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Your Ideas and Comments: July 15, 2005 - Part I

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

Home of Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

Expand and improve Community Sailing Center vastly to promote use of the lake by all citizens of Burlington, especially low-income residents. Re-establish connections to the lake and City�s past, and promote healthy outdoor activity.

Take the plant down.

Your thoughts: To be on the waterfront is to be at the lake, not in the city�but a place to get away from the city. A mini-vacation for an early morning walk (run-bike) before work, or a mid-day break. A place to watch the sunset and feel this is a show put on for me alone. To be at the lake evokes the senses. What ever we do with this land�I don�t want us to lose that �sense of wonder�. This doesn�t have to be a big project. It doesn�t have to fill the pockets of city hall.

A magnificent structure worth rehabilitation. 1. Keep and expand LC Community Sailing Center. Very successful! 2. Interior. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum shared with Fleming Museum/UVM spaces.

We would like a Performing Arts Center in the Moran Plant. If the Plant can be remodeled and meet all requirements, cheaper than imploding it and constructing a new facility, it should be used. Otherwise, another avenue will have to be taken. Also, we would like an underground parking garage, as well as a tasteful eatery.

Take the plant down. Green space.

Please tear it down and extend waterfront park.

Take the plant down.

Mini golf course. Around the sculpture garden with lights. All profits generated will go to the City of Burlington.

Demolish the plant. Create a quiet reflection park. Give the Sailing Center some space.

YMCA

Tear down existing structure, the space should be used for a park and open area for all to enjoy. Rebuild new sailing center. Please leave space open�greenspace.

This is a historic structure solidly built of brick and steel. It is not in the way of anything. There is plenty of open land for miles right after the property ends. Too many buildings in Burlington have been lost to fire and demolition. This building can be adapted for a city-owned recreation center. Even a parking garage is better than demolition. Please don�t listen to those who care nothing and/or know nothing about historic preservation. Once it�s gone, it�s gone forever.

Meeting space resource rooms for service agencies in the community that help children of Chittenden County. Also, rooms for children to play in�while parents/teachers/case workers are in the meetings.

To make this space most accessible to locals and tourist, I believe that the building should be torn down and made into a park, somewhat of a continuation of the Waterfront Park. Learning about the 40 acres beyond Moran now makes me even firmer in my belief the building should be removed. This space (2 1/2 acres) could be used as an entryway to the 40 acres beyond.

Rip it down.

What�s the rush? Any�and I mean any vote must include �none of the above�. If it�s instant runoff, that�d win by a landslide. A wait of five more years can�t hurt. It must have real public backing, not we were forced to choose between many things we don�t like. In the meantime, the interest on $ saved for five years would pay for sandblasting and area cleanup.

Keep the sailing center on the waterfront. Find a mix of year-round uses: maritime center?, environmental/community organizations/landtrust, local motion, diving center, non-motorized lake access.

First, it was used for a long time before people really knew how dangerous PCPs and certain other industrial chemicals were. So I want a good environmental clean-up, or maybe capping with clay. Then, some kind of nature area.

1. Greenspace, or 2. A facility where people can walk around inside in the winter�safe from the cold, and out of their houses for socializing with community. West facing windows, affordable eatery 2nd or 3rd floor. Ability to be open air in the summer/fall/spring. I have in mind a place for older people to gather and walk�not a mall for consuming goods ultimately.

Develop a city recreation area in conjunction with the land north of the plant. Sailing center, athletic fields, etc.

Concert/exhibition hall and museum. Combo like Firehouse and Fleming and Flynn.

Ski, snowshoe, sail center and tear down the top.

I think that the Moran Plant is an amazing structure as well as a waterfront landmark, and that it should be left in place with its existing fa�ade largely unaltered. It stands as a striking counterpoint to what I see as a move toward gentrification of the waterfront as a whole. I would like to see it used for artistic or theatrical endeavors or historic purposes.

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