The riverside committee had 12 years between meetings

Among the topics discussed at one of the most recent meetings of the Buffalo Common Council’s Waterfront Development Committee were waterfront revitalization, infrastructure to mitigate sewage overflows and the demolition of the Skyway and replacement with a proposed Buffalo Harbor Bridge.

This meeting was adjourned on February 23, 2012.

The next committee meeting was this month. Why did it take so long?

“It’s really because no council member or leadership has called a meeting and tabled items,” said committee member and Fillmore District council member Mitch Nowakowski.

That was until Nowakowski resurrected it to bring it together and – as was the committee’s intended goal – hear from a group of speakers, all of whom have a vested interest in ensuring that missteps and errors are well Documented records of the Buffalo waterfront are rectified and not repeated and that its future continues to serve diverse purposes.

“This topic of our waterfront and waterways should not remain in the dark, but rather be the subject of a collective conversation about the growth and development of our region and our city,” Nowakowski said in an opening statement for the meeting.

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