Mahopac News 07.14.2022

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Conceptual plan for Swan Cove introduced

Downtown revitalization project takes step forward

BY BOB DUMAS The proposed conceptual plan for the Swan Cove park and parking lot IMAGE COURTESY OF TOWN OF CARMEL park are relatively uid and we
EDITOR can move things around,” said
town commissioned a series of nal design proposal and those RFPs features a shing dock, Councilman Frank Lombardi.
Town o cials have selected kayak launch, a Recreation De-
a conceptual plan for the Swan soil tests and other studies that proposed plans will include how partment outbuilding with rest- Councilwoman Suzi Mc-
Cove project, which will bring rooms, a walking bridge between Donough said that until the
a passive park and municipal revealed lead, mercury and zinc [the consultant] plans to deal Swan Cove and neighboring plan for the park and parking lot
parking lot to the downtown Chamber Park, and two aerating is nalized, town o cials won’t
Mahopac business district along in the soil, although the study with any petroleum, PCBs and fountains in the cove, as well as be sure of the total cost.
South Lake Boulevard. 93 parking spots.
stated there was “minimal soil metals in the soil. “If someone was to come to
e design was selected from However, all those elements us right now and say how much
three di erent proposed plans and groundwater impact.” “All of those details will be are not set in stone and the de- is this going to cost, we don’t
presented earlier this year and is sign could be tweaked a bit be- know,” she said. “We are not
now being sent out to consulting “ ere are some areas of con- ironed out in the nal design,” fore being nalized. 100 percent sure what is going
in it. We are at the design phase
rms in requests for proposals cern and [the study] recom- he continued. “We don’t know “A lot of the details of the and have to know what we are
(RFPs). dealing with rst. It is going to
mended any playground built on how much it will cost or how be built properly. We do have
e town purchased the lake- some money, but it is not go-
front property for $1 million in the site should be layered with long it will take or how they ing to be enough. But once the
March 2018 and then purchased RFPs come back [we will know
four adjacent parking lot parcels certi ed topsoil and mulch to plan on dealing with the con- more].”
totaling 1 acre from Tompkins
Mahopac Bank for $395,000 in protect the public,” Cazzari said. taminants in the soil.” Board members say they plan
August 2019. e project is part to use some of the American
of a larger downtown revitaliza- “ e RFPs went out for the - e design sent out in the Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) mon-
tion plan that will include new ey the town got from the federal
sidewalks, lighting and recon- government for COVID relief
to help pay for the project. It will
gured parking on South Lake also receive a share of the ARPA
Boulevard. money the county received that
could also be used.
e Town Board held an open
meeting on June 29 to disclose e biggest design challenge,
where the Swan Cove project o cials said, was balancing the
stands and answer questions amount of green space for the
from residents. park versus the number of park-
ing spaces.
Supervisor Mike Cazzari
noted that after an abandoned SEE SWAN COVE PAGE 25
oil tank was found buried on
the property earlier this year the

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