City Hall is pushing back against the spillover from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus into the adjacent Fruit Belt.
That includes a new parking ramp with a thousand new spaces, potentially easing the problem of Medical Campus people taking neighborhood parking spaces instead of paying to park. More important in a meeting last night dealing with the new Green Code is a limit on Medical Campus expansion.
"It establishes for the first time firm boundaries for the growth of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Before, those boundaries didn't exist," said Urban Renewal Agency General Planner Chris Hawley.
"What we have heard from the past few years and particularly from the Fruit Belt, there's a lot of worry and a lot of concern about the medical campus further encroaching into historic neighborhoods. We saw that in recent years with the growth of the medical campus east of Michigan Avenue for the first time."
Hawley made the comments during a neighborhood meeting called by Council President Darius Pridgen and held in First Centennial Missionary Baptist Church. People at the meeting were also told City Hall will continue the moratorium on sales of city-owned property in the Fruit Belt, with the city currently owning 265 vacant lots in the neighborhood.
