Video & Transcript: Ossining DPW Site Redevelopment ENGAGEMENT SERIES: If You Lived Here, You’d be Home By Now

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Rika Levin: Good evening everyone, it is march 18 I want to make sure everybody's at the right zoom with all the zooms going on, so let's just make sure this is the dp.

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Rika Levin: dp w site housing initiative, this is number six in a series of six sessions it's the last one lovingly called um you should live here basically i'm paraphrasing.

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Rika Levin: The topic is really.

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Rika Levin: In I want to say a couple of things about it number one it's the last series of six, which means you have every opportunity.

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Rika Levin: To go back and look at the first five we did them and six sessions different topics and needs sessions environmental issues, financial issues school issues school me was my favorite headline Thank you maddie.

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Rika Levin: I actually recommend if you want to look at them in order would be great, but if one topic speaks to you louder than another.

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Rika Levin: Just choose a topic that you like, there will be a presentation down a short presentation, the more we do these the shorter they get it's really wonderful we get better and better at this and this one is about.

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Rika Levin: A question that has frequently been asked about this particular initiative initiative which is on the waterfront is how do I, how do I win the lottery, how do I get to live in what looks like a beautiful.

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Rika Levin: Housing complex on the waterfront close to the train close to lots of stuff and is it really just for ossining folks is it for anybody, etc, etc Those are two of the.

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Rika Levin: questions that we get a lot and we're hoping to answer that today, and this will be the last of the public sessions that doesn't mean the conversation stops here, we know there are a lot of conflicting.

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Rika Levin: zooms going on tonight that's Okay, the beauty of all of this is you've got a lot of wonderful people from staff from the developer.

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Rika Levin: And a couple of the trustees, as always, and to answer questions that you might have, and if you want to share it with your friends and neighbors arm, we encourage that.

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Rika Levin: it'll and we will post this and then more and more people will be able to watch it now a year from now, etc, etc, so I encourage you to even now text, some of your friends.

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Rika Levin: If you think they'd be interested in this the topic tonight, maybe about how do I get to live here but it's really more about also asking any other questions that you have.

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Rika Levin: don't feel inhibited by the topic feel free to ask comment, give us insights we've actually learned a lot on these sessions from members of our Community, you had some.

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Rika Levin: sort of different ideas about what we should look at I am there's going to be a small presentation on Karen dettori or village manager will conduct a she's the mistress of ceremony tonight, she will be conducting the presentation and bringing people on as needed.

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Rika Levin: As we finish the presentation for the Q amp a port just raise your hand on zoom if you want to comment or ask questions and feel free to ask, as many as you want so i'm going to turn this over now to Karen dettori who, if I forgot to say something will fill in the blanks.

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Rika Levin: Amateur.

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Karen Dattore: Thank you mayor, I think that we, you covered everything you're going to start our presentation so tonight as the mayor said will be telling you about.

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Karen Dattore: What the application process looks like a little bit more detail on what the amenities are, but we also have tonight we have Terry Fleischmann from the housing action Council, who represents.

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Karen Dattore: One of our foremost affordable housing nonprofits who will be here to talk terry's worked on on leasing up these types of projects for a long time.

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Karen Dattore: and has great experience and we also have Gary Friedman from from wilder balter who is.

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Karen Dattore: covers property management for the building so we'll have a lot of people who can answer all questions you may have so with that i'd like to turn it over to manage a hodge to start the presentation and we will be on our way.

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Maddi Zachacz: Oh okay.

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Maddi Zachacz: Can everyone see the screen.

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Maddi Zachacz: Okay, thank you, good evening mayor trustees everyone who's viewing so as the mayor mentioned tonight's topic is, if you lived here you'd be home by now so we're going to sort of.

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Maddi Zachacz: start with a little bit of a review of sort of where we've been the site history.

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Maddi Zachacz: What the proposed development is that we're talking about what the benefits could potentially be to the community at large and then we're going to talk about the application process.

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Maddi Zachacz: So jumping into the site history for those who are not familiar with the site, it is about a 3.4 acre site which is bounded by water street Main Street.

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Maddi Zachacz: sequel road and central avenue down to the waterfront in the village on East side of the train tracks and then from east to west side is reversed by the same same kill, which will hear more about in a little bit.

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Maddi Zachacz: The site is a contaminated brownfield site, it was used as the coal, gas plant from the.

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Maddi Zachacz: The 1850s so the 1940s and as kind of some was a prior owner who was responsible for part of that contamination they the site is subject to a consent order by the New York State Department of environmental conservation or the DC.

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Maddi Zachacz: And this thanks to our historian historian I believe trustee whites and you can see what the site used to look like here's mainstreet coming down and here's the site right in the middle here.

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Maddi Zachacz: We did a drone video that's over by village engineer Paul freely so i'm going to play that for you now which sort of gives an idea of the depth of the site, and you can kind of see where where the site is placed in the station pause and.

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30 water stream.

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This 3.4 acre parcel.

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consisting of five separate tax parcels in the village of os thing.

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Is the former home of the villages dp w facility, it is now primarily used as a transfer facility for organic waste, seeing there at the right of the video.

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and other recyclable or materials used in the pw operations.

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It is bordered by water street on the western boundary.

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Central avenue on the Northern boundary.

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and lower Main Street on the southern boundary of the parcel.

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Once completed approximately one and a half acres of green space will remain on the eastern portion of the property connected to water street through a park being constructed along the Cobra trail.

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Extending up through the green portion of the parcel.

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On the Houston most fortunate to connect pedestrians to the villages riverwalk southern connection off of central avenue.

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Access to lower Main Street.

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As well as access to the villages kill brooke riverwalk.

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will be an asset this parcel offers in addition to the affordable and workforce housing component.

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Maddi Zachacz: Alright, so moving right along i'm going to sort of move back to where we began our engagement series which is to ask why here and why this.

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Maddi Zachacz: So we're going to talk about the the proposed development.

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Maddi Zachacz: Currently, the proposed development includes a mixed use building with 109 residential units with a range of affordability from between 30 and 80% of area median income which we'll discuss further in a couple minutes.

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Maddi Zachacz: As you just heard in the video the extension of the sing sing killed greenway through the water street as part of the proposal, development, as well as a parking garage for residents with potential for an additional layer for municipal parking be built by the developer.

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Maddi Zachacz: And this is sort of a site map so again what you saw in the video.

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Maddi Zachacz: This is the existing sensical Greenland going back to the Community Center this would be the additive extension coming through the site to water street, and it also shows the proximity to the.

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Maddi Zachacz: train station, so it would be really exciting to be able to complete this trail, as it would connect the Community Center with our waterfront neighborhood.

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Maddi Zachacz: So speaking about the affordability in the building, as I mentioned, the current proposal contemplates 109 residential units what that range of affordability from between 30 and 80% Am I.

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Maddi Zachacz: And here's sort of the breakdown that's currently being proposed, so what is area median income it's determined by a set of federally mandated rules.

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Maddi Zachacz: The area median income for ossining is based on the westchester county and my numbers which you can see, below here so as you can see it's based on.

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Maddi Zachacz: household size between one and six persons and then here are the various limits of a mind so 100% of area median income is this column here.

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Maddi Zachacz: The ossining median income is around $70,177 and, as you can see here at the bottom, this is just an idea nothing set in stone, but an idea of what the rents in the proposed development might look like for studios on one bedrooms or excuse me one bedrooms two veterans and three bedrooms.

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Maddi Zachacz: Talking about the unit layout.

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Maddi Zachacz: Here are some renderings of what the proposed building I.

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Dana White: Can.

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Dana White: hear you from.

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Maddi Zachacz: street on the right hand side would be the residential up component, as well as the retail and Community space on the.

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Maddi Zachacz: bottom and then this building on the other side of.

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Dana White: The.

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Maddi Zachacz: parking structure with again potentially heart.

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rate on the top.

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Maddi Zachacz: And this is sort of a cross section of you looking down Main Street if you're familiar, this is the Little Red house at where Main Street and see course split.

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Maddi Zachacz: So you can see the building sort of nestled into that rock face there that you saw in the video so, even though the building, you know is.

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Maddi Zachacz: six six stories that at one point, you can see that it doesn't really go above the the roof of that little red house.

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Maddi Zachacz: And speaking about affordable housing in the village, generally speaking, i'm looking back at the 2017 housing needs assessment that was performed for the village.

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Maddi Zachacz: We discovered that over 59% of renters in the village of acid in our cluster burdened which means they spent greater than 30% of their income on rents of that 59% 33% of those residents were severely cost burden which means they spend a greater than 50% of their income on rent.

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Maddi Zachacz: Looking at the commercial and Community space will zoom in on this in a second.

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Maddi Zachacz: The grand for layout incorporates the retail space to sort of activate that corridor along water street and then in the back of the site.

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Maddi Zachacz: would be roughly 4000 square feet of Community space which could potentially be used by the ossining school district as flexible learning for distance learning.

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Maddi Zachacz: So you can see, here again, this is water street and so folks would be able to enter in this way to check out the retail and then would be able to walk through the site to visit the Community space and then potentially traverse.

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Maddi Zachacz: The same thing killed by a footpath to go further back on the site.

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Maddi Zachacz: As far as public amenities, we talked about the extension of this thing simple greenway and the linear park there's also consideration of a public elevator or staircase coming off of Main Street.

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Maddi Zachacz: to connect water street with our downtown and then, as we mentioned the separate parking structure would have parking for residents and.

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Maddi Zachacz: parking for the neighborhood as well in unit amenities some things that would be available to folks who lived in the building tenant controls heating and cooling and each unit.

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Maddi Zachacz: Ownership paid utilities, including electricity washer dryer hookups and each unit, but then there would also be central washer dryer room.

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Maddi Zachacz: If the tenants decided they didn't want to bring in their own washer and dryer a full appliance package an intercom communication system and privacy blinds.

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Maddi Zachacz: So now we want to look at the added Community benefit.

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Maddi Zachacz: So the developer, has proposed making all of these improvements which by wilder bolters estimate would come to about $8.6 million.

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Maddi Zachacz: including four and a half million for the brownfields remediation two and a half of the sing sing killed greenway extension about one and a half million for the municipal parking level.

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Maddi Zachacz: In addition to offering up that Community space, which again could be used by the Austrian school district in the absence of the developers investment in this way.

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Maddi Zachacz: These improvements would either never happened, or would come out of the pockets of taxpayers.

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Maddi Zachacz: To speak a little bit more about some of these added site improvements i'm going to turn it over to jack durkin of wilder Walter who's going to walk us through some of these drawings and renderings and talk a little bit more about what the site may actually look like once developed.

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Right.

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Jack Durkin: Thank you Maggie my name is Dr can I work with wilder vaulted partners i've been working with bill and Gary on this project for in the village for well over a year now.

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Jack Durkin: And I wanted to talk about a few aspects of the site, so if we could go to the next slide We saw this earlier maddie spoke a little bit about it but.

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Jack Durkin: As you can see, we really wanted to turn this site into the gateway from the village aspect of earth the village aspect of ossining down to the waterfront so we wanted to create an easy transition from the higher elevation of the village down to the lower elevation of the waterfront.

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Jack Durkin: As you can see, on the map here the site is a three to five minute walk from the train station.

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Jack Durkin: And the proposed public greenway extension encompasses the forestry aspect of the site that we wanted to maintain, as you know, a large portion of the site now is already currently.

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Jack Durkin: Forestry it's obviously been concluded in our linear Park, where the public can enjoy many of the outdoor retail and entity components of the site that we are proposing, so if we go to the next slide.

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Jack Durkin: The development, the major development portion of the site is located on the western end closest to water street.

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Jack Durkin: All of the parking is located on the Northern side of the sinks in kill brooke and the residential retail and Community spaces located on the southern side.

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Jack Durkin: With a connecting bridge between the two buildings that makes for a seamless transition between the two, and really.

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Jack Durkin: Really, creating that linear park that we're trying to you know we're trying to bring the public into.

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Jack Durkin: If you take a look at the residential building the building terraces up from water street and sets back into the hill as maddie said earlier.

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Jack Durkin: That creates to private terraces for the residents of the building to enjoy that will be included in the amenities, of the building and, as you can see, we have solar panels on our roof that will contribute to a good portion of the energy usage of the building.

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Jack Durkin: The next slide is the ground floor plan again, it shows the two buildings that face and on each other, we placed all the public amenities, and the Community space fronting the linear park.

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Jack Durkin: This allows the public usage to almost activate the linear park aspect of the development and kind of creates an inviting and open space feel that we really want to promote and bring people into the site.

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Jack Durkin: If you take a look the positioning of the spaces, the retail is closest to water street kind of invites people in and then, if you then it transitions to the amenity and the lobby space and then farthest in on the site is the Community space and we put that there for.

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Jack Durkin: more of a specific reason, and you know that's going to be a very heavily used portion of the development and.

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Jack Durkin: You know, we put it in the back, so it brings a majority of the people as far into the site as possible, and you know kind of creating a good Community feel that we want to you know transform the site into so if we go to the.

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Jack Durkin: Next slide there's some before and after renderings.

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Jack Durkin: and keep in mind, these are all early, you know very early on renderings um they're very preliminary but, if we take a look at the first photo.

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Jack Durkin: This is currently or this was taken back in the fall, this is what the site currently looks like right now so where this photo was taken you're standing on the corner of water street in central lab.

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Jack Durkin: Looking at the existing dp w building the sing sing kill brooke is almost directly on the other side of it and it flows through the site and actually underneath water street.

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Jack Durkin: And then, on the other side of the kill will be where the residential building will be located, so if we go to the next slide.

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Jack Durkin: This is kind of transformative on what the site would look like, if you were standing in the same places that have that have that previous photo the parking garage is in a similar location to the existing D pw building.

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Jack Durkin: If you take a look past the parking garage we have newly reinforced canal walls between the two buildings that kind of creates a more centralized location of the brook.

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Jack Durkin: And then the residential building is obviously, on the other side.

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Jack Durkin: And as you can see there's a very inviting ground floor to bring you into the retail.

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Jack Durkin: And lobby and the Community space portion of the building the next slide is if you're if you're standing at the main entrance of the dp w yard, right now, as you can see.

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Jack Durkin: The garage is on the left the canal is right there in the Center of the photo and then on the right is the current transfer station for the dp who.

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Jack Durkin: If you go to the next slide this would be taken from the same view looking into the site down the linear park.

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Jack Durkin: As you can see, we rebuilt, or we are going to rebuild the retaining walls on the side of the brook and it really cleans it up, and you know, makes it a little bit.

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Jack Durkin: Better on the eyes for people that are going to be in the site.

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Jack Durkin: It creates an accessible access point from water street that you know kind of pulls you into the site, from this point of view, the retail is directly on your right, and then, as you work your way in you go through the the amenities lobby and community.

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Jack Durkin: The next slide.

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Jack Durkin: Is the current dp w transfer yard it's the most open portion of the site right now arm from this from where this photos taken the sinks in kell brook is directly behind me.

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Jack Durkin: And you know this is like I said, the most open portion of the site and where the where the main part of the residential building will be located, so if we go to the next slide.

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Jack Durkin: it's from a point of view that's just located a little bit further into the site.

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Jack Durkin: and

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Jack Durkin: As you can see, on your right is the main entrance to the lobby and the and the amenity space and then, if you look a little bit farther down where that glass portion of the building jumps out a little bit, that is, the Community space.

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Jack Durkin: And if you look really far into the back, that is the end of the proposed sing sing kill extension so as we start to talk about that we'll go to the next slide.

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Jack Durkin: And this is the current natural landscape, if you were standing right outside of the Community, space and the proposed building.

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Jack Durkin: This, as you can see in the back, is the current central of arch way that goes underneath central lab and right on the other side of that archways the is the ending point of the current syncing kill greenway which, like I said we're going to be extending so if we go to the next slide.

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Jack Durkin: We can take a look at the extension that goes underneath the arch way and traverses down the sinks in kell brook and it concludes right in the end of our linear park.

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Jack Durkin: This is the to us, one of the more exciting aspects of the development, because it really creates a strong very strong Community benefit to the village that like I said earlier, transition from the village down to the waterfront.

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Jack Durkin: So with that, I just wanted to go to the next slide.

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Jack Durkin: Next slide here, this is i'm going to go over two of our developments, one is current that is being occupied in us and the other one is under construction, this is tropical crossing.

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Jack Durkin: Many of you may recognize this building, as the iconic reader's digest headquarters, also known as the kula building this development serves both marker rate and mixed income families turning we turn the historic building into 64 rental apartments.

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Jack Durkin: it's mixed income rents range from 40% to 90% of the westchester area median income, if we go to the next slide just shows a drone shot, this is taken directly behind.

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Jack Durkin: The drone right now is the sawmill river parkway obviously you can see a better portion of the building.

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Jack Durkin: And then behind it is the complex where there's a whole foods in the gym and parking spaces for the public and and the residents next photo.

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Jack Durkin: is just another view of the building, as you can see, we have a courtyard out front of the building this is taken on the other side, so now the samba will report ways behind it um and you know we have a great courtyard for the public and our residents to enjoy when the weather's Nice.

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Jack Durkin: The next slide is 645 Main Street.

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Jack Durkin: This is located in peekskill New York and is currently under construction and we took a blighted site that was under utilized very similar to Austin.

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Jack Durkin: And we're constructing at two affordable rental apartments this development will serve 100% affordable 40 to 80% of the westchester area median income similar to ossining this site is also a brownfield site achieving track one and track for.

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Jack Durkin: track for cleanup and the design criteria of the building includes a lead for homes gold and energy star.

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Jack Durkin: which basically makes a building extremely tight and highly efficient which we aim for, and all of our new developments Austin will be the same way.

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Jack Durkin: So if we go to the first rendering just shows a different view of the building taken from Main Street from Main Street there's only three residential floors.

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Jack Durkin: And if you go to the next slide.

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Jack Durkin: it's taken from it's a drone shot taken from central lab, as you can see there's a huge grade change in the site and we take advantage of that similar to what we're doing in Austin.

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Jack Durkin: And we're creating three levels of parking underneath four levels of the residential portion of the building similar to Austin we have a green space for the you know for the residents to enjoy and on the roof will be 100% solar so.

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Jack Durkin: it's a very green building so with that i'll hand it back over to maddie.

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Jack Durkin: And I appreciate everyone's time.

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Maddi Zachacz: Okay, thanks Jeff.

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Maddi Zachacz: So I want to talk quickly about the proposed pilot, which is a payment and blue of taxes.

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Maddi Zachacz: that's been proposed for the development currently as the property is owned by the village of ossining, it is not on the tax rolls which means it's generating no tax revenue today.

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Maddi Zachacz: As an all affordable development, the revenue would be constrained by the rent roll so even in the absence of the pilot the estimated annual tax bill for this kind of an affordable development as proposed.

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Maddi Zachacz: would be lower than a similarly constructed market rate development.

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Maddi Zachacz: However, while the proposed pilot is still under review and it's going to require some negotiation between the village and the developer.

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Maddi Zachacz: The final number is anticipated to me roughly 70% of what the developer would pay if the property working fully taxed.

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Maddi Zachacz: The pilot would also include a built in cost escalator to ensure the annual payments to the village, the town in the school increased where the rates similar to or higher than the consumer price index, and right now.

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Maddi Zachacz: we're looking at about two and a half percent increase So what does that mean the anticipated pilot revenues, you can see here.

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Maddi Zachacz: Just against sort of a jumping off point nothing set in stone, so the proposed pilot and your one would be about 220 $8,900 as compared to what the property tax revenues might be if the building we're fully tax.

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Maddi Zachacz: Based on what the town assessor has projected the property would would be worth.

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Maddi Zachacz: A pilot on the site actually adds revenue to each taxing jurisdictions annual budget because it's new money remember the property is not on a taxable currently.

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Maddi Zachacz: So the same development without a pilot would simply disperse the tax levy over wider pool of assessment, this is actually new money being injected into the budgets of the village town and school districts.

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Maddi Zachacz: And finally, the pilot duration, the developers indicated the need for a 30 year pilot to align with the types of financing required, however, the retail component of the building will not be subject to the pilot.

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Maddi Zachacz: Over the third once the 30 years has elapsed, the building will be added to the taxable will be treated like any other commercial property where it will be assessed, based on the income and expenses.

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Maddi Zachacz: Over the course of the 30 year pilot the development is expected to generate over $10 million for the various taxing entities involved inclusive of the annual payment escalator.

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Maddi Zachacz: i'm going to now turn it over to village manager Karen dettori who is going to talk a little bit about the application process for development.

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Karen Dattore: In humanity, so you want to apply.

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Karen Dattore: An affirmative um so so we'll talk a little bit about how we're going to market this building, so that you'll know when it's time to apply we're still probably some time away from that.

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Karen Dattore: But an affirmative action fair affirmative fair housing marketing plan will be created collect potential tenants know that these rental units are available, once the project is completed.

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Karen Dattore: The purpose of the plan is to reduce segregation and encourage integration in housing, by promoting housing.

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Karen Dattore: choice and opportunities, regardless of one's protected characteristics under Federal and State housing law So what does that mean this really talks about the fair housing act so.

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Karen Dattore: That, if you want to just forward yet so the federal fair housing act states that a person may not be discriminated against.

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Karen Dattore: And this is true for all housing because of their race color religion national origin sex disability or familial status, including families with minor children.

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Karen Dattore: Pregnant women and adults in the process of obtaining custody of their minor child.

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Karen Dattore: In addition, the New York state human rights law provides additional protection based on age marital status military status.

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Karen Dattore: Sexual orientation gender identity and lawful source of income, so this means that you could you may have other subsidies through maybe a housing choice voucher.

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Karen Dattore: That contribute to your income, this would not disqualify you provided you fell into the income requirements based on on the Am I that are identified for the unit you'd be applying for so.

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Karen Dattore: The affirmative marketing is it requires developers to engage in targeting people who are least likely to apply, so this makes sure that.

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Karen Dattore: You really are ensuring that there is no discrimination in the housing market and so there's a lot of work done to make sure that people are aware.

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Karen Dattore: Of the available and available affordable housing opportunities and this requirement applies to all multifamily housing.

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Karen Dattore: That receives funding through the housing finance agency, the housing Trust Fund corporation, and the division of housing and Community renewal.

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Karen Dattore: at New York state, and this is a building that will receive such funding so it's going to be important that it's marketed broadly again to make sure people who need the housing and are eligible to housing know about housing.

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Karen Dattore: In addition to that, we will be marketing list building heavily in Austin.

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Karen Dattore: And we have a lot of resources and ability to get the word out to people in ossining who will need this housing, who would potentially qualify for this housing and will be working closely with our housing voucher program which has a fairly extensive list and and.

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Karen Dattore: we'll be able to make sure that people who would qualify based on their income levels could will know about this and will be able to apply so.

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Karen Dattore: that's Another important feature, because we do want us being residents who will benefit from this building or could benefit from it, to know about it so.

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Karen Dattore: that'll all be part of the marketing initiative.

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Karen Dattore: And how will this work, so the initial tenant selection process for this this type of building must be made on a random basis.

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Karen Dattore: through the use of a lottery system, so this wouldn't be first come, first serve it would be by use of a lottery basis.

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Karen Dattore: And a lottery is conducted will be conducted by independent third party affordable housing nonprofit and we have carrie fleischmanns here tonight.

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Karen Dattore: To answer any questions you may have she's from the housing action Council and they've administered many, many, many lotteries for for programs like these over the years.

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Karen Dattore: People will be able to apply for the lottery by a stated deadline that deadline will be publicized people will be encouraged to apply and once that deadline is met.

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Karen Dattore: them a lottery will start, but the application process when you apply for the lottery you'll be asked to include personal information.

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Karen Dattore: For yourself and members of your family your household as well as verification of your income and there'll be other questions, too, but it's it's a pretty straightforward process.

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Karen Dattore: If you are selected and you meet all the necessary qualifications, you will then be eligible to get an apartment and you'll be able.

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Karen Dattore: At that point, if you decide you, you want one, you will be eligible, and you will be able to move in if you decide I got something else, or I don't this isn't really for me, you will not be obligated to move in and the lateral move into the next person on the list.

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Karen Dattore: So that takes us through the presentation, so we now we come to the part where.

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Karen Dattore: You can ask questions we don't have a lot of people here tonight, but again, this will be videotaped so who's ever here, you can tell your friends.

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Karen Dattore: To to view the link on or view the video rather and again, you can always contact us, so we have the project timeline.

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Karen Dattore: We don't have dates yet we're working on that, but we have selected the preferred developer that's wilder balter associates.

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Karen Dattore: Right now, and we're in the public engagement phase, and we will be developing a land acquisition disposition agreement which is called a ladder, which is an agreement between the village and the developer, then there's a pretty intense environmental review and.

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Karen Dattore: site plan approval by the planning board the environmental advocacy Advisory Council will be involved in looking at this project is going as it goes forward and the Board will be involved in issues special permits and implementing the lab agreement so.

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Karen Dattore: Again, this is the second week, this is a series of sex where we're in the we're in the final final season, right now, but please you can these are all on our website, you can get them at there's also a specific sub site ossining dp w site COM and just.

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Karen Dattore: You we don't have subsequent meetings coming on this again, this is our final one, but again everything's viewable online, and you can reach us anytime the website will give you the phone number and.

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Karen Dattore: The.

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Karen Dattore: The emails to contact us about the site, so thank you.

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Karen Dattore: And now we want to hear from you.

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Karen Dattore: If anybody here tonight, has any questions we're going to turn it over to to our audience.

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Omar Lopez: As folks are finding the raise your hand icon on zoom I want to.

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Omar Lopez: thank the staff for putting this together, all of these This is truly the high watermark for public engagement with any kind of project that we've had here the village, and so I want to thank.

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Omar Lopez: maddie and Jaime and Karen and Jamie and Stuart on the village side i'm sure i'm sure i'm forgetting people my colleagues on the board our friends at wilder balter associates.

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Omar Lopez: Because it's a lot of behind the scenes work that makes something like this happen so smoothly.

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Omar Lopez: I also want to emphasize on the board side our level of excitement over this project This truly is.

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Omar Lopez: The cornerstone of what we see the waterfront revitalization I becoming like this can.

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Omar Lopez: I do a lot, I really turn a space in our village, which has historically been an African American Community and restore it to a place that is even bigger and better than it was before.

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Omar Lopez: And I, in the last year and some change we've had so much tough news it's really i'm one of the things that has me most grateful for being.

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Omar Lopez: In this vision that i'm in working with all my colleagues here to work for a better ossining, and this is how you do it it's through projects like this that create opportunities for people to.

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Omar Lopez: Not just find somewhere to live by these kind of affordable affordable housing options, I have downstream effects I that really have.

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Omar Lopez: A big impact on our Community, they affect that education quality that our students have the effect the local businesses, they affect the environment they affect the way of life of everyone here in the village will have better access i'd.

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Omar Lopez: greenway and Main Street, and so this is a big deal and as we kind of go through each one of these steps, I never want to lose sight of how big of a difference this will make once it's up and running.

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Karen Dattore: Thank you trustee Lopez, we are indeed excited so I see, we have a few people in our audience hey does anybody have any questions, please feel free to raise your hand and we will be happy to answer any questions might have.

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Jaimie Hoffman: there's also a Q amp.

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Jaimie Hoffman: A box, if you wanted to ask your question anonymously.

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Karen Dattore: Oh um.

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Karen Dattore: If nobody has any questions like we're all yours tonight, this is a really a concierge presentation, so if you have any questions we've got everybody here so now's the time.

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Karen Dattore: But it doesn't look like anybody has any questions so seeing no questions, I want to thank everybody for coming this evening and again.

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Jaimie Hoffman: We were in wait.

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Karen Dattore: Wait We already have a.

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Jaimie Hoffman: q&a you happy today i'm sorry to interrupt you.

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Karen Dattore: Okay, this is from this will wilder balter manage the property over the next 30 years so Mr Friedman i'm going to turn this over to you to lead to talk about the management.

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Karen Dattore: process at Walter Walter hash.

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Garry Friedland: Thank you i'm very fine i'm the chief operating Officer of water.

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Garry Friedland: I want to thank in their trustees and ability, after this opportunity um we are integrated company or developer general contractor kind of property management company.

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Garry Friedland: it's all the same ownership it's all bill balter and we manage all of the photo communities that we built and we're managing properties that.

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Garry Friedland: Bob wilder.

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Garry Friedland: goes partner developed over 30 years ago.

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Garry Friedland: Part of being an affordable housing business is that we have sources of money that come into these properties and we have to deliver a whole lot of things, a good product quality compliance and we typically managing them forever.

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Garry Friedland: Well, the affordable developments that we currently manage through developed by our company.

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Garry Friedland: Would blah blah, but before you make the world at 30 years ago to give you an idea of the longevity of them, so all of them are managed by us, you don't do any third party management for other people, and we don't have any third party manager.

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Karen Dattore: Thank you for that answer um any other questions you can feel free to type them in or you can raise your hand and we'll bring you over, and you can ask them.

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Karen Dattore: You okay with that I think we're going to come.

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Jaimie Hoffman: Oh i'm sorry it was just a there was another piece to the question.

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Karen Dattore: Thank you, one of the more interesting ideas is an elevator connect between the town in the train, can you give us more on that so an elevator is is a consideration of this building or staircase jack maybe you want to talk a little bit about that.

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Jack Durkin: yeah sure um You know, as I said earlier, everything is definitely in a preliminary design, so we don't have any idea where it's going to be located or.

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Jack Durkin: anything like that that is involved in the site, but you know, as I, as I pointed on during, you know as we went through the renderings our main objective is to connect the village, to the waterfront and as every resident of Austin knows, there is a drastic grade change and sometimes walking.

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Jack Durkin: down or up Main Street can be a little tiring so one of the main aspects that we wanted to include in the site was a to make that walk easier and one of those things is.

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Jack Durkin: You know, is a is a public elevator so as we get further into development and the plans and drawings, you know more details will be released on the details of the elevator but for now that's kind of the main motive behind it.

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Karen Dattore: Great Thank you so much um.

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Karen Dattore: Any additional questions feel free i'll give a couple of.

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Karen Dattore: minutes for typing so.

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Jaimie Hoffman: Think you're in good shape Karen.

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Jaimie Hoffman: Okay.

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Karen Dattore: With that um I think that I want to thank everybody who's here tonight, thank the people who who joined us again, we know that lots of people watch these videos so.

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Karen Dattore: If anybody watching out there has questions, please contact us the information is on the site of how to contact about if you have any questions about this project and again.

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Karen Dattore: Thank you, Terry Fleischmann Thank you Gary you jack from Walter Walter and to my colleagues and board members, thank you very much.

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Jack Durkin: Thank you goodnight.

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goodnight.

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