further facts. So
at this time, | will begin the Public Hearing and hear from anybody in the audience that has testimony in
favor for the street discontinuance for a portion of Palm Street.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
STREET DISCONTINUANCE — PORTION OF PALM STREET
TESTIMONY IN FAVOR —
Richard Maynard For the record, my name is Richard Maynard, | am a professional engineer with the firm of
Maynard & Paquette Engineering representing the applicants, Palms Edge, LLC and Corriveau Revocable
Trust. Owners are essentially vacant property on either side of the southerly end or dead end of Palm Street
adjacent to the old railroad tracks (inaudible). The matter before the Board is to discontinue a short section of
Palm Street some 1757 square feet in size to allow a vehicular connection around the old railroad (inaudible) to
Ash Street from the Palm Street dead end. And also to allow new vehicular parking for the Palm Street
neighborhood and also to allow two new small multi-family buildings to contain 6 and 12 units. This is all shown
on the plan which should be in your packet entitled Preliminary Site Plan Palms Edge, dated November 22
(audio cuts out).
There are numerous benefits to all concerned parties with this proposed discontinuance. Paramount being
access by emergency vehicles at the dead end and elimination of City vehicles, plows, trucks, fire engines
using private property to turn around which also causes some private property damage. Public benefits include
snow plowing and snow storage, neighborhood off-street parking, enhanced property values and the addition of
some moderate income apartment units to the downtown area.
