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New nuclear plant City Council takes on garage

possible in Mo.
AmerenUE filed to
build another plant in
Callaway County.
By JUSTIN MYERS
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
FULTON — AmerenUE filed
an application Monday with the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com-
mission for a license to build
and operate a new nuclear plant
in Missouri, spokesman Mike
Cleary said.
As of Monday afternoon,
the commission had not yet
released a copy of AmerenUE’s
application, which seeks a com-
bined construction and operat-
ing license for a 1,600-mega-
watt nuclear power plant next
to the utility’s existing nuclear
plant in Callaway County.
Commission spokesman
Scott Burnell said that while
the 8,000-page application was
received, it won’t be released
for “several days” because it
needs to be transferred into the
agency’s computer system first.
The utility hasn’t decided
whether to build the plant.
Cleary said earlier this month
that the timing of the applica-
tion “basically saves our place
in line, so to speak, for certain
tax credits” under the Energy
Policy Act of 2005.
At a July 9 meeting in Fulton,
Joe Colaccino, chief of the com-
mission’s division in charge of
reviewing the proposed plant’s
design, said the commission
expects the review to take about
2½ years.
If the plant is built, the utility
projects it would need to be online
around 2018, Thomas Voss, presi-
dent and chief executive officer
of AmerenUE, said in a news
release issued on Monday.
AmerenUE representatives
had previously said the utility
intended to make the decision
whether to build the plant by
the middle of 2011, but Cleary
said Monday that the timeline
is a bit more uncertain.
“We just want to say within the
next few years,” Cleary said. The
uncertainty, he said, is based on
how long the construction and
operating license application
process is going to take.
The developers try to
tackle how to best
Councilman Karl Skala’s con-
cerns about the use and height
of the building, which will be
traffic will flow within the
structure. Because the building
design is eight stories tall, a sin-
he termed “such an imposing
structure.”
City Manager Bill Watkins
build the new site. similar in size to the Hitt Street
parking garage.
gle-ramp two-way traffic design
would take a driver approxi-
agreed with Skala’s concerns
about hosting businesses in a
By KOURTNEY GEERS
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
“We gave you some numbers mately 8 minutes to travel top to city structure.
about who is going to park bottom while going 5 mph. “The city is not in the leasing
Debate continued Monday there, and it’s going to be pretty A design with two separate business; we don’t do it well,”
night at the City Council work full as soon as we open it,” one-way ramps would take a Watkins said. “It’s not some-
session over the design of the
Glascock said. maximum of 4 minutes to trav- thing that’s in our core mission,
$10 million to $15.5 million There will be approximately el. It would provide drivers the and we ought to farm it out or
parking structure that will be 600 parking spaces in the struc- option to switch ramps and fol- bring in a partner to do that
built on Walnut Street between ture, and research completed in low the opposite stream of traf- because they can do it better.”
Fifth and Sixth streets. 2001 indicated a need for 635 fic, making for a shorter drive The controversial nature of the
Proposed designs of the park- spaces in the area of the inter- in the garage. project remains a cause for con-
ing structure were presented by section. Dave Ryan of Walker Parking cern for some council members.
Walker Parking Consultants and
One of the council’s main Consultants noted that this sec- “I just want to throw that out
Peckham & Wright Architects.
concerns was the number of ond choice was a more “user- there to be really sensitive to
The design of the building
entrances and exits that will friendly option.” the kind of things I think we’re
is controversial because of the
be available to drivers in the It allows for approximately 40 going to encounter as we move
number of purposes it will ful-
parking structure. Four of the more parking spaces than the forward with this, regardless
fill. It is meant to house park-
six proposals for the design of single-ramp design. of what decisions we make,”
ing for police, parking for the the structure provide only one Despite the need for more Skala said.
public and space for businesses exit and entrance. The other parking in the area, Skala also A public hearing and vote will
on the ground floor. options allow for two entrances voiced concerns about what it be scheduled for this fall, and
Public Works Director John and one exit. will mean for the city to host the goal for beginning construc-
Glascock addressed Third Ward Another concern was how businesses, especially in what tion is by the first of the year.
House: Goal could change with teens’ needs
CONTINUED from page 1A the site is private property, the director. Although 17 young hood association and helped
For example, if there is a project will go forward at that adults have lived in the house neighbors with lawn chores,
demand for a safe space for location. so far, another 35 youths have Windham said.
homeless pregnant teenagers Neighbors recognized that contacted the house, the loca- “It can actually enhance the
after the complex is built, the the house’s design fits in with tion of which is confidential. community. I can guarantee

Creek: Commercial
goal of the house could adapt to the neighborhood, but maybe “Some of those (youths) didn’t ours has,” Windham said of
address that, Preis said. CMCA a little too much. One resident meet the requirements of the the program at Monday night’s
is continuing to talk with Hick- called it “ho-hum.” house, like they were preg- meeting.
man High School staff to iden- Lorenzo Lawson, executive nant or parenting, some we

land project’s focus

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with a study to determine what
low-impact development tech-
niques would be most feasible
for properties in the target area
to reduce stormwater runoff and
pollution in the Hinkson. These
techniques usually involve fil-
ters or retention structures that
clean or slow contaminated run-
off flowing into a waterway.
“If you have an 80-acre park-
ing area or so, basically you
make a hole in the existing
parking lot and put in a filter,”
said Scott Hamilton of Show-
Me Clean Streams. “You’re tak-
ing the existing situation and
changing it so the runoff does
not hurt the stream.”
Florea said the techniques
that could be used by property
owners to improve the Hinkson
may vary.
“There may be larger reten-
tion structures that let pol-
lutants settle out or run the
water through a constructive
wetland,” Florea said. “There’s
even products out on the mar-
situation, you need to go in and
improve what was occurring
before.”
Property owners interested in
the restoration project will be
partially reimbursed for their
efforts. Florea said the county
would pay for 60 percent of the
total costs for installing low-
impact development techniques.
Grant money will also be spent
on the hiring of a full-time proj-
ect manager to oversee the sec-
ond restoration phase.
A steering committee of con-
servation and city professionals
and a stakeholder committee of
the public will help oversee the
project. Florea said he hoped
the stakeholder committee
would be appointed in Septem-
ber or October.
Florea said the ultimate goal
of the restoration project is to
identify contaminants in Hink-
son Creek and improve its water
quality.
“The Hinkson is on the 303(d)
list of impaired waters,” Florea
said.
Windham was asked later in
tify and address the needs of director of Youth Empower- referred back to child servic- the meeting to speak to the
teenagers, he said. ment Zone, works with youth es, and some are on a waiting North Central Neighborhood
CMCA plans to apply for fund- in the neighborhood. He point- list,” Windham said. Sol House Association about the interac-
ing, mostly from federal and ed out that many businesses, doesn’t have the resources to tion between Sol House and its
such as bars and pay-day loan deal with pregnancies, young
state sources, to start building neighborhood so that residents
and will begin to contract out companies, have moved into children and severe mental ill-
could get a clearer picture of
the programs and services to the neighborhood, causing nesses, she said.
such a relationship.
be offered in the home. more problems. Others found that Sol House
If grant funding is secured,
Neighbors, in voicing their “Nobody’s protesting them, didn’t meet their require-
the home could open in sum-
opinions of the project, began but people are complaining ments. “Some find out about
mer or fall 2010.
with a discussion of whether about trying to help these kids the program, the rules and
there should be a front porch that can’t help themselves,” expectations, and they just
and turned toward the plethora Lawson said. “If it was your aren’t ready for that,” Wind- House timeline
of social service facilities in kid, wouldn’t you want some- ham said.
the North Central and First one to help them?” Sol House residents face a Fall 2008: Applications submitted
Ward neighborhoods. Some The home would not be the strict curfew, are required for funding.
thought the porch would fit first of its kind in Columbia. to do community service and Winter 2008-09: Design plans
in more with the houses in Sol House, run by Rainbow must pass a drug test if they converted to construction draw-
the neighborhood, but others House, serves as a transition- have a history of substance
ings.
thought it might promote loi- al home for otherwise home- abuse.
tering. In the end, CMCA and less people between the ages Sol House tenants have had Spring/summer 2009: If funding
Goldschmidt were willing to of 16 and 21. Since it opened a positive impact on the neigh- is secured, do another community
incorporate community con- in November 2007, the need borhood, Windham said. They needs assessment.
cerns in the site’s plan. Despite for its services has surpassed hosted a barbecue for the
opposition from some neigh- the resources available, said neighborhood watch program, Fall/winter 2009: Begin building.
bors, it was clear that because Heather Windham, Sol House participated in the neighbor- Summer/fall 2010: Open.
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