Board approves Yale parking update, DOT cycle-track grant and Edgerton Park assessment via consent agenda
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Summary
By voice vote the Board approved a Yale Central Science Campus parking-plan update, accepted a $786,500 DOT grant for East Street cycle-track and authorized a $20,000 Edgerton Park assessment study and a residential parking zone petition for Atwater Street.
The Board of Alders approved multiple consent-agenda items at its Jan. 5 meeting, including an update to the Yale University Central Science Campus parking plan and a package of transportation and park grants recommended by committee.
Committee reports indicated the Connecticut Department of Transportation has offered a $786,500 grant for East Street cycle-track and safety improvements, a project the committee said will install a concrete barrier-protected cycle track on the west side of East Street, shorten crossing distances, add bump-outs near Jocelyn Square Park and narrow travel lanes to reduce speed. The project is intended to connect the Mill River Greenway, the future Crosstown Greenway and the Shoreline Greenway Trail.
The board also accepted a $20,000 state grant to assess adaptive reuse and energy retrofits at Edgerton Park’s carriage house and greenhouse, a study intended to guide future stabilization and redevelopment and support fundraising. The transcript records a motion for unanimous consent and a voice vote; the presiding officer called for ‘‘all in favor’’ and several members replied ‘‘Aye.’’
A petition for a residential parking zone on Atwater Street (between Pine and Atwater) was presented and the committee recommended favorably; the board moved and approved the consent items by voice vote.
The consent package included several tax-assistance orders and other routine items read by the clerk. Committee chairs encouraged colleagues to vote in support; the transcript records committee recommendations and no substantive amendments.
The events were presented as routine consent-agenda business, and the minutes in this transcript show committee recommendations and a voice approval rather than a roll-call tally for each item.
