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Danville officials run into snag for parking garage grant

February 14, 2006|LIZ MAPLES

Danville has hit another snag with the federal government and the $1.75 million grant for a parking garage on Third and Walnut streets.

The Federal Transit Administration, the agency reviewing the city's environmental assessment, has sent the city a 12-page list of things it needs to change. The city has until Oct. 1 to make the changes and get the FTA's approval. If it doesn't, the city will not get the grant money.

Every federal grant project has to complete an environmental assessment, said Heart of Danville Executive Director Julie Wagner, who wrote the grant application for the city.

The changes include things like redrawing maps and rewording paragraphs. Wagner said the FTA wants the city to expand on how the parking garage will work with the Bluegrass Community Action Agency, which will have a bus stop in the garage.

City Manager Darrell Blenniss said the city and Wagner will have a conference call with the FTA today to sort out the comments. Revisions have been submitted once to the FTA, but the person who was working on the project left the agency and has been replaced by someone else who is asking for more changes, Blenniss said.

Commissioner Alex Stevens said, "This parking garage is so important to Danville."

Blenniss told him that the city will do the revisions, but the grant money will not be released until it is finished.

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