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Your Ideas and Comments: June 29, 2005

Thank you to all who have submitted ideas for the future of Moran!!

 

In 1954, if I am correct, this plant was built to produce revenue for [the] City of Burlington. I believe it should continue to do this, so why not build a wind generation station on this site and do the same!

 

1. A medium-sized (i.e., smaller than the Flynn or Memorial Auditorium concert hall. 2. The site of one or several wind turbines.

 

1. First, demolish it, and stabilize/clean the site. (Bite the bullet on this!) 2. Consider an extension of the public park area. 3. Consider a park and a smaller arts center, including an indoor theater/concert hall of medium size (capacity 1000?); drawing/painting classes; photography classes. 4. After demolishing/stabilizing, try to work a reasonable deal (not a taxpayer giveaway) with the “Y”. 5. We still have no year-long good restaurants on the lakefront—ask the Black Sheep Bistro, or Leunig’s people for some input—good, not necessarily high-end expensive.

 

Art museum. Small theater/hall.

 

I voted for the YMCA and still think it’s the best use. Why don’t you try again, but this time rethink the financing. The anti-YMCA/Moran folks objected most strongly to the financial terms. Please don’t let YMCA/Moran die!

 

Renovate to house water-related nonprofit activities and offices, e.g., sailing center, Maritime Museum boatbuilding, Lake Champlain Committee, docks for the Perch Fleet.

 

1. Open space! 2. Limited boat access. 3. Bandshell/amphitheatre. 4. Open space.

 

The Moran Plant should be torn down! A community center with multi-use facility—small amphitheater with covered seating area; a building with boat, canoe and kayak rental with the Sailing Center. Skating area in winter months. A facility for the community to use.

 

Tear the building down. Then we can see what the space looks like and make further decisions. It should be a public space and the building is not usable.

 

The Moran Plant should be torn down and the entire space made into a public park.

 

Tear it down! Ugly building. Least expensive solution. Year-round market.

 

Turn the plant into low-income apartments.  Seeing there’s housing shortage in Burlington use the plant for five apartments or turn the plant into a shelter for people with drug and alcohol problems because the plant is down by the Lake Champlain you don’t have to worry about the neighbors of the City of Burlington. Could turn the plant into a substance abuse clinic or like a boot camp. The Clinic could be helping people with substance abuse problems. The program could be paid for by Federal Government. Down where the plant is there’s no neighbors for miles around. I hope the folks won’t get in to trouble . . .[they will] be under drug and alcohol supervision and the plant could be having a useful purpose because the plant is just sitting there going to waste. I hope you like some of my ideas.

 

Tear down Moran Plant and restore land to a city park. Mr. Donald R. Church.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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