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Council delays sale of East Fayette Street property amid questions about new Station 7 and outreach to nearby disability housing
Summary
Syracuse City Council held consideration of selling the East Fayette Street parcel to allow more discussion of where a replacement Station 7 would be sited and to resolve outreach concerns raised about adjacent Welch Terrace disability housing, officials said.
The Syracuse City Council postponed action on the proposed sale of the East Fayette Street property to allow further discussions about siting a replacement Station 7 and outreach to nearby residents. Council members said they would convene additional meetings before moving forward.
Councilor Rotem Hogan said he would hold the item so the administration and council could “regroup” and discuss the sale together with long‑term plans for a new fire station. "I am gonna hold this," Hogan said, asking administration staff to return with more information about possible alternative parcels for a future station.
Fire Chief Mike Monza confirmed the department has identified other parcels in the area but said funding, not land availability, has been the primary constraint. "There definitely is property in that area that we were looking at. It was just the funding," Monza said. He added that department and administration representatives would need to meet with council to align on next steps.
Councilor Manto raised concerns about outreach to residents adjacent to the East Fayette parcel. Manto noted that Welch Terrace, a disability housing complex, is next door and said she had not been contacted about potential construction impacts. "Next door to that fire station is Welch Terrace, which is disability housing. So had we had outreach with them. It's in regards to, like, what happens with the construction there," she said.
Council members and staff discussed whether the sale and the RFP process for the property should proceed independently or be addressed together. Michael Layman, asked to speak about the RFP process, said the two topics had been treated as independent but acknowledged the council's wish not to proceed with one item without clarity about the other.
No formal vote to sell the property was taken. Councilors agreed to hold the sale item pending a committee meeting and further outreach; Hogan said he would keep the matter on hold and return with a plan for discussion.
The hold means the administration will prepare additional information about alternative parcels, the RFP timeline, and outreach steps for nearby residents, and councilors said they expect a future committee meeting to address those items.
