Aurora is looking to buy about a three-acre site on Eola Road for a new far East Side fire station.
Aldermen on the City Council Finance Committee recently recommended spending $950,000 to buy two parcels at 7S330 Eola Road, just south of Liberty Street.The entire council will hear about the potential purchase at the Sept. 5 Committee of the Whole meeting.
Dan Osman, Aurora deputy fire chief, said the location grew out of a study the Aurora Fire Department did two years ago looking at locations for two new fire stations.The study based the optimum locations on the previous three years worth of fire calls and how fast response times were. It was not based on what actual properties were available, Osman said.
The optimum location for the new Fire Station 13 - needed because of far East Side growth and the potential growth in the Farnsworth Avenue corridor - was at Weber Street and Eola Road. Alex Minella, of the city’s Economic Development office, told City Council members the city contacted five different property owners in the area near that location. Three responded, and the city ended up negotiating with the owner at 7S330 Eola Road.Minella called that “an ideal price point” in a “busy corridor.”
The new Fire Station 13 will replace Fire Station 9, at 2339 Diehl Road. The current staff at Station 9 will transfer to the new Station 13, so “no new members” of the department will be needed, Osman said.
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