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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEnvironmental Review Committee February 13, 1996MEMORANDUM TO: Candace Cornell, Chairperson and Members of the Town of Ithaca Planning Board FROM: Eva Hoffmann, for the Members of the Town of Ithaca Environmental Review Committee (ERC) DATE: February 14, 1996 RE: Project No. 9601187, Ithaco Renovations at Axiohm Building 950 Danby Road The ERC members appreciate the opportunity to review this development proposal for any possible environmental concerns. Based on the material available to the ERC at the February 13, 1996 meeting, we have the following comments: This project involves only interior renovations to an existing building and we see no negative or positive effects on the environment as a result of this project. MEMORANDUM TO: Candace Cornell, Chairperson and Members of the Town of Ithaca Planning Board FROM: Eva Hoffmann, for the Members of the Town of Ithaca Environmental Review Committee (ERC) DATE: February 14, 1996 RE: Project No. 9601186, Cornell Library Storage Facility, Palm Road (off Route 366) The ERC members appreciate the opportunity to review this development proposal for any possible environmental concerns. Based on the material available to the ERC at the February 13, 1996 meeting, we have the following comments: This is a proposal for the existing Library Annex, and although it applies only to the first of the two anticipated expansions, it would be appropriate to discuss the possible effects of the second expansion at this time. The major concerns the ERC has with this proposal revolve around drainage and erosion during and after construction. The location for the proposed addition lies in a depression mainly to the east and somewhat to the north of the existing building. It is surrounded to the north, east and south by large raised areas that appear to be fill. There is concern that drainage to the building from the surrounding areas be constructed and directed in such a way as to prevent moisture problems in the building while at the same time, without creating problems from drainage, erosion and excessive runoff into the existing and proposed ponds in the area as well as into Cascadilla Creek. The drawings, as presented to the ERC, show two different configurations for parking north' of the Library Annex. Members of the ERC expressed concern with regards to the amount of fill which will need to be moved as a result of constructing the parking area and the possible new entrances from Palm Road. In addition, the question of drainage for the parking lot and entrance drives, both during and after construction, was raised. The Town of Ithaca has recently seen plans for the former landfill area south and east of the Library Annex. The ERC questions the possible soil disturbances and drainage plans as a result of the proposed Library Annex project and how this project may affect the plans already approved for the landfill site. The ERC would like to see an overall plan for how drainage, erosion and runoff will be handled in a coordinated way with these two projects. ERC Comments CU Library Annex Expansion February 14, 1996 Other questions and concerns of the ERC with regards to this project are: In view of the fact that so few people are expected to use the expanded library facility, the ERC questions the need for 20 additional parking spaces (as indicated on the Site Plan dated January 25, 1996). The layout on page 4 of the 10/18/95 draft of the Site Design Criteria: Library Annex Addition, indicates an even larger parking area. 2. The ERC questions the beginning and end of the "major through street" as mentioned in the text and indicated on page 4 of the 10/18/95 Site Design Criteria submitted by the applicant. 3. The ERC would like to see photos or similar materials to be able to determine the visual impact of the building and its additions after construction and landscaping, especially as they might be seen from the Cascadilla Creek Recreation Way and from McGowan Woods. 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Now 'g8'that was a bad summer. That was a summer and a half, I can tell y6u, I was in Iceland that summer. I was just getting into the swim of what some critics have been kind enough to call my great work on the Sagas. Great work—ah, indeed. Mind you, I've always disclaimed the word "great." I've always said, call the work distinguished if you like, bu`t,it's not for me to approve of the higher appellation. However, they insisted. Where was I? (TO LEWIS)' Don't tell me! (Triumphantly) Eliot! Lewis Eliot! Ha! You see! I've night, my dear chap. And good-bye spring. Good-bye till the spring/, ooc (Assisted by MARTIN and,: FFING you taped! Well, good - )u all—good-bye till the good-bye.... GAY totters out.) WINSLOW �.+ WINSLOW In Iceland. \\\ Let us hope that spr' g will be a little late this year. GAY (He goes 0 t after GAY.) Precisely. That's where I was, that bitter summer of 'g8. And do you know what I found when I got there? Why, it was fiftee de- TOM grees warmer in Rejkjavik than in our unfortunate Cambridge! t. As soon as they are alone) (To LEWIS) ewis, I've been wanting to say this all evening. I really do most Do you mind telling me your name? humbly apologise for— LEWIS r %(ARTHUR BROWN, the Senior Tutor, hurries in through an inner I'm Lewis Eliot. per, which leads to the Master's Lodge. BROWN is sixty-three, plu7n and a bit of a buffer, but shrewd and obstinate. He carries GAY his gow Have you any connection with the College? Q! LEWIS I'm a former Fellow. GAY I congratulate you. Well, I must be o my way. (He struggles up.) I wonder if two of you young men would be kind enough to escor me to a taxi. :++ (MARTIN and sKEFFINGTON take an arm each.) Ah, thank you. Thank you indeed. BROWN N (Warmly, to L My dear old friend! LEWIS Arthur! BROWN Getliffe told me you were here but the Master had the Vice -Chan- e ""'e You to dinner, and i was co-opted for coffee. Ah, but it's good to you In this room again. lie �Yl��c� ��s ce kt 2 G r�m-� vi d' �C (�. fb �e e (�� s-� &L"r w�f 1 u �.� vU,� G1 Cie 1,'�CL`� a I r h` �"WS Lowv�e cep �r mv�t '19�s� ew 61n eP�,`v�y 2 1 Ufa^�fiV tl � "-� �,,,/I � 0. 4A-&. &zp- d-,,,✓ tt 4/i tv CL k -ere �e. C c w cu c� �e en J l� f )JZ , ciK _ qs cG� Ihr/� CGt�c� �►L "� ��iW�h ( fDa�2 L% r�� 'o!`�/SCS d..IA-. e4l),L� e..19 -ie `Ib�L i h • a_t,� ,nom, `un cC `�1 U V L, D2- �� 32 THE AFFAIR ACT I • Scene Il 33 �M TIN Thank you, thank you. Ah! Port. There's a drink and a half, if ever Decembert • twentieth. there was one. (He drinks.) WINSLOW Yes, well, I suppose I sh4ll have to assist, in the French sense, at that Capital. ceremony. But I'm happy that this time I can't see even this (To LEWIS) College being so imbecile as to -make a wrong choice. Francis Getliffe Evill do it very well. Excuse me. Do you mind telling me ur name? LEWIS SKEFFINGTON I'm Lewis Eliot. I seem to remember having heard Arthur Br n's name mentioned. GAY WINSLOW Indeed. Hav ou any connection with the ,College? My dear Skeffington, Arthur Brown's name was mention last time. Largely, I fear, by Arthur Brown. Is ' a former Fellow. LEWIS GAY Getliffe is generally agreed on, is he? I congratulate you. Let me persuade you, Sir, to have a glass of this excellent wine. WINSLOW I've scarcely thought the matter worth conversation. T worthy (To the room at large) Brown is patently anon -starter by the side of Fran ' Getliffe. I don know whether you realize it, but this is positively my last appearan gbefore my annual hibernation. Yes, each year I hibernate GAY for the worst\of the winter. Indeed I do. You won't see me in Col- lege again till th spring. I am no longer as young as I used to be. (Who has suddenly woken up) So I retire to my o n inglenook for the winter, and I listen to the You've forgotten me. great gales roaring ove the Fens and I say to myself, "That's a gale and a half. I'd rather be here I am than out at sea." WINSLOW My dear Gay, had no idea you were planning to stand for the -, TOM Mastership %% It's damn nearly as bad in the summ these days. d;+. GAY GAY The port. You've missed me out. Where is the y`lhat's that? What does he say? Mastership? No, no. Port?MARTIN Ic,s 1 been a bad y (The port is passed, and he fills his glass.) summer this year.