REMARKS
Council Member Menin addresses construction impacts and mitigation measures
1:06:33
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110 sec
Council Member Julie Menin expresses concerns about the construction impacts of the MSK project on the surrounding community, particularly PS 183 elementary school. She emphasizes the need for robust mitigation measures to protect the community.
- Requests real-time air quality monitoring visible to the school and residents
- Calls for a noise mitigation wall and noise-reducing materials for construction activities
- Insists on mitigation efforts that exceed standard requirements
Julie Menin
1:06:33
I want to start with the impacts to the community and particularly to the school.
1:06:40
We've talked at length about this, but I want to, once again, and say on the record how concerned I am about that, We have to ensure that their the impacts are reduced to the fullest extent possible.
1:06:53
There have been reports vis a vis asbestos.
1:06:57
We are concerned obviously about having real time air quality monitoring that the school and other residents are surrounding.
1:07:06
The neighborhood can see in real time.
1:07:08
As I've mentioned many times, I wanna ensure that there is a noise mitigation wall.
1:07:14
So that students' work is not being affected, and and and residents' quality of life is not being affected.
1:07:21
I wanna ensure that the construction, the noises construction, the jackhammering, etcetera, is shrouded in noise mitigation materials to all of this.
1:07:30
I know we've talked about, but I'm just getting it out for this hearing, and I want to ensure, as I said, that there'd be a very strong and open and constant line of communication between MSK and the surrounding community.
1:07:44
So just give you a chance to respond to that.
Roger McClean
1:07:46
Yeah.
1:07:47
We're fully engaged in onboard with you and your team as far as all of the different mitigation measures that are required by regulation as well as the enhancements that we discussed.
1:07:58
MSK is looking to be a partner within this community and to offer up all of our efforts to make sure that we're running a transparent project that not only provides information as far as what we're doing, but taking the feedback of where issues may occur.
Julie Menin
1:08:15
Absolutely.
1:08:16
And so to be clear, we are going to insist that any mitigation efforts exceed what is required.