Completely confused about the 29 minute naysayer rant. Who were the hotel naysayers? Mike, it’s time to pull up your big kid pants and get over it. You built a POS events center with dented (leaky) siding, and kept the mistake a secret. You stole from the levee repayment fund to build an aquatics center that doesn’t have a hazardous chemical storage plan, and today we find out, the city council finally awakens from their deep sleep and is going to turn down your admin building plan.
Yeah, Yeah, But . . ., Yeah, Yeah, But . . . you did it all with a bevy of lies and secrets, and us naysayers are finally catching up to your tricks.
Read the argus story and looked at all the pretty pictures of the architects rendering. Just like the spellerberg snowjob, what we see and what we get will be two completely different animals. BTW, saw no mention of, or pretty picture of the multimillion dollar climate controlled pedestrian walkway over Russell Avenue. Whats up with that?
The city is already vested in the airport hotel. It shouldn’t have happened. Instead of real estate speculation, get back to government. No more private enterprise infringement and antitrust competition. We deserve of, by, and for the people without side investments or TIF’s. I believe new development proposals lead to unapproved contract awards meant to guarantee Huether kickbacks beyond the end of his term.
The best way to tell Huether has a crooked scheme is when he waves his hands backward in front of his face. He’s not drying his nail polish or holding Botox together on his face. It’s body language that shows he’s lying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmKjTC8yDFM
Just for clarification, the hazardous materials “plan†is an active component required to be in place should the facility have a release of hazardous material(s). It is a necessary component for any facility manufacturing, storing, and/or using hazardous materials above established threshold/â€exempt†amounts. Though the plan is important in the long run, what is necessary during the planning and design stages is to ensure the hazmat component is addressed in accordance with adopted codes and referenced standards; this ensures the building is constructed properly for hazmat mfg./storage/use. In other words, where a facility exceeds “exempt†amounts more stringent requirements (construction) to address the hazard(s) is required.
This may or may not be an issue with this facility but we don’t know do we as no one from the fire department, specifically the fire prevention division, pushed the issue! I refer to a section taken from the plan check letter generated during the initial review process…this was from June of 2015:
“Hazardous Materials. To date, the Fire Prevention Bureau has not received Material Safety Data Sheets including quantities to make a determination if the
chemicals such as chlorine or saline materials within the aquatic equipment rooms constitute a hazard. If any corrosives or toxics that are either stored or
utilized within the rooms exceed exempt amounts defined by Table 307.1(2), “Maximum Allowable Quantity Per Control Area of Hazardous Material Posing a Health Hazardâ€, the rooms will be classified as an H-4, rooms that contain health hazards, which can affect the required rating of the fire resistive separations as is detailed, and require will the hazardous materials to meet the general provisions
of the Fire Code.â€
My point with this is, given the location of the aquatics center and close proximity to residential, retail, 2-hospitals, and a middle school, it is critical all requirements are met…if they apply. Someone needs to mind the store and not well after the building is under construction. Again, this may be a non-issue, but that needs to be determined.
With the Drake Springs pool replacement project a number of years back this same issue had to be addressed. Fire prevention reviewed the submitted chemical inventory and determined the proposed facility was well above the threshold/â€exempt†amounts. What did this mean to you and I as taxpayers, it meant a potential significant cost to address the additional construction to meet necessary code/standard requirements (i.e. safety requirements). In this particular case, I was contacted by the pool design company the very same day the hazmat review went back to the general contractor informing them of the need for properly designed construction for the hazmats. My conversation with the designers was similar to many I’d had before…â€we overdesigned the pool treatment system to allow for expansion of the system in the futureâ€â€¦ which can be a good thing, if needed, but this was a full sized bus where a mini-van would have sufficed…even for expansion. Unfortunately this (overdesigning) is all too common where public funds are used! Eventually what happened with the Drake Springs issue is the system was redesigned, an appropriately sized treatment system requiring less hazardous materials use and storage, well below threshold/â€exempt†amounts. Ultimately it saved a few taxpayer bucks too but did result in less profit for the pool design company…damn…that’s too bad!
One more time…this “issue†may not be an issue at all but we don’t know do we…and the 11th hour is upon us? If the facility does exceed exempt amounts, significant cost increase for redesign to address code/standard requirements will be the result. The very important item here is, due diligence on the city’s part, specifically fire prevention, must be taken to ensure a fully code compliant and safe facility(ies) is/are constructed…especially given the aforementioned proximity to major target hazards (hospitals/schools)!
A disconnect has happened in the plan review process. The disconnect is in fire prevention. Fix it!
Huh? Is Perry a filibuster? Plain & simple; the city must not compete with private enterprise. In this case hotels. Otherwise, side venue athletics (swimming & tennis). There must be distinction between government and country club.
I’m really tired of listening to huether whine like everything he does has to be with 100% support.
Like he’s the only politician in the history of politics that has ever faced opposition. Grow up and stop whining already! Not everyone is going to agree with you or like you.
It’s like dealing with a 12 year old “I’m sorry the other kids are mean. Stop crying, mommy loves you.”
Oh Perry, you musn’t have dealt with this Mayor, ever. The Mayor and the politics of City Hall control Fire Prevention. They tell them what to enforce & when. Don’t go thinkin’ it works otherwise.
This mayor is nothing but a Howdy Dooty man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONQ0gAE9jbY
Par for the coarse………….