HomeMy WebLinkAbout1992-07-27 92-373 ORDERCOUNCIL ACTION
Item No. 92-373
Date .lulu 15. 1992
Item/Subject: Designation of Maine Business Enterprise Park as a
blighted area.
Responsible Department: Community 6 Economic Development
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This Order designates the Maine Business Enterprise Park (MET) as
a blighted area under criteria established by Maine statues, and
qualifies the park for the expenditure of CDBG funds to correct
blighting conditions. CDBG funds to construct a new street in the
park are part of the local match for State Sobs Bond funds recently
awarded for development of the park.
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Amip�ed co Couns9m Blanchette, July 27, 1992
CITY OF BANGOR
(TITLE) (100FSa Rtelgrxtrng the Maine Business Enterprise Park (Ms) a
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B11 kited Area
By the Cita Cssuil of Me CHH' ofBases. -
ORDERED,
THAT WHEREAS, the City of Bangor hue created the Maine
Business Enterprise Park to redevelop certain portions of the former
Dow Air Force Base at the southern end of Maine Avenue, near Hammond
Street, totalling 79.91 acres of land and encompassing land areas,
formerly and presently leased to the University of Maine, land
occupied by General Aviation facilities and various abutting empty
lots and vacant buildings, as delineated on the attached map,
Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, the redevelopment project envisions r owing
uneconomic structures, creating workable roadway accesses and
utility infrastructure to create a najor new business development
park that will provide new and significantispact to the area's
economic base through payrolls, business activity and taxes; and
WHEREAS, the park contains 21 so-called "temporary
woodframe buildings erected by the U.S.A.F. during and immediately
after World War II, which have long since outlived their ecowmic
lives, and are no longer suitable for present day office use and
requirements, and present a deterrent to the highest and best use
and redevelopment of the park and the redavelopeant plan requires
denolltion and removal of all the wcodframe structures; and
WHEREAS, the "temporary woodframe structures are
generally in poor or dilapidated condition, extremely unsightly,
have interior layouts and conditions which do not meet current
building codes and represent a serious fire risk; antl
WHEREAS, the park contains a mase of streets, most of
which are unnecessary and require removal by the redevelopment plan,
and which are in poor and deteriorated condition, which do not meet
current municipal requirements for public ways and which provide
extremely poor traffic flow; and
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WHEREAS, the park contains electrical, water and sewer
systema which are obsolete, inadequate and in poor or questionable
condition; and -
WHEREAS, there is a serious uneconomic use of land and
there is a great need for redevelopment for proper access and
traffic flow, parking, use of empty land and provision of open
space; and
WHEREAS, Building 592, an unattractive bare metal, sloped
roof, garage type structure, Building 5115, the GeneralAviation
Hanger, the General Aviation Terminal, a gasoline/service station
and the former military R%/Commissary buildings are unattractive
and/or deteriorated and in need of rehabilitation, redevelopment or
removal; and
WHEREAS,. federal, state and private funds are available
.for the removal of blighting conditions, replacement of uneconomic,
obsolete and Inadequate facilities and infrastructure, and for the
development of econosic base enhancing facilities;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDERED BY the City Council of the
City of Bangor that it is hereby found and .determined that the Maine
-Business Enterprise Park is a blighted area as defined in 30
M.R.S.A. S 4852(1) and is hereby designated as such.
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In City Council .lnly 27, 1992 Oeaignating the Rine Busineaa Enterprise
F6//ae%7ed �n Perk (M P) a Bli9hte Area
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