TESTIMONY
Testimony by Ira Robbins, Retired Senior Citizen, on the 341 10th Street Development
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Ira Robbins, a retired senior citizen and long-time resident of 10th Street, testifies against a proposed 200-unit building development. He argues that the street is unprepared for such a large addition in terms of infrastructure and services. Additional points include:
- Concerns about water supply, sewer capacity, electric grid, traffic, and garbage management
- Criticism of the rezoning requests as 'bizarre and aberrant'
- Argument that the development would go against zoning regulations' purpose of ensuring rational and consistent city development
Ira Robbins
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Thank you.
1:41:16
My name is Ira Robbins.
1:41:17
I'm a retired senior citizen who has lived on 10th Street for nearly 15 years facing the proposed building.
1:41:23
10th Street is not prepared for the addition of 200 new units in terms of the water supply, the sewer capacity, the electric grid or traffic.
1:41:31
Nor is it prepared in terms of garbage.
1:41:34
The building Stellar currently puts the the building that Stellar has at 341 has a 154 units.
1:41:40
They leave garbage on the street every twice a week in large piles of carpet construction bags.
1:41:48
If if they add 200 units to the build to the block that's gonna increase the amount of garbage by a 130%.
1:41:55
Where is that gonna go?
1:41:56
It's it's already taking up a it blocks the gar the the fire hydrant right there, and it's a very frightening prospect to have more garbage piled on the street facing my house and my neighbor's houses.
1:42:07
I also wanna talk about parking spaces.
1:42:09
I'm not a car owner, so I don't care one way or the other about this.
1:42:12
But in terms of of logic and and common sense, they want to reduce the number of parking spaces from a 115 to 39 while adding 305 apartments.
1:42:21
Now they're claiming that that's within regulations, which is fine, but it it doesn't speak to what happens when the 305 new tenants come in with a 100 new cars.
1:42:31
So that's gonna be a problem.
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And I've taken I did a little research.
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I took a picture of a a a Google Earth picture of of the parking lots that 341 currently has.
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And my guess is that there's about 60 spaces occupied there.
1:42:46
And there's probably there's also an underground garage that they have in the building which let's just guess they have 20 cars parked there.
1:42:52
So that's 80 80 cars that have to be parked somewhere, and they're gonna reduce those spots to to to under 40, which is a real problem.
1:43:01
I mean, you know, it's gonna be I don't know where they're gonna think they're gonna put these cars.
1:43:04
So The the rezoning requests before you are bizarre and aberrant and should not be allowed.
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As I understand that zoning regulations exist to ensure rationality and consistency to development in the city.
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Stella is asking you to make an extreme set of exceptions for them to throw up logic and long held practice out the window solely for their benefit to build in a space that really doesn't exist.
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How will that serve our city?
1:43:28
Thank you.