Grant helping rehabilitate former Gatke property
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Remediation and rehabilitation of the Gatke property is scheduled to begin and end this summer.
No one commented during the public hearing regarding the $300,000 Community Development Block Grant available to the city to help fund the cleanup.
Ken and Donna Anderson, Kenna Consulting, Indianapolis, will serve as administrators of the grant. The couple were present at Monday's Warsaw city council meeting.
City planner Jeff Noffsinger outlined the course of the work, saying the environmental remediation includes the removal and proper disposal of asbestos, bunker oil, phenolic resin and one underground storage tank.
The original Winona Interurban power plant building and a large warehouse will remain intact. Most of the other buildings will be torn down.
Sanitary sewer and water will be extended to the site, and McKinley Street will be extended to Winona Avenue.
The city is still in the process of acquiring the property, Noffsinger said. A tax waiver request of more than $460,000 will come before the county tax board next month and before the state tax commissioners for approval.
In other business, the council:
• Heard from the Biomet Foundation regarding a $25,000 grant award for the proposed Lake City Greenway.
• Rezoned North Pointe Apartments as a planned unit development district. The 4.33-acre property was illegally subdivided in 1991 with 18 lots and five owners. In 1999 the plan commission recommended a PUD. According to Noffsinger, it's taken this long to complete the proper paperwork.
• Discussed a communication sent by Bonar Group regarding a $16,000 traffic study at the intersection of Parker Street and DuBois Drive at U.S. 30.
The item was tabled.
Councilman Jerry Patterson asked whether or not the city has anyone who could count the cars and see which way they were turning.
Joe Thallemer said there were studies in 1995 and 1999 and each time the intersection was identified as problematic.
• Appointed Jeff Grose as council representative to the Oakwood Cemetery Board of Regents. [[In-content Ad]]
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Remediation and rehabilitation of the Gatke property is scheduled to begin and end this summer.
No one commented during the public hearing regarding the $300,000 Community Development Block Grant available to the city to help fund the cleanup.
Ken and Donna Anderson, Kenna Consulting, Indianapolis, will serve as administrators of the grant. The couple were present at Monday's Warsaw city council meeting.
City planner Jeff Noffsinger outlined the course of the work, saying the environmental remediation includes the removal and proper disposal of asbestos, bunker oil, phenolic resin and one underground storage tank.
The original Winona Interurban power plant building and a large warehouse will remain intact. Most of the other buildings will be torn down.
Sanitary sewer and water will be extended to the site, and McKinley Street will be extended to Winona Avenue.
The city is still in the process of acquiring the property, Noffsinger said. A tax waiver request of more than $460,000 will come before the county tax board next month and before the state tax commissioners for approval.
In other business, the council:
• Heard from the Biomet Foundation regarding a $25,000 grant award for the proposed Lake City Greenway.
• Rezoned North Pointe Apartments as a planned unit development district. The 4.33-acre property was illegally subdivided in 1991 with 18 lots and five owners. In 1999 the plan commission recommended a PUD. According to Noffsinger, it's taken this long to complete the proper paperwork.
• Discussed a communication sent by Bonar Group regarding a $16,000 traffic study at the intersection of Parker Street and DuBois Drive at U.S. 30.
The item was tabled.
Councilman Jerry Patterson asked whether or not the city has anyone who could count the cars and see which way they were turning.
Joe Thallemer said there were studies in 1995 and 1999 and each time the intersection was identified as problematic.
• Appointed Jeff Grose as council representative to the Oakwood Cemetery Board of Regents. [[In-content Ad]]