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6 | June 27, 2019 | the lockport legend news
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City Council
Council approves contract for Gougar Road and expansion to the Prologis development
Jessie Molloy
Freelance Reporter
The Lockport City
Council approved a contract
for a significant improvement
to Gougar
Road and amendments to
the Prologis development
at its meeting Wednesday
night under the direction
of Trustee Darren Deskin,
who was acting as Temporary
Chairman due to
Mayor Steven Streit’s absence.
The board voted unanimously,
minus Trustee
Catherine Perretta who
was absent, to approve a
contract with Christopher
Burke Engineering Ltd.
for construction engineering
of a signalization project
at the corner of Gougar
Road and 163rd Street.
Director of Public Works
Brett Cann explained that
project only includes the
installation of a traffic signal
and resurfacing of the
road. “There will be no
geometric improvements
made,” he said. “The signalization
was made a priority
due to some bad accidents
we’ve seen there in
the last year or so.”
The $510,900 contract
with Christopher Burke
will put the company in
charge of managing the
project and putting out additional
work to bid with
other contractors.
“I’m very comfortable
with this set up, since I did
something very similar at
an intersection in another
community,” Cann said.
“This will save us at least
fifty percent on the design
costs.”
Originally the project
was budgeted for a cost of
$580,000.
In addition to the Gougar
project, Cann announced
that the public works department
will be piloting
a system for replacing the
city’s lights with LED fixtures.
The city will be installing
four new LED light
fixtures, similar in style to
the existing light fixtures,
along Hamilton Street between
8th and 9th Streets
and inviting feedback from
the community later this
month.
If the feedback is positive,
the same light fixtures
will be introduced
throughout the downtown
to reduce energy use while
still maintaining the historic
aesthetic of the downtown
area.
“The style is very close
to the lights we have now,
the major difference is that
of course the bulbs are different,
so they give off a
slightly different glow,”
explained Cann.
Cann also provided the
board with updates during
the Committee of the
Whole meeting on several
other ongoing road
projects. As of June 19,
the 2019 road resurfacing
work was completed with
only landscaping and striping
remaining to be done,
a feat Cann noted had not
been easy to achieve given
the constant rain.
Additionally, the work
on State Street is almost
complete with only the
traffic signals on 9th
Street incomplete, and the
Gougar Road water main
project is on schedule to
be done by the end of the
year.
Prologis
The board voted in six
separate motions to approve
an expansion to the
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Prologis business park
development. The newly
reworked plan includes
an expansion of approximately
500,000 square feet
in warehouse space and
the creation of additional
commercial space along
Archer Avenue.
The originally proposed
“building 5” of the plan
has had its warehouse
area reduced in order to
create three commercial
lots along Archer Avenue,
instead of having the development’s
commercial
space located along 143rd
Street. The location along
143rd Street will instead
now contain two new industrial
buildings.
In order to make the
change, the board also
voted unanimously to annex
nine acres of property
off Pasquinelli Parcel off
143rd Street, which is to
be absorbed in part by the
Prologis development.
The entire development
will take several years to be
completed, and as of this
time there are no tenants
confirmed for the newly relocated
commercial space.
Makers’ Park
The city council voted
unanimously to approve
a feasibility study for a
“Maker’s Park” on the old
Chevron property. Streit
gabby
From Page 5
4-8 p.m.
“The community support
has meant so much to
me and my family,” Matlak-Hodges
said. “It has
helped keep us strong and
having as many prayers
as possible coming Gabby’s
way, it has made us
introduced the concept to
the board in an extensive
presentation during the
Committee of the Whole
meeting on June 5.
Under the plan the 10 to
13 acre site would be utilized
to create a workspace
where skilled craftspeople
could have access to tools
and facilities needed to
hone their crafts and potentially
start their own
businesses in fields like
metal working, tailoring,
cooking, or engineering.
Streit has been in the
process of finding organizational
partners to help
back this plan financially,
including for the cost of
the feasibility study. On
Wednesday the board
granted approval for a
study to be conducted by
Hitchcock Design Group
for a cost “not to exceed
$29,800.” The cost of the
study is actually $39,800,
though Streit is confident
he will be able to secure at
least $10,000 in funding to
offset the cost.
According to City Administrator
Ben Benson,
“We wanted to approve
this amount in case more
funding does not come
through, but at the end of
the day I don’t think we
will need to spend more
than $18,000 as a city for
this.”
feel so loved.”
On Sunday, June 23,
Becca Matlack-Hodges
sent this update from
Gabby’s parents: “We
would like to thank family,
friends and community
for being such amazing
support system while
we’re here with Gabby.
We were able to leave
the hospital Saturday and
come back home for a
Other Business
The board approved the
annexation of two residential
properties off of 163rd
Street. The two homes, located
at 16253 W. 163rd
Street and 16237 W. 163rd
Street, decided to annex to
the city in order to tap into
the city’s water and sewer
services, following a problem
with their well.
The city granted a Special
Use Permit for a
Unique Use to allow a kennel
and doggie day care facility
to open at the Prime
Business Campus Lot 13.
Although the area is usually
zoned for General Office,
the 8,051 square foot
space will be permitted to
house dogs overnight as
well as host doggie day
care and obedience training
classes during regular
business hours.
The Committee of the
Whole voted to advance
a permit for the construction
of an outdoor seating
area for a new restaurant.
Tangled Roots Restaurant
and Microbrewery plans
to open at 1025 S. State
Street before the holidays
and will include an 800
square-foot patio area in
the back which will contain
ten tables. The item is
expected to be approved at
the next meeting as part of
the consent agenda.
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