In an unanimous vote, the City of Buffalo's Planning Board voted to table the Elmwood Village hotel Proposal, postponing voting on legislation for up to thirty days. However, Evelyn Bencinich, a resident of Granger Place and whose house would be located directly behind the hotel said, "My property value will be depreciated or non-existant because no one is going to want to live behind a multi-story hotel. We are facing up to a year of noisey and dangerous demolition and construction. Children, pets and even drunk rebellers could wander on site and get hurt. Traffic tie-ups caused by large machinery and garbage bins is inevitable. Where will pedestrians walk? We could experience increased unsanitary flooding in our yards and basements due to the digging and cementing for the underground parking garage. Rats will be displaced into the immediate neighborhoods and be in great abundance. Onced we get past the year of nightmare construction, what if you build it and they don't come? We could ultimately have a seven million dollar rooming house on our corner." At one point Board member Susan Curran Hoyt said, "we know you've cut down your number of rooms on this project, but we still see it doesn't seem to fit the desciption of a 'botique' hotel," and asked Eva Hassett, Vice President of Savarino Construction, "we wonder if you could reduce the rooms further." "One thing I didn't talk about was the price levels of these rooms and that will be important to know. The room rate will be somewhere between one-hundered and twenty and one-hundred and sixty dollars a night which is about the same price of the Hampton Inn down town and the smaller you make the hotel, the more expensive the rooms will get. We believe that we've made a good compromise in terms of the size of the hotel and perhaps botique means different things to different people," said Hassett. "We are exploring several possibilites with respect to additional parking for valet and parking near-by," replied Hassett. "We are also exploring the possibility of using the rear of 1105 Elmwood for additional parking, which would give us an additional ten or eleven spaces." The new design has a total of fifty five parking spaces for seventy-two rooms, with thirty-nine of them underground and the rest on ground level. Hassett also said that a "parking study" will be done on the area. __NOTOC__ Although this is the old proposal, the new design will still be the same amount of distance from the property.  Concerns that the second floor of the hotel will be too close to the property of 605 Forest were also brought up. The board asked how far the hotel would be from the property and Karl Frizlen replied saying it would "be approximately five feet from the property line," but he also admitted that, "I do not know exactly how close the house next door" will be from the hotel, but did say "I think the house is about four or five feet away from the property line and we [the hotel] sit right on the property line." Common Council also tables hotel proposal The city 's Common Council also agreed to table the proposal also citing the need for more public engagement and the need for more organizations to respond including the Buffalo Preservation Board and the Office of Historic Preservation. The The common Council is expected to meet and hold a public hearing about the project and the rezoning of the properties to be demolished (1119-1121 Elmwood) on Tuesday March 7, 2006 at 2: 00p .m. in Council Chambers at City Hall. At the moment the properties are not zoned for a hotel. Related Wikinews External Links Citywide Design and Site Plan, Article XXVIII(PDF). These are the guidelines that any proposed development in the Elmwood Village should follow before development, during and after.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Category:Economy and business Category:North America Category:United States Category:New York Category:Buffalo, New Yor
In an unanimous vote, the City of Buffalo's Planning Board voted to table the Elmwood Village hotel Proposal, postponing voting on legislation for up to 30 days. However, Evelyn Bencinich, a resident of Granger Place and whose house would be located directly behind the hotel said, "My property value will be depreciated or non-existent because no one is going to want to live behind a multi-story hotel. We are facing up to a year of noisy and dangerous demolition and construction. Children, pets and even drunk rebellers could wander on site and get hurt. Traffic tie-ups caused by large machinery and garbage bins is inevitable. Where will pedestrians walk? We could experience increased unsanitary flooding in our yards and basements due to the digging and cementing for the underground parking garage. Rats will be displaced into the immediate neighborhoods and be in great abundance. Once we get past the year of nightmare construction, what if you build it and they don't come? We could ultimately have a seven million dollar rooming house on our corner." At one point Board member Susan Curran Hoyt said, "we know you've cut down your number of rooms on this project, but we still see it doesn't seem to fit the description of a 'botique' hotel," and asked Eva Hassett, Vice President of Savarino Construction, "we wonder if you could reduce the rooms further." "One thing I didn't talk about was the price levels of these rooms and that will be important to know. The room rate will be somewhere between US$120 and $160 a night, which is about the same price of the Hampton Inn down town and the smaller you make the hotel, the more expensive the rooms will get. We believe that we've made a good compromise in terms of the size of the hotel and perhaps botique means different things to different people," said Hassett. "We are exploring several possibilities with respect to additional parking for valet and parking near-by," replied Hassett. "We are also exploring the possibility of using the rear of 1105 Elmwood for additional parking, which would give us an additional ten or eleven spaces." The new design has a total of 55 parking spaces for 72 rooms, with 39 of them underground and the rest on ground level. Although this is the old proposal, the new design will still be the same amount of distance from the property. Hassett also said that a "parking study" will be done on the area. Concerns that the second floor of the hotel will be too close to the property of 605 Forest were also brought up. The board asked how far the hotel would be from the property and Karl Frizlen replied saying it would "be approximately five feet from the property line," but he also admitted that, "I do not know exactly how close the house next door" will be from the hotel, but did say "I think the house is about four or five feet away from the property line and we [the hotel] sit right on the property line." Common Council also tables hotel proposal The City 's Common Council also agreed to table the proposal also citing the need for more public engagement and the need for more organizations to respond including the Buffalo Preservation Board and the Office of Historic Preservation. The Common Council is expected to meet and hold a public hearing about the project and the rezoning of the properties to be demolished (1119-1121 Elmwood) on Tuesday March 7, 2006 at 2: 00 p .m. in Council Chambers at City Hall. At the moment the properties are not zoned for a hotel. Related %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% news
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