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City weighs site trade-offs and cost risk for Fire Station 27; staff favors city-owned FS Road parcel to avoid multimillion-dollar delays
Summary
City staff reported a $52 million public safety bond packaging and said moving Fire Station 27 off the city-owned FS Road site would add $2–4 million in acquisition/design costs and likely delay opening by about a year; staff recommended completing design on the FS Road (city-owned) site to protect funding for other station relocations.
City staff briefed the council on a site-selection update for Fire Station 27 and warned that swapping the preferred, city-owned FS Road parcel for a different commercial parcel would raise total program costs and threaten funds allocated to relocate Station 23.
Deputy City Administrator Sharon Io summarized the timeline: a 2022 gap analysis identified misalignment between station locations and call demand; the city hired Jacobs in 2023 to assist with costing and siting; a traffic-signal preemption model reduced the number of new stations needed and identified two strategic relocations. The preferred FS Road parcel is city-owned and carries no acquisition cost; staff reported an…
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