FIRE STATION 33 TO GAIN NEW, BIGGER HOME.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer A $5.1 million facility will be built to replace fire Station 33, a 32-year-old building that officials say is too cramped cramped adj. 1. Uncomfortably small or restricted: cramped living quarters. 2. Difficult to read, especially for being crowded into a small space: cramped handwriting. to serve the city. Station 33, now at Cedar cedar, common name for a number of trees, mostly coniferous evergreens. The true cedars belong to the small genus Cedrus of the family Pinaceae (pine family). Avenue and Milling Street, would be moved to a site north of Lancaster Boulevard and south of Kettering Street between Date and Elm avenues. ``I suspect construction will begin this summer,'' City Manager Jim Gilley said Monday. The new station would be approximately 11,000 square feet, more than double the size of the existing station. Two years ago, city and Fire Department officials were considering spending $300,000 to renovate the existing station, but decided the site was too small to make the plan worthwhile. The construction will be financed out of a $144.4 million agreement reached in March 1992 between Lancaster and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County to hasten has·ten v. has·tened, has·ten·ing, has·tens v.intr. To move or act swiftly. v.tr. 1. To cause to hurry. 2. the construction of county facilities. The pact included provisions for the construction of four fire stations, three of which have been built. The fire stations were financed by bonds that will be repaid with property tax money that is collected in the city's redevelopment agency areas and that formerly went to the county treasury. Originally, plans called for building a fire station near 70th Street West and Avenue K-8, where new housing projects were expected to be developed. But with the decline of the Antelope antelope, name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the sheep and goats. The North American pronghorn is sometimes called an antelope, but belongs to a separate, related family (Antilocapridae). Valley's real estate market, the developments never occurred. Instead of building that station, county Fire Chief Michael Freeman Michael Roy Freeman (born 9 December 1960, London, England) is a New Zealand chess player. He emigrated to New Zealand in September 1967. He was a pupil at Otago Boys High School, Dunedin from 1974 to 1978. suggested to the city the funding would be better used on a replacement for Station 33. ``Fire Station 33 is the busiest station in the city and one of the busiest in the fire district,'' Freeman wrote in a March 10 letter to Lancaster officials. ``This is due to the urban expansion that has taken place since Fire Station 33 was placed into service in 1966. The Fire District is prepared to work with the city to commit financing from the Project Fund to relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. Fire Station 33 to a more suitable location and upgrade the facility to meet the demands of growth.'' |
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