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Home My WebLink About1994-03-30 Mineral Street Bridge Task Force MinutesMAR-31-1994 11:49 FROM MEDIPLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO 9429070 P.04 Mineral Street Bridge Task Force Page 3 A motion was made by G. Wood and seconded by G. MacDonald to recommend the study to the Selectment_ Motioned was voted and passed 5 - 3. B. Goodrich submitted a proposed outline (see attached) for the report to the Selectment. Members felt the outline was great and we should provide what information is available at this time and request an extension of the Task Force from the Selectmen-in order to complete study- It was felt we need someone from the MHD, who can make decisions, attend a meeting to get some solid answers regarding funding, footprint, drawings (rough) and how funding (if any) would cover roadway and sidewalk corrections beyond the bridge. It will need to have Town Manager and/or Selectment :Hake regeust to MHD. Progress report to be made to Selectment on Tuesday, 4/5 and members are urged to attend if possible. Motion,to adjourn by G. MacDonald, seconded by M. Slezak. Motion passed 8 - 0 and meeting was adjourned at 9:50 p.m_ The next meeting will be Thursday, April 7, 1994 at 7.30 p.m. locatin to be announced. NOTE: Copy of handout • by F. Grand not available for distribution with minutes (will be provided at next meeting). MAR-31-1594 11:48 FROM MEDIFLEX EAST BOSTON U TO 9429070 P.03 Mineral Street Bridge Task. Force Page It appeared from his report there were no life threatning fire calls to the area which would require using the bridge. Lengthy discussion evolved as to ALS/BLS AND Police response. There was no way to tell if "out of town" response was - in- cluded in the list. Tf it were.local response, the bridge could make a difference. It was noted that the WEST SIDE STATION provides response to the area . Comments regarding the "teen age hangout" being eliminated if a new bridge was constructed (comments bvy Reading Housing) were not considered valid. The bridge will not resolve the issue of a hangout". Mr. Grant (observer) made some comments regarding the fire department. He mentioned he felt there was enough manpower (60 firefighters) to have a second ambulance at the West Side Station. He had prepared written comments which he would provide the Task Force. Members felt is information and comments were inaccurate and flawed. They also stated Owe are not here to review the fire department". We moved on to review the Assessors Report (see attached). This report was very vague and one observer, Tom Stohlman, using therr figures, provided an entire different set of numbers in terms of values, before: and after bridge closing. B R 47,450 60,866 (1978) (1978) T T 87,433 87,278 (1983) (1983) T 84% 43% appreciation It was suggested we contact the assessors and invite therm to the next meeting for a clarification of their information and numbers. Fran Doughty will make contact with them. C. Herrick (observer) made some general comments reagarding the slopes of roadway and the walls of the bridge. Mention of the information provided early on by Kaine/Wentworth on real estate values was discussed briefly. The McDonough/Scully traffic study was discussed in depth by the members and there were pro and ecru statements- Some felt the need for for the study and others felt it would be "west guess" information. Mike Slezak has been involved in traffic studies and felt the inf'or Cation would be useful. MRR-31-1994 11:45 FROM MEDIFLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO 9429070 P.02 MINERAL STREET BRIDGE TASK FORCE MEETING-' The meeting of March 30, 1994 was called to orde:r;, by tie., Chairpersons, Bill Goodrich at 7:35 p.m. in the Conference Roam at Town Hall. Members present were F. Doughty, A. Guarciariello, B. Herrick, M. Murphy, M. Slezak, G. Wood, G. MacDonald and B. Goodrich. G. Hines was absent due to tither commitments- Observers were T. Stohlma:n, R. Grand, C. Herrick (also one unidentified observer). The Chairperson reviewed the agenda for the meeting which included review of minutes of previous meeting, review of the Fire Chiefs report on ambulance and fire calls (see attached), and review of the assessors report (see attached). The Chairperson also discussed the need to prepare a progress report to be submitted to the Selectmen on next Tuesday, April 5th.. A request to change next, weeks meeting to Thursday April 7th was made as the Chairperson has a conflicting meeting on Wednesday. Members agreed to the Thursday date. A progress report is to be made tinder Article 2 to the Town ],'Meeting and G. Wood suggested our report be made at a different point in the Town Meeting so as to get the undivided attention of members- A review of the minutes of the March 23rd meeting were made and several changes / additions to language were noted. In the section of comments by the Police Shief, it was noted that in addition to N. Reading & Wilington in his statement, we should include "etc" as he had commented that "no out of towners would use the bridge". Some members did not recall this quote and therefore opted to add "etc". When the minutes reflected the Chief's comments about Vine Street he stated "would be less safe" and this was to be added to the minutes in the section dealing with Vine Street. M. Slezak requested change in minutes on page #3 relating to his question to Bill Robinson regarding "if the grade was 8% what Would, this do to Vine Street". Since there was no response to his question, we should add "no response". A motion by G_ Wood to approve minutes as corrected was made and seconded by F:%-:Doughty. Motion passed 8-0. The next items for discussion were the Fire Chief's report (see attached) regarding firs: runs and ambulance runs to the Mineral Street and surrounding areas. Members commented on who was first responder, when out of town was used, ALS (advanced life support) and BLS (basic life support). MAR-31-1994 11:49 FROM MEDIPLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO F HEADQUARMRS , y READING FIRE DEPARTMENT p READING, MASSACHUSETYS £ 1867 o+~c d° DONALD L. WOOD, Chief 757 MAIN STREET BUS, PHONE, 9M-4191 8tA. PHIONE: 944-3132 MEMORANDUM TO: Mineral Street Bridge Task Ford FROM: Chief Donald L. Wood DAVE: March 22, 1994 RE: duns to Mineral Street Bridge Area 9429070 P.05 Enclosed are, the lists of Fire Department responses to the Mineral Street Bridge area. There are two lists, one for the fire calls for calendar year 19193 and another for the ambulance calls for the same time period. 1 have trued to make the format easily understood, but if you have any questions regarding these lists, please feel free to contact me at any time. OLW:cmk Enc. Smoke Detectors Save Lives MGR-31-1994 11:50 FROM MEDIPLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO 9429070 P.06 AMBULANCE CALLS DATE ADDRESS COMPLAINT RESPONSE* 1-~12-93 9 Frank Tanner Drive Chest Pain BLSJALS 1-71-93 8 Frank Tanner Drive Patient Fallen BLS (No.transport) 2-26-93 17 Frank Tanner Drive Chest Pain BLS/ALS 2-28-93 King Street Nausea/Dizziness ?TIA BLS 3-8-93 37 Frank Tanner Drive Fell - Fractured Hip BLS 3-11-93 36 Frank Tanner Drive Chest Pain BLS 4-18-93 Hancock Street Unresponsive - Defibrillator - CPR BLS/AL5 4-24-93 36 Frank Tanner Drive Foot pain radiating up leg BLS 4-27-93 37 Frank Tanner Drive General Weakness BLS -28-93 Summer Avenue Rapid Heart Beat - Pacemaker SLS =1D-93 37 Frank Tanner Drive Congestive Heart Failure BLSJALS 5-18-93 37 Frank Tanner Drive Nausea BLS 5-22-93 9 Frank Tanner Drive Abdominal Pain BLS 6-10-93 30 Frank Tanner Drive General Weakness/Fallen BLS 6-15-93 8 Frank Tanner Drive Shortness of Breath BLS 6-25-93 36 Frank Tanner Drive G.I. Bleed BLS 7-13-93 4 Frank Tanner Drive Chest Pain BLS/ALS 7-14-93 29 Frank Tanner Drive Hand Pain No Transport 8-10-93 32 Frank Tanner Drive Fell - Head Injury BLS 8-11-93 32 Frank Tanner Drive Pain Fibs/Chest BLS 8-12-93 30 Frank Tanner Drive Patient yell No Transport 8-27-93 32 Frank Tanner Drive Unresponsive No Transport j0-93 17 Frank Tanner Drive Patient Fell No Transpor,- 9-15-93 4 Frank Tanner Drive Lower Sack Pain BLS MAR-31-1594 11:50 FROM MEDIPLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO 5429070 P.07 AMBULANCE CALLS (CONTINUED) DATE ADDRESS COMPLAINT RESPONSE* 9-27-93 30 Frank Tanner Drive Anaphylactic Shock - Bee Sting No Transport 10-9-93 9 Frank Tanner Drive Shortness of Breath - Chest Pain BLSJALS 10-13-93 35 Frank Tanner Drive Sudden Death No Transport 10-21-93 Morgan Park Fall Dawn Stairs BLS 11-18-93 37 Frank Tanner Drive Shortness of Breath BLS 11-19-93 Glen Road Insulin Reaction No Transport *Under response column BLS means Basic Life Support from Reading Fire Department ambulance. .ALS means that the situation was serious enough to warrant the Advanced Life Support unit 'th Paramedics, MAR-31-1994 11:50 FROM MEDIPLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO FIRE CALLS DATE ADDRESS COMPLAINT 1-1-93 32 Frank Tanner Drive Smoke . 2-7-93 86 Mineral Street Water Problem 2-15-93 11 Mineral Street Fire 3-493 37 Frank Tanner Drive Alarm Sounding 5-23-93 17 Frank Tanner Drive House Lock Out 5-30-93 32 Frank Tanner Drive Alarm Sounding/Smoke 7-18-93 32 Frank Tanner Drive Water Problem Mineral St. Bridge Outside Fire 11•-28-93 22 Frank Tanner Drive Alarm Sounding 12-21-93 17 Frank Tanner Drive Alarm Sounding 9429070 P.08 FOUND RESPONSE Cooking Both Stations Burst Pipes Station 2 Fire in Walls Both Stations Cooking Both Stations Gain Entry Station 2 Cooking Both Stations Kitchen Sink Station 2 Brush/trash Station 2 Water shorted Both Stations System System Both Stations Malfunction 1'IHK-.]1-17' 4 11 - D1 1'KUI'1 i'I=V I M-Cls =H7 I ZU0 I UN U I U 74c 7vj (U Y'. Vj=1 fl"~ ,3j4;t.. /1 ~ Prepared for : N!"ineral Street Bridge Task Force Prepared by: Dave Billard- Appraiser The following analysis is an attempt at trying to gunge the impact of the closing of the Mineral Street Bridge on the value of real estate. The foregoing analysis must be presented with the caveat that it is imperfect. The assun4)tions that axe necessary to understand the analysis are threefold; the sales that where available and used are truly representative of the population of properties that they am trying to represent, that multiple sales used to guage market appreciation show only appreciation attributable to the real estate market as a whole, and that sales were limited and the results may be skewed due to rho lack of the ultimate scenario sale. In trying to ut rstand the impact of the closing of the bridge on property values, i have compared wouthly appreciation rates of properties in close proximity to the bridge to appreciation rates of properties in Reading that would appear to be altogether unaffected by the bridge. I have defined the bridge proximity to be the 4 maps that surround the bridge, maps 70, 71, 72 and 82. Given the closing date of the bridge to be 1981, sales prior, during and after the closing date have been provided to acertain differences in appreciation, rates. It would appear that the Mineral. Street Bridge, given the available sates, does not have any significant impact on property values for those properties that surround the bridge. 'I'bis is not to say that properties directly abutting the bridge entrances tray not potentially be adversely affected, but rather that real estate values as a whole in t1fis area are seemingly unaffected by the bridge. MAR-31-1994 11:51 FROM MEDIPLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO 9429070 P.10 2 AP l'IATION RATFS -MO R TO CLOSING- BRIDGE PtO7 EUM 35 Ding Street M-71 L-21B 03/206 $35,000- 07128 /7s $48,905 -more= $13,900 39.71421/6 increase over 28 months represents a tnouthly increase of 1.4184% 7 King Strut M-71 L-32 06/ /76 $32,500- 01/05/79 $44,800 increase $12,300 37.$462% inct-ow over 31 months represents a monthly increase of 1.2208% 7 Ding Street M-71 L-32 01/05/79 $44,800- 09/30/80 $57,500 increase $12,700 28.3482% increase over 21 months represents a monthly increase of 1.3499% AVERAGE MONTHLY'APPRECIATION 1.3297% AVERAGE TIME SPAN 13ETWEEN SALES 26.6167 MONTHS APPRECIATION RATES-PRIOR TO CLOSING- AIDING 293 Ash St=t M-277 L-22& 04/02173 $52,000- 05/30/79 $84,000 increase $32,000 61.5345% increase over 73 months represents a monthly increase of .8429% 16 Arlington St M;63 Lr45 02/12/76 $40,900- 10/30/80 $62,000 increase $21,100 51.5892% increase over 56 months represents a mout#ly increase of.9212% 352 Ash Street M-28 L-10 12115/78 $51,500 - 04/10180 $59,500 incroaso $8,000 15.5310% increase over 16 months represents a monthly increase of .9709% AVERAGE MONTHLY APPMCIATION .9117% AVERAGE TINE SPAN BETWEEN SALES 48,333 MONTHS MAR-31-1994 11:51 FROM MEDIPLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO 9429070 P-11 3 APPRECIATION RATES-DURING CLOSING- BRIDGE PROXIlAM 32 Mineral Street M-72 L,3A 10/05/79 $47,904- 02/15/84 $86,540 incrtaw $38,600 80,5846 % increase over 52 mouths represents a monthly increase of 1.5497% 15 Mineral Street M-83 L-24 07/06179 $47,000- 17/30/82 $62,000 increase $15,000 31,9149% increase over 41 worths represents a monthly increase of 0.7784% 17 Glen Road M-71 L-22 12/01180 $66,000- 11/15/83 $82,300 increase $16,500 25.0000% increase over 36 tnonths represents a monthly increase of 0.6944% AVERAGE MONTHLY APPRECIATION 1.0075% AVERAGE TIME SPAN BETWEEN SALES 43.000 MONTHS APPRECIATION RATES-DURING CLOSING- 1U ADING 93 Dana Road M-163 L-15 04/28/80 $107,000-12/01/83 $145,200 increase $38,200 35.7009% increase over 44 months represents a mthly increase of 0.8114% 12 Oak Street M-35 L-12 03/30/80 $53,000- 10/11/83 $73,000 increase $20,000 37.7358% increase over 43 months represents a monthly increase of 0.8776% 12 John St. Ct. M-67 L-$ 06/27180 $37,9110- 04108/83 $51,000 increase $13,100 34.5646% increase over 34 months represents a monthly increase of 1.+01+66%a AVERAGE MONTHLY APPRECIATION 0.91199 AVERAGE TIME BETWEEN EACH SALE 40.333 MONTHS MAR-31-1994 11:52 FROM MEUIPLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO 9429070 P.12 4 APPREC1~ATION RATES-AFTER CLOSING- BRE GE PROX 4 M 14 Mineral Street M-72 L-6 08/19/82 $63,540- 09/19/85 $140,000 increase $76,540 120.4724% incwv& over 37 months ,eprescuts a monthly increase of 3.2560% 17 Glen Road M-71 L-22 11/15/83 $87,500- 06/27/85 $134,900 increase $47,400 54.1714% increase over 19 months mptvwnts a monthly increase of 2.8511% 67 Mineral Suet M-70 L-6 12/04/81 $55,000- 04/07/83 $75,000 increa : $20,000 36.3636% increase over 16 months represents a monthly inerracue of 2.2727% AVERAGE MONTHLY APPRECIATION RATE 2.7932°x'0 AVERAGE TIME SPAN BE'T`WEEN SALES 24.000 MONTHS AFFRECIATION RATES- AF I R CLOSING- RFADING 84 Forest Strut M-138 L-31 03/26/82 $47,1100- 12/20/84 587,500 increase $40,500 56.1702% 4wrcase over 33 months represents a monthly increase of 2.6112% 4 F Street M-107 L-39&07122/83 $67,000- 10/29/85 $154,900 increase $87,900 131.1940% increase over 32 months represents a monthly increase of 4.0998% 80 grange Street M- 90 L-1 03/04/83 $75,900- 01/13/84 $84,000 increase $8,100 10.6719% increase over 10 mantles represents a monthly increase of 1.0672% AVERAGE MONTHLY APPRECIATION 2.5927% AVERAGE THvIE SPAN BETWEEN SALES 25.000 MON MS MAR-31-1994 11:52 FROM MEDIPLEX EAST BOSTON 0 TO 9429070 P.13 Proposed Mineral Street Bridge Report Out ine 1. Summary of Recommendations 2. Description and Evaluation of Existing Bridge - Key elements (width, length, height, age) - Summary of January 1994 Bridge Inspection Report - Summary of Current Use - School children - Tannerville residents - Teenager i;,ingout 3. Option A - MHD Proposal a) Scope of Proposal b) Estimated Costs c) Funding Sources d) Additional Information Required e) Analysis f) Recommendations 4. Option B - Pedestrian Bridge Proposal a) Scope of Proposal b) Estimated Costs c) Funding Sources d) Additional Information Required e) Analysis f) Recommendations 5, Other Options a) Renovate existing bridge as pedestrian only b) Demolition of existing bridge with no reconstruction 6, Traffic Study Evaluation / Recommendations 7. Public Safety a) Fire Chief b) Police Chief c) Schools d) Tannerville Residents 8. Real Estate Property Valuation 9. Appendices / Supplementary Information a) Town Meeting Instructional Motion b) Board of Selectman Policy Establishing Task Force c) January 1994 - MHD Bridge Inspection Report d) McDonough & Scully Tragic Study Proposal e) Town Engineer Memoranda f) School-age Pedestrian Counts g) Fire Chiefs Memoranda h) Police Chiefs Report i) Traffic Study Data j) Profile & Plan - Town Engineer k) Reading Housing Authority Memoranda 1) Town Assessor's Report - Real Estate Property Values TOTAL P.17)