Page 2 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE - Friday, February 8, 2019 General Land Area Minimum (GLAM) Calculation Completed T he City has been working with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) to gain a better understanding of housing need and demand in Malden. As part of this process MAPC recently completed a General Land Area Minimum (GLAM) analysis, also known as a “1.5%” calculation. The so- called "GLAM Test" is one of the safe harbor tests provided for under M.G.L., Chapter 40B and the percentage is calculated by dividing the area of those sites that are eligible to be inventoried on the Subsidized Housing Inventory (SHI) of the Department of Housing and Community Development. For Malden, according to this calculation, SHI Eligible Housing occupies 63.5 acres of land, while ToFully Licensed & Insured tal Land Area amounts to 2,029 acres, yielding a fi nal ratio of 3.13%, which greatly exceeds the 1.5% statutory minimum. A GLAM percentage above 1.5% indicates that the City can invoke Safe Harbor in response to a Comprehensive Permit Application pursuant to M.G.L. c. 40B. MAPC and the Advisory Committee that has been established will continue to work on a Housing Needs Assessment which was already underway prior to the GLAM analysis. This will provide a better grasp of the unmet housing needs in the city and what long-term goals should be. For more information on the GLAM calculation visit the City website at www. cityofmalden.org/hpp Emergency Service Available 24/7 SPECIALIZING IN KITCHEN & BATHROOM REMODELING * Heating * Cooling * Electric * Tile All Estimates Done By Owner * Drain Cleaning crnplumbing@gmail.com ATM on site City will review emergency response times By Barbara Taormina T he City Council unanimously agreed to have the Public Safety Committee review the Fire Department’s coverage and response time to emergency calls. The review, which was proposed by Councillors David Camell and Steve Winslow, will be conducted by the City Council, the Mayor’s Office and the Fire Department and will cover how medical emergencies, specifically opiated-related emergencies, impact the availability of emergency equipment. Councillors also want to explore the possibility of adding ambulances to the Fire Department and whether that might free up larger fi re vehicles. “Folks in Ward 6 have some concerns, and this would be a public process to address those concerns,” said Camell, who stressed that the call for a review was not a criticism of the Malden Fire Department. “On the contrary, it’s to make sure they have all the resources they need,” he said. Both Winslow and Camell said residents on the east side of the city still feel the loss of the Maplewood Fire Station, which closed in 2011. Winslow said residents have questions about emergency response time, particularly in the Maplewood Highlands. Camell provided a map that showed the locations of emergencies that were called into the Fire Department from July 2017 to June 2018. The map also charts the response times that range from one to 13 minutes. Camell said the map, which was generated with data from the Fire Department, was the work of constituents who have been looking at the issue for a while. “This was a way of taking the data and putting it into a visual format to start looking for patterns,” he said. Although the map shows 147 locations where response times ranged from eight to 13 minutes, Camell said that was a fraction of the 11,000 calls received by the Fire Department. Other councillors pointed out the long response times to locations close by the city’s three fi re stations and questioned if there were other factors involved. Council President Jadeane Sica wondered why it would have taken 8 to 10 minutes to respond to calls from an apartment building on Overlook Road when there is a fi re station just outside of the building’s parking lot. Camell acknowledged that the map raises questions, but he stressed that Malden is a safe community that is well protected by the Fire Department. “This is not about whether it’s safe or not safe; we’re just looking to see if we have adequate coverage,” he said. “The Fire Department does an amazing job, and we are asking them to do more and more every year with the same number of folks. We just want to make sure we are backing them up.” SKATING CENTER www.Roller-World.com | 781-231-1111 Located adjacent to Honey Baked Ham in Saugus Plaza, South Bound Route 1 MBTA Bus Route 429 FREE WI-FI - 2 WIDE SCREEN TV’S FULLY AIR CONDITIONED Fall-Winter Skating Schedule ATTENTION! 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