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Staff Writer LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. -- Lancaster officials are considering providing $5.8 million for drainage drainage, in agriculture drainage, in agriculture, the removal of excess water from the soil, either by a system of surface ditches, or by underground conduits if required by soil conditions and land contour. work on Amargosa Creek to accommodate a planned "lifestyle" shopping mall. On Tuesday Tuesday: see week. , the City Council will look at certifying the environmental- impact report for the shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into , to be built on 150 acres at 10th Street West and Avenue L. The council also is expected to approve planning documents and zoning changes. The council will also vote on whether the city's redevelopment agency will finance $5.8 million of the anticipated $10.9 million cost of the needed improvements to the Amargosa Creek. The remaining $5.1 million would be paid by drainage impact fees collected from developers. "As a result of this financing strategy, the drainage improvements associated with Amargosa Creek will be fully funded, directly from developers and indirectly from revenues generated from the project," City Manager Bob LaSala wrote in a report to the City Council. The project, when fully constructed, is expected to provide $2.3 million in general-fund revenues annually as well as $550,000 annually in tax increment To add a number to another number. Incrementing a counter means adding 1 to its current value. . Councilman Andy Visokey said he hasn't made a decision on the financing plan, but expects that some level of participation from the city will be needed to make the project a reality. Visokey said he was optimistic op·ti·mist n. 1. One who usually expects a favorable outcome. 2. A believer in philosophical optimism. op that the project would move forward. "I'm tired of being criticized for not bringing forward what our residents would call quality shopping," Visokey said. "We can't afford to blow this." The project area is bordered by avenues K-8 and L and by Fifth and 10th streets west. The environmental and planning documents looked at a development of between 1.1 million and 1.6 million square feet of retail, commercial and residential space, built out over 10 years. The document also looked at 44 acres of the project being earmarked for a medical district that would eventually include a 200-bed hospital of 300,000 square feet to 400,000 square feet and accompanying office and support space, including a 1,000-space parking structure. The project envisioned in the document includes a 150-room hotel with 40,000 square feet of conference space, 256,000 square feet of office space and a 2,500-seat theater. The residential component covered in the document calls for 105 single- family homes, 445 town houses and 120 apartments. The apartments would be built atop retail businesses. A design concept that serves as the basis for the environmental and planning documents calls for an east-west "Main Street" geared toward strolling shoppers that intersects with a north-south line The North-South Line may refer to several different railway lines:
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