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Essex Junction staff outline updates: train station upgrades, pocket park, hotel and housing-planning developments
Summary
Planning staff updated the Development Review Board on multiple city projects, including a $3 million Amtrak platform accessibility project, progress on a pocket park design, the Lincoln Hall and Brownell Library reroofing schedule, temporary certificate of occupancy issued for the new hotel (Spark by Hilton) with landscaping outstanding, CCRPC's
At the June 9 special meeting, Essex Junction planning staff briefed the Development Review Board on a package of development updates affecting the village center and surrounding areas.
Planning staff said the Amtrak platform accessibility project remains a federal undertaking on its own timeline and will include a platform upgrade; separately, the city has a roughly $3,000,000 station-upgrade project focused on shelter space and aesthetic improvements around the Amtrak station. “Given that the building is owned by the railroad, not by the city of Essex Junction, and they’ve been clear that this project cannot make direct adjustments of the building,” planning staff said, noting that a large portion of the consultant budget will be used to extend…
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