Meanwhile, Elicker put forward a defense of his administration’s park-pool plan Tuesday night during a mayoral debate. Under state law and regulations, we are required to inform the public in advance of the next phase in our remediation work at English Station. At Tuesday night’s mayoral debate between Elicker, a three-term incumbent Democrat, and Republican challenger Steve Orosco, panelist and WELI radio talk show host Vinnie Penn pressed the mayor on his English Station pitch. “I do hear from firefighters often on my radio show that this was a place they were told never to park their vehicles, never to step upon,” Penn said about English Station. The Elicker administration has already submitted a proposal to the Board of Alders that would rezone the English Station site from a Heavy Industrial Zone to a Park District.