Special Board of Aldermen 06-01-2021 Page 5
Chairman Dowd
Any other Alderman that would clarification from either of the previous two speakers? Alderman Tencza?
Alderman Tencza
Thank you Mr. Chairman. Director Cummings, and | asked previously about this, could you just talk a little
bit — in one of your prior presentations, you talked about potentially some of this area being parking. | think
I’ve gotten clarification since then, but can you talk about the type of parking that you would expect on
some of this land and whether it would be paved or | guess a dirt parking lot for some of those buildings.
Director Cummings
Certainly. So | am going to answer your question in two phases if | may Mr. Chair.
Chairman Dowd
Yes, go ahead.
Director Cummings
So | am going to share my screen right now. | am going to pull up the GIS map. OK the parcel in hand is
77-5 and so we haven't designed what this area is going to look like just yet because we are just in the
early stages of contemplating how a dog park would lay out. But the issue | think that is being raised is the
option that 0 Pine Street and 1 Pine Street Extension have; they have the option for 90 days to essentially
this trail here is a good indicator of what we are talking about. They would have the ability to purchase
basically what their current boundary line shows so this area up until about approximately where this trail is
right here. | am kind of outlining it with my cursor so you can kind of see what we are talking about.
If that was to occur, it has been expressed that these two property owners would be interesting in putting in
parking there. Now | don’t know if they will do that definitively but that has been represented as the desire
for why they would like to have this extra land. As you can see, there’s some parking right along here, the
thought process would be is to put, | am assuming, this all needs to be designed and constructed. But
there’s quite a big grade change between this dirt path here up to this asphalt. You’d have to put in some
sort of retaining wall, you’d have to fill it, you’d have to level it and then you’d have to extend the asphalt.
And all that would need to be engineered and constructed. But that’s how you would expand the parking
lot over here.
The same with this area over here if that was the desire. Now that would all be “non-city land” at that point
and it would be done for the usage for these two private mill buildings. That was a condition of the P&S.
Ultimately, | believe this is the second phase to your question, we will have some sort of ancillary parking
on-site once this is designed to allow for people to have access into Mine Malls and also allow people
access to use the dog park. It would not be paved, it couldn’t be; this is a very environmentally sensitive
area so it would stay open and we would have a very limited area for parking. But we would try to provide
some sort of on-site parking for the usage of both the trail and the dog park. That would be public or would
be “city land” or “city owned property” to support the pass of recreation that would be going on in that area.
Hopefully that answers your question Alderman Tencza.
Chairman Dowd
All set, Alderman Tencza?
