Special Board of Aldermen 03-15-2021 Page 10
Who is paying for the enhanced intersection? | am guessing that if it is not part of the project it is going to
become part of a budget item so | just wonder if that’s been covered or not?
President Wilshire
Director Cummings?
Director Cummings
Yes, thank you. So no that hasn’t been covered yet but | think it is a good point that | want to just kind of hit
upon. Right now on the Broad Street Parkway there is only one access point. It is what is referred to as a
limited access roadway. It has always been planned that “curb cut” would happen in one designated area
which just so happens to be right along where the Fimbel Door and the City’s right-of-way is. And | know it
is the intention of Blaylock to construct a roadway that could accommodate the development that they are
talking about and they are anticipating. We, as a City, have also from a long-term planning perspective told
them that we need to make sure that we also anticipate other type of development happing at the site so
we don’t preclude ourselves from any type of future development that might not be done by Blaylock itself.
Studies to get us that far and what type of infrastructure, how much cost has not been done yet. | do think
that Blaylock will represent to us that they want us, the City, to entertain all that type of infrastructure
investment. So that’s going to be a conversation to be had for sure as the conversation moves on. And |
suspect it will be a negotiating point as we continue, if we continue. And that is something that we should
be thinking about and should be in the back of our mind.
Madam President, | do want to just touch upon one comment that Alderman Dowd made when he first
started his comments which he mentioned that the EPA is going to “do the monitoring”. | just want to clarify
for the record, the EPA cannot do the monitoring. My understanding is the DES has the responsibility of
doing the monitoring or other entities not the EPA. And in this instance, my understanding is they actually
have the onus of the “monitoring” happening with Blaylock itself. So Blaylock has, as | understand it,
agreed to do the monitoring and the operations and the on-going oversight of that area which | think is a
little bit of a concern and | have raised this with everyone so far. And | think it is something that that we are
going to need to continue to talk about moving forward. But DES has indicated that they are not going to
take on the onus of it. EPA is precluded from doing it; and the City has also said that we are not interested
in taking on the O&M.
Alderman Dowd
Quick follow-up?
President Wilshire
Alderman Dowd?
Alderman Dowd
| guess that would be one thing we need to nail down is who is going to do the monitoring. Based on what |
had seen from those presentations | don’t know if we have the local expertise to do that. So that would
either be a cost to the City if it’s not being picked up by somebody else. The other thing is the newer
members of the Board may not realize the Tamposi’s have a piece of land that they haven’t been able to
develop because they haven't had street access. But if this is opened up to the Broad Street Parkway, they
would have access and there would be that development as well, which from a tax standpoint would be
good because there’s a lot of tax on property there that add to our tax base. These are a lot of things that
were in presentation previously that perhaps we ought to resurrect.
