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14 Planning October 1995
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<br /> New York's Pennsylvania Station Redevelopment Corporation hopes to incorporate fragments of the old station in
<br /> its 5315 million conversion of the old General Post Office, the Farley Building, into a new terminal.Both Penn
<br /> Station, demolished 35 years ago, and the 84-year ,ld post office were designed by McKim,Mead&White.
<br /> It's important to note that The procedures lay out a are doing their best to respond tential relocation do?"The best
<br /> in Postal Service terminology, tir:; :table for notifying local to community desires.In many action," Smith says, "is always
<br /> a "closing" means elimination e ected officials,explaining the instances, he says, the local preventive.'Make sure the lo-
<br /> of a post office. The actions project at a public meeting, postmaster"wants a brand-new cal postmaster knows how im-
<br /> that have stirred protests in soliciting community response, building,"but the service ulti- portant the post office is to the
<br /> Madison, Tully, Washington, presenting the decision to lo- mately works out waivers of downtown's vitality and be
<br /> Hartwell, Ball Ground, and cal officials,and attempting to parking requirement,or other aware of the need for more or
<br /> most other locales are not establish "a partnership with issues so that the ex ling fa- different space.
<br /> considered "closings." They local officials." cility can be expanded rather Planners, Smith emphasizes,
<br /> are "relocations" or "consoli- than relocated. "Our first can play a key role in negotiat-
<br /> dations," and thus not coy- What you can do thought is to stay in the down- ing solutions that will meet both
<br /> ered by the moratorium. While the Postal Service's ini- town," he says. the community's and the Postal
<br /> Another sign that the Postal tiatives:ever the past year and Kennedy Smith of the Main Service's needs."Sometimes this
<br /> Service is responding to its a half are positive steps, crit- Street Center favors the legisla- involves accommodating larger
<br /> critics is an item in the May 7 ics like Tully's Scot' Chatfield tion proposed by Blumenauer, delivery vehicles, providing
<br /> Federal Register. The an- say they don't go ...r enough. Jeffords,and Baucus."The Postal more on-site parking, or chang-
<br /> nouncement of"39 CFR Part Legislation is needed to codify Service must follow specific regu- ing a one-way street to two di-
<br /> 241, Expansion, Relocation, siting decisions,Chatfield says, lations for closing a post of- rections."Sometimes it involves
<br /> Construction of New Post Of- particularly since the Postal fice," she notes. "This legisla- splitting the retail and distri u-
<br /> s"describes new procedures Service has claimed that it need tion would create a similar set tion functions or moving to
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<br /> lotifying local citizens and not comply with President of regulations for relocating a larger facilities elsewhe in
<br /> lic officials about facility Clinton's 1996 Executive Or- nos, office." Sorenson counters downtown—perhaps in va-
<br /> projects and for soliciting corn- der 13006, which encourages that this requirement could slow cant or underused warehouse,
<br /> munity views. Postal officials federal facilities to be located relocation or expansion projects department store, or industrial
<br /> say they expect to incorporate in central cities. to a crawl. building.
<br /> the procedures into official Sorenson, at the Postal Ser- What should planters and But the Postal Service also
<br /> policy this year. vice, insists that postal officials others concerned about a po- has an obligation to take lo-
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