Design Kickoff Open House

Design Kickoff Open House—April 19

April 20, 2022

On April 19th, representatives from Wolf Architecture, PND Engineering, and Corvus Design toured the existing station at 219 Lower Mill Bay Road with City Project Manager, Matt Holmstrom, Retiring Fire Chief Jim Mullikan. and Incoming Fire Chief Frank Dorner. The design team documented existing space utilization as well as operations, equipment, and apparatus.

In the evening, a public Open House was hosted by the City in the Apparatus Bay of the station. During the gathering, attendees--including Kodiak residents, nearby property owners, and elected representative—learned about station operations and observed current working, living, and facility conditions. Members of the design team introduced visitors to the project background and lead a series of programming exercises with station personnel and the Core Project Team.

Comment cards were distributed to each attendee to gather and incorporate input as the design moves forward.

Project Overview

The City of Kodiak Fire Station provides the primary response to accidents, emergencies, and fires throughout the City and Island. Emergency personnel annually respond to over 1200 calls that include automobile accidents, health emergencies, as well as fires. The existing 60+ year-old facility cannot be upgraded to meet the current standards for an essential emergency facility. The building sits within the tsunami inundation zone and is not sufficient in size or structural design to meet current standards. As Kodiak’s only full-time staffed facility, these upgrades are essential to properly house, train and dispatch emergency responders. The new station will provide code-required decontamination, ventilation, and area separations allowing the station to serve as a Critical Facility and base of operations for the next 60 years.

Comment Policy

The purpose of inviting public comment via this website is to inform the project team of issues that are important to the members of public who write them, to raise questions about matters that are unclear, and to serve as a conduit for suggestions from the public on project matters. For your comment to be of value to the project team, please be sure it contains ideas, suggestions, recommendations or experiences that relate to the outcome of this project. In order to provide comments, you will be asked for your name. We encourage and expect a respectful dialogue where each person is comfortable to offer their ideas, where we all actively listen, where constructive criticism is welcomed, and through which we can further strengthen community and involvement in this process.

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Design Kickoff Open House—April 19