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Your Ideas and Comments: July 8, 2005

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

Tear the ugly thing down and turn it into a park.

1. Tear it down! It has no historic value. There are many bad memories of soot flying throughout the North End�seeping into houses�on laundry�covered cars. 2. Encourage a sailing center�for winter as well as summer. 3. Have a site for special events.

Best: A long, low building no higher than two stories: For: 1. Lake access: free or low cost for sailing, kayaking, canoeing with summer and winter storage and parking! 2. Education center for public classes and meetings: all year. 3. Exercise facilities: low cost where groups and classes can meet, i.e., Girl, Run, Girl, walk group, etc. Wedding receptions? Charge fees to nonresidents; free public access!

Bulldoze and start over.

Take down the Moran Plant being careful to correctly dispose of the asbestos that covers most of the pipes. Clean and landscape the area, put a barge in the water for various free summer performances (like they do on the waterfront in Washington, D.C.). The waterfront is now too crowded�don�t make it worse, please! Jeanne M. Popecki

RE: Future of Moran Plant. Remove it. Leave the area as a green space (park) to be accessible by everyone.

What to do with Moran? Tear it down! Grass, trees, flowers, picnic tables. Obliterate�get rid of it. A park, open space, mountain views for all. E. Kaplan.

My favorite idea was to use as the UVM art gallery. How about lower level as a hockey rink, and use upper spaces as art studios to promote Vermont artists.

The city�s idea of affordable housing is in line with my winning the New York lottery. We desperately need housing that is really affordable for the working poor and lower income middle class that are trying to stay in Burlington. If we do not make room for people making under $10.00 an hour, we will end up with no service job workers at all. Think about the tourist losses! S. Howard

I suggest the Moran Plant be torn down. It could be left open for the public to use with a band stand shell erected for entertainment groups. It could also have an average type restaurant, bowling alley, mini-mall and/or a senior center since Burlington�s population has a higher percentage of seniors now.

I feel that the Moran Plant building would be best to be torn down. When anyone tries to renovate an old building to a new one that needs to meet today�s specifications it is always very expensive. I feel once the building is gone�leave it for a while and make future decisions going forward after it is torn down. Once down people might like the open space or a new building to be built for lake access would be a choice. Tear it down!

Demolish the Moran Generating Plant. Have access to the grounds and have flower gardens, a fountain and a place for people to picnic and relax. Have it similar to a central park so everyone can enjoy it.

1. Tear down the north end and the top, leaving the sailing club and indoor storage for boats. 2. Clean up the whole north forty. Plant trees, etc�saving some wet land. Add a bird view. 3. Wide paths to accommodate wheelchairs, baby carriages. No pavement. No bikes. Dogs ok. 4. Bike racks at either end so bikers can park their wheels and enjoy the park on foot. A few picnic table[s]. Benches on the trails. Maybe a small beach for kids and kayaks. Lecture area in the sculptured rocks.

Hi�while it is unoriginal. I vote to tear down the buildings. Keep the sailing center. Grass over the rest of the site for a park. I am a Burlington resident, homeowner and voter. Jonathan Welch

Best to keep open space, there is too much development there now. Sincerely, Mrs. L. T. Gauthier

Two options�Keep it and turn it into a business/office complex with an observation tower or rooftop restaurant on top. Or better, tear it down, and using the site and some of the North 40 build a ballpark/concert venue on the site. Home for the Vermont Expos, other sports events and waterfront concerts!

Botanical Garden. Lakeside fine dining. Four season live music venue with Church St. free shuttle service. Biodome.

Take down the structure and convert the land to public green space with access from the bike path (no roads).

I would like to see this land remain open and accessible to all members of the community without having to pay a fee or join a club. The new Main Street Landing building is ugly. We need peace and quiet and the view.

I don�t think that we can improve on the natural beauty of the lake, mountain, trees. We should restore the site to open land where everyone can enjoy the view. Pull down the old Moran Building. Retain/build the sailing center, which is a wonderful resource. Ice cream vendor, lawn chair rental, shade trees, croquet rental, lawn bowling, bike, skate rentals, music and picnics.

Please raze it (Tear it down): Plant grass and leave it for future generation. D. Wacek.

Performing Arts Center for opera, music, theatre and dance so that well known artists and national performing arts groups would be attracted here�the Flynn is just not adequate and parking is atrocious. (What Seattle did with the buildings of their World�s Fair held there is a superb example of what could be done.)

Raze Moran Plant�it is not historically nor architecturally significant. Leave land open or replace with a site-appropriate use that takes full advantage of lakeside location and views, and which does not require large parking lots on waterfront. Not the Y which belongs in the center of the city within walking or busses for residents of city.

Moran Plant should be demolished. Area should be turned into public parking and picnic area. This should be done so people can enjoy lake front. Also, beautiful view of lake and sunsets over the Adirondack Mountains.

Take down the Moran Plant. Build hotel with conference center. Put in boat access and playground with restaurant and boardwalk.

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