Seafarer Loop Neighborhood

Fire Station Concern

File Repository

Reminder:  Meeting November 5th

• DOT Concerns about Site #19 (our site).
  
• Existing Adopted Land Use Plan from 1982, converted from an email attachment. It shows the DeArmound/Lake Otis area as park land.  Enlarged callout done by Bruce to show more detail. Note the date on the slide, December 2011, that would indicate that less than a year ago the muni still considers it parkland.
  
• Rabbit Creek Community Council Minutes from Aug 9, 2012
• Housing Market Analysis shows parkland is a concern for buyers

• View Case Comments
• Comment on the Case (please comment, the more the better) 
  

• This is a map showing all the considered sites.
• This is a series of maps (large file)  showing various sites with utiliity tie-ins, a work document by Dowl.
• Here's a satellite view of the two closest to our neighborhood. Site 18 (South of Bells on Specking) was dropped early in the process for reasons that don't appear valid. It is, apparently, fenced private undeveloped land. Drive down DeArmoun and you can see it just before the concrete retaining wall.
• Map of the various Fire Service Areas
  

• Dowl Proposal March 2012
• Dowl Proposal April 2011
• Dowl Site Selection Report July 2012
• Dowl Appendix B This geographical chart is broken up into cells that contain 2 numbers. The cells are color coded(red bad--->green good). The second number indicates the number of calls to that cell, the first number indicates how many were accomplished within the 4 minute goal. So a 1/12 indicates one out of 12 calls were responded to in 4 minutes or less and the cell should be colored red. The data is from 2010-July 2011.
  
• Dowl Appendix C This geographical chart shows the expected 4 minute response areas for each fire station. Anything not colored is outside the expected 4 minute response time area. Of course, the scales are completely different on the two Appendices, but the oddly shaped notch on the left side seems to be in the same location on both
  

• Here's an email (I've stripped out identifying data) that shows the 3 sites currently under consideration.
• Rich Cline email train with Heath Landon, Project Manager for the Muni  (UPDATED Sept 14)
  
• Anchorage Fire Department Strategic Plan
• Assembly Members
• Real Estate Documents from original seller (Please see Paragraph 4 of the letter to Mrs. Fowler dated December 11, 1973, prior to the sale, stating “A natural park area is planned for your property…However, there is no absolute assurance that the property would not, at some future date, be sold and chopped up into lots for real estate development.  A dedication to the public for your specific uses would be more assuring but an expensive gift.”  Ultimately, Mrs. Fowler chose NOT to dedicate the land, but rather to seller the property to the Greater Anchorage Area Borough for $85,500 with no deed restriction. )
• Existing Adopted Land Use Plan from 1982, converted from an email attachment. It shows the DeArmound/Lake Otis area as park land.  Enlarged callout done by Bruce to show more detail. Note the date on the slide, December 2011, that would indicate that less than a year ago the muni still considers it parkland.
  
• Rabbit Creek Community Council Minutes from Aug 9, 2012
• Housing Market Analysis shows parkland is a concern for buyers
• Report from the Parks Commission, with details of exactly where the firestation would go, an appraisal of the parcel (if the muni had to buy it rather than just repurpose it), and some conditions they'd like attached to the taking of the park.
• Planning Staff's recomendation to the Planning and Zoning Commission
• Rabbit Creek Community Council Concerns (Oct 17, 2012)
• Heath Landon Email  (Nov 3, 2012)